Art Studio Pro on iPhone

I just got an iPhone a few days ago. Here's what I first made with Art Studio Pro. They took about 15 minutes each. Yeaaah gonna stick with color comps and thumbs because fingerpainting just makes me angry. In fact I typed this up on my iPhone and now I'm just angrier.

Dragons!

Here are some dragon designs that I fiddled around with. I hope to flesh some out.

Due to budget cuts, there won't be any Chinese Brush Painting classes in the summer. Actually, no community colleges are offering any studio art classes this summer. I would even like to take a sewing class, but no dice.

Catching up on Updates

So here are three backgrounds I did for Special Studies, and an apple I did from memory. Hooray!

Here are some apples I painted from life in my digital painting class using Painter. This was a fantastic exercise and showed me that I *CAN* digitally paint, I just need to be able to do it from my imagination.


I am also extremely interested in learning watercolors. I have all the materials, but I don't know what to do with them. The above image was just me having fun with nothing in mind. Unfortunately, it won't help with any projects I have right now. Hopefully I can do technical pen and watercolor mixes for my projects in my Special Studies in Illustration class.

Speaking of which, my self-appointed project this semester has been to do character designs and environments for my favorite book series ever, A Song of Ice and Fire. I am inexperienced at drawing people (let alone with their own personality) and backgrounds drive me crazy, but I no longer want to be afraid of them, so I'm doing 'em. In my "contract" with my professor, I said I'd make 6 minimum of character designs and 6 background designs. I've organized my projects with the absolute minimum work I need to do, as well as what I hope to accomplish, or even continue after the semester ends. If I didn't have an internship, it wouldn't be a problem to finish everything, but I basically have 2 days a week where I drive 3 hours round trip to LA, and it's time to sleep by the time I get back, so I don't work on anything. Here's hoping this semester gets some good work out of me!

My First Caricature

This was the caricature I did for my cartooning & caricature class. I used Illustrator to make the basic shapes, put in necessary outlines, and then used Photoshop to give it fuzzy edges when needed, and also used it to drop in textures I made with watercolor (scanned in at 1200 dpi since some were on 3"x5" watercolor blocks).

Soon, I hope to actually create watercolor images.

Animal Life Drawing Compilation!

I don't believe I ever uploaded these. The above images are life drawings I did at the beginning of the semester from skeletons and museum animals. I guess these were early October.





And these were done through November at the L.A. Zoo. I'm really quite pleased with how much I improved. I just wish I had known sooner that we could fill up our sketchbooks with drawings from photos so that I wouldn't've done a bunch of bad scribbles to fill up space. =(

Gerard MacHoppington

Finally got around to uploading this! I've discovered while storyboarding that I really need to work on drawing faster. Something I should learn to do anyway since I'm always afraid of doodling on a whiteboard or while someone's looking over my shoulder.

Frog Poses Are Inked!

Now I just need to color the pose on the left and I'm DONE.

Granda Frog WIP

WELL I tried inking with pen, but kept messing up and all that fun stuff. So here's grumpy grampa frog currently getting inked in Corel since Photoshop was giving me wobbly lines.

This would be so much faster if I had a Cintiq. Once I'm done with school and get a job, it will be the first thing I reward myself with.

Old Frog

Some roughs for the grandpa frog design. I was gonna go straight into inking them on the computer, then remembered I can't do that until I have a Cintiq. =(

Update with Art!

Mitch the hake brush! I'm not sure how to go about uploading storyboards in a way that isn't overwhelming, but I DO have various flour sack expressions.

Mitch the Hake brush!

I'm in a Cartooning class, and our first assignment was to bring 5 inanimate objects and transform them into a character. This is of a hake brush I had lying around, and when my professor chose the hake brush, I really didn't want to do it, but the more I worked with it, the more I liked him! Sometime I'll scan in the other initial versions I had, but these are his four main poses.

Brush Painting

A quick update of one of the flowers we painted in my brush painting class. This was the orchid session.

T-Shirt Design

It's been awhile since I updated. I've been practicing drawing people and faces and am getting pretty good. =)

Anyway, I'm in a screen-printing class. It started on Tuesday and we had to come in with a finished design for a one-color print on Thursday. I had no ideas, except that I wanted to draw Steve doing something. I tried thinking for hours after class about what Steve should be doing, had nothing in mind, then slept. Then on Wednesday, I came up with Steve dangling with some opossums, and by the end of the night, I sketched and Photoshopped this composition, with no tree design in mind:


Then today I skipped my Chinese Brush Painting class (this is the only class I will miss: I was tired and didn't want to paint lotuses) and worked from 11-4:30 in Illustrator and managed to make this:


I'm pretty happy with it. My teacher warned me about fine lines, and I tried to make the important ones thick enough. So when I made the screen today, I was surprised when most of the details came through. Even the opossums' fur made it. And it made me happy when a girl in my class asked if she could bring a shirt to class for me to print my design on. =3

Chinese Brush Painting class is going well, and Ning Yeh (my teacher) is awesome. I suck at it for now, but I've gotten much better. Will scan some/photograph it when I have time!