Sketching For Environment: Wk09

Another version that includes a Japanese style temple!

Redesigning: The Little Match Girl's World- WIP

Introducing more angles and viewpoints to her world! This airplane is having a fun little ride, escaping the confines of the town below. Below are a couple thumbs as well. WIP

Bugs!

Also been drawing a couple bugs!

Redesigning; The Little Match Girl's World

Lately I've been continuing to work on this redesign! This one focuses on the batteries that lie beneath the city. They power the electric lights that are slowly taking over and replacing the little match girl's matches and lamps.

How To: Bake Kahlua Coffee Chocolate Chip Cookies- The Illustrated Guide

I'm currently working on a "How To" that illustrates how to bake a chocolate chip cookie with a twist. Here's an in-progress shot! All of the ingredients have been drawn/ colored- all that is left is to add the title, write out the processes, and color in the final cookies!

And the finalized version! 

Redesigning: The Little Match Girl's World

Building on what I worked out last time, I'm working on a more grounded view of the world trying to add in more fantastical elements. I tried to place the little match girl's house front and center with more emphasis on what she's selling and framing it with her competition, the electric signs that are taking over the city she lives in. My next goal is to figure out what creatures roam the streets and what vehicles are putt-putting about (potentially flying vehicles?).

Redesigning: Little Match Girl

Lately I've been taking a Vis Com class at Concept Design Academy and it's been amazing! We can only use pen and its introduced me to copic markers! One of our projects throughout the course is a "redesign project".  Below are two pages from my redesign of "The Little Match Girl". The first are iterations of the match girl's house. The second image is of the slum she lives in.

Self Portrait

I had this small pillow that my auntie made me that I would carry around with me all the time. So much so that it soon had an indent halfway through it and all its pillow guts sank to the bottom. And paired with the "palm tree" updo that my mom would always tie my hair in and a big ol' smile on my face, this is me as a bebbeh!

Houses

House silhouettes- trying to brainstorm the house the girl would live in.

Dino Doodles

I think these dinos have become a daily thing now...  This guy shows the dangers of being too eager when eating candy.  Wrappers make you sick.

More doodles

During downtime at work I've been doodling these little dinosaurs on mini post its.  It turned into this, plus a whale.

What I've Been Up To

I've actually been doodling!  And creating little illustrations!  More doodles on the way, but I probably won't be able to scan them for a bit.

Recent Progress

I've been working on really finishing the submarine interior piece for CTN, and here it is:

I'm just going to leave it for a bit.  Here's what it looked like previously.

Christmas Candy Cards

I tried to make a birthday card for my grandma's 92nd birthday... and it turned into this.  (I'm really, really excited for Christmas!)

Can you tell I watched "Wreck It Ralph"?  

Lately

Lately I've been working on another submarine piece.  This time it shows her bedroom!  I've been trying to get better at coloring digitally and this piece showcases the skills I've been learning from all the awesome artists from the place I've been interning at!  They're all helping me so much- I can't believe how much I'm learning in such a short amount of time.

I've also been trying to work on a character design for the girl character/ trying to get better at drawing digitally.  I am proud to say that this girl was drawn COMPLETELY DIGITALLY.  Booya.  I apologize for her awkward pose- she's supposed to be holding mini-submarines.  I just haven't inked them yet.  Excuses, excuses, hurgh.

Submarine: Personality

Feeling a lot better after getting back into the art groove.  I tried working on this after I came home from work and I'm feeling a lot more productive.  Yay!  Just gotta keep this up.  This is the interior of her bedroom in the submarine from my previous submarine post.  My goal with this piece is to show her personality through details in the room.  I think I'm going to add most of the poster and postcard/ photo details on the walls in Photoshop as well as the color.  I based this off of the upper left thumbnail sketch from  my post two days ago.  I'm so happy my girlfriend encouraged me to sketch digitally.  It's so much fun!  I actually just did a digital test animation as well.  Hopefully I'll upload that soon, but I remember telling her, "Oh my goodness- I LOVE animating digitally.  Why did I not start doing this earlier?!"  She sighed because she was the one who had suggested I start animating digitally earlier.  Haha, I guess I should listen more closely to her advice.

Cities and Such

This will be the city that the sub will explore.  I looked at Greek ruins and Agrabah from "Aladdin" although I think this came out to look a bit more like Russian architecture.

Tree Village: Large Treehouse Interior

Laid out the interior of the bigger treehouse in the tree village.  I had a great time problem solving how to put more than two rooms in one house!

I tried to show different personalities by the decorations in the room.  Also, here's some floor plans for the tree house!

Tree Village: Treehouses

This is another one of the homes of the character- a treehouse... in a village of treehouses!

Inked it and am trying a new method of grayscaling it: I'm trying to just lay down large areas of gray.

Finished Submarine Room!

Adjusted more saturation in colors and here's what I've come out with!  Thank you so much to everyone who helped me with this color!