tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73715121521591876342024-03-12T22:18:42.151-07:00Art of Jeff LiuAnimation/Illustration - SJSU - j.gene.liu@gmail.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10285115971427357947noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7371512152159187634.post-32756014413398449492014-12-31T03:18:00.002-08:002014-12-31T03:18:27.070-08:00Nathan Fox DLP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
One month worth of sleep deprivation and banging my head over a medium that was very new to me, and here is the result! This is the final culmination of <a href="http://foxnathan.com/">Nathan Fox's</a> distance learning program, posted, uh, a couple months after completion, haha.</div>
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The inception of this story came when Nathan was lecturing to us on storytelling. An idea popped into my head of the birth of an artificial intelligence and what went on in its head before it booted up into the real world.</div>
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Anyhow, I'll let the comic do the talking. Enjoy!</div>
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So! This is some pretty recent work for my visual development class. For our character design portion of the class, we were to pick an animated feature film, design a new character in it, and then composite that character into a still from the movie.</div>
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The choice of movie was rather easy for me; <i>How to Train Your Dragon</i> has always been close to my heart, and I decided to go back to the source material (Cressida Cowell's original books) with a character that is dear to the hearts of many who read the books as children:</div>
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Camicazi is the heir of another tribe in the books (the Bog-Burglars), and is one of Hiccup's best friends. She is described as a tough, headstrong girl, extremely capable as a thief and swordfighter but somewhat overconfident. Like Hiccup, she is the smallest in her tribe (that also consists of large, stocky vikings). Though she has a general disdain for men, she seems to have complete faith in Hiccup and is one of the few people who do not underestimate him.</div>
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Unfortunately, Camicazi did not make the cut for the film, as she was retconned in favor of a new character (in the form of Astrid who is cool but comparatively very, very vanilla to Camicazi), and while this worked out fine in the most part, I do feel that Dreamworks might have missed out on a character with a very vibrant personality.</div>
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Fortunately for me, I am a big fan of characters with a lot of spunk, so when the idea of designing her into the look of the movie popped into my head, I couldn't help but leap in on it.</div>
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The overall challenges of this project were to:</div>
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1- Capture her spirit of haughtiness in my drawings</div>
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2- Style her to be on model with the production style developed by Nico Marlet and Simon Otto</div>
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3- Visually fit her into the movie without making her seem out of place</div>
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The first two images are a collection of early exploratory sketches. The overall outfit didn't go through much change, especially since the movie already set a pretty clear framework as to how the "fashion" of the movie worked. I noticed that Cressida's drawings of Camicazi often featured a sort of sash that she wore across her chest and torso (much in the similar fashion as a messenger bag strap). I felt that a sash would feel extremely out of place in the setting of the feel but I wanted to keep a similar shape in, so I gave her a satchel with a similar shape. Afterall, where else would she keep all of her stolen underwear?<br />
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An observation I made from doing shape silhouette studies of the teen character lineup in the film was the fact that all of the characters sans Hiccup and Astrid wore viking helmets that clearly differentiated the forms on their heads. The helmetless fashion of Hiccup and Astrid set them apart, and I felt that this was an appropriate design decision for Camicazi as well.<br />
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Defining a clear silhouette for Cami to distinguish her from Astrid and Ruffnut was especially important, and I figured the best way to go about this would be with her hair, as it is already a prominent feature in Cressida's original drawings. However, one of the crits I got from my professor early on was the fact that her hair shape was too clean, giving her a sort of "trolls" kind of look that made her really ugly. To avoid this, I ended up looking at examples of viking braids and the approach Pixar took on Merida's hair in <i>Brave</i> so I could break up the silhouette.<br />
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This is an expression sheet that I did to feel out the character's personality once she had a more on-model look. I ended up referencing the expression on the top left in the final composite.<br />
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Here is the final design of the character in a front-side-back turnaround format. After deliberating with some peers and my professors, I decided to remove the pearl necklace she had in favor of a dragon teeth necklace; pearls as a material do not show up in the film at all (and would definitely feel out of place in the final setting of the film), and rendering the reflections of the pearls would have given me more trouble than it is worth. It is a bit of a compromise, but one that I feel works better for the overall goal of the project.<br />
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A prop sheet with some belt emblem ideation. Explanations are on the page.<br />
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Texture call out for my own (and a potential modeler's) reference. <i>How To Train Your Dragon</i> is an EXTREMELY textural film. Because my turn-around is not rendered out to a hyperrealistic degree, I felt a texture call-out sheet was necessary as reference so I know what kind of material to render certain areas of her outfit in the final painting process.</div>
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The shot that I chose to composite her into. I felt like this would be a fun shot to choose in context, as as during this scene Hiccup is saying "Pain. <i>Love it!</i>" after all the other teens are talking on how they want to get injuries from dragon training. Also, that face is pretty funny.</div>
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No update on the comic yet, unfortunately, since the deadline (fortunately) has been moved to next week (thank goodness since my schedule has been pretty crazy lately). In the meantime, I'll post a couple of things I have been working on.</div>
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Character designs for the Nathan Fox DLP. Digital avatars and robots! Lots of fun figuring this one out.</div>
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Development drawings and reference sheet for my Fifth Element environment design for Tom Esmeralda's visual development class at San Jose State University. I wanted to design a look for a potential Chinese reboot of the film. An observation that I noted in many urban cities that are heavily populated by people of Asian descent is the abundance of billboards and street signs attached to buildings in crowded settings, so I designed my environment around that sort of feeling.</div>
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All in all I am very happy with how it came out. I got a very good crit and a very informative paint-over on what to do when I continue to embellish this piece. It's easy to say that this is the best piece I've done as of yet, and I feel that my confidence in perspective and painting has grown a lot throughout the duration of this piece. Nonetheless I will continue to refine this piece so I can have this as a central portfolio piece when I head to CTNX this year.Keeterzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16357619906678834971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7371512152159187634.post-89989118359315128842014-10-04T23:47:00.001-07:002014-10-04T23:47:34.139-07:00[PREVIEW] .Emote();<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cover and first page for a short comic I’ve been working on for the past month or so for <a href="http://www.foxnathan.com/">Nathan Fox’s</a> distance learning program at SJSU. There are some revisions I need to make, but I will have the full comic posted up when the revisions are complete!<br />
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For all of my fellow Shrunkenheadmen who soldiered through the same ordeal and made it through the end despite the extra work, we did it! Now let’s follow through with the revisions for an awesome publication of our works!<br />
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Fire it up!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10285115971427357947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7371512152159187634.post-46363331253857340452014-09-27T00:26:00.001-07:002014-09-27T00:26:28.695-07:00115- The First Hunt Model Sheets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
More work from last semester. This was for a personal film I made in an animation class that I titled "The First Hunt."</div>
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Figured I'd post up my work from last semester in my first visual development class. Our assignment was to illustrate a story moment that could possibly be featured in a coming of age film inspired by the writings of Gary Soto.</div>
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We'll start off with some early development drawings. As I was reading through Soto's stories, I noticed that despite the overall happy tones of his stories, the struggles of the times of then were definitely apparent; his family was overworked and his stepfather was developing alcoholism due to being overworked and underpaid. I wanted to capture a moment of loneliness and betrayal that could have been caused by such a situation; the drawing on the very right of the first page captured the spirit of what I wanted the final piece to be.</div>
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For the isometric, I ended up constructing the entire scene in Maya. This was extremely helpful as it allowed me to worry less about constructing my own perspective and allowed me to figure out different layout views a lot faster.<br />
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Value and color development. My professor showed our class some really good techniques on how to design the values in our scenes to make them read clearly.<br />
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Figure drawings from a session at SJSU. This particular model frequents Dreamworks Studio, so we got a healthy dose of stories from her. As I was drawing her, I couldn't help but notice something particularly alive about this woman.</div>
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Later on in the session, she told us about a story of a model who had to come to terms with her overweight issues and how the story of that model influenced her as well. I have to say, she really changed my perception of what is beauty; she herself has to be one of the most beautiful persons I have ever met.</div>
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Here is a collection of digital painting studies that I have done throughout the course of this semester. The first three are photo studies done in my illustration class as a means to warm up to painting in photoshop. The rest are quick studies I've done in my spare time.</div>
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Speedpaint screencap studies from Martin Scorsese's <i>Hugo </i>(2011).</div>
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Anna Lee Fisher, the first mother in space. I believe this is from a 1985 issue of <i>Time</i>. Original photo <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.distractify.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/04/931-934x.jpg">here</a>.</div>
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These are various background studies of particular animated films, specifically those that feature forest type backgrounds for the most part (save a few that I did for fun). This study is meant as sort of reference material for the short I will be working on in my second animation class.<div>
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The individual studies are pretty small in size, but the sheer number and my own time constraint challenged me to paint faster with bigger, looser strokes. I feel a bit burnt out from this, but I think I've actually learned a lot from doing this haha.</div>
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A different rendition of Rose in a more of a battle-ready look. This was the result of my experimentation with using only three flat tones. I quite enjoyed how this came out.</div>
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These are finished character designs I did for Skyland Citadels, a story based upon a vivid dream I had of floating skyscrapers that were chained to the ocean. Their names are Riyo and Rose, a couple of orphans who live in a shanty town area of the Skylands known as the Chain Slums.</div>
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She's not a zombie anymore, but she's still missing an eye and an arm (as well as other limbs now), and still as beautiful as ever.</div>
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Work in progress of course. Feels damn good to be painting again.</div>
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First a mechanical walk cycle. There is a bit of an issue with the dragon the front hand among a couple other things I could fix, but I think for the most part this walk came out pretty successfully.</div>
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First pass for a personality walk. It's rough and has some issues that need to be fixed, but this was definitely a lot of fun to animate. The character is a young adult who hates his job and never wants to go to work.</div>
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This last test isn't a walk cycle, but I figured that I would share it since it is my favorite of the drop tests I did earlier this semester. Dave Chai seemed to like this test quite a bit. Though there were some rough edges, he was especially happy with the background's design, and he also liked the texture of the motion.</div>
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This is what I have so far with my Shishkin master study regarding <a href="http://foglobe.com/data_images/main/ivan-shishkin/ivan-shishkin-08.jpg">this painting</a>. I figured that I would show you guys what I had going so far.</div>
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Don’t get me started on the number of mistakes I’ve been making. This study is totally kicking my ass, but I’m learning a good amount of knowledge from this.</div>
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These are a collection of drawing studies I've done over the course of the summer so far that I felt are worthy enough of sharing here.</div>
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Couple of pages from Taiwan. Funny story with the Axolotl drawing on the first page: as I was drawing this in the Taipei Zoo, I managed to get quite a large crowd observing my process. It was a bit of a daunting experience, but cool as well to see people of your original culture appreciating your work.</div>
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The only two good drawings that came out of my first week of figure drawing. I was having a really rough time since it was the first figure drawing session I've been to in a very long time...not a good idea to let the rust accumulate. Fortunately, after I figured these two drawings out, I started getting my groove back.</div>
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The two best drawings from week two, albeit somewhat unfinished. Loosening up with calligraphy pen gestures really helped these. I was presented with the challenge of drawing a very masculine man whose poses spoke of structure and force without making the drawings too rigid. The answer? Back to the old Sheldon fallback--muscle rhythms that is. I learned a lot from that figure drawing session and it was actually quite fun drawing a macho-man model for a change.</div>
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Figure drawings from online practice. Mostly quick drawings except for the one rendered one. The "finished" figure was inspired from a bust sculpture study I did in the Legion of Honor, as I wanted to test how I could work tonally with a mere ballpoint pen.</div>
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A couple of pages from the Legion of Honor, as well as a couple studies of a creek in Sunol Park. The composition master studies were done from paintings in the Impressionists on Water exhibit at the Legion, which I must say was an excellent exhibition; never before have I been most tempted by such mastery of the crafts to stay a full 8 hours at a museum. I will say, I am pretty happy with how the bust sculpture study came out. My friend Thierry allowed me to borrow her white gel pen and I have to say, it's actually pretty cool...kind of like working with carbothellos, except more permanent and line-based.</div>
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A note about the top study: one museum visitor said that he could really "feel the wind" in the original painting. There was a particular boat in the image that really proved that point, so I did a quick study of how it seemed to be blowing a certain way due to the wind. Note to self: proof of showing rather than telling.</div>
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As for the Sunol studies, I found myself intrigued with the reflections in the water, especially with how the light cut through the trees onto the water's reflections. I found my mind constantly switching back and fourth between the light shapes from the reflections and the underwater forms that are atmospherically blurred by water and algae particles within the moving stream. I felt that I was unprepared, being only armed with that same ballpoint pen for the study (though that gel pen probably would have came in very handy, haha), but it left me even more fascinated. It is a challenge that I want to study a bit closer later on, possibly with paints.</div>
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In lieu of trying to update this blog a bit more frequently from here on out, here's a bit of a WIP I am working on. Will post more progress soon.</div>
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The modeling portion of the flare gun should be about done. Next is UVs and texturing...oh boy.</div>
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Here is my color pass for my hero tree layout. I wish I could keep working on this forever, but at a certain point you do have to move on. Especially since I'll be repainting this in acrylic soon.</div>
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Here's a little screenshot of what I've been working on in my modeling class. It's not quite finished yet, but I figured it would be a nice change of pace to post something a bit different.</div>
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I do enjoy modeling quite a lot. Sure, Maya can be pretty frustrating at times, but when the program cooperates with you, it's like the best feeling ever.</div>
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This is the third pass for my hero tree/forest layout painting. I got some really good tips from my friend Jonathan Chu (check his stuff out <a href="http://jonathanchuart.blogspot.com/">here!</a>) on how to really punch up the atmosphere with overlays and really hi-key highlights in the foreground. There are some fixes I still need to do, but Bunny liked it a lot for the atmospheric perspective.</div>
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Next up are color comps and then the final painting!</div>
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Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous how hard this painting was. It took me many passes before I finally got this painting looking clean. Few more for me to figure out the color movement. And then forever to get the cast shadow.</div>
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Trees for Bunny's class!</div>
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Top one is from week 2, and the ones after are from this past week. I think I got a bit ballsy on the more recent ones, but it was fun!</div>
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As the days of winter break draw to a close, so does my experience with the winter sketchbook. This was an amazing experience, one that would say with certainty that it has changed my life. The approach I had with my sketchbook wasn't to make the most detailed drawings of all time but to simply have my sketchbook with me wherever I went. I found that in doing so, the sketchbook became something of a documentation of my own life's experiences, a visual journal of the places I have been during this break. And looking through this sketchbook, I can say that I remember every single moment for all of the drawings I've done. Contrary to my sketchbook from my illustration class, I felt very stress-free and consistent with this one in terms of content. Granted, there are drawings that I don't like here, but every bad drawing is a learning experience, no?</div>
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This is a compilation of as much of the sketchbook I could scan. Some pages haven't been scanned due to time limitations, but I grabbed almost everything before I had to turn it in.</div>
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Anyhow, enjoy! I'll have some short notes on a few of them.</div>
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First page. On the way to SF!</div>
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Academy of science stuff. That dried piranha specimen looked stressed out as all the kids fondled it and stuck their fingers in all kinds of crevices. Poor thing. The jellyfish was originally a pen drawing that I didn't really like. Several weeks later I decided to go back and revisit it. It was my first time painting in color with gouache, and for a first time I'm pretty happy with how it came out.</div>
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Example of a page I didn't like too much. I ended up starting a drawing that had to be stopped a couple minutes later due to the bus arriving. After that, I learned that sometimes it is better to wait for the next opportunity to draw if there really is little time to actually sit down and observe.</div>
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This seems to be most people's favorite painting in my sketchbook. It was definitely a lot of fun to do, and I do think it is the strongest painting (ironically also the first one I did). After this painting, however, my painting process got a lot faster; instead of spending some 5-6 hours like I did with this one, my later painting studies were reduced to 2-3 hours.</div>
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I definitely did a lot more paintings during the beginning of the sketchbook. I am very much a tonal/color person so I really do like playing with such. However, I eventually realized that only doing still life studies would not only hamper on my ability to produce more pages, but would also limit the experiences of being able to go outside and draw. So you will notice a shift to more in-the-moment sketches, especially once I start going to the zoo.</div>
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This is the point where I started shifting my focus towards sketching outside. Most of my sketches beforehand were done with ball-point pen. The main advantage of that was that it allowed me to work more "lightly" so I would have more wiggle-room for error. I had one rule for myself with this sketchbook: no pencils. I really wanted to nail down confidence and precision, thus the luxury of an eraser had to be given up. The lighter ball-point pens were a good beginner's way to sort of wean me off of erasers while allowing room for error, but you will notice a change in that as the sketchbook progresses.</div>
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Remind me to never use gel pens for drawing ever again. Also, this is my friend Charles. He is not actually a rocket scientist but an aerospace major at USC. During our coffee meeting at the new Suju's in Fremont, he taught me the basics of laminar/turbulent flow, and I now know why golf balls have little holes in them. I think I now understand the dynamic between John Clapp and Alejandro Garcia. It's really cool to have a friend who closely studies the physics of things.</div>
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Happy Hollows! Also, to quote an adorable kid there, "THAT IS NOT A KITTY!" Shows that this kid is more mature than I am, haha. One of the joys of drawing in public areas like zoos and museums is the kids and/or their parents occasionally giving you their attention. I used to be someone who hated being around little children, but I think the sketchbook has changed that part of me.</div>
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While I was doing the drawing on the top left, an elderly lady said words that could never be more true: "The good ones always get off before you finish." She subsequently suggested I try painting with cold coffee as I would with watercolor. I've found that public transportation is one of my favorite places to draw people, especially on the seats right after the ones reserved for the elderly, physically handicapped, or pregnant women. The front of the bus is always a good source of finding people with such interesting faces, ones with personality that have come through age or experience. It definitely beats drawing young people all the time.</div>
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These two pages also mark the beginning of my snow trip to Mammoth Lakes, which was definitely the most fun I've had in a very, very long time. During this time, my drawings began taking more of a fun approach. I found myself drawing to my own moods, and since I was having fun, I think my drawings became more playful as a result.</div>
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Rachel's favorite drink, a crazy game of Taboo, a DVD player that was in a terrible angle to receive the signal from the remote, and yes that post-it note on Brandon's head says "John Clapp." We were playing a game of "guess the word on your forehead," and Brittany wrote that as a response to Brandon saying he "didn't know any people." We thought it was pretty appropriate for him, haha.</div>
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The left page was my very last documentation of the snow trip. We were watching Iron Giant then, and everyone was sort of on "cool-down" mode. I was a little bit sad to leave that place.</div>
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The study on the left was of some plants that Clayton clipped from outside. One was from some shrub, and the other was from a germanium flower, which if I may add are the SMELLIEST flowers in all existence. As much as I hate the smell however, it did make for a pretty fun study. During that time Clayton and I got into some pretty deep discussion. Again I made the discovery that my drawings reflected the mood I was in. Because I was thinking a lot, I started looking for all the details in the beauty of those plants, thus creating more of a thoughtful drawing.</div>
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I bet you can tell who that is just by looking at the clothes he is wearing, hahahahaha!</div>
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Various drawings in San Jose. Also wanted to work with gouache more, so I took the plants from a couple nights ago and did a simple set-up. </div>
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I just want to say real quick that the skewed label is NOT a mistake I made in my drawing but is the actual arrangement of the label itself. Guess someone got lazy and just slapped it on. Painting a glass container with a liquid inside it is a difficult feat as the shapes will change even when you change your angle slightly. But man, it really was fun to do.</div>
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Also, the university is cutting down a lot of its trees. What a travesty.</div>
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Some more successful sketches and one that I'll admit is really bad. I switched to a Daiso fountain pen. I found myself really liking it as it is sort of between Uniball and crow quill pens in terms of handling. An interesting note: the location on the right is the same place I did my first drawing for John's class.</div>
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More public transportation drawings. The guy on the top right is Andrew. We had a pretty cool discussion after I did the drawing. Turns out, his roommate is an art major so he is pretty used to being drawn.</div>
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Also the guy on the bottom right reminded me of Gandalf. Couldn't resist, haha.</div>
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This is the only page from my Oakland Zoo trip that I am including for now. That zoo gives the animals a lot of space, so the inhabitants there are notably happier than most other zoos. However, these animals NEVER STAY STILL (except for the crocodile), so if you're a beginner to animal drawing like me, it can be pretty difficult.</div>
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This is the final page of my sketchbook. I spent the last day before the sketchbook was due in my home town. My mom and I visited Lake Elizabeth before I left for San Jose again, where I did one final study of a tree-filled island in the lake reserved for wild birds. If only I had my paints on me at the time...the colors were remarkable. I feel satisfied with the drawing however; using the fountain pen has really helped improve my precision, and it is just one step closer for me to progress back to using true pen and ink.</div>
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Anyhow, that is about it for my sketchbook! I might upload the missing pages one I get my sketchbook back, but that won't be for a while. I will say that in the end, this was quite an experience, and it feels weird not to have that sketchbook with me at this time. This is definitely something I want to keep up for as long as I can.</div>
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