este-hirsche!

so, i bowed out the estefan film during the summer, only because i started to go a little crazy with everything i had going on. i've hopped back on for just a few projects here and there. this is a portrait of estefan, in an al hirschfeld style. it's not fully approved yet, but we'll see how they like it. it was really fun to branch out into a style i've never tried.

and what did i see...

the other day, i walked into the h-fac and was pleasantly surprised to find this poster, plastered all over the walls:

i was happy because it's my drawing from last year's show. :) i was humbled that this drawing received 1st place last year, and even happier to share the so-called "winners podium" with my amazing friends natalie and nikki, whom i miss!

i'm excited to see the show for this year's competition: this exhibition is always one of my favorites.
i hope you come, too!
[feb 16 - feb 28, byu h-fac]

happy holidays from a legendary family

okay, have you been waiting in suspense?! 

happy late Christmas and new years! 

i took each of my siblings and made us all famous statues (though no actual body parts were photoshopped, with the exception of my arms  (or lack thereof). it took...some doing. at least, i was up all night Christmas eve and jonny (atlas) stayed up with me. so it's kind of our sibling Christmas card.

it's not the most thorough photoshop job, but it gets the point across. 

points to who can name the statues all correctly!

maybe i'll make a bitty (but rad) piece of art for the winner..... 

:)

purple

whoops! forgot one painting. i was rather fond of this one. 

by the way, you should be very excited for my next post. 

it's all ready and everything. i'm just not posting it yet for pure suspense. 

just so you know. 

painting heads and such

as usual, this post is quite a bit late. 

the following are from bob barrett's head painting class from the winter '11 (january-april, 2011) semester. since then, i've improved significantly. as artists, we're told it's a good thing to look back on a piece of work we once thought was good and dislike it, because it means we're progressing. so i just wanted to post these asap before i really despise them all. which may or may not be...really soon. hopefully.

{notes: all are oil paintings, either on canvas or board. the second painting was the first one i did that semester. the second-to-last painting was one of my favorites, mainly for the color scheme. to see drawings from that class, click here.}

one head painting

here is my favorite study i did in justin taylor's head painting class this semester*. ideally, i'd show you all my less-than-great ones first, but this is the only one i have in a digital format and i'm getting antsy and want to post.

oil, 18x24 on gessoed masonite

he had us do monochrome paintings for a good chunk of the semester, which was extremely helpful when we delved into color. i think this was burnt umber. i used it in extremely transparent layers for the underpainting and darks, and then built up the lights by mixing white with it.

*semester of fall '11 -- august to december 2011

old school animation

i was so fortunate to take cynthia hogan's 2D character animation class this semester (cynthia is absolutely amazing, both as an animator and person). we had to choose a character from a film to animate, and i chose sawyer from cats don't dance, a favorite of mine as a kid. then we chose sound clips from our character's voice actor/actress (mine was jasmine guy) and animate scenes of our own using that character and sound clip. finding and editing the clip was actually one of the hardest parts for mine in particular.

due to some file format issues and some computers being exchanged, i sort of, um, lost my first animation (*aaarrrgghh!!*) .....but then i found it! the paper version, at least. so i re-shot it, though the timing wasn't perfect since i'd readjusted it when i first shot it. however, it was the best i could do with the limited time i had, so here it is.



the second and third animations were to include a hook-up, or a shift of camera in one scene ("hooking up" one shot to the next).

keep in mind, i hadn't animated since i took the intro class back in '09 and this was my first time animating to a sound clip. my shapes are all over the place. when she critiqued it, cynthia attributed this to the fact that i was drawing like a clean-up artist, rather than an animator. ah. that was the key. i wish i would have known the difference before i animated it. meh, live and learn. after i shot it, i realized i totally could have taken away one of the poses because it moves really fast. but i only got one chance to shoot it and that happened to be right before it was due, so, c'est la vie.

even looking at it now after having turned it in a few days ago, i know i could go back and make it SO MUCH BETTER. but i did what i could with the time i had to spend on it. someday this knowledge will make itself manifest in some brilliant project i work on. anyway, here's what it is for now:


even though the outcomes could have been much better, i'm seriously excited that i learned so much. and i'm stoked to apply it in the future.