Outfit 05

Today's featured outfit accessory:  Business Face.

Just a Moment

Oh my gosh.  I have been so very, very stressed lately.  

You know how sometimes you feel like you have SO much to do that just the very idea of all that work sort of paralyzes you with fear, and as a consequence you end up doing close to nothing at all?  

Story of my life.

Anyway, I still feel really bad about leaving my blog empty for a whole week.  I didn't even realize until yesterday it had been that long.  Unfortunately I have nothing new or interesting to show, so I looked through my files and found this old sketch that I still kind of liked.  It has been generously cropped in order to spare you all my hideous neglect to human proportioning.

I think it may be worth revisiting in the future.

By the way, over the last few weeks since my angsty Thinkin' post I have been immersing myself in research about the more technical aspects of animation.  I still feel pretty strongly that learning the craft itself, as in the literal drawing and understanding of movement is best done through practice and real-life observation, but it's still nice to know that there is a set of "rules" to fall back on whenever I'm stuck.  Lately I've been pouring over forums and creeping heavily on more student animations trying to learn about different compositing methods, and observing just how people implement them in their final product.  

The quality of work that student-level artists out there are able to produce continues to blow me away, and it's always amazing to discover that there are just so many different ways to go about animating, each format with its own unique benefits.

I'm learning more everyday!

On Second Thought...

Yeah...
I realize now that it was sort of less-than-wise of me to take on a daily drawing routine at this particular point in the semester.  There's only like a month left of school and so of course every class has started piling on the end of semester tests and assignments like none other.  I feel weirdly guilty about leaving my blog so empty for so long which is why I am making this post, and also because it's not like I don't actually have at least an hour of free time each day.  It's just, since I'm extra busy right now I tend to use that hour to sleep, or do laundry, or do more homework, or get ice cream with my friends and junk.  You know?

I don't think that necessarily means my priorities as an artist are out of order.  I think it just means that I am a college student.

I'm gonna try to recommence that daily drawing mentality once finals are over and I am back in the comfort of my own home.  Perhaps there will be a handful of posts sprinkled about until then, but I don't expect they will be much.

I once again extend some encouragement to all the other sleep-deprived and caffeine-fueled students out there!  The goal is in sight, let's all dig in and keep doing the best we can!

Cacti

I opted to use my ~1 hour drawing time today to make a new blog banner.

So please enjoy!  They are my cute little cacti, Bonnie and Clyde.  They look just like that and sit in the windowsill adding the only other source of organic life to the room other than myself.

True story.









Okay fine, Clyde's mustache isn't quite that luscious.

Pear

It was delicious.

I've decided to try to set aside about an hour each day to make scribbly attempts at drawings like this.  I think that it will help me improve on my eye for color as well as my speed/workflow in photoshop. 

I kept this really loose and I really enjoyed it!  Sorry for getting lazy on the napkin though.