Jane Goodall

When I was in grade 6 the two greatest people on earth were Tarzan and Jane Goodall (besides Walt Disney of course!), needless to say I was a little bit obsessed with apes. Here's a quick painting of Dr. Goodall as a I'm taking a teeny weeny break from my film :)

 

 My last life drawing portfolio (ever!) from Sheridan was due this week!

I don't have too much to post because I always forget to scan my drawings.

But here's one! Only the two ladies on the left were based on life drawing.

 

 

Critiques are appreciated!

 

Zoo Animals

Hi y'aaaallll! 

I know I haven't posted in forever! I wish I could share the stuff Tracy Munch and I have been working on at Chuck Gammage. We've been painting some really fun backgrounds :) 

Hope everyone is having a great summer so far, and learning lots at their internships.

Here are some zoo sketches and 5 min life drawing from last week. 

My zoo bud will also be posting some sketches soon, check 'em out.

Critiques are welcome!

Zoo Day!

Took a super fun zoo trip last week with Dean and did some sketching.

Check out his blog on the sidebar!

Also: Started interning at CGA, loving it :)

:)

Limberg's Golf Greens

A wee life drawing assignment.

Costumed Life Drawing Characters

Finally finished costumed life drawing assignment. I ended up running out of time on fixes, so I didn't end up doing what I had meant to do. But here they are!

VROOOOM!

Went to the Auto Show today in Toronto, first time ever drawing cars. Purdy fun :D

Watercolour with no pencil block in ... I think I'm getting a little better!

Happy Tuesday!

Life Drawing Characters

Geisha and bride work in progress.

The lack of Photoshop and proper drawing materials at home is making me super anxious! 

Can't wait to finish them when I get back to Oakville. :)

It just occurred to me that I never make work in progress posts.

Any feedback before they are finished?

Some brides:

Critiques are greatly appreciated!

A Chef and a Geisha

Hi everyone!

It's been such a busy time lately with portfolios and film work, sorry for the lack of updates!

Quick post with some watercolour life drawings from this week and last :)

Funny thing:

I studied Chinese brush painting for a few months when I was 7, and today's Geisha session was totally deja vu. I find myself really missing non-animation things lately ... like Chinese painting and flute-playing. Will start this weekend :)

Trying to do as many fast pencil-less watercolours as possible.

Critiques and comments are super appreciated!

:D

Washes

I'm so sad that there is no time to post this week!

... or do anything other than animating! I've been working on my action analysis animation all week, which sadly had been neglected all semester. I have been so into everything else that I'd just set it aside, I've definitely learned my lesson!

So I'm just posting these 5 min watercolour life drawings from Tuesday night.

Also, I'm so excited that mom and I are leaving for London, England on Monday! :D The only downside is that I will be working on my animation right up until my flight so I won't be posting again until I return.

How I wish to be making Christmas art! :(

My friend Eyassu made this amazing Christmas post today!

He's doing 12 days of Christmas posts so there's more to come!

Check it out!

http://suuart.blogspot.com/

Heartbreak

A little something I started sketching last night and painted today for life drawing class. It was my first time painting with watercolour and digital on top. It was so much fun to do!

The initial sketch actually was done from a scene of The Help, although as I sketched it evolved into something completely different. It's one of my favourite movies I've watched it 3 times yesterday and today while working :) Watch it, you won't regret it!

Thanks to my best friend Eyassu for showing me how to use photoshop to the fullest!

Check out his super amazing blog! www.suuart.blogspot.com

Hope y'all like!

Sculpture and Life Drawing

My first head sculpture that I did in class the past 2 weeks. About 4 hours.

It was super fun, I might do more :)

Plus some 20 min life drawings from last night:

My first time doing long poses with watercolour:

10 minutes

15 minutes

 

Critiques welcome!

Smudge Time

I went to life drawing today and used pastels for the second time. (The first time was a huge failure)

It was fun! I'm going to post as I go to keep track of my progress :)

 

Ecorche Studies

It's almost 4 am and I am so excited for this post - SUCH AN AMAZING DAY

I'm SO inspired by the people around me.

Thanks everyone for your inspirational chats, and your help and patience with me. 

(You know who you are!)

Y'all are so amazing I can't even get over it. <3

In the past few days, I've been working on my studies of backs in the Anatomy in Motion assignment. I'm really not an anatomy person at all, so as you can imagine I was really struggling. I always find the anatomy of the back the hardest to 'fake'.

I went to illustration life drawing three days in a row (I rarely life draw for fun, probably just because I never understood what I am working towards) and then spent a fair chunk of time today ecorcheing my drawings. As I was almost finished, something inside me just clicked and I just saw everything I wasn't able to see before. I finally understand everything that didn't work in my drawings! I know there is still tons wrong in them - but I can see them now! What the heck :D

Sometimes this program makes me question myself and it's hard to say 'I love art' ... but today is one of those days when I can go to bed and confidently say it.

I love art and I'm passionate about animation.

I didn't end up ecorcheing this one.

I used Progresso pencils and Derwent Coloursoft on Kraft paper (It's super fun. I swear.)

Ecorches are Progresso on vellum.

I will sleep well tonight! Until life drawing at 9 am tomorrow, which I'm super excited for.

I'm also excited to post more llamas tomorrow, but right now I'm too tired.

PLEASE critique, and have yourself a creative day.

The Royal Winter Fair

Hey there!

It's been quite a while since my last post. But here they are! The good, the bad and the ugly.

My winter fair drawings D: It was such a strange drawing day.

 That morning I overslept. I woke up 5 minutes before the arrival of my bus.

Thus it became a day without grooming or make up. But animals don't judge.

Llamas + turkeys + perogies + fudge + free food samples = SUBLIME HAPPINESS

I was so llama-high all morning :B They're the wonderfullest!

Rough, based on a 5 sec sketch from the fair

Some really crummy sketches of llamas and cowsies.

Llamas are SOOO much fun to watch. :)

There was a girl sleeping with them cows :)

Then I drew some birdies!

Also super fun.

(Copic markers and Prismacolour brush tip marker)

This one's my favourite:

Hope you liked them!

A drawing for giggles :)