Influence Map

A long time coming, this one.

[original] Nicolai Macamoile

Here is the primary antagonist of my pet story Enigma. Nico is completely charming and affable to a fault. And he truly believes that everything he does, he does with everyone's best interests. Even if he simultaneously knows that he's wrong. 

I'd drawn him up as part of the 30 Days, 30 Character Challenge I participated in this November--as I had a name for him but not a face or a design.

second cousins

My mom usually calls on me around this time of year to draw portraits as gifts for our relatives. This year, the gifts are for two of her nieces/my cousins. The first is Reyne, my first cousin's daughter, and the other is of Gage and Riley, my cousin's sister's kids.
I hope they don't see this before they're supposed to! ;) (They need to be colored, but still.)

In other news, babies are really hard to draw. Forget trying to convey "boy" or "girl", try "human" and not "alien" or "blob-thing".

animation background concepts

We're doing a lip sync animation in my Digital Ink/Paint class as our final project, and this time around we were required to have a background accompanying our character. I'm using the same character I did for the walk cycles (Calypso, her model sheet is on a previous post), and since she's from a foresty area (at the bottom of a mountain), that's what I did.

The character's going to be drawn at about mid-size so you don't see her feet--unless I get told otherwise by my instructor. :B
And of course, the actual background I'm using (the first image) is a little duller than I'd like it to be normally so it doesn't overpower Calypso, but I made a couple variations just for the heck of it.

self-expression

For the Adobe Imagination Challenge.

A very vague theme, self expression. Everyone's gonna interpret it differently.

I think for the accompanying statement to this picture I wrote that while I like to surround myself with beauty (even though I don't take pains to make myself pretty), I'm more about trying to capture the best thing about an object or person--not beautifying it. I like to admire the beauty in the world around me, but I also like the simple things. I like honesty.

I was due for another self portrait anyway. The last time I did one was fall 2009. Yikes. I really should do another one, realism this time, but still in Photoshop.

Calypso: Version...IDK

I redesign her all the time! Like, every time I draw her, really.

This time though, I have an excuse. It's for a class--two different walk cycles in 3/4 perspective. I really didn't want to be drawing her original outfit over and over (I'm still getting over my minor case of carpal tunnel I had over break) so I simplified it as best I could. According to my instructor, she's still got a complex design. LOL.

Saboten Con sketch commissions

This is all of the sketch commissions I did this past weekend at the 2011 Saboten Con (excluding one).

[fanart] 2NE1

It's Korean girl group 2NE1! They're pretty awesome, both in style and in music, which is new for me because I normally don't like the girl groups that crop up all the time in Asian pop.
I've actually had these done for a while--which is a good thing because Saboten Con is next weekend and I've got so many things going on. These will be made into bookmarks and probably phone charms in the future.

I would like to extend a hearty, somewhat hysterical (but certainly grateful) thanks to God (as well as my academic adviser at AiPx) for NOT giving me Honors Animation Studio at the same time as Portfolio Fundamentals and/or Production. I do not think I would escape that situation with my sanity intact.

[fanart] BRAVE - Merida

Just a quick doodle of Princess Merida, the protagonist of Pixar's Brave (which is due in theaters next summer, right around when I'll be graduating! Excitement!).

Her hair is fabulous.

'Alo

So, I made a blog. All the cool artists have blogs and I like to think I'm a cool artist, too, so...

*crickets chirp*