nooooooooo

how is it end of september already?!?

i've been living on 5 hours of sleep/day for the past 2 weeks trying to make various deadlines... i seriously do not recall ever being this stressed out. cries.


(yeah exactly, this kid looks like how i feel lol)

most of the work i've been doing revolve around my thesis film, flora. i don't really wanna go too much into details, but it has to do with a 4-year-old girl and a pot of flower.


i based my preliminary design on the character penny from the rescuers. it was really helpful in getting the feel of the kid's personality but i need to find a way to integrate it into my own style.


i was up at 2AM roughing out concept art for my drawing and design class. sometimes i really wonder if i signed up for the right major because i have a real hard time simplifying my designs. now if i went into illustration/sequential art i would be rocking that shit. however, animation's a totally different ball game and i gotta play by the rules or strike the fuck out.

so basically, this year's gonna be hell for me haha. and i don't think i'll have time to work on anything outside of class. super sadface.

>:|

here's a new character i've grown rather fond of. i call her ari- short for aria or ariel- i haven't decided which. oh and my scanner still hates me.



this is how she looks normally.



don't be fooled by her candy coated appearance though, she's secretly a BIG troublemaker (mwahaha).

guess who?

1-hour speed paint of an original character. as to her identity... well, you'll see when i'm done with this ;)



this somehow came out completely differently from what i had in mind, argh. perhaps ditching your original thumbnail at the last second is a bad idea...

honey honey ha!

i think i have some kind of weird artistic ADD/wanderlust cuz i can't seem to carry any of my paintings to completion D:

why does blending take such an excruciatingly long time to finesse?? i always get mind-numbingly bored halfway through rendering (even with rocket summer blasting through my headphones). also, new ideas/concepts have a way of creeping into my mind whenever i'm working. i know, why am i so weird? i don't know.



...yeah. i'm gonna call it quits for now (sorry steve!!). i'll prolly go back to it sometime after august since i do plan on finishing it.

i need a break....

but i'd rather have a break through D:



so tired of looking at this, can't wait to wrap it up and move on -_-

things to remember:
1) paint in BANDS (thank you andrew loomis)
2) NEVER forget to backup your files, layers too!
3) do NOT paint before blocking out the masses
4) careful of highlights; less is more

for the remainder of this month, i'm hoping to get a head start on 2 more pieces before switching into pre-production mode for my thesis animation. haha, talk about a screeching 180. weeee'll seeee how it all pans out! :D

baby steps

duurrr not much to say. just an updated version of the sketch i posted last night. i ditched the paper boats idea and went for rose petals instead... thought it suited the mood more.

paper dreams

i got tired of sucking @ mass painting so i switched to good ol' line art for a breath of fresh air. god, it is SO much easier drawing with lines than tones -_- i blame my addiction to graphic novels for this asymmetry in perception.

anyway, here's a wip that i hope to finish some day. girl in the pic's supposed to be seated on a ledge with paper boats sailing/floating on the clouds around her. the idea's largely inspired by a conversation i had w/ a friend. i remember that one distinctly because it was the last time we spoke before she went to study abroad.

ref credit: http://valentine-fov-stock.deviantart.com/