I had some spare sticker paper and a day to myself, so I made some doggie stickers:
chihuahua set
whippet set
I'm selling prints of these, actually (contact me if you're interested) and they were so fun, I want to make many more. :) maybe I should get an etsy store, I know a good number of people that have them and it looks like a great site.
dang if only I could spend the rest of my life making cute things and living off it.
guess which drawings I did! :D I drew twice (2 x 8 frames) and there is a hint on one sequence, hahah.
I put together a GIF of my friends' and my ghetto anijam too -- click the picture to view. (disclaimer: this is in no way indicative of our skill level in more professional situations.)
just for the sake of variety, a picture I drew recently of two of my original characters.
I listened to Goo Goo Dolls while I drew this. I don't care who thinks that's cheesy (that was kind of the point anyway).
I'm not much of a drinker, but I'm a huge draw-er (social or otherwise), and when I heard about this great animation jam event going on downtown I had to get in on the party (and of course invite everyone on my facebook friendslist who might remotely be interested). It was great hanging out and drawing with people I haven't seen in a while, and animating pretty much straight ahead on index cards within ten minutes was definitely something new and exciting -- and a whole lot of fun. I had a great time and I hope to show up at the next one!
The zombie sketch wall is a thing of great beauty, I'm glad there are pictures of it up!
my friends and I randomly decided to do our own really ghetto ani-jam while we were waiting around for people. I'll eventually put it together just to see what it looks like. (probably like crap, but oh well.)
preview:
I put up some drawings from the event, too. :) there were some great ones we found lying around and decided to just take home, heh. I would have run off with the bikinizombie wall if I could have.
faces! I need lots more practice with drawing human faces well so I went and found some on flickr.com to draw from. I'll definitely be doing this a lot more.
some designs I did at internship for a Veterans' Day mascot! the pigeon and eagle were kind of fun but the dog's my favourite. he was inspired by the war dog Smoky, a Yorkshire Terrier that became an indispensable war dog -- pretty incredible for a so-called "lap dog" toy type.
I know I've been using the same music since I first made myself a reel, but I've always been really conflicted about changing it whenever I update. I've heard from more than one person that the music reflects my personality well, and that is part of what I want to get across along with my technical skills. I figure my animation is more important to worry about, and I'll change the music when I feel like I need an overhaul. :)
here, have a Flash exercise I did last year. I can't find the original file anywhere, so I'll just have to link to it -- I still like it enough to do so. :)
At long last, my thesis film is ready to go LIVE online!
I realise that up until the screening very few people knew anything about my film. From the beginning I found it hard to talk about:
"So what is your thesis about?"
"Well it's about this pangolin, she-"
"What -- a penguin?"
"No, a pangolin. Scaly anteater indigenous to Africa and Asia. But anyway, she has these durians that she treats as pets, and-"
"These what that she what?"
"Um. Okay, my film is about monkeys. And friendship. The end, go away."
It turned out to be rather nice to have people go into the theatre not knowing what to expect from me. I was able to let my thesis speak for itself and I don't know if it comes across but it's really quite a personal project to me. Lots of people congratulated me on it afterward and I am truly thankful and quite amazed by all the support. ♥ ♥ ♥ much love, all. The Dusty animation show was truly a night to remember, I couldn't be prouder of the SVAnimators of '09. I won't forget it as long as I live -- true facts.
anyhoo. I'll shut up and let my film speak for itself this time, too.
I am attempting to make some (pathetic, by comparison) recreation of our Dusty show through a playlist on youtube, which will be updated as people post their films. Check it. They deserve it.
♥ ! I'll be posting more art soonish, as soon as I get real life sorted out. Yay!
should have posted this earlier, but happy -- albeit belated -- lunar new year! :D I got a couple packs of brush pens on impulse a while back and wanted to try them out.
the still from my film I'm submitting for the show program, both in colour and in black and white. I REALLY like how it looks, and that's a great motivator for thesisizin'. :D
okay it's almost lunar new year so it feels more like 2008 is officially history. hope it's been a blast so far, I know it's been great for me. :) it's going to be an exciting year since I'm graduating and then if all goes well will stay on in New York for an extra year to do some work study. whoooo employment.
anyways, new year means new sketchbook! recycled paper yay. I've since finished colouring, but I like it like this too. :D
some doodles of Labu. she keeps changing even now, dammit. pesky characters.
werechihuahua again. I'm not terribly fond of this drawing but I do like his face. I might do a were-toys series, I need to actually finish pictures sometimes.
and a bunch of fanart: OMG PPG!!!!! I was obsessed with this show back in the day. the marathon on CN and the new anniversary ep was a good enough trigger to get me back into it. I am so proud of my Mojo Jojo considering I didn't draw him much even back then and I used only minimal reference for his face. yeah I watched that show waaaay too much har.
my old fear of markers seems to have done a 180 degree turn, because apparently I love them now. HOORAY. I need more.
pokemon I drew for people. I like the old pokemon designs better, the new ones are weird and a lot of them are ugly.
my friend Carly's character Stormy, inspired by what she's doing for her thesis film. :)
whooo, I fly home to Singapore tonight for the holidays, but first an update! first, sketchbook stuff:
I love drawing toy breed dogs. they've got 'cute' proportions which I'm more inclined to favour in my character designs, and I think they're a lot of fun to exaggerate and stylise as well since a lot of them look kind of weird. the 'ugly' or 'weird' dogs are the ones I find the most fun to draw. :)
as you can see though, I also like making them badass. werepomeranian, werechihuahua, werepoodle. I think I need to draw these guys more often.
next, I played another round of what we now affectionately call 'sketchbook hero' with some other animators! the results are thus:
this is pretty self explanatory. I really like my ugly turtle, I might make him a character. or something.
drawing of Ed is pretty blah (I get self conscious drawing my friends, I seriously need to get over that), and I don't particularly want to explain the happy little bunny-sunshine-flowers scene. but apparently considering 'mafia/gangsta clown on crack' came completely out of left field, I did pretty well!
finally a figuredrawingdump since I haven't done one of those in a while:
so I was hanging out with my friends Carly and Mike and we randomly decided to challenge each other to a fast and furious three-way drawing jam battle. "anything you can draw I can draw better" as Carly called it, hahah. it was a whole lot of fun, and I decided that the results, while not the best drawings in the world since we were basically scribbling them up on the spot in maybe two minutes tops, were fun enough to post. :)
Mike's first prompt was to draw a really grumpy lion, so I did. the red col-erase came as an afterthought and from that moment on I could not look at the drawing because I kept bursting out laughing. *dork*
My friend Deanna who happened to be around at the time gave us this prompt. I have no idea where that came from but it was pretty funny.
Carly's prompt: NINJA. I'm so proud of this, I had put down my pencil so I just grabbed the first writing implement that came to hand (my pilot g-2 clicky pen) and went with it.
me: "I see your ninja and raise you a pirate" the one on the left is my character Lallang (as a human, she's normally a pirate cat, hahah). she's supposed to be Singaporean so her costume reflects it. I tried to make a more 'traditional' lady pirate on the right but that failed and now she just looks like a weird Disney's Esmerelda thing. eh.
Mike: "Draw Mickey Mouse in your style" at this point I'm actually not really sure what 'my style' is, since I'm in an evolving stage. I just went with drawing Mickey's simple basic design as I understood it (after all, we're not referencing stuff here).
Carly prompted with Tink right after Mickey. I really like how mine came out. :D
one of our friends requested Fievel from An American Tail, which I'd actually watched about maybe two years ago so it was somewhat more fresh in my mind than it would have been otherwise.
my prompt, since I've had brawling on the brain recently. SUPAHSONIC FTW this is me recreating a battle I had over summer with a couple of kids I didn't know that happened to be at my cousin's house. they were both playing Pit and ganging up on me because I'm a girl, omg. I wasn't doing too well but payoff eventually arrived in the form of a smash ball. revenge was pretty sweet.
this looks nothing like Papa Smurf. hooray.
yaayy Beckermans! :D drawing him from memory was tougher than I thought but I think this is recognisable enough.
this was really fun and I'd love to make it an actual event for us to do every week, the more the merrier too. drawing with other people makes me happyyy~! :D
WOW. I've been drawing a lot over break, I have a lot to show. doodles are fun!
first, some thesis stuff:
boa and hornbill studies, from photos mostly (though the two hornbill drawings below are from memory. they're going to be 'extras' since as I explained to Gaffney I want my jungle to look like there are more than four animals in it. MORE WORK FOR ME TO ANIMATE, YAY. I'll be kicking myself in two months, won't I. ah well, picking a pangolin to animate as a main character in the first place was kind of telling. anyhow. I LOVE DRAWING HORNBILLS. and I'm happy I get to animate a snake because I love snakes. :)
this is an oriental whip snake, my favourite species of snake. it's probably not going to be in my film, I just wanted to draw one. ♥ evidently I have a thing for pointy-nosed animals.
trying to work out a pose/expression for Labu in this one scene - obviously the second (bottom) one worked better.
doodles. I like drawing with microns - especially when they get old and crappy to ink with, they make for better sketching. also trying to get over my fear of markers, I think we're getting somewhere.
happiness is also a warm bum. radiators you can sit on are wonderful. I was not happy that the heat went poof over thanksgiving. :|
doggies! as anyone who's familiar with me or my art at all over the past few years will know, I'm a huge dog nerd (as in NERD, not just omg-i-love-cute-puppiez, I can quote you things about many different breeds and I have several breed encyclopedias and photo books. I have also officially drawn every breed currently registered with the american kennel club, except the danged swedish vallhund which they accepted after I'd finished with the herding group. so yeah don't mess with me xD). so whenever anybody tells me they own or fancy a particular breed or type of dog I tend to connect them in my head with that breed or type pretty much forever - since it's also true that people, I find, tend to be drawn to breeds that are closest to them in whatever way. so while I was alone in the dorms I started doodling certain dogs I connect to my SVA buds. yaaayyy, see I thought of you guys. xD
aikido doodles!! I was just thinking about it, since I do practice aikido and I miss being able to train seriously - school and art in general have been taking top priority lately. I also miss my dojo at home, and I hope I can start that up again when I move back. great workout and good for the mind and body. :) I also find aikido is really inspirational to draw from because the poses/movements are so fluid and powerful and the uniform and general silhouette is very aesthetically beautiful to me as well. aah I love it. ♥
I'm not perfectly content with most of these, but I liked them enough to post so. just means I need to draw more! I really ought to do more martial arts-inspired stuff anyway, because it does inspire me.
and that's all for now, whew. oh gah I missed having fun with drawing so much. :[
