Secret Santa 2011

Starting last year, some of my classmates and I have been putting on a Secret Santa gift exchange as something to do over winter break. This year, we had to give a list of our favorite songs and our santa would do a drawing based on them. My giftee asked for a landscape, and this was the illustration I came up with, based on these songs: 

• "Dream On" - Aerosmith 
• "Float On" - Modest Mouse
• "You Get What You Give" - New Radicals
• "Syracuse" - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas soundtrack

This was a lot of fun, and I feel like I learned a lot working on it. Can't wait until next year! 

113A Acrylic Paint Still Life

Another semester done! Here's the result of my biggest project over the last few months. I'm aware my still life subject is not obvious, but it's the story of how I dislocated my kneecap last November. It was the night the Giants won the World Series, and when my roommate rushed to see me in the hospital, she brought me gummy bears. The weird object on the right is a leg brace. (Thanks to Danny for lending that to me, as I threw mine away in a fit of frustration).

I learned a lot from the beginning to the end. I think my color rendering turned out a lot better than the b/w one! I couldn't quite get the colors to photograph right though, in real life the blue violet is much less blue and more violet. If anyone knows a good trick to fix that, let me know!

Color Comps

Have a good winter break, everyone! :) 

Fall 2011 Figure Drawings

Hello! Been a while since I posted anything. These are the three portfolios I turned in for Sheldon's figure drawing class this semester.

(SEPTEMBER)

(OCTOBER)

(NOVEMBER)

Speed Painting #6

Wanted to try something different. Don't like the end result very much at all (probably could've stood to nitpick a little more this time), but at least the colors are closer than normal. Just noticed I erased the snail's third... antennae thing and forgot to put it back. /facepalm

Photo credit: darknight-stock @ deviantART

"Speed" Painting #5

I had a #4, but abandoned it because I was nitpicking too much. Need to work faster! 

Not sure exactly how long this took, but it was on and off during 3 episodes of Fringe. I know this one gave a lot of people trouble, so I decided to try working on it rotated 90°. The darks need to be darker (as usual), the whole thing should be a bit more red, the angle of the window is off, and I had no idea what to do with the stuff outside the window. Still, I'm mostly happy with the end result. 

 Original photo: 

"Speed" Painting #3

Spent wayyy too long on this, oops. I mostly just went until I got bored with it. Really need to work on cutting down the time. Picture from Goro Fujita's sample speed painting images.

Time: 90 min? 120 min?

Animations!

Figured I'd post up a few of my animations. Both happen to feature my dear Kcow, the questionably emerald bovine (by the way, did you know there are shades of green called both "India green" and "Islamic green"? The things I learn from Wikipedia). 

This first one was done with paper on my scanner for my 2008 De Anza "3D Media" animation class. (Do not use your scanner for stop motion. It takes forever. Just set up a tripod.)



And this second one was my animation final last year for Art 28.