Updates

Hi all!
I like to think that I'm pretty good about this blog, but it's been a whiiiiile since I updated it. I have a good excuse though; all this year has been devoted to my senior thesis, and since I don't want to show that off until it is finished and I haven't had the time/classes for much else, I don't have anything to update with!

But I hate to abandon this place for the whole year, so here's a bit of art from over winter break and a bit of the last semester. C:

First, I had a Children's Book Illustration class last semester and made a 30 page children's book... here are a few pages that got finished up all the way (the rest mostly got just inked or sketched). It's a story about a little girl who makes pet rocks that come to life and follow her around.

Aaand here's a bit of silly fan art I did over winter break.  First, I got super-hyped over the game Bastion, and spent a couple days pumping out fan art like this:

And then as a Christmas present I drew my bf and my Skyrim characters kicking ass.

Hm... I've also been knitting a lot and trying to make perfect pork buns (it will never happen), but that's not so exciting to blog about.

Alright! Now that I'm back at school this is probably it from me until April.
See ya 'round!

Animated Monster!

Animated this guy for my last project in 3D this semester. Might go back and add in some sexy fog/spit particles coming out of his roar... that'd be sick.
But then this was a just-for-practice sort of thing.

Enjoy!

More Thesis Preproduction

Last bit from the end of the semester! Just a bit more of these samurai guys... gonna see how much of a head-start I can get on this thesis over the summer.

Samurai

Also here is some concept stuff.
I've been working with a team on some thesis ideas and preproduction, and we recently decided to go with this idea. I won't talk about it too much, but I will say that it's about ghost samurai and it's gonna be awesome.

Really getting excited about this concept! Expect to see more... for a very long time.

Finished Boss Monster!

Oh jeez! I've been cramming too much for too long and totally forgot to be keeping up with this blog. Also I suppose all of my art showing-off energy has been going into portfolios and WEBSITES!!

Anyway, finished up the 3D model of that boss character I was showing off forever ago.

Concept first!

And the final guy! Might be animating him, so maybe expect to see more of him.

Figure drawings

A bit overdue. I took a figure drawing class last semester, which was so lovely, and here's a bit of what I have to show from it.

Sir Ian

Next project was to sculpt/model, rig and animate a celebrity likeness or caricature! I chose to do a realistic sculpt of Ian McKellen.

Had a lot of fun with the high res sculpt, although... he started to get pretty creepy once I textured him. Uncanny valley ho!

This was still a good project for me though, because (besides learning how to animate faces) it made me realize that all the work I've done for school so far has been realistic-styled work. So, I'm going to try and make a more fun and stylized character for the next project, the boss character! Excitement!