SJSU trip

My fellow students and I went down to sunny San Jose to visit SJSU's Animation/Illustration department. I was blown away by the talent and how involved the faculty is with their students. But the most impressive thing that I saw there was a simple little sketch in the hallway...

Glen Keane!!! It took almost all of my willpower to keep myself from squealing like a 7 year old schoolgirl with pigtails. Fanboyism aside, everyone in the department made me feel welcome and I'm definitely gonna put the school at the top of my application list

Starstruck

My very first real painting ever.

All rights reserved to the SVA students who's work I collaged.

Barryl the Undead Warlock

This is in honor of Barryl, my brother-in-arms during my travels in the World of Warcraft. We slayed many a gnome and drank many a brew together. There shall never be a greater warlock.

Oh god, I hope I don't get back into WoW...

Noir Part II

Much better...

Noir

Did this while listening to the Porco Rosso soundtrack and nursing a glass of scotch. Kinda wish I did it with ink, graphite's too shimmery. In fact, maybe I will...

Miyazaki

I've hit a nasty case of writer's (drawer's?) block tonight so I decided to try and loosen up. I drew a quick portrait of Hayao Miyazaki smoking a cigarette while walking through the streets of Paris (I omitted the streets of Paris in the drawing). Everything was done in Photoshop. I gotta say, I'm getting the hang of drawing digitally.

Ash and Pikachu

A quick little sketch of Ash and Pikachu from Pokemon. Just trying to get better on working digitally

Map study

This is a rough sketch of a map that I'm making for a friend on tracing paper with graphite and cheap colored pencils. The end product will be a mixed media piece with watercolor, ink, and maybe some gouache. It's mostly a map of our adventures in Minecraft, with some inside jokes that we've accumulated over the years.

Pixar gates

In preparation for working with pen and ink for my drawing and composition class, I decided to finally polish a sketch of the Pixar studio gates I did a while back. Some of the details were lost from wear and tear, but I did what I could and it turned out pretty well. The lines were done with a fountain pen and the rest were with ink wash.

Character generator sketches

I've having fun with this character generator (http://2dbean.blogspot.com/p/character-generator.html) for the past 2 months or so.  Basically, it gives you 3 or 4 words and then you try to design a character around those words. I've finally decided to upload some of my favorite ones.

This is my very first one. It's a hairy evil shaman viking

Colossal clumsy companion cyborg (Holy alliteration, Batman!)

Sleezy lazy unwilling hero dwarf

Excited witty judge superhero

Petite zany hero leprechaun

Glamorous friendly nurse genie

Glamorous cruel samurai

Handsome fierce avenger cyborg

Adorable disgusted detective human/animal hybrid

Brawny itchy sage fairy

Beautiful mysterious Mother Nature centaur (kinda... I used a deer's body)

Fancy calm mystic gnome

Filthy combative mystic

Watercolor practice

I've been practicing my watercolor skills. Here's a drawing of a stream at Muir Woods.

Pen drawings

Some freehand pen drawings

Zoo life drawings

Here's some sketches from a trip to the Oakland Zoo with Alysse (http://alyssespieces.blogspot.com/).

We caught the sun bears during feeding time. Lucky!

Some tortoises. Also caught them during feeding time.

An eland, who were in the same enclosure as...

Giraffes!

A dromedary camel. We got really up close to these guys.

A gibbon. This guy was really restless and was swinging from branch to branch.

A chimp

Rocky Horror sketches

Long time no blog. I've been super busy with school so I haven't updated in a while. Anyway, here's some sketches from the Drawing Moving Creatures event from school featuring The Rocky Horror Picture Show!