THESIS TIME: New Living Room Design!

Drew a new living room- tried to combine the first two together.  Also added a rug- everyone loves rugs. At least my roommates and I do.

THESIS TIME: The Storyboarding Begins!

And it all begins now: storyboarding that is!  Here's a sneak peek!

I feel like recently my facial expressions and body language while working on thesis has been starting to mimick the little girl's movements more and more... 

THESIS TIME: Living Rooms and Hallways!

Two very similar living rooms, but I wanted to move some furniture around/ move some furniture out and about.  Which do you like better?

Aaaand some views of the hallway; I'm still not quite happy with it, so I'll be doing more sketches of this as well.

Watercolor practice

Recently I've been making cards for people for fun/ for people who give me stuff.  It's just so fun to do something that's not school related and so relaxing.  I think I'm going to get started on the holiday seasons cards soon :]  Here's a little Halloween one I did and a thank you card for my cousin who gave me a buncha persimmons.  The thank you card turned out to look more like tomatos though... 

Also, we ended up carving this guy in real life- what made it all the more special was that it was my first ever pumpkin carving!  It was fantastic.

My friend who is also an illustration major took a look at my other Halloween watercolors and said that I should try to be more precise with my coloring so with this thank you card I attempted that.  Did it work?

Candy Coated City

Been working on four illustrations showing how a girl's wish turns a city into a candy covered world.  

First attempt:

Second attempt:

I really wanted to show that the candy taking over the city is vibrant and full of life.  This was the first time I've worked with watercolor so successfully!  It was really exciting and awesome.  Of course there's still a lot to learn, but this was a great experience.  And combining watercolor and digital was another good process to learn/ try out. 

Lipsync Attempt

Had issues rendering this out in general, so unfortunately there is no sound.  Yeah, what's the point of a lipsync without sound you say? My response: IMSORRYYYYYYIMTECHNOLOGICALLYIMPAIREDohtheexcusesabound.  All in all, it's a draft.  Let me know what you think.


The girl on the viewer's left with the cell phone is talking into the cell about the incompetent mother on the right.  Here's some suggestions I already received- agree/ disagree? Add little feet as the stubs are distracting/ change girl on the right's arm so it's moving a bit more [the one that is holding a cell phone].  This isn't the whole thing, but maybe another test will be up soon?

THESIS TIME: Kitchens and the Kids' room!

I like to draw the insides of buildings/ rooms so I had a lot of fun designing and drawing the kitchen and the kids' room.  I tried to give the rooms more of an "off-kilter" look to offset how round our characters are especially b/c my previous kitchen sketch was a bit too clean.  Really pulled from Coraline.  This isn't too relevant, although its relevant to our thesis idea: I just love the scene where Coraline first meets the other mother in the kitchen and the other mother turns around and BAM-- scary button eyes.  Anyway, here are the new kitchen sketches~~~

And Danny and Maddy's room!  They share a teeny tiny room with a creepy stick-on moon on their wall; such strange kids.