Zooness

Well I know that no one follows me here right now, but I'm still going to update as much as I can d:.

Anyway, here are some of my best sketches that I got out of my animal anatomy class at the zoo and science museum. I will be updating with my final project soon. Still need to watermark it and still recovering from finals week last week xD lol. Figure since these are just sketches, they don't really have to be watermarked. Enjoy!

Drew the cassowary bird here in the morning... it got out that afternoon xD lol. Yay for having a real life dinosaur roaming through the zoo and closing down 2/3s of the place xD lol.

Anyway, it seems like you can really see my progress throughout the class. The birds and reptiles are some of my favorites even though they aren't some of my favorite animals to draw. This is because they were some of the last things we drew in the class and thus some of my best. Note that these are only SOME of the sketches out of the class. These are only the best of them out of probably around 50 to 60 pages worth.

Hope you enjoy :). Will update in the next couple of days with my final projects.

Animal Anatomy Creature Update

Here is a TONNN of my progress on my creature design for my animal anatomy class at school. So far I'm really happy with this design and as you can see I'm also doing an illustration with my creature. The creature is a combination of a tapir, a giraffe, and an leopard. I'm in the final stages now for this and I will update more when I'm done :).

P.S. Some of my teacher's sketches are on here. Some of the really good anatomy sketches on the side aren't mine. The final pose drawing is drawn on by him as well.

These are basicly the final images for the design of my creature. I still have to add some things and darken some lines, but overall this is what the creature is going to look like. Do note that the patterns on the creature are not yet added yet. Also I don't know why his eye scanned in so dark.

This is some of the first stages of my design after I did a whole bunch of silhouettes of the creature. The first drawing is the stage right after the silhouette. This was an experiment with this kind of process and I found out that that I like going over the silhouette with some structure, which I did the creature design in the last post, but not this one :(. Do note that this only SOME of my process and studies. Not ALL of my process.

Here is the silhouettes with some very rough color and value studies of the illustration I am doing with the creature.

Here is some of my process of the final illustration. This is when I was working on the pose, which as you can see I based off of a leopard running.

Enjoy and please critique :). I'm willing to change some things of the creature in the future if I need :). I love this guy and will progress on his design till it has the full impact I want it to have.

Keep on going and going

I need to update this more xD lol.
Anyway and update on what happened at the art festival. Unfortunately I didn't sell anything at all, so a lot of my art is still for sell. I don't mind that nothing didn't sell because there is always next year :). Always try try again. Also I got my name out there a little and that's good enough for me.

Here is the two pieces I made for the festival but didn't sell. The first one is a watercolor of a bear. I know it still needs a lot of work, but with the time I had and my lack of practice in watercolor at the time it's better than I thought it would be. I'm willing to fix it later in the future for sure though :). The second one is a graphite drawing of a wolf I did in the last 2 days, so it's not to the best of my ability. I really want to work on this one when I get time so I can feel better about selling it.

For some character design progress pieces. This design I had to do in 2 or 3 days for a contest. I can't upload the final piece here, but you can find it on my DA if you want :). I went through so many ideas to get to the final product. I'll upload it here after July 7th if I don't make it to the semi-finals. I'll upload more in the next week or so of another character design I'm working on.

Sorry for the cropping :(. Didn't scan in right.

Head designs I was working on. You get a cookie if you can read my handwriting xD.

Festival Time!

Well it's once again time to get ready for the Colfax Music and Arts Festival on June 5th ^_^! This year I have more time to get some original pieces done beforehand, which I will post later on.
Right now here some some pieces I did during the school year that will be there as well :). Prints are available, and the still lifes shown will only be sold as prints for now.

Also, during this summer I will be getting more into fanart and cuter things. I love cute things, so I plan and drawing and maybe selling some chibi key chains. I also really want to get into illustrating novels, so doing some fan art for stuff will really help with that I think :). If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see from me, let me know. Also do note that I am open for commissions. I always am!
I will post more the closer it gets to the festival. If you live in Colorado, please feel free to come. There will be lots of art there and it will be a lot of fun. It is located at on the RMCAD campus ^_^.

Up and running - more to come

Well here we go, this blog is now up and running. It probably won't be updated much, since I have very little time, but hopefully it will help to get my art our there.

Anyway, I need to study for midterms next week. Hopefully after that, I will have more to post. I am going to rent out a high quality camera and get some good pictures of my work up around the web. I also REALLY need to get going on watermarking more of my stuff.

All of that will help me finally get my portfolio website up and out to the public.

Once again, I probably won't be here much due to school and not having much time, but when I do get time, I shall update people with what I am working on and everything.

More to come :)...