New Year Sketch Partytime

Really excited about this new year as a whole. 2014 is the year I graduate college, pack up all of my things, and head out into that strange place they've been talking about in the movies, also known as "the real world." In the meantime, it's only January. And here are some drawings I've been throwing onto my tumblr over the past few days.

Some Happy New Year Drawings:

Marker fun. Abstracted self portrait on the left, feelings on the right.

Space Puppies and Kitties. Practicing being able to draw these guys as fast as possible!
Animating this stuff starts on Monday.

I will be making lots of obnoxious aliens leading up to the short film being finished.

Not Dead/Rad Gif Party

Happy Late Christmas & Early New Year! Great news, even though I haven't been posting much - I am not dead. I have been sleeping lots, cleaning lots, and working on a cartoon for Rad Fortress. Be excited - it's about a cat. I have also been getting some thesis work done. I started a specific tumblr where I will be keeping track of my progress. I have a finished animatic SWF file, but I have to get it into After Effects so that I can upload it. Click here to follow my thesis blog! (aka, "MySpace Puppy")

I'm going to start posting resources and links toward the end of a weekly blog post. This will be a grab bag of stories I found interesting, websites my friends have updated, great animations, etc. Here we go: Something inspiring? Chris Oatley, my portfolio professor this past semester, posted a new podcast around Christmas. It's great for any creative looking for a pick-me-up. Some friends and I ran into him at Dirty Franks, and he says he's aiming to do two of these a month. A Shout-Out? My talented roommate - fashion designer Ryun Harrison - just launched his website. Fling a hit his way - we are cheap college students who try and think of creative Christmas present, including a shout-out on a blog spot blog.  Something Useful? Here's a link to some great brushes from Character Designer Shaun Bryant. Check out his work while you're at it! Something Random? One of my old favorite bands, Less Than Jake, released a music video this month which included tons of cameos from lots of other bands that they are friends with. It made me really happy and reminded me why I love this kind of stuff in the first place.

Sketch & finished New Years GIF of the 2013 meme-star, Doge.

 An elfie posing for a selfie, and an owl bear being very happy.

 Punk Couch Spaceship.

Sketch ATTACK! #7 - Space Puppy Returns

More sketches! Here's some sketches for my senior thesis.
Tons of puppies, kitties, and aliens. More tomorrow!

Sketch ATTACK! #5

More sketches from this summer!
Next two sketch posts will be more about Hardcow and Space Puppy characters.

Selfie Sunday #1: High School Sarah

Last Sunday, I did a small photoshop sketch - it was refreshing to take a break from more underdeveloped sketching and animating. I decided: why not do something every Sunday?
I also decided: why not play up that obnoxious Instagram hashtag, #selfiesunday? So here is the first of many more this month: say hello to high-school senior Sarah. It's been awhile.

 

Senior year of high school, my small-town, public district decided to implement a dress code. I wore band buttons and got my gauges to size 0, I got in trouble with a pink streak in my black/white hair, I wore tight black pants with a studded belt and converse shoes... of course. Oh, the "scene" days of seventeen. At least I kept it classy with some Arizona tea almost all of the time.

Sketch ATTACK! #4

Here's more sketches - this bunch is the start of the sketchbook I started this summer.
Mostly friends, a few sketches from the Posemaniac's app.

Sketch ATTACK! #3

Sketches from last semester and the beginning of the summer - life drawings, random drawings, and drawings from the http://www.posemaniacs.com/randompose app for iPhone!

Sketch ATTACK! #2

Here's the 2nd of 3 sketches from the second half of last semester and the beginning of this summer. Once school let out, I downloaded a free figure-drawing tool app (http://www.posemaniacs.com/randompose) and have been using it often. I recommend it to anyone who wants to do some figure drawing whenever they have a quick minute!

Sketch ATTACK! #1

Today I spent about an hour scanning 1 and 1/2 of my sketchbooks that haven't seen a scanner yet. The first one was the second half of my last semester, and the second book is the one I've started at the beginning of this summer. Here we go. Lots of sketches to post - I'm going to space them out in a handful of chunks over the next few days.