Space Cowboy with Background

Hello!

So I managed to finally put a background for my Space Cowboy. Just something very simple:



Soon to come: Cute animal series! And maybe a ball bounce animation! Stay tuned! :)

Last Satyr Update for now

Here is the final product for now:

Satyr Update 3

It's cleaned up now with some revisions. Still a few small things I need to work on.. but eh.. later.....

Satyr Update 2

Revising and adding more stuff. It's almost to clean-up time! Gotta fix the tail first though.



Any comments or critiques are appreciated! Hurry while it's still rough! Lol jp :P

Satyr Update

Still in the Animation Lab, but here's the progress so far:



Got to make clearer shapes, add volumes, then more clean up, then detail. :) Ok back to animating!

Looped Cycle

Ok so here is is :)

Needs to Loop

I just realized that the animation doesn't loop and I don't have Quick Time PRO (which cuts and pastes frames). I'll go to school to cut and paste it about 5 times so it'll be able to cycle and repost it. But for now... umm just keep clicking the Play button! Hehehe :P

Finally some animation!

So Art 114 (Animation) started today. It was a really fun first day taking Prof. David Chai again it brought back Art 28 memories back; being reunited with my fellow 28 peers and friends combined is super cool.

So the first assignment is a walk cycle: no rules, whatever you want to do test. I came up with a Satyr skipping while playing the pan-pipes. I got a super-rough pass in so far.


There's lots to work on: He falls too slow and somethings really iffy with the feet when landing... hmm... Well once I get the motion in right I'll start adding more stuff... his ears, cape, pan-pipes etc.

Stay tuned for more animation updating! :)

Super-Long "Catch-Up" Post!

Hello! It's been a while since I posted... in fact I haven't posted a single thing since school ended! Oh my! Well I finally scanned a bunch of pages from my sketchbook to post them... something I've been putting off all this time!
There's a lot more I need to scan especially some animal sketches but my Photoshop is crapping out and is starting to get annoying. So I will post them when I can!
These are not necessarily in chronological order, but I'll try to put them together by the day at least and try to put the most recent first.


Jan, Chris M., Andrea, Chris P., Priscilla, and I went to the Valley Fair food court to sketch.


Chris P. told me and my friends about Sketch Crawl so Chris P., Andrea, Januel, and I went to it on Sat. It was really fun and I can't wait for the next one! Met a lot of new people and just seeing everyone sketch was very exciting!












1 hour master study of a John Singer Sargent painting.


Paul N., Jake, Priscilla, Carly-Ann, Ottman, Tuan, Miles, and gosh who else was there?? lol, I went to SF to sketch! I had so much fun :).






1 hour master study of a NC Wyeth painting.






This was one of my presents to Januel on Christmas. :) The rest was PaperDreams book, Harry Potter 5 dvd, and a Harry Potter beanie. I got my very cute and thoughtful presents from Jan as well! What a sweetie.. hehe..


1 hour master study of a NC Wyeth painting.


Jan, Andrea, and I went to the Cocola Cafe in Santana Row one day to sketch...


These chairs are from Cocola Cafe as well, but I sketched this in SF.


A girl with a cool outfit holding an Urban Outfitters bag.


1 hour master study of a NC Wyeth painting.


Jan and I watched Walk Hard and Sweeny Todd here in Stockton.


Priscilla and I drew at Valley Fair one day.


This is my friend Fred.


Couple of people in Barnes and Nobles.

Phew I need to update my blog more regularly so the posts won't end up this long! Anyways, school starts tomorrow! Stay tuned for some more sketchbook scans when my Photoshop stops crapping out and possibly some Animation tests from class! Yipppeee! :D

Semester is Over!!

Ah the semester is over! Woo~ Here's a post of a few things I've been meaning to post and my 113A Color Rendering. The figure studies are pages from the portfolio I turned in to get into the program.








Mmmm going to sketch a lot this break! Stay tuned for more! :D

Figure Drawings!

Phew, it's been very busy lately! Well, some tonal figure studies are due tomorrow, so this is what I put together.





I'm not really good at tone, but I guess everyone's gotta start somewhere and I gotta practice a lot more. I was really scared to do tone actually but I think I can loosen up a bit if I keep doing it.

Oh, and portfolio review results were back last Friday! I got into the program! Yaaaaayyy!! :)

B&W Rendering

Hey guys! Been a while... so busy with the portfolio review and the black and white acrylic rendering... but it's all done!! B&W turned in last Wed and Portfolios turned in Thurs. The review happened on Friday.. hope everything turned out alright for everyone!!

Here's the Black and White acrylic rendering, left side is photo, right side is painting:

Changed a few things in terms of value to make the overall image better. Guess what the theme is! (Hint: it's from a cartoon) :)

Mmm.. so what's next? Stay tuned for sketches or color comps? Who knows! Yay! :D

New Nefertiti

New Nefertiti after critiques, advices, etc:


I'm liking this one a lot more. I'm sure there's a lot to fix, I'll ask around.

Amazing how much more work gets done when you don't sleep. *Yawn* come here lovely pillow...

Tut First Drawing

Hello! I finally did a drawing of Tut:


I'm suprised/glad that the second time doing this was a lot easier and faster. Sheldon gave me advice to look at Mowgli and so I did and it helped me a lot.

I'm also going to redo Nefertiti after critiques I got from my upperclassmen friends. It took me a while to understand what it means to play with shapes: Januel, Dave, Andrea, and Paul helped me understand... I can't belive it took 4 people to get the message across in my head! O well but atleast I think I understand it now. Thank you Januel, Dave, Andrea, and Paul! Your advice helped me out so much!! :)

Even so I still see mistakes in the Tut drawing; I like the overall look but the proportions are still too even: the torso and the legs are too similar in size, even though I tried to make the lower body longer. It's hard to let go of even/human proportions as it was what I was practicing this whole time so far. However I do think it's a huge improvement from Nefertiti thus starting over with her to accomidate Tut would be a good idea. I guess I'll see what Sheldon says tomorrow.

That's it for now! Until next time :)

Tut Ideations!

Finally was able to scan and put together my Tut ideations!



I'll do a couple more silhoutte studies and be sketching away! I'm still trying to figure out how old he's going to be, but I'm leaning towards 8 or 9.

B&W rending due this Wed! Ahh!

Nefertiti Revised

Here's a revised version:



I don't like the new hand though. I'll go back to the older one and make it bigger so it'll work with the other hand holding the staff. I'll color her hopefully really soon (maybe when the rendering is done). It'll be in the Disney's Beauty and the Beast style; darker colored outlines with simple shading. Until then... painful painting!

Nefertiti (for Disney feature style)

So I redid Nefertiti after Sheldon's critique and got this:



This was the 2nd half of the process:


I think I like this version a lot better because it has more character. The other one is good for illustrative purposes. There's still a few things I need to fix after what Sheldon corrected. I'll post that one up soon. Then I'll start putting some accessories details and then color! Yay!

Stay tuned for Tut ideations and 113A Black and White rendering!

Just a lil something...

...before I head to class. I did this last night at Art 01.


It's in the similar style as my previous "The Magician". I like to do these random drawings once in a while (especially when I'm in a daydreaming mode).

Black and White rendering due in a week! Stay tuned for a possible final 113A rendering picture or Tut ideations!

Nefertiti Progress

So I've been working on the new Nefertiti design. I thought of what Sheldon said and changed it up a bit. Now she has a bit more personality and attitude. I pushed the initial sketch more so that when I tie it down it won't become as stiff. I like where this is going and I'll keep working on it.



Soon to come, Tut ideations! Stay tuned! :)

Nefertiti Final (Sort of)

Hey guys. After many hours of research, sketching, construction, rythmn, coloring, critiquing from peers and some teachers, here's my final Nefertiti:



There is still a lot of work on, like hard edges vs. soft edges for the shadows, and the shadow shapes. But overall I'm pretty satifsfied with the outcome.

However I showed it to Sheldon today and he drew over it with tracing paper. Overall the critique is it could be more pushed and more interesting, better shapes because my drawing is too stiff. Also if she's a cartoon, she shouldn't go with human porportions, but rather something like 5 heads tall, or 6 heads tall, etc etc. He's right.. this drawing WAS meant for Disney feature, but I guess I should have thought that out..

So I'm sketching again. Nefertiti will be 6.5 heads tall after looking at some model sheets of Jasmine and Belle. Jasmine is 5 heads tall and Belle is 6.5 heads. I wanted to go more with Belle because I love her overall. However Nefertiti will be slightly thinner than Belle, so that means I really need to work on my straights vs. curves (either way whether what shape she is I should anyway) because it will be hard to try to get a graceful feeling to it. Nefertiti is supposed to be bold, powerful with authority, yet a kind woman.

I will take this as a learning experience and do my best to come up with something better. I'll keep everything I've learned so far and use it when I move on to Nefertiti's step son, Tutankhamun. He will be the child version, unlike the young adult version everyone is familiar with, since Nefertiti is still in power.

I hope to get better at this. I'll keep working hard. I also hope that my figure drawings will start to loosen up because I am definately swallowing a really big rat... they're really stiff right now.

Anyways, I hope to post progress on other stuff as well! Stay tuned!