This is a copyright page!

Without the copyright... ^^;



It's mostly blank for the reason that if Artist In Wonderland were to be published, this is where all of the copyright would go.

Holy Updating, Batman! Also, a Giant Purple Crab fell to Earth!

Oh man... I have been so bad with updating this thing. I'm sorry, I've just been so busy as of late... ^^;

I've been completely done with classes for the summer for a little under a month, and let me tell you something: I am so relieved! Degree Project (DP) was NO joke... I barely finished it! And while not totally satisfied with it, I have to at least pat myself on the back for completing something so crazy and difficult. I had to drop one of my critical studies classes just to focus more on DP and I still didn't have enough time! I'll post the mostly finalized version of my Degree Project movie here soon, but I wanted to update the DP blog with all the extra progress work first ^^;

My Animation Portfolio class was really great! I was really stressed at times because I was worried about finding time to work on DP, but it was so awesome getting our professional stuff done. I'll show you all the business cards, dvds, and dvd covers, I did in another post soon! Also, I really need to thank my teacher for being so understanding about my situations with DP throughout the semester. You rock Steve! :D

Narrative Illustration, the class I busted my butt to get into, did not, unfortunately, live up to my expectations, mainly because of the professor who taught the class. Their bad attitude, short-temper, tactlessness, and unwillingness to take responsibly for things, made for a difficult working environment and made me all too glad that I was part of the Animation Department.

Unpleasantness aside, I did learn a lot of great things about narrative illustration. One of our assignments for the class was to make a children's story book with some very odd constraints.

The teacher gave me and each of my classmates a small plastic toy sea creature or insect. We then had to create a short story that started and ended in 8 pages or panels featuring the creature we were given. Also, the story had start with the line, "One Fine Day, a giant _______ fell to earth."

Since I got a purple crab, guess what mine was about... That's right! A DOG! :D


Anyway, I wanted to make the style cute and fun, for a children's book, but also simple to draw as possible. This was because I would have to complete multiple other assignments for this class during this assignment, and I had to worry about work from other classes... Like DP.



I first started the assignment by sketching the whole story on (crappy) normal paper. It didn't need to be perfect, but it had to be clean enough that others could understand it and that I would be able to change it if needed.



Next, linework. I wanted a very clean, but simplistic line, so I decided to do the linework in Flash.

I couldn't figure out at first how I wanted to color it, but I did want to experiment. Finally, I came up with the idea to try a technique I learned from my super awesome teacher from last semester, John Roman.



The technique involved painting with watercolor on watercolor paper or bristol board, then scanning the paper into Photoshop and applying the watercolor to the figure, background, etc.



It didn't make much since, as they only ended up taking the two sheet paper copy version, but my teacher strongly suggested I bind my book together, for the reason that it was meant to be viewed as a storybook. My teacher lightly mocked my lack of book binding skills, and though annoying, it was true. But hey, I did the best I could.



So here's it is the finished product in "comic form", the way I handed it to my teacher.

And before you say it, yes, I know it's missing the word "do ", but I'm not going back through several Photoshop documents just to change it. I'm lazy, I admit it :P

This was a cool assignment and I was very happy with the results. I'm not interested in writing children's books, however I think I would definitely consider illustrating one.

Anyway, thanks for reading! Hopefully I'll have more work up sooner than later... >.>

Brittanie Vector-Complete!!

For Digital Illustration.

jesuschristihatethisfreakinassignment....................................


Finally done... w00t. I've spent days working on this and I'm still not completely satisfied... but whatev's. I've got a paper to write now, and less than 24 hours to do it....

I've have some experience vectoring this but this was my first time vectoring something realistically and in Adobe Illustrator CS3. It was super hard to do on top of the fact that I started to get rather anal about it...

Brittanie " is one of my animation buddies. She's made of cute and her animations are bound to put a smile on your face. "

WIP:


Sketch: See previous post

Brittanie Sketch

To be vectored in Illustrator CS3.

This is one of my animation buddies. She's made of cute and her animations are bound to put a smile on your face.

EDIT:

Also, here's a sketch of the parasol that's going to be part of the pattern background in the final.

Swirl, Vector, Swirl, Swirl, plus a happy accident

Abstract vector piece done for Digital Illustration. Created in Illustrator CS3.

We had to make an abstract picture using the vector brushes we made.

I kinda hate drawing realistic stuff in Illustrator, but it's super fun making totally crap in it... :D

EDIT:



Hey, Blogger did a super weird thing... It changed the color of my work (on the left) into the one on the right. So I inverted the colors of that one to make the one in the middle.

Cool! :D

WTF Kitty???

To see the original sketch, go one post down.


Okay, not gonna lie... this was a bit of a bitch to do... If there are a ton of grammatical errors sorry... it's almost 3 am...

I've never used the pen tool to do ANYTHING before, so... yeah....

But on the bright side I learned how use paths and the pen tool in Photoshop

I think it came out okay.... ....... I do!

The Pen tool…. ??? Seriously? No.

I can barely make a crappy pear shape with the pen tool in Photoshop, now I gotta do this??


No freakin' way...

"The Brand New You" DONE -for now-

---Am I kool now? -FinaL---



For my Digital Illustration collage assignment.

The assignment is based on the article we read, called "The Brand New You", which talks about our society's obsession with brands and labels.

I don't think this came out too well... I had tons of headaches... such as layer management... I mean I used close to 40 layers... I think

"The Brand New You" WIP

----Am I kool now?-----


Work in Progress for an assignment for Digital Illustration called "The Brand New You". A collage assignment.

My style seems rather Jamie Hewlett-esqe in this picture... Oh well...

I like the Munny on her head... I really want one.

Apple Still Life-- digital

My first speed painting wasn't very speedy... ack

Another piece for Digital Illustration. We had to get really up close and personal to a piece of fruit (or vegetable) we picked and digitally paint it.

A lot of prep work went into this: 15 thumbnails, color and value studies... naa, I looks cool though.

I'm rather proud of this piece though I know I'm gonna get pwn'd by everyone else on Tuesday...

New year, new art... blah

My main major is Animation but I thought I'd take an Illustration course as well.



For my Digital Illustration assignment I started yesterday. We had to create a monster.

We were pretty much told to not think too much about creating it and just go with it... Unfortunately, I started thinking too much and couldn't come up with anything.

So thank you to my buddies Jasmine and Jelisa for making me get over myself, and telling me to scribble randomly with a Sharpie and some pens until came up with this... Knaarllli. My mom came up will the name

I actually like this a lot.