Birthdays and Animation

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!"

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

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.

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.