Pinocchio Steampunk Western

For Concept Design class I get to retell the Pinocchio story in a different genre, so I of course chose to combine my two current obsessions: steampunk and westerns. I know, you wish you were in this class, don't you? Here are Pinocchio, The Blue Fairy, and Monstro.

Also, I designed some environments for the story. I haven't really designed environments much before this, and I wish I had because I really liked doing these. There's Geppetto's workshop, Pleasure "Island" (it's a train in this case), and a desert town. I want to color these and make a few changes if I get the chance.

Little Red

Midterms week is eating me alive, so what better to do than make banana bread waste countless hours surfing the web? Ah yes, and post to my blog :) I've been working on a design for Little Red Riding Hood for class. I just want to give her a cup of hot cocoa and tell her not to be afraid of that big, bad, good-for-nothing wolf, don't you?

Class stuff

Some stuff I've done for Joe Olson's Drawing for Animation class. We get pretty whimsical assignments, which is a nice change of pace from classes I've taken before.

I finally learned how to blend markers! So many years of frustration have come to an end.

For these hyenas I was supposed to imitate Charley Harper. Not my usual style but fun to attempt.

Traditional media!

So, every now and then I do peel my eyes away from the computer and work with traditional media. These are some watercolor and gouache sketches. I really like watercolor for sketching. I should use it more often.

Japanese stories and Western Humanities

Yup, more work stuff. I had a Japanese lit course, which was fun to do, but I'm not sure how I feel about the way the illustrations turned out.

I also worked on a western humanities course. I tried focusing on shape and using more intense colors. For some reason I always trend towards painting muddy colors, so I'm trying to be bolder with color.

Quickie Self-Portrait

Don't have much to post, just a quick little self-portrait. I'll have some more stuff to post soon. It's so late, and I want to sleep, but I must finish laundry first...

Work stuff

I create illustrations for Independent Study courses at my job. These are from an English course and a high school history course.