Sketchbook Sketches

Here are some of my little fun sketches and unfinished pieces that will likely never be finished.

Worth Posting

I ordered this December 2nd for Mike's Christmas present, and it arrived later than the ETA. Though! It arrived the Friday OF the weekend we had to leave! I was SO happy, I was afraid he wouldn't get his present from me before Christmas. I also bought him an extra jacket he saw and liked but didn't want to buy for himself :)

DOD SNO! If you like zombie movies, this one is great, although I had to look away from some of the gorey parts. I think it's the only movie that made me feel queezy, other than Cloverfield in the movie theatre, that gave me motion sickness.

Sketchbook Details

These are just some of my more detailed/finished works in a couple sketchbooks I have here. Unfortunately some were done on paper that is larger than my scanner. Not by much though, some are just cut off because I ran out of space on the paper. Anyway do enjoy! Some of these I still actually really like, but others, meh.

Prepare for an Art Dump

Newest piece for the Wandering Men... dun dun duuuuuun! Well it's the final piece of my last contract that took too long to do thanks to going to school to do art and then coming home late to do art. And onwards to do more art with them!



ALSO here is a painting I did awhile ago that I don't think I uploaded to Blogger, as well as four textural paintings I have done for Wednesdays class. The last two I lost interest on :/



And what's this art dump i'm talking about? That'll be the next few posts actually, I need some time to prepare.

First Day Back!

It wasn't a bad day, I am already tired though hahah. Our schedule is actually a little long at the beginning of the week, but Wednesday - Friday is actually really good so I am not going to complain! What was kind of nice was we went right back into the flow of work and I know what assignments need to be done. There is a strike coming up, well it is still undecided whether there will actually be a strike but say there was, I know I have work to do over the time off. Let's just hope it doesn't get to that.
Anyway for those of you who read this and also go to Sheridan or other schools, I hope your day went well too! Feel free to share your day with me :)

Riley on Patch Together

I've developed Riley so I could share him on Patch Together. Hopefully he's liked and if i'm lucky, he can be made into a designer toy.

http://www.patchtogether.com/designs/designs/view/id/2633

Home

Just home for the Christmas holidays. As expected there is really no such thing as free time, I have been home for less than a week and I am feeling heavy chested from stress. There's a lot to be done and I feel like there is little time, but I think once I am past Christmas and things slow down, I will feel better and a bit more free to do things. Plus it is basically 1:30 in the morning and being up late generally makes me feel a little more bummed anyway, maybe after some sleep i'll feel better.
Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you enjoy your winter festivities with friends and/or family!

Bones

This is the recent bones assignment we had to do. I shouldn't say recent because we've been drawing these bones since the first few weeks in September. I've included them all here except the supinated/pronated arm as well as the lateral/anterior (I think that's the proper directions hahah) leg because those we just had to copy from another drawing in a book. I actually found that harder to do than drawing an object from life :/

Edit: I also just realized that one of my pelvis drawings are cut off a bit, whoops D: Oh well, you get the idea

Storyboarding Test

Tomorrow there is a story boarding test, the idea was a new character (or previously designed one) finds a box, but finds a larger one and tries to take it but it's too heavy. In the end your character leaves with his or her original small box.
The fun part is that it doesn't have to be a box, so below is the sequence I decided to go with. Hopefully I can get it all drawn in class in the allotted time frame of 2 hours.

Just Before Christmas

Well I came home this weekend because I really needed to get some Christmas shopping done! So Friday I came home and visited Mike and his mum a little (had to get my brush from him too!). Saturday mum and I were up early and off to Conestoga mall, which was PACKED by the way. We arrived at 10:30am and the mall parking lot was full, it had only been open for an hour! I guess everyone has the same idea to come early. Anyway, ended up getting most the shopping done but I have a few people left. We picked Mike up on our way home and set up our Christmas tree and played Scrabble with mum. I developed a weird stomach ache that night and felt like I was going to be sick so Mike took a taxi home instead of me driving him. Sunday I went to church where I found out Mike had walked home the night before instead of taking a taxi. I felt bad but he said he didn't mind and that he actually enjoyed the walk because it was snowing and he could see all the Christmas lights. We then visited Mike's grandparents and met their new family member, Barkley! He's a bernese mountain dog, though i'm unsure of his age, possibly 5 months? After that we went back and set up his mum's tree and had a nice roast dinner. I included some photos I took, two being of the grandfather clock, and one is just a little skull on a key chain, sitting on some little sticks. Sunset is a beautiful time to take photos.

Painting Assignment

So I spent 17 hours on the sucker and might I add the photos do no good to show the details *sad face* but i've included the best one. Anyway the teacher said she expects the students to work the same amount of time it would take her to do the same painting. Fair enough, although it seems kinda silly to compare yourself with a painter who has worked for Nelvana for a good portion of her life. Anyway she looked at my painting, she really liked it, but said she could do it in 8 hours.
$@^$^&#@$)!@%p6792!!!!!

Bah, there was a lot of having to remix paint and go over things again in my painting, so that is to blame for slowness (and Inglorious Basterds). This painting is put on display in the school, but once I get it back i'll try to scan it with the schools large scanners.

More Work

A few more recent works for The Wandering Men. An ambush bug cross with giant centipede, a leopard cross with a boa constrictor, a walrus crossed with a polar bear, and the last was lineart I had done that was purchased after the fact then coloured in. I was hoping with my new tablet I could get these done quicker but unfortunately I can't use it yet, not until I get an adapter that works with the old macbook.

Wacom Cintiq

It's finally arrived! While I was sleeping upstairs, I guess the delivery guy brought it over early. And now, a photo story!

Character Posing and Expressions

So below is my character posing assignment and my character expression sheet (which is handed in tomorrow). For the character posing assignment, I didn't want to do an animal, I wanted to go outside of my comfort zone and go with a human being instead. I received a 13 out of 15 on the assignment, which I didn't entirely believe I deserved.
With the character expression sheet I decided to go with my strengths so I went with a dragon character. You're probably thinking the design looks a lot like a pig nose or Battykoda from Ferngully, and that's probably what inspired me, but how I invisioned the design of this character was from simply zoning out and an image came to mind.
I'm sure some artists can say this happens to them once in awhile, though unfortunately it doesn't happen enough! Anyway, enjoy.

Royal Winter Fair

So every year the animation students go to the Royal Winter Fair, this year, 2nd and 1st years went on a Friday, where we are to draw three pages with 6 drawings each of short gestural drawings, so anywhere between 30 seconds to 5 minute drawings, as well as three pages with two drawings each of detailed observational drawings which should take about 10 - 20 minutes. It was quite a fun trip, Mike came along with me, though unfortunately he was hit hard with allergies (and the flu a day later). So here are my drawings! My friend had gone to extra life today and informed me a page of my drawings are on display, it's quite pleasing to hear, i'll just have to wait until tomorrow to see which page it is!