Character Trace

So, for Joe's class(es) we are required to do an Illustrator trace of a sketch that we have done and this is the one that I have decided to do:
I drew it at one in the morning. I find that I do some pretty good work late at night. I think its because the house is silent, my family is asleep and not bothering me every two seconds and I am just free to think and draw...

Anyway, I still can't draw faces. Even cartoon ones. But I'm starting to understand the importance of posing and proportioning! No more sausage legs for me!

Oo-er! New background

I need to learn CSS very VERY badly. It took me twenty minutes to figure out how to change the background to an image. Now I need to figure out how to change ... everything else.

But I really like this image (it's from tonicliving.com) because it's really retro and reminds me of the title sequence of the Disney cartoon version of "101 Dalmations" where the spots are dancing around with the lines of the music bar...I tried finding it on YouTube but to no avail. The title sequence for the SECOND one is there, but really, who even WATCHED the second one?

It also really reminds me of the "Jetsons". Gosh I miss that show:



They should put that show back on the air. For me, watching that NOW, not only do I understand the jokes finally, but it's really a big source of inspiration since retro is a huge trend and here's a nice example of retro-ness staring me in the face. Sweet. Going to go find the "Eep Opp, Ork, Ah Ah" episode now. Cartoon-ies and animation-lovers like myself will know what I'm talking about.

Character Tracing

Here's a Illustrator-ized version of a character I drew in a sketch book a little while back (2 weeks) when I was learning character development. I still AM learning character development, but this was at the beginning of my tutelage.

OK - the original colors are NOT blue, purple and white but the JPEG rendering on Illustrator is being tres annoying at the moment so I'll fix it when I get home. H'enjoy.

Bored...

I don't actually remember WHY I made this ...

But the Marines is what Red Shoes calls the DMA students.

And the ninjas...well, everything in DMA is ninja, isn't it?

Please note the crappiness of my lines in North and South America. This was before I decided to buy a mouse and did most of this with the touch pad on my MacBook. Go me! But, you know, for a touch pad, it's not TOO shabby, right?

Day at the Studios

<< At Organic in the lunch room.

On Friday, I went downtown to the FITC to do a tour thing of a bunch of the big design/interactive studios. It was pretty much the coolest thing ever.

Yeah. That's the only way to describe it.

And very enlightening because now I actually have some idea of what I can be doing once I'm done DMA as well as a better answer to my family's constant question (other than, "What is it you're taking, again?) of, "So what are you going to do when you're done?"

I'm really interested in the video stuff like they showed us at Teehan+Lax. It was some internet video thing that was really cool.

OK. Well, I'm really tired and not feeling well right now (I have a cold! Huzzah!) so I'm just going to post a few pictures then add to this later.

Thimble in the Fashion District>>

Laaates.