Fanart/TWD Submission

Hey there.

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, still trying to sort things out (while really not sorting anything out at all).

Pardon the low quality of the image, I don't have a scanner or a high grade camera so I'll have to rely on my iPhone for pictures for now. I'm going to look into getting a scanner and maybe a better photo camera because I would love to be able to take great photos of when I go out around the island with friends and such. Basically, this image popped into my head one day while watching "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" during the "What's Opera, Doc?" segment. Basically, Lola from "Space Jam" finds a picture of Bugs and Elmer and questions Bugs about it. I'm actually pretty proud of how I managed to keep with the character models.

Random Sketch

Hey all, 

Decided to muck about in Painter while at the office during one of the slow hours where I don't really have any work to do until they find some new way for me to be useful. 

Gargoyles © Disney
Nymphadora Tonks © J.K. Rowling

Just a really rough sketch of how I imagined Tonks (of Harry Potter fame) would look like when I first read her character and an old Gargoyles OC of mine. I've been promising myself to one day actually give her a decent drawing. Maybe I'll do one with her and Brooklyn (my fave Gargoyle). She looks like a teeny anime girl because MS Paint reminded me of the olden days when I used to draw in oekakis where I could find them with my mouse, which probably helped in making the horrible growth which caused never-ending pain inside my wrist I had to have surgery to remove. Still hurts to this day, especially when I drew this with just the mouse at the office since I didn't have my wacom handy.

I promise I'll get around to doing the large list of drawing ideas given to me by my lovely friends. I haven't really been getting that much sleep plus lack of money for actual drawing materials kind of makes me not even want to bother. (Yes, I know, I have a wacom and photoshop but god dammit I want to draw in traditional mediums again. I miss them terribly.)

Cheers. 

Florida

Hey guys!

So, I got back from Orlando yesterday, it was overall a pretty fun trip but I'm happy to be back home and so is Bella (my golden retriever). She's sitting behind me in my room as I type this up looking all cute.
My family and I went to Universal and Disney during our trip to Orlando; gotta say, Universal kicks Disney's ass something fierce. My sis asked me to draw her a werewolf on my iPhone while we were waiting in the airport to board our plane. This is what I came up with. Fierce, ain't he?

Did a couple other drawings while we were waiting at the airport, nothing special. 

Universal has The Wizarding World of Harry Potter open and running and it is truly amazing, definitely a must see for any Potter fan. I lost my mind, as illustrated below. Note: When we arrived in Florida I was pretty tired because I hadn't slept very well the night before, so I was in zombie mode. Then we got to Universal and stood in front of Hogsmeade and my mood radically changed. The illustrations below are in no way an exaggeration of the events which followed.

                 

My mom asking where I disappeared to and wondering in her head how, my older sister and her friend Rory unable to come up with an answer and myself, running into Hogsmeade like a woman posessed.

They had practically everything. Zonko's Joke Shop, Honeydukes, The Three Broomsticks and The Hog's Head, they even included Ollivander's and Borgin's and Burke's from Diagon Alley which was nice. Of course, they had Hogwarts, that goes without saying. The butterbeer was ok, nothing really special, a little too sweet for my taste. Speaking of sweet, Pumpkin Juice was like drinking liquid sugar. It tasted lovely, but god damn there was way too much sugar in there. You could drink maybe 1/4 of this stuff and have filled up your body's sugar quota for the rest of your life. It was that sweet. 

The rides where PHENOMENAL!!!!!! Seriously, every Potter fan needs to visit Islands of Adventure and go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, you will have the time of your life. :D

Cheers

SketchBook for iPhone and Vacation time

So, I found this app for the iPhone/iPad/Mac called SketchBook. I was rather surprised to find that it was an app because I had heard of it before, a Photoshop-esque program with the ability to deliver a more realistic look. So, considering I had a $10 gift card to iTunes, I figured "Why not?" and bought the full app instead of the free version. It's pretty cool, I enjoy having the ability to sketch things without being confined to vector lines ALL THE TIME, I'm looking at you DoodleBuddy >:[
The sketches below were made using the SketchBook app on my iPhone.

Small simple sort of sketch of Margo from "Despicable Me", which was actually surprisingly entertaining and well made. I'd recommend it. 

I switched channels after "Despicable Me" and found that "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" was being shown on TNT. Yes, I like that movie. Anyway, there was a scene where she was standing just outside of one of the temples she ended up at after diving off of a waterfall and she struck this quick pose and I figured I'd try sketching it. The actual pose lasted all of 15 seconds. I'm pretty proud of this. 

And, of course, I had to try sketching a dragon, they are kind of my thing. Haven't quite figured it out yet but the base pose is relatively correct to what I see in my head. 

The downside is that I'm using my iPhone for it and its a really small screen so it's kind of hard to get used to but, I imagine it should be easier once I try quick-sketching people or actual objects in front of me instead of trying to sketch from imagination. Also, the save feature on the app needs some work; instead of being able to save your current sketch and be able to open a completely new one to start, you end up saving over all your old sketches once you've erased them. I'm not sure if there is a way to open a new sketch file on there but if there is I'll be editing this post as soon as I discover it. I'm planning on importing these into the SketchBook program I have on my Macbook to finish them up and make them look nicer. It's a thought.

Anyway, I'll be going to Orlando, FL this week with my family for a vacation of sorts. I'm not looking forward to the flight at all but it's two hours so it shouldn't be too bad. Just have to pack *notices that its currenly 12:47am* Joy.

Cheers

Old Wallpaper Idea

I found this image while looking through my drawing folders in order to add more images to my portfolio (found here) and remembered I had a really cool concept for this and found myself wishing I had actually finished it. I plan on finishing the illustration as an actual digital painting, the first one I will have ever done to be completely honest. Just putting this up to get some feedback from a couple friends and anyone who wants to put up a comment.

Updated Lantern + Asian Monster

What? Three images!?!? Surely there must be some mistake here!

Nope, to be quite honest I am fairly surprised how much drawing I've been getting done lately.

Not quite a finished product yet. I plan on adding some shading and maybe some paiterly qualities to the image as well as some sort of background. Not entirely sure what yet, but it'll come to me... I hope.

A while ago over at Tonight We Draw one of the ideas submitted was "East Asian Monsters". I had no idea what I would do since my knowledge on East Asian Mythology is somewhat limited. Thankfully one of my friends lived in Japan for a time and has a ridiculous amount of knowledge on the subject of folklore and mythology. She suggested that I do what is known as a Bakeneko and while reading up on the creature (essentially a magical cat) one of the legends in particular caught my attention:

"Another famous bake-neko story is about a man named Takasu Genbei, whose mother’s personality changed completely after his pet cat went missing for many years. His mother avoided the company of friends and family and would take her meals alone in her room. When the family peeked in on her they saw a cat-like monster in the mother's clothes, chewing on animal carcasses. Takasu, still skeptical, slew what looked like his mother and after one day his mother's body turned back into his pet cat that had been missing."

I did mistake animal carcass for human carcass I am aware and aim to fix the mistake. However, it does seem interesting doesn't it? I might change the placement of her tail and play around with the pose a bit before actually going ahead and inking the piece.

Another piece for a submission over at Tonight We Draw. The subject chosen was "Everything I touch turns into gold." This was honestly the first image that popped into my head even before that was the set topic for the week/month. There's not really much else I can say about the piece, at least in terms of content. What I can say is that I'm extremely proud of her pose, which I created from my head without any point of reference, and the baby's pose as well. I did not use any reference for the baby either except of what I could remember from paintings and sketches I had seen from Classical Art Masters such as DaVinci and Raphael. Study your art history kids, it'll definitely come in handy in the future.

Books, Lanterns, and Bones! Oh my!

Hey there everyone! Or anyone? Bah, who cares. Anyway! Nothing really too new to report of my life thus far. Still jobless and without vision or a sense of the future. Still interning at Bunko Studios for the moment, tho I haven't worked myself up to introducing myself to the boss man and asking for some advice on how to become employed or on my portfolio and reel (which I really should get to work on ><)

I recently joined a blog entitled: Tonight We Draw! (hyperlinks ftw) Essentially, a group of friends of mine from SVA decided to get together to make this blog where we post illustrations based on an idea given at the beginning of the week so none of us become too lazy or laid back in our routine of drawing and have items with which to further our individual portfolios. Although, some topics are a tad more tasteless than others (some images not exactly safe for work *coughBRIANcough*) but overall its a pretty cool blog so far and you should check it out for more talented folks.

I was talking with a friend of mine about my submission for this week's topic: "Everything I touch turns to gold"; and somewhere along the way he decided I should draw him as a Green Lantern. I laughed but agreed to it. Three to five hours later I actually started to sketch him as the Green Lantern and I cursed his ridiculously thin frame (contrary to popular belief, thin people are a BITCH to draw ladies and gents. Give it up for all them curvy people!). Below is the sketch I came up with which I know have to ink and color so that he can put it up as his icon (No, I'm not saying where or for what, he's just gonna use it :P).

(I'll finish it soon and re-post the finished version)

I also managed to catch up to the current season of Bones (THANK YOU NETFLIX!) and find that I enjoy it much more than I thought I would. I have a few friends who watch the show as well who were extremely entertained by my commentaries on the show to them as I watched, and my exclamations of "WTF!" "OH TEH NOES!" "WHYYYYYY!!?!?!" "Booth is purdy :3" and such other statements here to withheld as a variety of them contain spoilers for those who have not watched the awesomeness that is this show. Watch it. Its good times. Also, be sure you have a strong stomach as it can get rather gruesome at times (not a problem for me, thanks Dad for deciding to be a surgeon, muahahahaha! ^^)

I've also been reading the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce. It's a fairly old series of books (I say old because they were new when I was a pre-teen if I remember correctly) so it may be a bit difficult to find. I was lucky one day while I was perusing a Barnes and Noble near where I live and saw all four books neatly in a row, remembered a friend had wanted to read them again/recommended them to me and grabbed them the minute I saw them. I find myself wishing I had picked them up earlier because I believe I would have probably enjoyed them much more as a kid than I do now, though I still find them to be an exceptionally good read. I'm on the third book in the series and might give a full assessment of my opinion of the books when I have completed the series. There are two follow ups to it: The Circle Opens (another series of four) and The Will of the Empress (standalone book). I've already made a note to find these books wherever I can and read them as well.

I've stumbled across another series of books called The Mortal Instruments. I'm not entirely sure how good the books are as in the description there is a loose comparison between them and Twilight (*GAGS*), but I'm willing to give it a shot at least. I'll probably plan a reading day and just head down to Barnes and Noble, see if I can find book one of the series, sit down with a nice cup of coffee or tea and any sort of pastry I may desire and give the book a fair chance to win me over. I'll let you know how that turns out.

TTFN

Tangled up and Espadas

So, I saw "Tangled" the other day. Nothing truly ground-breaking to be completely honest. I can't really say a whole lot about it without giving away story and plot elements and the quality in which I viewed it was not all that great so I'm sure I missed out on quite a few visually enticing elements. Also, I was watching it while doing some interning work at Bunko Animation Studios (cool studio with cool people that I intern at now, not a paying job but a foot in the door nonetheless), which really means I spentmost of my time listening to the movie rather than actually watching it. The story was well developed but the songs within the movie seemed to me to be waaaaaay too forced. I kid you not, almost every 5 to 10 minutes in the movie some character would break out into song for almost no reason at all. Now, if this had been a Broadway musical (not Broadway musical turned movie, just Broadway musical set on the stage) I would have totally believed the entire production because it seemed like it would have fit more as a Broadway musical.

Understand that I am aware the Disney made a killing in making musical films back in their glory days but it was not in the same manner as Broadway musicals are done. There was a fair bit of dialogue and exposition into the story and characters before the next musical number was done and was almost always a build up of tension and emotion before doing so. In Tangled, it just seemed like they decided songs would go wherever the hell they wanted regardless of the fact that whatever was occurring could easily have been described within simple dialogue.

All in all, it was alright, but in my opinion "The Frog Princess" (yes, I'm calling it its original freaking title, deal with it) kicked its ass.

In other news, one of my friends asked me to design a tattoo for him and one of his friends (as a surprise) based on the Espada from the anime "Bleach". The goal of the tattoo is to incorporate the number, mask and some third element to aid in identifying the Espada in question. The one that I finished was for my friend's friend and I am still figuring out the kinks in my friend's tattoo. Now, the friend's friend was so impressed by what I made for him, he decided that each person in his group of friends should have one done in accordance with which Espada they most resemble. So, it is my task to now design 10 more tattoos (including my friend's and an extra one for an original Espada character) as awesome as the one featured below. Gods help me.

Espada 6, Grimmjow

Thesis Aid and warm-up sketches

Hey look! I made art! Or sketches anyway. One of my friends who is currently undergoing his thesis year dropped by my place last night in order to give me some files to work on for his super awesome thesis of amazing story fun time. Super secret too. So, sorry, but can't tell you what its about. But, before I started work on it I decided to do some warm up sketches in photoshop with my wacom just to see how rusty I am with it. I also decided I was going to watch Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as I worked on coloring and cleaning up some frames of his animation. So, obviously, I ended up doing some sketches of characters in the movie. And by that I only mean Ramona and Knives and Matthew Patel's very angry eyes before being completely drawn into the movie and beginning to actually work on my friend's stuff.

I am very proud of the way Ramona turned out in particular :)

Too Damn Cold

Hey all,

I was in Puerto Rico for Christmas and New Years to celebrate with the family which I hadn't done in a while so it was kind of refreshing. It was nice to see my grandparents again and my dogs and realize just how old Im getting since now my little cousins are about the same size as I am and in some cases actually taller. It really is quite frightening how time can fly.

I also forgot how freaking cold it is up here. All the wonderful moisture that my skin had taken in from being in the tropical climate in PR is gone now. I can literally hear my skin beginning to crack in certain places and my lips are so freaking dry now they hurt and will probably be bleeding by the time I wake up tomo- well, techincally today.

The flight wasn't so bad, least bumpy flight I've actually been on in a good long while.

And now if you would turn your attention to the right over here, this is one of the character designs for the main character in my Thesis Film "Belief". It is the one design that I liked the most and was planning on refining in order to make it more animation friendly during the clean-up process.

Her wardrobe was inspired by the wardrobe of the angel Gabriel in the movie Constantine. SPOILER ALERT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT SEEN THE MOVIE!!!!!!!

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Ok, hopefully whoever hasn't seen the movie isn't reading this. I really really REALLY liked how they put Gabriel in the garb of a mental patient with multiple identification tags, each listing the seven deadly sins on one arm and ugh, I can't remember what they are called, it's the opposite of the sins though, of that I am certain. But I just loved that entire idea of just being able to show how far off Gabriel had gone and how twisted the outfit was in general. It wasn't a traditional set of mental patient clothes but more like a pile of them Gabriel pulled out and decided to mix and match and in some cases sew together.

Well, that's all for now. I'm going to go ahead and try to get some sleep at least, hopefully wake up at a moderately decent hour in order to clean the apartment further and commence my day of running around like a chicken with its head cut off (much more amusing saying when my Abuela [grandmother] says it in spanish).

Cheers.

Hey There...

So yea... Hi.

Haven't posted on here in near a year, honestly because I almost never have anything of interest to really say. I'm going to try and post some artwork on here at least once a week and actually get back into the swing of drawing and animating since I haven't done so since the end of my Thesis year. I managed to graduate, have the photocopy of my diploma hanging on my wall over my bed (my mom has the original).

Well, here's the first of (hopefully) many other artworks to be posted. I'm gonna cheat a little bit here and post something I did a while ago but never circulated around the interwebs. This was a character illustration from my Pitch Book from 4th year at SVA. Enjoy I guess.

(Pardon the horrible pixelization of the image ><;)

First Post with a Sketchdump!

Having become dissatisfied with devart as a whole and due to a conversation with some friends at around 4 in the morning, I've decided to create a blogspot in order to post my crap- I mean arts and animations. Maybe even make a few random posts about music, movies and the possible webcomic that me and my sister have been planning (and by that I mean she's been writing, I've been too scared and lazy to actually draw it) for quite a long long loooong time.