Style: Alley cats in Pasadena

we're supposed to be emulating the style they used in 101 Dalmatians--here's my lineart so far--I need to make a few tweaks and additions.

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09/28/12 value study for this scene
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10/05/12 I actually went with a different lighting situation--still in the process of coloring it--D: ahh i can now see the places that need some improvement/clarification.

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I've decided to take a break from my intro to maya stuff by....well doing more work haha! Here's a sneak peek of two of my pages for my style guide for style. Off to bed for now u_u 10/07/12 6:05am

Dark Bathroom

So I'm taking this class called "The Dream" and we are supposed to create a dream journal with some visual imagery. My mom was driving me in the car and was going to park in the garage but for some reason, the controller was downstairs on one of my bookshelves. When I got there, the bathroom door was wide open but it was pitch black in there. (There's actually a window in the bathroom so it would never actually be that dark) I tried to turn on the knob of the lamp next to me but it wouldn't work. I somehow knew that either I had disconnected it....or someone or something had gotten to it before I did.
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sorry for the really sad iphone pic but I figured that I would have a ton of these by the end of term and won't put all of it on here. The watercolor pencils I used were great but I could have executed it a little better (perhaps less sloppy and thought about my colors more) but that will just come over time. On top of that, this isn't supposed to be some dazzling piece of art I put a lot of thought into--it is hard to not care about how you do art when you plan to have a career in it. =_=

This is done with watercolor pencils, a faber castel brush pen (permanent carmine), and some colored pencils here and there.

I have six classes this term and I tried to balance it out by choosing classes with what seems to be a manageable workload. But I will force myself to update with either crappy iphone pictures or crappy scans! :D

peach cobbler

Just a little peach cobbler I made for my mom last week. It was alright--I wanted to actually try the Aretha Franklin peach cobbler recipe but I was to lazy to make pie dough. Honestly, in all the pictures I took, it looks like fried chicken with chocolate and vanilla ice cream haha.

thank you cards

I finally have my computer back!! ;_; I swear I'll take better care of it!! I refuse to give it up until after 6-7 years of use D:<

anyways....here's a thank you card I'm working on to give to my relatives
the concept is kind of....hmmm I don't even think I get it haha but I'll do my best to explain

so I've always thought that every amazing artist has 'magic hands'. I think drawing and painting amazing things with simply paint, brushes, and paper...basically making something out of nothing and imagining things that aren't there is just simply magic. So that's where the magic hands come from!

On the cover, I have a plant on which these magic hands are growing and is being watered by some....magical water (aka my family supporting me in pursuing my dreams) haha (this is beginning to sound ridiculous haha).

Inside, I've cut off two of the magic hands and stuck them on my own and it inspires me to paint and be creative.
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finally!! I can post pictures!! Firefox kept on giving me error messages on blogger whenever I tried to put up a picture. But here it is! OMG...I tried to give it a little brush texture by scanning hi-res images of sponge blots and dry brush things I made with ink on water color paper. It took FOREVER to scan it at 2400 dpi as a .TIF file. I gave up and tried to just scan it at 1600 dpi as a .JPEG--didn't take as long as the tif did but good god..it took forever to just open the file on photoshop, took forever to just save it as a png, and took forever just to place it on adobe illustrator. I am never doing that again! There is too much waiting involved with this process I have no idea how my instructor goes about doing his illustrations that way @_@. My computer kept on freezing in the middle of saving/loading/moving--ick just terrible!!

anyways--the card turned out great!! :) i printed out both sides on ultra premium presentation matte paper and stuck them together--super thick card but it looks legit!! I just wish I put more space in there to write

September 4, 2012 4:11AM

new orleans bourbon street

sketch for the new orleans street scene (the last gdea assignment).
honestly, I was a little worried because I didn't feel like I could do enough research using books and the internet for Bourbon Street in the 1950s--material is sparse!! D:< it was pretty tough finding images to be inspired by...

so here's a little sneak peek at the colorized version--still need to put in the type and adjust some of the colors..I was working on it till six this morning and it just was not really working for me x_x--still trying to get the hang of using a limited color palettes...
I am trying my hardest not to render and put texture and shadows D:<
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ack i forgot to update with a full pic of it!! but here is the finished product! i really wanted to add more detail to it--shadows and textures but it would be a little too overwhelming...but i really want to redo this piece in the style i wanted to do it in!

for the final week, i made some beignets and made a little display in front of my boards---not really the way i wanted it to look like :< but ugh i was running low on sleep! i'll do it again just to put on my blog

08/20/12 12:46 am

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i watched paranorman a second time today! still love it just as much :) huhuhu i am planning to do some fanart and just print out zombie posters and put them in my room just for fun! :) let's make this break an awesome one! >:D

Ocean Science final poster

I am so going to hate myself for choosing to do this -_-

the assignment is to make a poster for the Aquarium of the Pacific--my tagline is "don't let pollution consume you"--pun 100% intended in my drawing haha


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using a different approach to creating the shapes. i'm trying out Paul Roger's (my instructor) method of using the pen tool to make a line drawing...I usually just go straight to having the fill turned on with the color and everything...sooo let's see how this pans out--about 75% done with the line stuff

June 27, 2012 5:05 am

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got past the boring part and now just adding shadow and light to make it pop more

June 27, 2012 10:36 pm

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not much different than the last preview but here it is, completed

 tried to cram in my slogan thing there but there just isn't any room! :(
07/29/12

cafe du monde menu

wip wip wip still need to 'render' the coffee cup, bowl, and tea kettle
for now...can't decide if green just makes me feel like vomiting/not eating food or an interesting color choice...I was trying to emulate Donald Brun's style. He was a Swiss illustrator who did a lot of ads for Swiss consumer products. I think this is going somewhere else haha-not in a good way though D:..just not satisfied...

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Rendered everything out...and so this is my first pass on the menu! :) now to figure out how to make my printer print the color I want D:<

June 26, 2012 5:08 p.m.