scribbles and gibberisch

2012-01-22T23:12:00.000-08:00

Finally posting stuff from the end of last semester and some of winter! Wahooo.

Went to the figure drawing marathon this last week, and I have to say, remembering how much I miss going figure drawing was well worth having to sit in an unheated room in the dead of winter for hours. Even if I did get sick.

This is my final for 117, in which we were required to design an animal that has a food cart. Mine is a snow monkey who sells oden from the back of her scooter/cart to earn money for an overseas culinary degree! This assignment was decidedly lighthearted and simple in comparison to our previous one (below), and gave me a good excuse to stare at vintage Vespas.

The above is the second to last project of the class. Taking some inspiration from Joaquin Pasos' 'The Poor Angel', we were instructed to create an angel (literal or metaphorical) character that has decided to sell their wings at a pawn shop (also literal or metaphorical) at a pawn shop. In my take, this particular angel has decided to sell his wings to Nazi's during the Dutch Famine of 1944 in order to obtain rations for a family.
And on THAT uplifting note, I wish everyone a Happy New Year! (belated OR right on time?)

2011-11-18T01:27:00.000-08:00

Hopefully I'll have time to keep revising these treehouses. I am glad to move on though.

Practice digital paints for class.

2011-06-04T10:05:00.000-07:00

More speed paints. My laptop was down for a little bit and I didn't have photoshop, so there's a gap from the previous entry. A few are missing because they're too horrible to subject the world to.

National Geographic Photo Reference

Inglorious Basterds

Doubt

Girl with a Pearl Earring

From life

A Single Man

Inglorious Basterds

Marie Antoinette

Atonement

2011-04-25T18:52:00.000-07:00

Trying to keep up with doing one digital painting a day. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but most of the time I get around to it and it's fun!

From life.

Personal photo reference.

National Geographic photo reference.

Personal photo reference.

From life.

No reference.

2011-03-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

This month's figure painting. Tried to play with weird colors and ended up with this weird palette based on copper patina. It was fun!

Random collection of figures and gestures from 115.

Some ugly sketches from the new sketchbook. :P

2011-02-11T18:35:00.000-08:00

Three hour figure painting at school. So much fun, glad it's back this semester.

2010-12-27T01:41:00.001-08:00

Messing around with texture and trying to draw guns.
Texture was found through resurgere's and produced by Wroth in the Borkr 7 pack.

2010-12-26T12:15:00.000-08:00

Two quick sketches, one done from the library after the end of the semester screening and the other done today on my break at work.

2010-12-25T20:47:00.000-08:00

My final for storyboarding! Sound is turned off because of the song I used, but oh well. :]

2010-12-12T23:42:00.000-08:00

Secret Santa present for a coworker. Wish the holiday party was after finals, but oh well...Anyhoodle, these two are the twins from Geek Love, Iphigenia and Electra. I liked them in the book and was happy to find an excuse to draw them.

Frame and wallpaper texture courtesy of CG Textures

2010-11-20T18:25:00.000-08:00

Just some figures for class.

2010-08-31T11:06:00.000-07:00

Finally scanned my forests! At Kinko's no less, I looked at the scans when I got home and was SHOCKED by how close in color they were, and HUGE! I'd gladly pay the dollar over having to spend an hour stitching fragments of it together on my own scanner.

Some doodles from this month. The little grey figures are from Kagemusha, the middle is from Julie and Julia, and the bottom is from Doubt. The top row and the two women on the right are random junk.

This is ugly, but oh well. Just playing around with weird stuff in Photoshop.

2010-07-13T17:10:00.000-07:00

Just two quick doodles of Princess sleeping. Both of them look nothing like them which pissed me off, but whatever. Out of practice and slow.

Random till tags for work.

2010-07-06T18:40:00.000-07:00

Got my new Intuos 4 wireless and I LOVE IT. My tablet before this didn't have pressure sensitivity and it's basically the best thing ever. (Yeah, I know this isn't new to tablets but it's NEW TO ME, and awesome)

Random gross doodles from Happenstances and Geek Love. Didn't finish watching Happenstance because Firefox decided to die in the middle. A coworker recommended Geek Love to me and I loved it. It's one of those books where after you finish you don't want to start another book because you know it just won't be the same.

Also, I got brushes for my Ipod! Finally! It's awesome for doodles when I'm running around but don't feel like lugging the paints with me, even if finger painting is hard to adjust to and not really the same on an ipod screen. >> It was awesome when we were stuck in traffic though.

2010-03-30T18:35:00.000-07:00

The Goose after waking up.

This lady's face was really red, though not quite as red as I made it. I think her purple shirt set that off well. The other woman is a regular.

My paintingthing from the figure marathon over winter break. I need to work on making figures smoother and less knotty looking, but whatever. It's not worth trying to fix up right now.

Color render for 113a. Choosing atmospheric perspective with weird coloring was a bad idea, but oh well. Still need to work on my edge/texture quality like Cameron said.

2009-08-15T12:51:00.000-07:00

These two sketches are from the same day as the previous post, just didn't get around to posting them. This is one of our regulars, him and his brother come in every day and come back at different points throughout getting coffee refills.

This woman was interesting. She met up with another lady and they were having a book club meeting. It was fun watching the two go back and forth about what was going on in the book.

Finally took a picture of the reversal. Never really liked this thing, but oh well.

2009-08-05T12:33:00.000-07:00

I love this lady. She was with a younger woman and they were speaking a different language, but she was consistently assertive and confident, while the younger one [that had snapped at me earlier while I was working] was much less sure of herself. Perspective is jenky, they left soon after I finished her face and I got bored. :P

2009-07-30T11:56:00.000-07:00

Lazy Thursday

2009-07-03T13:26:00.000-07:00

Morning with Charlie-Burger.

2009-06-25T12:47:00.000-07:00

I went to the dentist yesterday and after I got out and talked to the receptionist she kind of giggled at me. So I figured I looked weird after getting 75% of my face numbed and this is what I felt like.

Supervisor let me wear sunglasses while doing the trash run today. I make doing the trash run look cool and exciting.

2009-06-03T16:45:00.000-07:00

These orchids refused to die for three weeks after my mom got them.

When I was drawing this lady a man across from me, sitting almost next to her asked if he could see it. Naturally I said no, as I hadn't made the most attractive representation of her. A man next to me, seeing that I was open to conversation after I responded to the other man, remarked that I had not made her face "horsey enough", calling attention to the fact that I was drawing her, and insisting that I make her plainer and "horsier". I love public transit.

Some studies from my trip to the Legion of Honor.

The Blues Festival. I killed my ears standing infront of a speaker so I could draw this guy. The shirtless dancing man gave me a candy bar.

This guys hands were all over this woman and wasn't paying attention to the performance at all. She was.

In the bottom right picture Jake made a face and I told him he could do it if he could hold it. So he tried, but Uncle Leo was bothering him the whole time to make him move.

The last page of my sketchbook, blurred out some sentimental stuffs I put in there.

2009-06-03T10:24:00.000-07:00

Charlie sleeping, he moved about five minutes in. :\

This woman has been coming to our Starbucks lately, and she's always reading with her brow furrowed like this. Done on my ten minute break.

2009-04-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

I finally showed Mike this a few weeks later and he seemed to think he was pretty funny.

Cutesy vomit.

2009-04-10T19:33:00.000-07:00

Not sure why I'm still awake, I've been dozing off all day. Off I go to DIE in the comfort of my bed.

2009-03-29T16:23:00.000-07:00

I really hate all these sketches, but the quote was funny.
"I look like I'm dying... I'm a vampire, you need to make me sparkle!

This lady seemed kind of mean. I don't know if she had a rod jammed up her ass or a neck problem, but she never once just turned to face this guy that was talking to her for atleast a half hour. She just looked down at him out of the corner of her eyes.
And that table is so wrong.

Charlie in his shades, another screwed up table, a friend, and some funky doodles of Charlie's different sleeping positions.

FOOT

And the Virgin!

2009-03-12T09:47:00.001-07:00

And it's SPRINGTIME! Huzzah!

Figure painting done during last Friday's painting session thing. :D! It was fun but I got bored really fast and started doing other crap on my computer. (bad) Done mostly in openCanvas with a little Photoshop. (though I ended up painting over it again in openCanvas because it started looking stale)

2008-12-02T02:49:00.000-08:00

More of the sleeping. This one pissed me off because he jolted in his sleep during the initial sketch and moved. So it's kind of screwy.

I don't know if this girl noticed me, but I just sat there doodling her at Starbucks on Sunday until I went back to my essay. :\

2008-11-29T00:07:00.000-08:00

Wahoo, I actually sketched something on my computer. Charlie was looking cute leaning up against my leg so I made him stay there, even though he really wanted to watch the Incredibles.

2008-08-13T14:28:00.000-07:00

Doodley post. Wahoooo

Lately I've been into drawing girls with CHEEKBONES. Hence this girl and her excessively thin looking face and starved looking eyes. Ah well. :P Jake helped me pick out the hair color. XD Her hands are fucked up ._.

Nose Goes. Anyhoo Was feeling crappy so I did this :P Don't expect me to make sense. The guy started to remind me of John Krasinski cause of his hair and whatall. :\

I'M HAPPY!!!!! And that's all I have to say about that.

2008-06-23T23:15:00.000-07:00

I've been incredibly unproductive lately. Most of the time I've been sleeping. There's really no excuse for it. That aside, I have been working on another project on and off work, because with my new battery I CAN. We have a nice waiting bench by the bar so I can leave my crap there if I decide to prance off for a second.

MrLi's FACE has been pissing me off in this. His head keeps changing sizes and I can't decide whether or not he should be serious or amused. The little ones are Ryan and Michael. I'm pretty sure I want to switch the whole cropping and background up but I'm still toying with it. Last time I worked on it I was at that bench and the sun was shining on the screen because we have no freakin blinds, but I was on a ten minute break and I don't like being alone in the backroom. :[
I really need to make a reference for the cloth...on everything.
Other then that it's all been sketchy crap, a surprising amount of perspective studies (but not as many as I probably should be doing), and a few sketches of bus people. I like them because they're not something you really think about while you're doing it, you just do. I'll scan them in later when I feel like it. :P

2008-05-31T22:48:00.000-07:00

x0 Blah, I hate eight hour shifts, I just don't feel like doing anything after. :\ I know, what a whiner, I don't care. >[ My hands are dry from dealing with money all day or from playing with the pressured hose...or both.
I don't even feel like sleeping! Because I'll get more bug bites in my bed but I don't feel like changing my sheets. >8[ stupid bug. Last count was 27 bug bites. Only the ones on my neck itch right now though so that's okeh I guess.

It's Dream! I was rereading Brief Lives and then The Wake and decided to do fanarts. Only this is a 24x30 fanart. BUT WHATEVAH, I never use these big canvases. The painting underneath is a failed version of my concentration. (Not that the other version was a success, but this was even worse). I tried to work out a classical composition thing (with maff and everyfink!). I'm sure there's a more technical name for it, but I don't care yet. Anyhoo, he's making a nightmare. :3 Inspired by that one chick who loses her jaw in the Grudge and the older woman who gets hit in the Orphanage. Detached jaws are just unnerving. >>
His hair's ridiculous. I'll tame it later... >> [crawls over to living room couch to sleep]

2008-05-28T00:13:00.000-07:00

Dumped out a bunch of crap doodles in the moleskine today. YAY WASTE OF PAPER! But that's okay...I think?

Having fun with these colors, I used it on this other picture of death I'm still tweaking and decided to drag it over to this awkward scrap.

Was looking at Deviantart, my anatomy book, and Hokusai's Manga. :P I'm not a big fan of anthro, but I dig kitsune. Something about the whole skin stealing thing with Kitsune's and Selkie and what have you, I don't know. I like them.

2008-05-26T20:41:00.000-07:00

Rosie and Mr. Li. :D It's crappy and was formerly on notebook paper, but I was happy because their interacting, and usually I just draw people in their own..space... by themselves. ANYHOO.

I like brushes :B I should make more.

Sketches mostly from yesterday at Fanime, because I didn't have much else to do but refused to leave because I paid to be there. >Y Yes I am dumb. They called the fire department twice, once at the Convention Center [no idea why?] and then across the street? And I was semi-inspired by all the punky loli folk there so I decided to draw this old character, I think her name is Jack, not sure.

I kind of really like green and orange lately. It's gross, but cool.

2008-02-20T23:44:00.000-08:00

Bunch o' classwork. :P

Six value vector of an Arthur Rackham illustration for Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods.

Illustration for the word "time". Had fun with this one because it's just a bust, and playing with the look of "marble" was kind of fun, whether or not I accomplished said look is another thing. >>

Illustration for anticipation. The colors of this bother me, and the front soldiers outfit is..ehhh... But throwing around brush copies of soliders was sort of amusing, some of them are floating quite a bit off the ground and all. xD

Illustration for the "carp". Kind of eh on this one, I worked a while to pen out the lines in illustrator then quickly blew through coloring it. :\

2008-02-02T07:09:00.000-08:00

Just throwing up some stuffs. [sounds weird :P]

Something I was working on a while ago, but I don't know if I'll finish it now. Somewhere along the way I realized I'd have to create some sort of pattern for her vest to make it look fancy and that didn't appeal. So, indefinite hiatus for this one.

Random picture I did in Taiwan. Carrie and I were watching an equivalent of American Idol, and this one girl had her hair done really nice and old fashioned, so I worked it into the face I was doing.

Tiffany's Bday/Christmas/6969hits present. >> Worked hard at making this look finished, and I'm still kind of iffy about the steam... :<

Wanted to do a sort of papercut style thing, didn't really work out but whatever. :P I have it vectorized now and I'm trying to make one of those dress up doll games with my flash (to justify me buying it of course), but it's not working out yet. >\ Flash SHALL BE CONQUERED

Crap sketch of Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle. Someday I'll do nice fanart of this movie...but that is not this day. >>

Taiwan Trip I

2008-01-08T06:24:00.001-08:00

December 27th – Flight was boring. They didn't seat us all together so Jeanie and I sat there making signs at Carrie across the aisle and over two people. Serves them right for not wanting to change seats. >[ They played Ratatouille, which is love, and Stardust, which I used to figure out how much time had passed/how close we were to landing. Carrie fell in love with one of the stewardesses because she was cute and nice, and her name was STING.

December 28th – Landed, got on a really nice airline bus, and went home.

December 29th – Carrie went out for a book signing at, apparently, the biggest bookstore in Taiwan. It was pretty wicked there, lots of ENGLISH books that I was tempted to buy, but they're cheaper on Amazon, so :P. They had a lot of other little stores/booths etc there too, like skin care and dark chocolate ice cream O.o, so it wasn't ALL books. :\ While Carrie was having her book signed in a mob of fans Jeanie and I went to a drink preparation demonstration (because they were using Starbucks!) and got to sample some. Supposedly there was alcohol, but it just tasted like washed out punch with lemon bits floating in it, not that great. While waiting I sat around and looked through latte art books, really want to try that at home. :<
Eventually we lumbered over to the children's book section which was neato, because they had the picture books sorted by illustrator rather then author (getting down to whats important >[!). All the English books there were excessively expensive though. :[ Had to just write the names down and see if I can get them for cheaper elsewhere.
Didn't do much else after we left besides go to a 7-11 and get some fud.

December 30th – did absolutely nothing on this day because we hadn't had our money exchanged yet and Carrie didn't want to keep mooching off of Jeanie. Went out shopping late at night but didn't get anything.

December 31st - Went out with Jeanie's friend Min and had fun. We got our money exchanged and had lunch at a ramen shop. Then we dropped by a dried meat place near Jeanie's house and gorged on that for a bit.

After that we went to a night market, but didn't find anything interesting besides bad english.

Then we headed over to a mall closeish to the 101 to get Carrie's phone chipy thing. They had a movie theater with the costumes from Enchanted on display, but we had to rush by it so we a) didn't get too many pictures and b) didn't find out if it was real. After that we headed down to the area where they were having the concert. Rather awkward, because the musicians were trying so hard to get the crowd pumped up and no one was doing anything besides waving their hand clappers.

When we finally got ourselves out of the awkward we went up to one of Min's friend's apartment to wait for the fireworks. We got a pretty good spot on the roof to watch the 101 from, almost right in front of it, (but not so much, ah it's going to hit us, close).

Twas pretty freakin' awesome, and I got the whole thing on my camera. After that we hung around for a bit before diving into the homebound crowd.
Some random pictures v

December 1st – Went to a Cosco like place and shopped around there for cheap stuff. Got two packs of five Hi-Chews for roughly six-seven dollars. They charged us for plastic bags so we took some from the veggie section and packed all our shit in those.
After that we went shopping for a present for Jeanie's Da, as it was his birthday. Went into Sogo for the first time and saw these REALLY CUTE platypus stuffies on sale (but not on sale enough >| ) .
Had dinner with Jeanie's family, which was nice, but the restaurant wouldn't let us take any of the food home (because there was a SALAD BAR, OOO, jerks) so I had to cram this big piece of meat down my throat.

December 2nd – Went to the Sun Yat-Sen memorial, which was okay.

First part was interesting because we got to see the changing of the guard. Poor fellows have to stand infront of his statue for about forty five minutes, and absolutely still. They even had a man in a suit go up and inspect their posture. X[! They must get paid a lot. ._.

After that we went to the 101 and actually looked around inside. Wasn't that interesting, lot of expensive stores that we can't afford, boo. They did have a Vivienne Westwood store, but her newest collection doesn't seem that great.

December 3rd – Went to another train station mall and looked around there. Was kind of tired and grumpy that day so everything was meh. Got a belt ring there, which was interesting. Also went out to Sogo again late at night to see the indoor Japanese garden Wasn't feeling so hot because I ate atleast two packs of hi-chews before going there. Japanese garden was a disappointment. You couldn't even walk through it. >[ However they did have a surplus of fresh air, and that was nice. Didn't realize how much I missed oxygen.

December 4th – Went to Ximending and shopped around sort of. Wasn't a whole lot different from the other shops we had been to before. Also went to have our pictures taken at one of the sticker booths. Bought an eye ring at one of the shops for pretty cheap. Got lost for a bit trying to find a celebrity shop because it was marked wrong in the book. The shop wasn't that great either. >[ Just a bunch of shirts in plastic bags. Also got a big Totoro pillow that vibrates like it's puuurrrrring. So cute. Also used one of those squatty toilets at one of the train stations, which was AWKWARD, so never again. >[

December 5th – didn't do anything this day because Jeanie was having her teeth done. Did go out and buy a cool ring and a cute pair of shoes.

December 6th – Went to the Chiang Kai-Shek memorial. Disappointing. Went to a beef noodle place [supposedly the best in Taiwan O.o?] and had stuff there. It was good. Then we headed over to ice monster, a shaved ice place, and that was also good. We're trying to take pictures of our food before we eat it but sometimes it just doesn't work out. After that we headed over to Ximending again and dug around for stationary stores we looked up online. Nothing big, but we got lots of cute folders. :3 Disney-fied!

1201/0607

2008-01-06T18:52:00.000-08:00

Throwing up two old sketches. Whooo.

112907 - 113007

2007-11-30T23:06:00.000-08:00

Building sketch made with THE SCRAPEY BRUSH. Makes it look earthquakey. Diverging angles ahoy! A photo for a 2D project is like...five layers underneath this thing, kind of weird.

And this is just scrappy. >> Random picture of Michael and Sakuya when they were younger. I really wanted to draw Michael's green hair. :<

112207-112707

2007-11-27T08:35:00.000-08:00

Did this before and after thanksgiving. Just felt like playing with someone coming out of water. I don't think it worked out the way I wanted it to, but whatever.

Working out a new story involving these two and two others. Evul guy, oh noes. :0!!!

2007-11-20T00:11:00.000-08:00

MrLi's wife, Rosie. :P
Textures from cgtextures.com

2007-11-11T19:39:00.000-08:00

Little washed out depressed fellow. Oh well.

IT'S A MERMAID! 8Y and a succubus

2007-11-07T22:41:00.001-08:00

texture from cgtextures.com :3

Only YOU can prevent forest fires

2007-10-27T20:03:00.000-07:00

a friendly reminder from MrLi. OpenCanvas/Photoshop

2007-09-03T19:56:00.000-07:00

Felt like drawing someone random after I did this big sketchysloppy thing. SATURATION!!!!! [blinds you]

Done in OpenCanvas with editings in photoshop.

2007-08-14T21:25:00.000-07:00

Just posting the self portraity things I did yesterday. :P Just showing that I DID DO something. Trying to make this daily, or semi daily...or whatever. :3

^Original version

^modified deviantart version with textures from cgtextures.com and polaroid stock from Rerighthand

2007-08-13T21:36:00.001-07:00

Just doodles from a few days ago.

2007-08-11T15:25:00.000-07:00

Going to work in a bit. Played with this today.

Drawn with a reference. I did the original sketch last night, but sometime between 2 am and 9 am this morning my computer felt like shutting down so I REDID it because I liked the expression. Done with opencanvas then photoshop, with textures from cgtextures.com

2007-08-10T12:45:00.000-07:00

Played with another sketch from the costume book. I'm pretty sure her clothes don't really make sense for the setting, but whatever.

Textures from cgtextures.com. Programs are photoshop 7 and open canvas.

2007-08-09T22:18:00.000-07:00

In a funky mode today. Was looking at the different costume books I got from the library and decided to sketch out some ideas for elementy dress. I'd scan them but that's allll the way across the houuuussee... I can't wait to get my scanner printer. >[
In any case, I twiddled with one of the costumes in photoshop and slapped a bird in it. Notice the lack of hand. Scratch that, don't notice it >>...

texture from cgtexture.com :]

opening statement

2007-08-08T23:32:00.000-07:00

Alright, so I don't know why I have the urge to sign up for everything on the internet that requires signing up forness...yeah whatever, but I do. Anyhoo, maybe I'll post doodles here or some shit. Or maybe I'll forget about it and leave it to get dusty, somewhat like my livejournal, only without the ever useful friends page. :3