Andrea's Bday!

Today is Andrea's Bday!


This is the gift that I drew and watercolored for her. Andrea is a big fan of Harry Potter and Ian McKellen. I hope she liked it!! (She's in class right now). And I hope that she doesn't for some reason check this blog before she opens her present too lol. I doubt it though, so yea.

Happy Birthday Andrea!! :D

New Post!

School started so I haven't been able to sketch as much but I try to whenever I find the chance or time. Last weekend Jan and I went to his aunt's baby shower! It was a lot of fun!


Over there I saw a baby present bag that had cute animals on it which inspired me to draw some animals in my own cute way. These are just the three animals that I drew the most from the Oakland Zoo trip.


Here is Jan's aunt sitting down during the party.


Jan and I went to Barnes and Noble in Stockton as usual to sketch a bit. I couldn't get any good sketching done, but atleast I ended up with this piece. Kind of random, actually.


Yesterday I had Art 001 at Washington Square Hall 109. The class wasn't too boring because the teacher seems funny, but since it was the first day there wasn't too much that I had to concentrate on. So I drew the front of WSH while the teacher was talking.

Well that's about it I think so far. I'll keep posting when I can! Soon to come... maybe some 113A stuff once I get the homework done? Probably not the greyscale of course, but maybe when we get to the themed Black and White composition. Stay tuned! :)

Oakland Zoo!

Jan and I are back from Stockton so now I can post the sketches done on Monday!

On Monday Jan, Andrea, Jake, Paul, Austin, and Raymond went to the Oakland Zoo. I had a great time because it was such a great day, lots of animals (happy ones, unlike the sad ones I visited at the SF Zoo), and a great time with friends. Well, here are the sketches:










School starts tomorrow!!! AAHHH!! :P I hope everyone had a wonderful summer!!! See you in schhoooool!!

Fairy!

Yesterday I was delightfully surprised because Chris Palmer bought and sent me the book "Learn to Draw The Fairies of Pixie Hollow", a simple yet cool Disney book about the fairies that accompany Tinker Bell. Thank you so much Chris Palmer! This inspired me to draw myself as a fairy!


It's not quite the same style... but it's still cute! :) I'm not as nearly as cute as this drawing tho. Lol!

Finally a new post! :)

It's been a few weeks since I last posted! Sorry folks! I guess I haven't been as busy sketching lately.. but I've been trying to sketch here and there! First off a character..


This is a Hogwarts version of me in the Ravenclaw house! Inspired by one of my most admirable friends Andrea Rhodes (visit her website at http://www.andrearhodes.blogspot.com) because she did a kickass one of herself (Dre that black version of it is sooooo coool!!!) I decided to do one of myself. It's not nearly as cool as Andrea's but I did a quick rough. There's a lot to fix like her legs and I wished I had more knowledge of drapery so my cloak wouldn't be soo... err... round? Haha. But I plan on fixing these errors in time and do a line version and color it! :)


This is just one of the poses from the previous figure drawing session last week. Unfortunately the rest is on newsprint and I don't have my camera with me at the moment. I'll post them up when I can!


Been trying to draw animals whenever I can.. Santana Row, any pet store like PetCo or PetSmart. Here is a collage of various dogs... (More animals to come cuz I'm going to the zoo on Monday! Yay!)


At PetSmart today, there was a cat adoption thing going on. I tried drawing the cats... but ended up playing with them most of the time :).

More to come! Stay tuned!!

Something different...

I've been trying to draw people a bit more stylized.. like caricatures or something.. Most importantly I wanted to show the confidence in the line quality.. But it seems like I need to work on it more, like with different pens.


Ultimately I want to draw something cool like Stephan Silver, but that will take more drawing and more time!

Next: Perhaps a cleaned up character turnaround for the walk cycle? Stay tuned! :D

Borders!

Jan, Andrea, and I went to Borders tonight to sketch a bit. I ended up spending most of the time there sketching the cafe on the 2nd floor..

Some of the perspective of it is completely wacko, but in terms of an environment study and detail, I think it turned out O.K.

Coming soon... been working on a different stylized version of people studies! Stay tuned! :)

Bill Presing

Chris Palmer showed Jan and I what books he got from Comic Con today. One of the books was by Bill Presing ( check him out at http://billpresing.blogspot.com/ ), a book that I think Sophorn would highly enjoy. It was really good and inspired me to draw one of my own:


I asked Jan what theme should the girl be, and he said "animal!" and I asked what kind, and he said "giraffe." ...So here it is, Giraffe Girl... what a weird theme lol! It doesn't look too much like Bill Presing's now that I look at it more, just a quick imitation. I think I'll study it more, I feel like I can learn a ton from this artist! These kinds of drawings are fun, and maybe I'll try more of different artist's styles.

I've also been trying to upload my Walk Cycle on Photo Bucket, but it seems to be failing. Don't really know why. So I may not be able to show any other animations for now, as it cannot exceed 100MB. But my walk cycle is 70.3MB... hmm... o well!

Till next time!

New! Animation Tests! :)

I'm going to try something new... I've been doing a few animation tests over the summer and let's see if there's a way to put it up in here...


(Just click on the icon above to view)
This is a skip test that I did a few weeks ago after finishing the film "The Princess and the P." by Januel Mercado. The keys are by Preston Blair. I inbetweened the keys and turned it into my own character, a lively little girl with a cute skirt!

Ok let's see if this works now.... *click*

EDIT: Looks like it works! I don't know how to share videos without uploading it on PhotoBucket. If anyone knows how, please let me know! P.S. I don't have my own website or stuff like that.. yet. Hehe.

LONG POST: Sketches from Vacation! :)

Jan and I were on vacation with his family (His mom, dad, sister, and sister's bf) to Las Vegas! We just came back to San Jose yesterday :). It was so much fun! Well, during my stay in Stockton before heading over to Fresno on Sunday to fly out to Vegas, I tried to sketch as much as I could.


At one point I got obsessed with drawing legs and feet because I knew I really sucked at them. I hope to apply and have better skills at feet when figure drawing.


Jan and I went to Barnes and Noble as usual and drew for a while there. Here's an old man reading at the cafe.


Another person from Barnes and Noble, this time a girl wearing lots of pink and her hair was dyed pink too! The other girl is a quick sketch of a woman having a study session with her pals.


Let's see.. since we don't have very good internet service at Jan's house, later at night we went to Java, a cafe with free and fast internet. This is a sketch of their counter.


A character concept for my push and pulling test that I will eventually do after I finish spiffing my walk cycle. He's a little boy who is planning to run away from home but it seems that he packed too much stuff! His bag is so heavy that he has to drag the bag with his toys falling out, eventually trying to push it, and then giving up.


One of the days in Stockton I decided to draw Jan's house. It was SO HOT that I could not finish it! Man, it was like Niagra Falls on my back with sweat dripping nonstop on my face.


Jan needed to get a haircut so he, his mom, and I went to a hair salon. Here it is!


Decided to draw the interior of Jan's house by the staircase. Once again.... it was soooo hot!!!


We went to Jan's sister's bf's parents house for a little bit so that we can get dropped off at the airport. She had the cutest dogs! One was name Gypsy and Jan and I tried to sketch her. She, however, did not give me a chance to finish this, hehe.


At the airport... quick sketch of the plane we were going to ride! :) TO VEGAS, BABY!


I didn't get to sketch at Vegas, but boy did I have a great time! On the trip back I did a quick sketch of a walk cycle...


Last but not least, on the way back here is a character concept for a future drink test. She's going to walk up to a bar, order a martini and drink from it graciously. Little does she know that all the alcohol is on the bottom because they didn't mix it up and makes a face like "oh my god! this is disgustingly too strong!" and spits it out to the side. Then, with hesitation, she twirls it around with the pick and olive it comes with and then sips it again cautiously. Mmm, the martini was delicious!

Well, that's it for Vacation Sketches! Soon to come: more environment studies (hopefully) and finished/cleaned up version of the character concepts. Currently working on finishing/cleaning up the walk cycle and starting the push/pulling test! Stay tuned! :D

New enviroment study!

A couple days ago, Dave noticed that my tires were very, very, very worn out and said that I should replace them for safety. He was right because my rear-left tire was a "slick"... I coudn't see any treads!! Very bad.. So when I went to Stockton with Jan for the weekend his dad was very kind to take me to All American Tires to help me get a deal. Jan's dad ended up bargaining tires for $244.00 for 4 tires. I thought it was a good deal to me and purchased them :). While waiting for them to install them, Jan, his dad, and I waited at McDonalds. Alas, a time to sketch another environment!

More to come! :)

A Glimpse into the PAST!

As some people may know I'm moving very very soon from my old place in Milpitas to an apartment close by campus in San Jose. While packing I discovered a lot of old drawings. A few stood out as I remembered them as favorites and I decided to post them up!


Done in 2005, I was very much into World of Warcraft which influenced me to draw this. I like the attention to detail (which was influenced by Hyung Tae Kim's artwork) that I forget nowadays.


Done in 2005. This drawing stood out because I didn't realize until I saw this drawing that my previous Boy From The Digital World was actually influenced by this original drawing I did a long time ago. Funny too, that this old drawing is much more carefully drawn than the one I did much later. I didn't even realize I was drawing an old character!


Date unknown, but I know this is around 2005 as well, because this was done much before I attended San Jose State University. I used to draw stuff more like this, as an expirement, and wanted to pursue it more as a different and unique style. I have a more drawings similar to this style, but found that this is the most successful one.

Well, that's it for now! More NEW drawings to come! Hehe :)

Another environment study!

Jake, Renee, and I met up and had lunch at Gordon Biersch today. Afterwards we walked around and ended up drawing in front of the San Jose Museum of Art. I thought the castle looking building seemed pretty cool. Anyways, another environmental study and a great time with my friends :).

Time to update :)

I went to Santana Row to get some supplies and drop by Best Buy to buy 'Extras Season 1'. While awaiting either Paul or Jake's phone call to possibly go sketching I drew this cool building towards the front of Santana Row. There's so many cool buildings I can draw here! Next time I'll get a portable chair so I can get cool angles with every building! Next up, the other end of the Borders building, then the front of it! Gotta do more and more perspective studies!! :D


This is a quick sketch I did in Yosemite. We didn't have too much time to sketch because our days were so busy with hiking and checking out lakes and such! So much fun, but I'm very glad to be back to nice beds and showers!

That's about it for now... until next time folks! :)

More stuff!

More Januel drawings... keeyoooooootteee :D


Januel in watercolor!


Going to animate a walk cycle... a cool, nerdy photographer! :) I'll clean up, do more turns, and finish this sometime soon!

Some recent work

Finally got my lazy ass up and scanned a few things from my sketchbook! First here's some studies I've been doing at Stockton and in San Jose...


Jan and I sat down in the cafe of Barnes and Noble in Stockton and drew for a while. What was great was that there's a Starbucks there, and everytime a new person walked up in line I quickly drew them. I'm starting to learn how simple shapes really do give so much character of the person..plus it makes drawing them very fun!


Same thing, but I tried it with watercolor. I really like the result of this study...


This is the interior of Barnes and Noble while sitting in the cafe... gotta do more perspective studies...


A cathedral in downtown San Jose!

That's about it for studies.. for now.. Been thinking of finally animating a few things I've been putting off this summer so you'll probably see more character designs... we'll see! Stay tuned! :)

Some old stuff

Since I have't been posting in a while, i suppose I can put up some more old stuff just to fill in the space. Been pretty lazy to scan anything new, but once I do I'll be sure to post something up! Just watched Transformers yesterday and it was AWESOME!! My favorite is BubbleBee, hehe "BEE-OTCH!" hahaha! Going to work on my own Transformer for the Creation Engines blog... an AutoBot of course, maybe something cute? Or should I stick with the cool? Stay tuned! :)