Sun Goddess and Cats

Experimenting with drawing linework in Illustrator.

Sketches!

Warm up drawings from this site: [link]

Figure Drawings

Figure drawings from my last two sessions.

Drawings Galore!

I've been on fire, drawing up a storm!

Sketches done while watching Arrested Development:


Sketches while watching the film, Agora:


Sketches while watching Dexter. Dexter is so cute!

Sketches from Gladiator:


Random ink and watercolor sketches:
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Kanook sketches


Sketches of lions from the zoo.


Sketches from my trip to Lynchburg, Virginia.


Sketches of me as a kid


Sketches from "Myst the Book of Atrus"


Sketches from pictures on Piccsy.com:


Random sketches:


Sketches done while watching Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and Spartacus: Blood and Sand:

Happy Valentine's Day

Sketches from a Bathhouse in San Francisco

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In Japantown, San Francisco, there is a communal bathhouse called "Kabuki." I desperately wanted to go, since I hadn't been to one since leaving Japan. The hot bath, the cold bath, the sauna, the steam room ... afterwards, you feel like a million dollars!

After an hour's happy bathing, I had curry rice for lunch and did these sketches.

Drawings of Ladies

... and one dude.

Sketches from San Francisco

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I went to San Francisco for a few days, accompanying my boyfriend for the AGU conference. We stayed at the "Queen Anne" hotel in Japantown. The Queen Anne used to be a school for girls. It was very adorably decorated with Christmas gear. I drew some of the fancy pieces of furniture.

We also went to the Academy of Sciences museum, ergo the wild dog, toad, ibex and the stingray.

Myst Book of Atrus Sketches

Little sketches based on Myst The Book of Atrus (by Rand and Robyn Miller, with David Wingrove).

First row: Young Atrus and Anna
Second row: Atrus leaves the Cleft
Bottom: "Action" Atrus! Catherine. Atrus and Catherine together.

My favorite book in the whole world! I'm creating a screenplay version as a side project. Hopefully some day I'll get to produce it!

Star Wars Sketches

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I recently watched the original star wars trilogy again. These sketches were done while watching.

Sketches from TV and Movies

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Sketches from watching TV. The line-up from the last few weeks included:

-Arrested Development. (I'm in love with Jason Bateman!!!!)
-The Sting
-Sense and Sensibility
-The Princess Bride ("Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.")
-The Office (UK Version)
-Anastasia
-Planet of the Apes

Oh, and the bottom is just kind of tacked on ... those are sketches from books. They are related in the sense that they were done with the tv on.

Oh, and the zebra that looks like a mouse ... I just threw that in because I liked him. ^__^

Stripes - scene 1 sketches

Here are some sketches I did while working on the animatic for scene 1 of the Stripes story. This is a very biased sample. I did many times this many drawings, and most of them were pretty bad!

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Figure Drawing from Life and Photos

The following are a mix of drawings from life and from photos. Before going to the figure drawing session, I warmed up by doing 1 minute sketches from the "Artistic Nude" section of Deviantart. I used a timer even! I think it was helpful for staying loose during the figure drawing class.

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Figure Drawings from life and from DA's 'Artistic Nude' section

Here are some select drawings from the last few weeks of figure drawing sessions:
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Here's some drawings from DeviantArt's 'Artistic Nude' section.
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Character design work from Stripes

Here are some more concept drawings from the Stripes animated short I'm making. I was working on the designs for the main characters. Instead of having one solid, unchanging design, Japanese character designs often straddle between realism and caricature even within the same film. I really like this approach and want to do something similar with Stripes.

Toward the bottom are drawings of kids based on pictures a friend of mine took in Kenya.
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Life Drawings

An assemblage of drawings from different figure drawing sessions.
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Pen Sketches

Various pen sketches. Inspiration sources include a farm in Virginia, the National Art Gallery and Lord of the Rings.
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