IT'S DONE!

It's finally done! I wasn't kidding. I really was working on it! I love, love, love it as Robyn would say! Shoot dang I'm good! Well... Not really but I did something cool regardless! I think I'm gonna go look at it some more. Peace out!

Hands

I've had an obsession of late. Hands... I love them. They're super hard, but so rewarding when I can actually do one. Here's a page full of them:
And here are a bunch of ones that are in my sketchbook and not in class... And don't even get me started on the thumb of the hand on the far right...

Pumpkin Carving

Tonight I went on a date with Kelsey in my FHE group. The activity was to carve a pumpkin. We debated multiple ideas, and then out of nowhere, Kelsey suggests doing Michael Jackson. I assumed we were just kidding but thought that a cool pumpkin could be made with Jackson as the focal point. So I thought, what the heck?

Why not?

So I did a quick sketch, and then let Kelsey do her magic with the carving. It turned out looking AWESOME! Not kidding at all! Here it is!

This is right when we lit it.

This is a little later on in the night.

Like how good the last picture quality is? That's because it was taken with an actual camera. I am soooo in love right now. That pumkin and I have something special. Anyone who says that isn't awesome, is nuts! Til next time!

Fun Current Project

So once again, Class tends to produce my best hand drawings. I really like the thumb but I gotta be critical of where I placed the knuckles. I need them closer to the fingers. I do like the shading of course. I think I did some cool stuff adding depth. Thank you Book of Mormon class.

Anyhow, the real reason for the title is because of something that happened while I was sketching on my notes. And don't worry, I was paying some attention to class as well. I just had to stay awake. We talked all about 3rd Ne 13 - 20ish which was really cool. Can't beat Christ's appearance to the Nephites!

So I started by drawing the ears of the people in front of me when I just started doodling. I really liked a style that Anita used with her lettering when she wrote a letter to Robert Carpenter. I should've taken a picture of that too, but I didn't draw it so... Anyways, I drew 3rd Ne. and I really liked my "D."

That's a little more zoomed in on the 3rd Ne. I really liked how the "D" looked, (as mentioned above) so I decided that it would be the coolest thing ever to make an entire alphabet based on the style of that D. Here's the beginning of my project:

Like that? I don't care! I love it regardless! I was going to fully shade the letters when I was doing the "A" but I took a short break how it looks now and I realized how FREAKING AWESOME it looked with the white-unshaded center. It looks all futuristic and metal looking almost. Can't you picture this as the Alphabet our great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be learning? So I'll post this when its done. I'm putting it on the 'Stack' on top of the alien-alligator-mouth drawing that I was working on earlier. I've made progress on that too but it would probably not be very noticeable... Actually, it would be more accurate to say I was too lazy to get it out and take a picture of it. Maybe next time!

Oh and I didn't try to find Animation Club this week. I was really hungry and frustrated with my Programming Class.

Animation Club Adventure

After making a bunch of progress on my midterm in my CS 235 class I decided to join the Animation club. I need to practice drawing after all. So Its a figure drawing class (Fully clothed, and just random members posing). But I thought that it would be a good idea to get an hour or so of drawing in for the week. Since I haven't done any quality drawing for some time. So I head out to A560 in the HFAC at 7 tonight. As soon as I walk in I notice that they had two models going simultaneously. A guy on the close side, and a girl on the other side. On top of that, it was a true figure drawing session because they were just in swimsuits. This was a surprise, since usually we only do the swimsuit drawings on Friday mornings.

So that was cool! The Animation club was starting to go all out! It was sure a surprise! Usually we would just take turns going up there and making short dumb poses for the other people in the club. Then I noticed something strange. It was dead silent. I mean it, deathly silent. Something was wrong. Animation club was almost more about cracking jokes than drawing. They're all such goofy people I could never believe they would be this silent. Then I noticed something else strange, no one had a sketchbook out. No, they all had big ol' pieces of Newsprint. Like the full size 2 foot by 4 foot pages, or whatever the size is. Something was seriously wrong now... I started to panic. I lean forward and ask the guy in front of me as to whether this was an actual class, which of course it was. Perfect.

I can't even imagine how dumb I looked just walking in all confidently into the middle of a class. Where was the teacher to look at me like the idiot I was? Or one of the students to say something? I must have been like an hour late and didn't have the newsprint. Ah well. So those would have been my sketches for this week but I kind of failed. So I guess I'll have to try again next Wed night at 7. We'll see what happens, and I'll be sure to post something by then at the latest!

Peace

Book of Mormon sketch

Okay so I probably should've been paying more attention during my class. But I like this guy. And as with a lot of my little sketches, he's screaming for no reason whatsoever.

Animations

So... I haven't posted these yet. These are all my animations from my freshman year animation class! Yes, here they all are in one place! Enjoy!

Here's my first animation... Its a bouncing ball. Pretty simple. Only took a few hours probably. One good Saturday? I like to think I've come a long way since then.

This next one is my falling sand project. I got the highest grade on it. It took a little bit longer. Maybe a weekend but nothing too terrible.

The walk cycle. I like this one... I like it a lot! It took a few weeks to get the motion how I wanted it. Not perfect. But not too bad either.

And then our final. I'm super jealous of how good Meaghan's looks but... I had to do the sound and the editing so my time for actual animating suffered. I drew the creepy dude who's ball bounces off the page. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxUJ6EDkbGM

That last one took 5 of us a week and a half to do. I think we estimated 600 or 700 pages. Its been a while I don't remember. I could probably do the math but I just don't want to.

'Til next time!

Gap of Drawings

Alright so here's the deal. I have a Physics Test this weekend, a BOM test last weekend, a temp job (that is taking FOREVER), Labs due for CS 124 every week, a couple labs for CS 235, my second biggest essay of the year due in Writing 150 (not to mention the blog I'm supposed to write on...), I have to learn the Cha Cha because I'm pretty turrible at it, and on top of that I'm supposed to not lose my mind and start shooting people! How can people expect that of me? Oh well. I figured I wouldn't have a life this semester.

Life was pretty easy when I started this project, but I'm a little busier so I've fallen behind. I'll get back on track ASAP but don't expect anything new for a week or two. I want to finish that big project next anyways so... Maybe not very soon at all. Well til next time.

Peace.

Animals

Its amazing what kind of difference a year can make. Once again I hate posting these cuz they're disgustingly gross... Ew... Well here are some from last year. Cats.
Dogs.
Ok... whew... Glad that's over. Here are some more recent ones I don't even know what all these animals are... But here are some quick sketches.
Here are actual dogs. Now you can even recognize them as dogs. I like the one up top right the best!
And today's big drawing was this Moose. I think it turned out alright.
And as always, I hate the quality of my camera...

An Old High School Project

So while doing a little sketching yesterday I stumbled on an old project I never finished. I thought it looked pretty fun so I started adding some depth to it (I wasn't very good with adding dark colors in back in High School). You can see how lightly I used to draw, and then in what looks like an outline around the teeth you can see how deep its gonna be when I'm done with it! You can get the idea of how the whole inside of the mouth (for lack of a better word) will be by looking at the top right corner. I'm pretty much done up there (I think). So here's a quick look at it (the before). I'll re-post it when its totally done (the after).

Computer Drawings

Ok here they are. 3d Models. Rendered and modeled on AutoDesk Maya, incredible software. I really liked doing these. First one was supposed to be the kids sneaking cookies (aka sugar cubes) behind Mom's back. You know, its like a joke?
Ok here is just a NURBS curve. Its Garfield in case you didn't recognize it.... which I certainly hope you did!
Ok here comes my huge Bug Project. It was the last thing we worked on in my Indes 255. These three are early in the modelling project.Here's the same Spider but zoomed out.
From behind.
Ok here they are finished. Cool huh? I got to work on the lighting, the colors, the textures, and the focus on the camera. Making the legs go out of focus as they approach the screen. Click on it to look at a bigger version.

Here was just another look. Its supposed to be up against the side of a house. I didn't do a lot of texture on the wall, but the shadows look awesome!

This is the last one. Just a final look at my Bug.

Some Larger Projects

So this first one is a rather sentimental one to me. Its the only drawing I've had featured in an Art show. Its also one of my first projects that I did. Even though it didn't happen until Senior year.
Most of these are from my Freshman year Art Class. Vastu 101 with Amy Royer as my teacher. She was pretty awesome. Brought in this fresh Apple Cider and shared with us. Soooo good. I thought I was gonna die. Well here are the ones from that class:

The One above is my Final project for my VASTU class. I think I improved a lot from the ones below. Pretty clear how much darker I pushed the pencils. Composed of my Guitar, my iPod, my Sling, my Sketchbook, a box of Cheez-its, and two Guitar tools (capo and tuning spinner thingy).
Oh I really like this one actually. I never finished it but I like the Linear Perspective. It has a huge amount of depth to it. Probably got me my highest grade in the class. The second to last project.
Here was my first project. I was still way too shy on pushing colors. That and I clearly didn't understand the assignment. I kinda shudder looking at it. But it leaves a lot of room for improvement! Not to mention I'm rather partial to the shading I did on the jam bottle.
Ok... here's another cringe. I think it was my second project. I didn't push the colors at all. Maybe I'll go back home and finish it up. Its a self portrait that needs a lot of work still. Especially the hair... ew... hair... That and a self portrait should probably look like me...

Well there they are.

Older Sketches

So here are just a coupe of my sketchbook things. The Trophy is from high school playing with color. I really like what the temperature did to it...Here was one of my first Animation Club clothed figure drawing nights.
Here was a male model (in a speedo) on an official Animation Figure drawing day.
Flower sacks. Gesture drawing
Here's some hands... Not perfect, but I liked them pretty well.
Noses
Its funny how much more drawing I did during Math class than Math... Shh... Don't tell anyone!

All of these were in my Portfolio I sent to the Computer Science, Animation Emphasis, Department. I got denied so you can tell what they thought of it all... Oh well

I wish I could draw

Ok, I don't think anyone will read this. Or at least I don't intend for anyone to. If you are reading this... Wow. Welcome, I guess? Are you sure you don't want to go to my actual blog? Well I guess you can look around. I'm just gonna post a bunch of my sketches and see if I get any better. Hopefully good enough to get into the BYU Animation department. But I doubt I'll ever be good enough for that. We'll see right? That's the point of this blog. This is my electronic sketchbook that filters out everything but some of my favorite sketches, drawings, paintings (hopefully not), 3D models, or actual Animations. Well I'm on Campus but I'll start all this off with my (failed) attempt to get in last year and that portfolio as soon as I get home.

I don't know if I have more than one more chance to get in to the department so I better make sure I'm way better than I was when I tried the first time. Kind of intimidating when you go onto some of the other blogs by people in the department and then look at my feeble drawings... Here's some of my favorite:
http://gettingfancywiththespices.blogspot.com/
http://number2twin.blogspot.com/
http://lilliasaid.blogspot.com/
http://www.jedart.blogspot.com/

Or just go to the compilation of all their blogs... :
http://www.byuanimation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=0&Itemid=272

But that's my dream. I want to get into the department. And I'll do whatever it takes to be as good as them. (Which, of course, I don't need to be. I'm going into the Computer Science side. But they're not exactly untalented either. There's a reason BYU has the number 1 Animation department in the country.)

Maybe this blog will encourage me to draw more and slack off less.