Some doodles I did a few days ago. 

Ark and Marcus looking at a weird leech-snail thing. 

A small, quick portrait thing I did of Mia and her siblings. I wanted the siblings to all have the same eye color as their mother. It's very obvious that one of them has a different biological father than the other two. XD The little girl is also the youngest between all of them with Mia being the oldest. Bonnie marries another person after Cliff leaves, hence the one more blond child in this sibling lineup. 

Something I had a sudden art craving to draw while listening to "Manchild" by Eels. I just had a weird binge of wanting to draw Ark being comforted by someone? Don't ask me why, I just did. XD After looking at the original sketch I had for this drawing, I can't help but feel like as if I liked the initial feeling I had in the thumbnail better than this sketch. I think it's probably because of the fact that the thumbnail had a bit more extreme of a down angle from The guy on the right's perspective so it looked more like he was looking down at someone and taking care of him versus this flat view I did in the end. Meh... May re-do it some time. =__=

PS - ignore the text. >__> it's just cheesy junk my brain likes to put in as text. 

The song played at the end of the Futurama episode "Game of Tones" and I just fell in love with that song, and the scene that it played during was equally beautiful - one of my favorite Futurama moments, including the older series runs list of episodes. 

I realized that I had actually forgotten to upload the animatic I did for class I did with all those character designs I posted earlier. I ended up changing the Thief's design to look more human and less like a giant bug with a bag over his head.

My animatic turned out to be really long, it runs over 100 frames with more than two characters running around at the same time for over half of those said over 100 frames.

It was worth it, though, I think. The teacher told me that if it weren't for the fact that she was only allowed to submit things that ran within a certain time limit, she would have put my animatic in at the end of the semester showing. I'm more than fine with not getting it shown, actually, I feel validated enough that spending 10 straight hours on it was worth it. XD

This animatic marks the first time I've actively integrated 3-D modelling technology into my art. I modeled the BG space in Google Sketch-up and inserted stock figures in the space to figure out which camera angles I liked. This made my process go by SO much faster, and helped me keep track of my space.

Top two things here are some doodles I did on my comp last night. The top are Mia and Sand. I keep changing Mia/Ark's skin color. One day I'll finally settle on one. XD But their design, when I'm drawing it in a much less stylized format keeps changing. Haha...

Below is a red-headed girl who's actually an OC for a thing I'm a fan of... but too shy to talk about. =__=

I foreshortened the knee too much, so my teacher commented that I drew a 'hero knee'. XD

The model liked this one of him, he said he liked how I exaggerated the lean he made while he was posing. It was actually an accident, but a happy accident since the drawing ended up with a nice triangular feel to it.

Been busy with school lately, but I've still been doodling here and there. Mainly in my sketchbooks, but sometimes I give myself some time to do some digital junk.

Here are a few I did on my computer.

It's this character as a weird rock monster thing. I was playing around with stuff I could do as a story (why I can't seem to finish anything, I partially blame myself for never deciding a mood or consistent anything...) and at some point I was playing around with a super cheesy idea where the character's powers overloads from some mystical external means.

The basic idea I had for it was that she gets sucked into some weird mystical energy thing that reconstructs her being into something that is fused right into the earth so she can just pop up at random as a rock creature of some sort. But being a piece of the earth leaves her unable to think fully straight (basically, her brain is on sensory overload since she can feel everything that's attached and moving on the planet) so she just sorta aimlessly wanders around and appears at random in random places. Chaos ensues.

I'm not quite sure if I'm really going to do anything with that idea at all, but I liked the visual idea of Mia just rising out of the ground.

A small doodle I did of a ninja turtle, specifically Leonardo with a sword. I never finished putting his other arm in properly. I also didn't put his second sword into the pose because I seem to not know what to do with the second sword... Kudos to the people who have to work with a dual weapons character because the posing for them is trickier than I thought it'd be. @__@ Bahh....

Since I've never mentioned it on this blog, I'll mention it, now. I'm actually a HUGE ninja turtles fan.

Figure drawing duuumppp (as usual XD) . I'm at this point where I manage to fall in love with about fifteen percent of the marks I put down, then going "uh... what is this mush? D: " on the rest. But... that's just learning a process, right? P: In five years I'll hopefully have a better idea of how to approach whatever my process will become.

Selected works from my "for studies" sketchbook. The top is a more slowly painted out-ish pumpkin because I noted that I haven't done any slower traditional painting stuff in a while. The rest are quicker, looser stuff. My favorite of the bunch I put up is the man with the suitcase. I saw him while I was in the library, leaning against his bags looking out the window and it just struck to me as a beautiful scene that could have easily been the start of some great movie. (My brain likes to think like that. P : )

Some doodle studies I did last week. The bottom was a lighting study, so I tried to render/detail out stuff as little as possible. For some reason - it looks like as if the apple is my thought bubble with the way it's placed. Teehee...

A doodle assignment. The teacher wants us to make scribbles, then create stuff out of scribbles weekly so that we get to use our imagination to make cool things. I over-did it and spent a long time picking which silhouette scribbles I liked, gathered references, etc... One and a half hour fun homework has now turned longer. Ooops. XD haha... 

 

I also re-learned tonight that I tend to become bulimic under stressful situations. Good thing I usually don't get into drama, otherwise I think this may turn into a need-to-get-it-checked-out problem. XD I'm like more or less shaking in my systems from puking all the food I had today out and too scared to eat anything since I think I might end up puking it out. O_o My friend thinks I'm sick, and everyone hopefully only thinks it as me feeling sick. 

 

I decided to settle with this color for Cilff's skin better. A bit more yellow-ish, but I like that direction a bit more. 

I decided to draw an apple that I had packed for lunch today. I held it in my hands and painted (mainly the apple in) and rushed through my hand because I didn't want to hold the apple anymore since the club meeting for my major was about to start. Looking at it again, I think I should have played down the saturation of the hand and put more of the apple's tone into the hands to emphasize the apple s'more. The bottom is the apple again, except I ripped at and chewed it. I also smashed the apple a bit so that I could practice drawing small indents into skin and such, but I didn't have time to do that and I ate too much of that apple already. >__> Hehe... next time? 

Since I was doing so many studies and in serious sleep debt lately (D : ), I gave myself a break and doodled something random. I plopped in a silhouette that looked like a bug and I worked off of it. I scrapped the first look and drew in some human feet then put a bird's body with a bug's head in the end. My friend thought it looked "cute" since it "looks like a bedbug! ". Not sure how that's cute... but... okay... it's apparently cute. XD Maybe I should paint like a swarm of these just acting like pigeons. =B 

Sketchies. Still working around with a more crystalized feel for Cliff and working around with what I like for coloring and some minor small details like Bonnie's eyebrows. P : Heh... expect some more work on that. And me working with more color swatches on this. Hehe...

Character design stuff I did for my storytelling class. We were told that our finals (or as close as we'd ever come to one in this class XD ) was to make an animatic out of a folk tale about a person learning the lesson of valuing what you have, no matter how meager it is. The story given to us basically goes as an person is sad that his only possessions barely fit into this one sack that he carries. The person he is speaking to steals the bag from him and lays it at the end of the road for the person to find so that person can learn how important even the smallest of things are after losing it.

The teacher told us that we had free range over a lot of it. Like, we could change the setting, the character's age/gender/ethnicity, etc... as long as the main story's point and general plot is followed.

In my variation, I added a third character who is a thief who steals the child's belongings. The knight-like character is supposed to take back what was stolen from the child, and when the child receives it they appreciate the sack a bit more than they originally did. I added a third character into the story despite the fact that it may be extra work for me to board and plan how to fit three characters into panels and such... I just thought it was what I needed to make the story easier to tell. I'm usually the type of person who muddles around with details, so I had to do something to prevent that and make sure everything could be clear cut. Hence the reason why the thief is just a one-dimensional jerkwad who would steal from a vulnerable child. >__>

I'm going to re-design the thief character for the final animatic because I asked my teacher for a personal critique after class, and she mentioned that the thief character was a bit strange because of the fact that he was the only character who did not really resemble a human. I'll probably post more details on the characters and my character design thoughts later~.

After looking at my other blog, I noted that there were a few things I forgot to put in this blog. P: This blog is my more personal (as in I ramble all the time... =__= ) blog, so I think I forgot to post them earlier because I had a long, long thing to say that I never got around to writing. >__>

The very top drawing is of a blobfish with an afro. Two of my co-workers were joking about how our store mascot should be a blobfish after commenting it was rated among the most ugliest animal by many. The afro addition is because one of our other co-workers has an afro and so it became this sort of running joke to just mention his afro. My co-workers were pleasantly amused with it and joked about putting up signs with the fish all over the store. It's a dollar store and most people don't seem to understand the pricing system... so I made it wave a little flag with the price for most things in the store. XD That was my own joke... Though, I admit it makes it look like the fish is worth $1.50 without context.

The second and third one is of Marc and Ark (I draw a loooot of Ark... ) . They're two characters I'd love to ship, and even though I'm the one who made up these characters I can't ever see these two characters really being able to romantically get together. I think it's because they both ultimately want different things out of life. That, and Ark is gay -but, I feel like he's had a fully romantic feeling towards Marc before, though (zero sexual attraction in that feeling, though, since he finds males sexually attractive) P: . But, I think they ultimately enjoy this close as almost-siblings sort of thing with each other.
SO ANYWAYS... the top drawing is the two characters messing around with bandannas on each other. The second one is Marc offering a bite of some sort of snack to Ark. I wanted their combined silhouette to resemble a heart shape, but I broke that silhouette a bit because I wanted more flow out of Ark's body and that leg just seemed better that way... I know what it's supposed to be, so... fun for me and me alone, I guess. ; w ;

The third is an attempt at a sketch-up, ideation thing of a grown-up version of the little girl that I drew in the corner of an earlier picture post. P : Not sure if that's what I'm sticking with color-wise - but I do quite like the concept of her looking like a dancer of some sort. XD I called her "Feleena" for now because I was listening to "El Paso" while sketching a grown up version of her.

The bottom are some sketches that I did of some desert canyon-y type landscapes that I did based off of some photos that I saved to my computer and my phone so that I could keep doing studies even when my as of late spotting internet gets all weird. I'm thinking of doing more day-time canyon studies then moving onto trying to do some night time desert studies because I stopped and realized that I had no idea how to even pretend to paint a night time desert scene.