WIP- Rose

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.

Work in progress of course. Feels damn good to be painting again.

Character Sketches

 Don't ever lose sight of why you are here in the first place.

ANI114- Animation Walk Cycles (and a brick drop test)

I figured I would update my blog with something, so here are a couple of walk cycles I did for my animation class. Neither of these are perfect, but it was definitely a lot of fun to animate these compared to the tests were doing earlier on.

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.

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.

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.

Master Study- Shishkin (WIP)

This is what I have so far with my Shishkin master study regarding this painting. I figured that I would show you guys what I had going so far.

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.

Summer Sketch Dump- Taiwan, Figure Drawings, Legion of Honor, and Sunol Park

 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WIP- Character redesign 1

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.

ANI113B- Day and Night