Serra Churi Concept

I'm loving my internship! It's great, and I'll be learning so much in the next few weeks.

For fun though I painted a character tonight.Trying a take on one of my characters Serra Churi.

Mermaids!

Mermaids drawn at Gallery Godo's sketching with Mark McDonnell!

The Drawing Club! Maleficent !

A really fun night at the drawing club last week, Maleficent inspired! I didnt think I'd be able to make it but I got to the Animation Guild to find they had postponed the meeting for Women in Animation... so off to the Drawing Club I went!

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had wonderful holidays and that this year will be awesome!
Here are some links, sketches and illustrations!

I'm hoping the new year means some great news on my end especially in the area of work! ;o) A new reel is in progress with a bunch of new models, including Ted and the Warthog stead. I'll be making particular ones for modeling and texturing.

So it turns out there are a ton of great drawing events to go to in LA. A lot more than I realized!

The drawing club every thursday, 7-10. Looks like great fun!
The Drawing Club

There's the Sketch Crawl every 2-3 months, where people get together and draw for a day. The next one is Jan 21
The World Wide Sketch Crawl
See where one is in your city!

The Drink and Draw Club

The Gallery Girls + Sketch Theater
They've been the group that have done the Gnomen Life Drawing nights + many others, though I've only been to the Gnomen's.

A friend of mine shared this video with me, great tips on gesture drawing
Gesture Drawing

Stumbled on his awesome work!
2D Bean
He also made a great character generator, gives a few descriptive to base an idea on then draw away!
character generator

Saw this recently some astounding photos of a factory, a missle factory at that! Great for some Sci-fi concepts.
Rocket Factory Photos

Some creature ref, adorable sloths!!
Too cute! Sloths

Some new sketches: ( I thought I figured out a way to capture sketches without taking them out of my book through taking photos, but alas it gives grey values on some of them so back to scanning it is!)

Concepting objects = potions + pottery

Random Characters

Creatures and Dinos, I love dinosaurs, always have since I was little <3

Life Drawings from the Drink and Draw Night

Concepts for my story, Keepers of Time (keep your eyes peeled)

 

 Rhino horse that I never posted

Owls as practice! <3

Drew my cousin as a character. =)

Katie Cole performed at the Drink and Draw night so I doodled her while she was performing then colored it later. 

 Lizard beast

Drawings from Decembers Gnomen Life drawing night

Wizard Moon

Sketch Dump!

Various drawings from the past two months, all picked and arranged to what you see here!
I love having them all scanned, just makes my sketchbook full of floating papers though...

All sorts of animals, some cute some creepy, I used to be dead afraid of spiders but now they're interesting to draw. 

CTN had some great models who where doing 1-5 minute gestures everyday, so I made sure to do it each time!

Some fantastical creations. 

"Getting the idea" of Jeno-lu 

Some people from different flickr photos, practicing faces. 

Enjoy!

I hope anyone who was celebrating Thanksgiving had a good time, and to anyone else I hope so too!

Happy Creating!

Sketches of the day

I'm really happy with how these sketches came out, so I thought I'd post them.

I enjoy the whimsical fantastical world in respects to my personal style, but I have fun trying to expand my abilities as well, like the cartoony elephant and Corgie mix, which was inspired by a friend. Overall I would say I enjoy drawing illustrative fantasy, cartoony/Disney, and realism.

If you believe in faeries, you'd probably enjoy this, an event celebrating art, music and inspiration. Inspired by Brian Froud and Wendy Froud's artwork. Brian Froud and other artists attend annually.
Faerieworlds
Faerie radio - music that is highly inspirational, featuring a wide range of cultures and styles.

Inspiring Artists

We all have our inspirational figures that really fuel us to do what we are passionate about. So I thought I'd post links to a few of my favorite artists.


Todd Lockwood
He's an astounding fantasy artist with an exceptional ability to captivate audiences and pull them into the story of the painting. I absolutely love his lighting as well. He's been a great help as well since I've started school back in 2008 when I first contacted him.

Brian Froud
A wondrous faerie illustrator, he truly takes you to the heart of the faerie realm, and ability to capture features in them is awe-inspiring

Marta Dahlig
Inspired me on how to paint digitally, but her realistic humans are just amazing, the first image I saw done by her in the magazine Imagine FX I thought was a photo, but pulled me into the realm of digital art further.

Raphael Lacoste
I absolutely love environments, but he really takes them to a whole new level as a matte painter, creating new realms that look so real.

James Gurney
Dinosaurs were an obsession of my childhood but I still love the power and amaze of the creatures from long ago. A whole world where people and dinosaurs living together was genius, which he illustrates with such command. A truly great painter, I'm currently reading his recent book Color and Light: A guide for the Realistic Painter there is so much information packed into one book.

Jordu Schell
I only recently found out about his work when he came to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh to do a lecture and demo. His knowledge of human and animal anatomy to create such bizarre to curious creations on canvas or in clay is especially unique.

Bob Rafei
Concept Artist working at Naughty Dog, he led the designs of the Jak and Daxter series with his fun and unique concepts both character and environment. Since Jak and Daxters last game release, he has been working on the Uncharted Series.

Mary Grandpre
Illustrator for the Harry Potter Series, her illustrations have a veery unique style she calls soft geometry. Having much of her work in a wide variety of publications, her pastel style is desired for many freelance projects.

John Manders
A graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, his illustrations take on such an energetic cartoony feel, that you can tell his work as soon as you see it. He's created a number of his own childrens stories and illustrated for others.

If you have any you'd like to share, feel free I love discovering new artists works.