Izzy's Squiggles

2011-06-02T16:54:00.000-04:00

First, a birthday picture I did for my friend Kaitty :)

aaaand, a commission I just finished for another friend, Rege

2011-05-26T22:35:00.000-04:00

Firstly, a bunch of stuff I found in my art bag!

Then some pretty awful gesture drawings.

Some fun with inks! First two are with my brush pen, third/forth is with a new sable brush I got- so yummy

Shen for L. Frostad

Skull from PVPOnline

Now, fanart and stuff for friends/commissioners:

Hooray! a gallery!

2011-05-06T20:56:00.000-04:00

Oops! It seems I've accidentally at first posted this to Art Jumble instead of my own blog. drats.

Anyway, I've been pretty excited to share this. I finally put up a new gallery for myself after much procrastinating. Tell me if things needs to be changed or added, thank you!

http://rose.filesap.com/

(two bottom buttons are "missing" because I didn't want to bug my main site guy since he's been busy. they'll be added later)

As a bonus, here's all the pictures I made for the site itself.

Scribbles and Inks

2011-04-28T13:49:00.000-04:00

Here's some pictures that I did for either fun or overdue commissions. No descriptions this time.

They keep staring at me...

2011-04-22T00:12:00.000-04:00

So, first one's a sheet I did for a character design contest to mix a panda with a dog. The contest holder had a preference for akitas and huskies, so I went with akita.

Then I was having a pretty crappy day, so I drew a quick Stitch reading the book I was reading at the time.

Tried a new coloring style for a friend's birthday.

Others liked the result of the new coloring style, too. I drew my friend's character "Dog" on a streaming video of myself drawing to show how I did it.

Playing with inks and said inks mixed with water. The traditional works look a little weird because my scanner broke, so I had to take pictures instead

Inks and Copic markers for friend's birthday

Another birthday picture since she was always nice enough to do something for my birthday when I never gave her anything.

another friend wanted a new icon. phew

Things seem to be slowing down

2011-04-08T22:37:00.001-04:00

But haven't come to halt.

First, to start this post off. fanart of Nessie from the upcoming Disney short "The Ballad of Nessie" ( http://artofdisney.canalblog.com/archives/2011/04/06/19584399.html )

oh my gosh. neopets. I guess my life isn't complete if I'm not wasting time

and some pictures I did for birthdays. First one's for my dad, second's for a friend of mine

coloring coloring~

2011-03-08T22:00:00.000-05:00

First, a reference I finally did for the character at the bottom of the previous blog post.

the "not a ----" are partially jokes due to comments people have made in the past

an icon for a game and some pokemon

fanart to "Snails" from that new My Little Pony show

my neighbor's dog and just a random drawing of Bolt

and some commissions and a birthday pic

oh, right. I tried to emulate Chris Sanders's style for a friend of her character

watercolors 2

2011-02-19T14:05:00.000-05:00

still trying watercolors out, painting is hard, yikes!
in the meantime, also practicing my inking with brush and ink

first one is for two of my friends, second is just of one of my characters (anteater) to try out watercolors on top of ink washes

more experimenting!

2011-02-18T01:51:00.000-05:00

so, some watercolors come in the mail and so I tried them out even though I don't know how to paint

meet Panwa. "Pan" as a short version of 'panda' or the japanese/korean word for bread. and "wa" for the nickname and sound red pandas make. This fellow's based on some 2009 sketches I found

the rest of these pictures.. aren't important enough to have a description :)

2011 image dump: part 2

2011-02-10T15:34:00.000-05:00

Also, yes. I realize I need to draw less animals and animal-people.

have some pokemon I did last summer that I forgot to scan until now

this was spawned from reading one of the "lesson" sections to "Animated Performance" by Nancy Beiman

A picture I did for Henrieke and Karpour

two quick commissions I did for some guys

and that's the end of the stuff from 2010. onto 2011!

these were done in Colorado around Christmas and on the plane on my way back home.

at this point, I'm tired of writing descriptions for these pictures

First Image Dump of 2011: part 1

2011-02-10T15:10:00.000-05:00

Must almost all of my blog posts start of with an apology that I haven't been around? I guess so, haha.
Anyway, the cause for this, this time, was just an emotional rut after NPD. I guess seeing complete disinterest from one of the schools surprised me more than I thought- but I'll keep trying.

A commission I did for a friend of mine.

Just 'recently' I saw a movie called "Night on the Milkyway Railroad", and I wanted to try and capture the feelings of the two characters in my own way.

I've also been playing a little more TF2 (Team Fortress 2) these past months, so these are some sprays I made for a couple of my friends and myself.

11-10-10

2010-11-10T17:13:00.002-05:00

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while
I'm just going job and college searching. and getting majorly stressed at the portfolio process, since I decided to look at other people's art- I just do not have enough figure drawing, this absolutely will not do.
It may be a longshot, and it doesn't hurt to try (I hope!)- but I'm applying to Calarts and CCA. (Cali-based schools because my family's moving there).
Do any of you in blogspot land have any critiques to share? I would absoluutely appreciate it.

In the mean time, here's some art:

About a year ago, I made a cat-like creature, gave him small bat wings, and named him Catbat. When it was getting closer to Halloween, I wanted to make a themed picture to go with the season; so, I remembered this character I made and thought he'd fit well. Unfortunately, I drew the full picture at a size that made it uncomfortable for me to shade digitally.

Pages from my moleskine:

remember that broken-down sketch of that fox from a while ago? I found this on my harddrive half-inked, so I finished the inked part.

and, two dragons are fan art- I'm feeling a little ashamed that I do fan art so much.

Master of Procrastination!

2010-10-22T08:13:00.002-04:00

thaaat's me!

Thought I'd get this blog stuff out of the way before I get more busy with life. GED test next week, college and job searching, Cali plans, and National Portfolio Day

so, I'll start off with a really silly picture I did really late for a friend's birthday

These next one are silly pokemon drawings I did on iscribble.net. they're not the best or most original looking, but they were a ton of inspiration to play with colors and backgrounds more. the first one (and another) is a collab, hopefully my stuff's easy enough to point out

a late lineart commission for a friend

seems I'm on a roll for pokemon and doing pictures for friends- here's a combination of both

a friend and me as our online personalities

Of course, more color and line experimentation, Toothless from HTTYD

studying animals in various ways

and then I got back into Neopets :[ but found neat new coloring tricks in the process

These next two are a Fan Art of two Japanese kids shows that I used to watch (I was born in Japan [American Military Base]). I like to think back to these two shows often for some reason. The first one shown are the characters from the show "Nico Nico Island"; the second are the characters from "Do-re-me-fa-Donuts"

A while ago, there was something on twitter called MarvelCats, or #mrvlcats, I think it was. These two were my contributions- Black Cat and Spiderman as cats

just recently I went to a local Greek Festival, since there was going to be sitting and people involved I brought my sketchbook to try practicing. I'm still having a bit of a hard time with this

Three commissions:

It's really easy to forget

2010-07-22T00:43:00.000-04:00

It really is. I'm sorry I constantly forget just so I can post an image dump... once a moth or so?
I suppose it's better than never, huh?

First, this was done for a friend of his cat character.

Then a silly creature I based off of kitten and parakeet ( based on my parakeet, I love my little baby budgie)

I guess this is where the real dumpage of images comes in- now, images I did as commissions to just people online

in which I practice colored lighting

and then I draw a picture for somebody for their birthday

and I finally mess around and/or practice (the rat made an appearance on http://www.dawnchapel.com)

Catching up again

2010-06-13T21:06:00.002-04:00

I'm pretty inconsistent with blog posts- I guess I'm just more comfortable with making long image dumps, instead.
First, is a design I did for a PatchTogether contest, in which I did Puss in Boots according to how I loved him in the stories I've read. Also a sketch of him talking to the giant (unrelated to PatchTogether)

I had Muppets on my mind, and had to draw Sam

partially figuring out how to color in a way I enjoyed, I finished a picture up for a friend of mine

I got stuck with Summer School to try and completely -all- my credits, so I tend to play with my brush pen in class. So a re-imagining (is that the right word?) of Charlie and Annabelle from All Dogs Go to Heaven (haven't seen the darn thing in who-knows-how-long). Robin Hood of Disney fame, Charlie again, and Arctic/Forest Animals themed sheets.

then I took to drawing my classmates (and tigers) while half-asleep

Last three, since I wanted to practice drawing from models..

http://mickwag.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2jo586

http://mickwag.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d28eava

http://zedul.deviantart.com/gallery/#/dg8hjf

Late again

2010-06-03T09:40:00.001-04:00

old stuff I found while tidying my room, first.

And I've got more interested in doing backgrounds since doing the two Disney gators. So, here's yet another fan art, of a video game character, unfinished, but just playing around with colors.

also, my Nicolas Marlet sketchbook finally came in, hurrah!

and the rest..... A new personal character I made to try and be more experimental, and just trying to practice people and drawing from references.

2010-05-24T18:14:00.000-04:00

Was having a lousy week. Drawing fanart for lesser known characters tends to make me feel better.
So, along the lines of the Figment fanart I did a while back- here's Ice Gator and Lagoona Gator of DisneyWorld's Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon.

please excuse the amateurish background I did, they're not something I normally do (which I plan to fix)

trying people

2010-05-17T01:28:00.002-04:00

I've not to say about the next pictures, but I guess there's no use in hiding stuff all the time if I want to improve.
The second one- all the silly stuff was added in the end to make me feel better. and, I think the third one explains itself ( 'Rose' refers to myself. sometimes referring to my online alias when speaking of myself helps put me into a comfort zone)

and a fan-picture to Masaaki Yuasa's series, Kaiba

ah..

2010-05-10T22:35:00.001-04:00

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inks and some sketches

2010-05-04T10:48:00.002-04:00

First of all- THANK YOU to all the kind words people left on my last post. I really do appreciate every word; I don't think I can express myself very well on this.
Also, there's so many more blogs I want to set as "follow" (thank goodness for Google Reader for watching so many more blogs for me), but Blogspot has a 300 blog follow limit- 300 is just not enough for all the cool people here!

These are some inked pictures that I've neglected to scan, but had them on my desk for some time (but not too long). Top left is Aliza again while I was thinking of a story for her to test out my new Winsor and Newton brush on animation paper. I've not much to say about the rest; but, if Nel still reads this blog- the croc's for you, as requested. :)

I actually did the sketches last week some hours before I made the animation for the banner (well, the first one, really. The banner was done the next day). Random Nixon head at the bottom since people seemed to like it- it was really just to practice drawing people, so I flipped to a random page in my history book.

I looove doing 'meme's from Deviantart, here's one I did a few days back.

ok, done with that stuff. I did these two yesterday while waiting in the guidance office to finish some paperwork. I really love my brush pen, it's ridiculous.

Birthdays and Animation

2010-04-30T02:13:00.000-04:00

just a few new things from this week.

remember that "minitaur" I did? I added more bricks- so, I call it done, for now.

being as slow as I am, I missed some birthdays. but, I only did two belated birthday pictures. The lemur belongs to Henrieke (http://henriekeg.blogspot.com/ ), and the boar belongs to Louve (http://luve.deviantart.com/)

and, if you can, or cannot notice. I replaced that text at the top of my main blog with an (cruddy) animated banner I made over the past few days. Here's the original version, before I cleaned it up.

Image Dump, part 3- The last one

2010-04-24T23:21:00.000-04:00

Aaand starting off. Another revisit to an old character. This time, one from two years ago. This is Aliza, who was based off of the Golden-Mantled Tree Kangaroo, and my was to make her more recognizable towards the species she was based on while keeping on aspects on her original look. First picture is her original look, a sketch of the new, and then a finished result.

While sitting in school, I wanted to play around with my brush pens and col-erase pencils for a little bit. No idea why, but the Minotaur came to mind- but since I thought it was a subject not often touched, it was him as a child, instead. He's grown on me, where I want to create a story for him where, I suppose, it shows that transition from Toddler, Child, to a monster; where I tried to cover the toddler and child stages in the sketches below the inked picture.

and the last picture of this Image Dump is a Circus Bear that I did for Bobby's Chiu's contest on sketchoholic yesterday (4/24) with the theme for drawing being "Circus Bear". First time doing something like this (coloring method, and taking part at sketchoholic), I'm quite happy with it all in the end :).

Image Dump, part 2

2010-04-24T23:04:00.001-04:00

First off, these two are from a few hours before I left for NYC for a band trip (I didn't find any art supplies. shucks!), and right after I came back from said trip, the day happened to be Easter.

Before heading to bed, I somehow started to think about The Hobbit- so I listened to our LP that went with Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit; and, oh, how I've always loved their version of Gollum, so.

Soon after, I discovered the 1980's series of Astro Boy, or Tetsuwan Atomu, on Youtube and spent a day watching the episodes- oh gosh, so much fun.

I did this for a friend in trade for a Winsor and Newton brush, series 7 size 1 (which I already love)- though, I think I'll try size 2 some time in the future as well. This is a personal character of hers, and she really likes Lupin III, so it went together as such.

Last one for this post is a picture my brother came to me to tell me to make, the little monkey. He approached me and went "can you redraw this for me and make better?". So, I did, I could have kept a ton of stuff the same from his, though.

Image Dump!

2010-04-23T22:07:00.001-04:00

While I try to listen to my LPs to Evita playing in the other room, I'll try my best to catch up to my current art. I've been so lazy, and I haven't even post that much, yet!

if you remember that sketch of some Fox I made from a while back- I've decided to name him Fellow, and to use him as graphics in my powerpoint presentation when I presented my Senior Project some weeks ago (which, went well ! :) )

and of course, I saw Dreamworks's How To Train Your Dragon (opening day, too) and I loved it, and I just had to draw some Toothless(es) that resembled cats

Later in the week I streamed myself drawing and some friends gave me the description "silly dragon knight" to draw off of- once the dragon knight was taken care of, they suggested I do reverse roles and put a person there.

last one for now, before I make a new post, to save a little bit on spam

This is a "Dogron", in which HTTYD reminded me that I kind of "had" for a while. The first sketch is a "puppragon" from 2007 (16 years old), and the quadrupedal one is the one that I did recently

whoops

2010-04-07T17:19:00.000-04:00

seems I'm very good at forgetting about my blog- since the last post, I've been a little busy with a trip, senior project (which is done now, thank goodness), and general school work.
Here's a crocodile for Nel in the meantime- in which I'll draw them a better one later

finished Figment

2010-03-21T04:57:00.000-04:00

seems I'm posting a lot today, sorry about that!
anyway, inked and colored that figment sketch from the previous post

Painting with a rainbow

2010-03-21T00:08:00.001-04:00

Lately, I've been on a "Journey Into Imagination" kick and drawing Figments here and there, but I haven't liked the results until today's.
Though I've never really seen the real original ride for myself, when I went to DisneyWorld, I was denied by the chaperones to ride what they thought looked to be 'some childish ride'. I was really only with the chaperones because this was a school trip with the Band, and they got upset at the idea that I went by myself in the first park- but seeing my limitations on the rides I could go to, I had my reasons for doing such. But the image of Figment and the wonderful pins he had for trading just looked so great, I had to look him up online, and found the song and the ride on youtube, and instantly fell in love.

This picture's based on the part of the song where he goes "Oh, oh! Look, Look! A rainbow, I'll use that to paint with!"

2010-03-20T13:56:00.000-04:00

Ah! I haven't posted in a while, got a little lazy on the whole updating a blog thing. going to try to keep descriptions short so I don't take up too much space.

I did these squirrel sketches for something we're doing in school.

and then the main sketched inked out.

found one of my favorite pens and drew whatever came to mind- like Paul Williams

Looks like I didn't have as many pictures that I thought I'd have. So, last two are "Of Mice and Men" related, since we're reading it in school- and a drawing of Figment.

And a Work in Progress, too

2010-03-01T23:21:00.001-05:00

I nearly forgot.
This is a WIP of what I have so far put together of my drawings for Senior Project in High School. I'm pretty proud of something I don't even fully know what I'm doing.
Sorry that the pencil lines are so light

Senior Project- Squirrel StretchandYawn test, part 1 from Isabelle Smith on Vimeo.

2010-03-01T22:55:00.001-05:00

Whoops, I forgot to update for a while, sorry about that.

about a week after the Brushed Inked pictures I did in the last post, the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen that I ordered came in the mail- and I love it. So I decided to poke at what animals do and test my inks with that; otter, rock, and clams= lunch.

The next one's an older picture that I finally found the sketches that I liked a ton to.After reading through Bone a few times and Google-searching a bit of European comics, I wanted to make and draw this little guy. I really love how the head/face came out, and the exaggerated hands, or paws.

Then, I found a ~~wonderful~~ site called ChatRoulette (dare you use it, beware of explicit imagery); and from stealing an idea from http://www.penny-arcade.com , I figured it would be a great opportunity to practice drawing people, I like the end results.

aaand, two more. This is an older character of mine, named Quail. she's a Donkey and Fox mix; of course, my immature sense of humor has dubbed her an AssFox (a classmate of mine said that was funnier than FoxAss). Oddly, I created her before I read BONE; I find this odd because of the way I drew the snout of course, which there was a higher amount of after reading the series. Anyway, after remembering she existed, I thought I'd go back and made a reference/model sheet for here and just do some fun images with my two Pentel brush pens.

Animal inks

2010-02-20T12:45:00.000-05:00

I decided that, since I've been using brush pens a lot, lately, why not use use my rosemary&co. sable brush with inks again. Here's some inked animals I did, there's an opossum, kinkajou, jerboa, and generic frog.

of Doxie looks and pentel brushpen

2010-02-18T20:36:00.004-05:00

sorry I haven't posted in a while.
here's some sketches I did for my Ditzy Doxie of what other designs could be used on her -and some angry faces, too.

of course, it's easy to see which one I keep going back to; but that's because I like it.

recently, I've purchased a Pentel Arts Color Brush (Pocket Brush Pen coming towards my way in the mail). And, I have to say, even though I like having a ton of control over my lines, this is very fun to ink with and just overall doodle with loosely.

Very messy sketches, lots of flaws; but as I said, I like the result :)

Two more drawings and I'll be done. for one reason or another, I wanted to draw various critters as unicorn-like versions of the same thing. I think the brush pen really helped give me the effect I wanted

2010-02-06T13:26:00.000-05:00

Practicing drawing felids and people. Still not proud of the way I draw people, but I'm still working on it.
Ignore the whining over PRATT, I was extremely bored at the time, and I guess, that since I was drawing already, my mind wandered back to how mad I was at the guy, though, I'm really not at all.

And of course, more Ditzy Doxies. :)

First Post!

2010-02-04T18:26:00.003-05:00

Thought I'd post something in my blog for once- I've never been good at doing journals and the like, so I find this a bit weird.
anyway, first post being of my url's namesake, a ditzydoxie

This next picture was drawn at school recently based off of how some people ask "if you pull on an elephant's tail, does the trunk get shorter?".