House on Mango Street

Here's a book cover I designed for class! I always loved this book, but all the covers were really REALLY lame. So I made a new one!!

I should be all caught up now!

or close to it anyway...

This is a project I am working on now!! Visual development for.....WICKED!!!!

I am so pumped about this! I love the music, I love the musical! It's absolutely wonderful! And I'm dying for it to become a movie, not live action, I think it would make an awesome animated movie. I really do. It would be beautiful!!!

So heres what I'm working on, I'm focusing more on the first part, where they are at Shiz University.
I think I'm going to continue this into the summer, but theres a lot going on right now and I don't want to pile more on the already heavy, heavy plate.

So for characters, right now I'm just focusing on Elphaba, Galinda, and Fiyero.

with semi victorian flair mixed with straight out whimsical

Elphaba and Galinda's dorm room sketch. Galinda of course has all the fancy stuff and the walk in closet, while Elphaba has the basic necessities. 

To be continued....

Some character designs...

I am taking this awesome independent study this semester, and its focusing all on character design!!

I picked a story to sort of make into an animated movie pitch, with a simplified storyline, character designs, environmental studies and such. It's a lot of fun!! I love doing this kind of stuff!! oh so much!

I decided on the story, "The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen.  I decided to set it in the 1920s, and change it up a bit, where Karen is a dancer and the red shoes help her, you know, instead of destroy her life, cause her to cut off her feet and eventually kill her. Good 'ol fairy tales!!

These are the first sketches I ever did. I wanted to make it so 1920s. The anatomy is berserk, but I still love the overall style and art decoish quality and that is gonna be a part of it. 

Another assignment not relating to the red shoes story at all, unless it took place in space. but these are some robot butlers!


It's been an interesting study, I've learned alot and the characters have evolved so much, its really awesome to look back at the first sketches. Ill post the finished project later!

ANIMATION!

I majored in animation for 2 years before I transferred to Uarts and switched to illustration. Luckily they allow minors there! So, it seemed like a good idea to do it, and it is, it just rough doing to 2 very time consuming majors at once! But, I'm learning a lot and despite my whining, I do love it.

So my short is about a cat and her treats. Based off my own cats greediness and love for any kind of food and her determination to eat everything, and I mean EVERYTHING!

Her favorite food is whipped cream and you do not want to be the one not to give her some. She will bother you and hate you forever.

Prime example: Chinese food.

She thought she was sneaky but I know whats up!!

staring at my delicious food. for awhile. it was uncomfortable.

thinks she's being sneaky creepin up behind my mom.

until eventually she walked up and stared until I gave her some rice. which she didn't like.
I am not giving her general tsos. She does sleep in my room on occasion.

So yes! A cat animation! 

here is some concept art!!

Hopefully I can animate like the wind so it actually looks this nice...

we shall see....

found some sketches...

I was putting away old sketchbooks and found some sketches from a project from last semester, the heaven and hell piece.  It was some quick brainstorming sketches, the first week of school doing them in my history/literature class, I haven't gotten to do this in a while. Deadlines are quicker and its not the first week of school anymore so I have to jump right into a project to get it done in time.

planes!! with help from my brother as to which planes to draw. I would get in so much trouble if I didn't pick the right model or kind of plane. I'm the only one in my family that isn't into aviation all that much.

space stuff!!! 

there was alot more stuff, but it was mixed in with notes from class and conversations with my friends who were writing in my sketchbook.

it makes me sad that lately I haven't had time to do this kind of stuff for everything. if I have any free time I'm usually passed out in bed. Animation and illustration majors will be the death of me.

Stuff from last semester!!!

It has been so hectic lately, I haven't had 2 seconds to scan the stuff I've been working on. Finally here's some stuff!!

theres about a month left of school and I am so excited for summer!!! Warm weather, a chance to relax a bit and work on personal projects, and maybe some art related jobs coming up so maybe I won't have to suffer through another summer as a camp counselor! I love it, but the bugs are getting to me.

the pencil drawing for my final assignment last semester! 

The final! I finally figured out how to use corel and went a little crazy with the textures hehe

Heres some oil paintings I did from a model!

totally not finished, but I'm kind of liking it this way...

SO MUCH REDDDDDD

2 people??? whaaattt I managed to get it done somehow, my oil painting skills before these were, well, nonexistent.
but hey! now these look like paintings!!

Some Delightful Butterbeer!

I have a ton of stuff to upload! I've been super busy!

But while I am in class, might as well upload my latest project.
We had to make beer labels, and of course I chose Butterbeer!!
I wouldn't really consider myself a Harry Potter fan until this year, I seem to be doing alot of Harry Potter inspired stuff.

Here's the label!
I wanted it to look old fashioned, like it could be related to the movies.
and just look generally awesome!

And because I felt like doing something crafty, I made a prototype of the bottle!
Instead of Butterbeer, I used candle wax for the inside, so it wont go bad and I can keep it forever!!

There's alot more to come!!
As of now, I'm attempting to start a tumblr, not entirely sure what it is or how it works, but everyone seems to be posting stuff on there so I'll attempt to learn the ways of the internet s'more.