Pokemon for Charity

I just realized I never posted this painting anywhere on any of my pages.

I participated in a gallery organized by Amy Kim and Peter Le, two amazing people from my program. There were 151 artists who were each assigned one of the original 151 Pokemon. They were to illustrate that Pokemon in whatever style they wanted to. These pieces were all auctioned off online, and all the proceeds went to Canines for Disabled Children.

Kotaku got word of us and we were featured on their page, and because of that, our auction got way more views than we ever imagined.

If you want to see all 151 pieces, click here.

My Pokemon was Vileplume.

This was painted with acrylic paint on cold press illustration board. I never thought it would earn more than $15 for the auction, but it ended up going for $250.

I was very humbled by the experience. I learned that although I may hate my work and I think I'm absolutely right to believe it sucks, others may think it is worth much more. I learned that perfection isn't everything.

Speed Painting #16

It's been a while...

This one's not super speedy. It took me about 1.5 to 2 hours, but I really liked how it turned out considering the time I spent on it.

Here's the photo:

And here's the painting:

The painting's got a bunch of flaws, and I wasn't done, but even so, it's got some believability to it. Looking at my past speed paintings, this one definitely shows that I'm improving :)

Day 4 - An animal you think is really cute

I rushed through this one a bit too, but for rushing, it took a little too long :P

I like elephants.

Day 3 - Friends

This one didn't turn out as cute as I wanted it to because I rushed through the paint job (because I'm behind...). My friends did really cute drawings for this one, so I wanted to make mine match... I'll touch it up if I have extra time later. For halloween, my friends and I were the Power Puff Girls and Professor Utonium, so I drew us as the characters we dressed up as.

Day 2 - Someone You Like (celebrity/significant other/crush)

Yes, I'm aware this is a few days late, hush.

I don't have a celebrity, crush or a significant other I wanted to draw/paint, so I decided to go with characters I like. I couldn't decide between the three, so I mashed up Professor Layton with Phoenix Wright and Link. But really, it's just the professor, and he's standing behind the defense bench holding the Master Sword... I TRIED, OKAY?!?! -__-

I meant to add Navi in, but I forgot and I'm tired. It wasn't supposed to be this finished. I meant to do a quick and sloppy job so I could catch up, but then I rendered something in the background, so I had to attempt to render everything else....

P.S.: Merry Christmas, everyone :)

Day 1 - Persona

I'm going to try to do a 30 day drawing challenge with my friends :) I hope I can keep up! I'm already a day behind!

Here is Day 1: Persona

This took me way to long. I stayed up all night working on this. Now I'm gonna go get lunch. :)

Intro to 3D Animation: Final Demo Reel

This semester, I was enrolled in a class for beginning 3D animation. This class has been an interesting journey for me. After taking beginning 2D animation in my first year, I was convinced I was not an animator. I hated animating in 2D and I was so much better at rendering illustrations. When I took the 3D modeling class last year,  I found that I didn't enjoy that class either. So when I came to this class, I expected hell: animation AND working in 3D....

However, I was definitely caught off guard when I discovered that I thoroughly enjoyed this class. Up until now, I thought I was 100% sure I was going into illustration. After taking this class, I'm seriously considering going into 3D animation. Things are still in the air since 3D animation is still very new to me. I think time will tell whether I truly enjoy this style of animation.

Here is my final demo reel of the big assignments we did this semester. Enjoy!

*edit*
Sorry the audio for the personality walk doesn't work. I don't know why it's doing that...