Animals

I'm not at all the greatest life drawer, and even worse at drawing animals ... so when I do get drawings that are half decent I get all giddy :P

I'm starting to feel more comfortable with drawing animals lately ... these are some of my sketches from 2 recent trips to the zoo. There was a page of gestures that I was pretty proud of but no longer have :'(

The best thing about cold zoo days is that the rhino is inside ... warm and upclose!

Red river hog ... I call it the kiwi pig


These are soooo much fun to do! Tiny watercolour kit + watercolour pencils + a tiny water brush + a teeny tiny watercolour sketchbook.

He's one of my favourites to draw.



See how cute / kiwi-like?

He decided to roll over 3 minutes after I got there ... lol



Enjoy and please critique!

Morphs

Animal and human morphs from life drawing today, some are more finished than others :P

Critiques welcome.

Old Paintings

Some 1st year painting assignments from last year :)

Still life of glass, metal and fabric

Mastercopy painting, original is Aladdin concept art from Dream Worlds by the amazing Hans Bacher

Mrs. Beets' House

Remember old Mrs. Beets? I got to design her Victorian house in layout class, it was soooo much fun to research and draw!

For me, layout seems to be one of those things that comes naturally one minute, and gives me hell the next. So I never quite know what to expect as to how long it will take me to do, and how well it will turn out. But I have to say, I think this is the first time that I've actually been happy with my layout for a long while.  
 

 

 

Hope y'all like it :) 

Critiques are always welcome.

Pretty Perin Pin-Up

A giant pin-up I painted of my roommate Perin back in August 2010 :)

Poster colour on jumbo sketching pad

Enjoy!

The Greethiopian

A tiny watercolour doodle of Eyassu, one of my best friends.

We had a really fun day today mall ratting, doodling, grocery shopping and going to Lick's for my first time ever!

Watercolour and watercolour pencils.

Check out his blog!

http://www.left-at-albuquerque.blogspot.com/

More Baby Monkeys

This is my process for the little baby monkey i used in my muzzle sync animation :) I'm having a really hard time with drawing animals ... I need so much more practice! But in the end I liked how the design turned out, and I will be cleaning it up for my clean up assignment I'm REALLY excited about that :)

 

My initial design in my sketchbook

 

The amazing Pete Emslie helped me with the design and posing.
I'm so amazed at how much cuter she is now! This is the design I went with when animating.

Pete Emslie: http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/





I tried to paint her over reading week.
But she's really off model and I really don't like how this turned out
... but it was fun to do.
Maybe I'll try again some time. :)



Critiques are welcome! Enjoy :)



Little Baby Monkey

Muzzle sync assignment.

Voice of the cutest 4 year old ever, Kaitlyn Ashley Maher on America's Got Talent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwAbtizFCzo&feature=related

Enjoy :) 

150 Years Ago ...

... you will find my finished character design assignment.

This assignment surprisingly took a really long time, but it's finished! I really wish I had more time to spend on exploring better poses and expressions, but this will have to do for now. :)

Enjoy! Critiques are welcome :) 



"As if!"

I ADORE Cher <3
I'm never usually happy with my animation, EVER. But I finished this one today and I actually kinda like it. :)

Clueless (2005)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! :)

Two posts in one day I know LOL. But I've recently gotten out of a schlump of art-sadness. Now I'm totally going through a phase of drawing drawing drawing like I don't have enough time to capture everything that I want to create :) Anyway, here's a little something I made for my roomies and all ya lovebirds out there :)

Here are some other things i made somewhat recently:

A tiny watercolor of sunny Port Canaveral, Florida.
I did this from the window of the cruise ship when I was on holiday this Christmas :)

A little colour study of my villain and a possible henchman.
Just for fun, done last week while in film hist lecture.

 All of the above are done with watercolour pencils, although for the landscape I painted by dipping my brush into the pencil tips instead of drawing with them. Enjoy! 

Victorian doodles

I just finished these rough explorations for my next set of characters! They were amazingly fun to do. They totally put me on a sketching craze :)

These are my four main characters in a Victorian theme, inspired by the wonderful Deanna Marsigliese (http://pinkydee.blogspot.com/) :) 





A small unremarkable peasant girl who works in the mansion.



The cranky old woman who owns the household.

An awkward stable boy with a heart of gold.

The jolly old coachman.





Enjoy!

Critiques are welcome, and name suggestions would be great too :)



Some school work :)

I tried to keep this blog updated with out-of-school things, but that obviously didn't happen :P I PROMISE to do more personal artwork in the next few weeks :) Meanwhile here's my cheap attempt at a new post. Enjoy!

Facial expressions: 1) Laughing outrageously 2) Panicked 3) Flirtatious 4) Skeptical

Initially based on my friend Anita, but it eventually became a typical asian girl with her hair :P

 

Facial expressions: 1) Guilty 2) Exhausted 3) Very angry 4) Proud of himself

Based on a caricature of my friend Manu

 Have a macaque.

 I still havn't made up my mind regarding his sexual orientation :P

Miss Aazzi, excuse my gross clean up :(

Critiques are always welcome :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Sorry, this is such a late Christmas post! I finished this last night but spent half my day wrestling scanners and such, but it's finally up! :D

So, I guess there's a not-too-long but significant part of my life in the back of my mind that I'd forgotten, that a friend made me think of recently :)

When my parents first brought me to Canada and I was 8, we didn't have much besides each other. We never really thought about vacations or luxuries or half of what we have now. I remember my mom walking me to school in the mornings, and the snow was up to my knees. It was difficult to walk so I'd walk in the holes that she'd made ahead of me :P I used to wear that hat my mom made me and my parents used to call me 小红帽 (little red hat). Lol :P

So this year during the break, I've been complaining about being bored and whatnot. But honestly, I'm pretty lucky. My parents make a pretty wicked team, and we've always had what we needed. Us 3 are invincible :)

I wanna thank my parents for their unfailing love and support, one of my best friends, Eyassu (http://left-at-albuquerque.blogspot.com/) for reminding me to appreciate everything I have, and Pascal Campion (http://pascalcampion.com/work/) for some inspiration in art and in life. Check 'em out! :)

Happy holidays everyone!

ohmygoodness! first post! :D

Wow, my first blog! LONG overdue!

Well, here's my first post, it's a watercolour pencil drawing / painting I did of me and my 3 gorgeous roomies in Oakville, (left to right) Perin, Caitie, me and Lisa.

Yup, I'm the yellow one :)

Enjoy!