I wanna stay home and bake cookies with yooouuu.

Just a little peek at what I've been up to. Yey, processwork!











Part of a mini-comic I just finished. As part of the same comic, I had to design a Rube-Goldberg style machine which would expedite the process of mixing, baking and packaging cookies. Here 'tis;

yar, ELLO

Hoy, mates. It's been a while hasn't it? I'm still making a noble attempt to recover from the Journey Into Spiralling Chaos And Unending Madness Wreathed In Flames Which Burn But Do Not Consu- er, whups, I mean senior year.

So yes, home now and keeping busy. Most recently, (former)Flatmate Tiffany said that we all should draw quick little pictures of ourselves making a face we commonly make. Here be mine;



Mmyep, I think that will do.

So, if anyone's reading this, do eet! I wanna see your lovely angelic faces as well ^_^

Hope everyone is having a good summer holiday.

Oh for Heavens' snake . . .

We now interrupt this art blog for a sob from our sponsor.

Today, I had the misfortune of finding my darling, sweet baby California king snake, Pinstripe dead.

I loved that little guy so much. He always put a smile on my face, meanwhile he was dying a slow, painful death and I didn't even fully realise it up till a few days before he finally passed. By then, it was, apparently, too late.

I'm . . . Heartbroken.



Goodbye, my little one. I love you, I miss you something terrible, and I'm sorry.

"We're on the pig's back, charging through a velvet field."

It is now 7.34 AM. I have officially been in the labs for twelve hours. I'm running on a grand total of seven hours of sleep for the past three days, none of which happened during the aforementioned past twelve.

Go me! I have not even begun to hallucinate yet! The dancing, magenta toilet on the ceiling says so.

At any rate, my computer decided it really and truly hates me, so I have to come to the labs to hopefully finish my thesis. Wow. I feel like I'm back in CA already. Fffffffffun.

So yes, computer troubles = reason for lack of frequent updates. But as I am currently sat before a computer that doesn't Nelson-laugh at me every time I try to do something constructive with it . . . Update!

The assignment? Design packaging for a game. Whoo! (click on it to view it larger)



And now, I think I will stagger back to my flat and crash for a wee bit before class. ::looks outside:: Oh my sainted trousers, that's daylight! Where did THAT come from?! ::boggles::

critters make the world go round

I felt compelled to do quick sketches of my pets. Because I luff zem so.


(click to enlarge)

Mmmyep. The dog's name, "Niisan" is a Japanese word for "brother." The snake, Pinstripe, does, indeed have a pistripe, though you can't see it in the picture (it's a long, white line which runs all the way down his back). And lastly, yes, the betta fish is named "Fuzzy Elf." The blue betta fish, even. Points to you if you get that reference ::snick::

Georgie girl!

Whoo! The mockup/dummy book for my children's book, Georgie and the Unicorn got into Best of Ringling!



And as it happens, I'm currently at work on a certain part of my thesis . . . It's something a bit different than anything else I've posted on this blog. So far, so good and I'm having a good time with it ^_^

People in my Illustration class have been doing such nifty things with cloth and clay, I was inspired. I used to make dolls all the time . . . Why not revisit it? asked me of myself.

So!



The head, hands and feet are made of Sculpey with foilforms inside. After I baked them in the oven, I started mapping out the cloth bits (arms, legs, torso). You can barely see it on the cloth, but the pins and pencil lines are there!



The the feet, hands and head are then attached to a wire armature for the body, which is then softened and padded with pipecleaners.
. . . Also, don't you just love my sewing kit box? I'm a grown adult, I swear!
And is that my collar in the background? Blimey, I wonder if I realised I wasn't wearing that at the time. I usually feel downright naked without that thing!



So, since the fabric portion of the doll is white, I laid down a white base over the clay parts, so as to maintain consistency in her skintones. Aaaand since Georgie is a redhead, I gave her an orangey-red hairline and eyebrows.



And what is a hairline with no actual hair? It's . . . well, rather stupidly redundant, actually. So, yes! Hair time!
Heh, I ended up cutting snips off of my wig from my Megacon costume . . .


(click to enlarge)

. . . And dyed it red with . . . er, dye. Go fig, eh?
(the blonde hair I started with is on the left, red dye's in the middle, and the freshly dyed redhead locks are in the bowl on the right)



Except for the part where, duh, plastic doesn't asorb dye! Whoo! What sublte brilliance! Soooo, blonde it is. I'll have to colour it some other way.

So yes, here is the start of Georgie's hair. Also, the cloth body has been sewn and attached. Man, this shot is sort of . . . mind-bendy. From this angle, Georgie's feet look like they're close to the same size as mine O_O



Aaand now, approx. seven hours and a tube and a half of Krazy Glue later, Georgie has a full head of hair . . . And what a head of hair it is. Very . . . 80's-chic :P That'll be fun to style later. Plus, I've still got to make it all gingery.



I also gave her some pupils for the time being, because frankly, she was sort of scary without them, heh.



To be continued!

Plus de Loup-Garou!

I recently acquired a copy of the animatic I made last year, La Chanson D'Un Loup-Garou and have made a few screencaps.































If I can figure how the youtube thingie works, I shall post the full animatic here. Whoo hoo, tra la la and fiddle dee dee ^_^

Is business time

Business card, anyone?

FRONT:


BACK:


Heh, it's a chimaera; A lion-beast from ancient Greek mythology with three heads; Lion, goat, snake. Mmmyep, that's about it.

More Animatic Action! . . . In stills. Go figure :P

Here are a few still images from the animatic I'm currently at work on. I'm pretty excited about it, it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun to splash up and patch together.








And the same scene as in the last post, spruced up, plus characters;



Aaaand some thumbnails from the story sequence;

What a week-end

Whoo. Back from Megacon and still reeling. Photoses to come soon! For now, back to work. Here's a background for my next animatic assignment;



AAAAAAHHH,IhavetogotoclassnowaaaaaaAAAAAAAAH! ::flails and runs away::