CTN sketches 2013

Some sketches I did today at the CTN animation expo. So glad i got a chance to draw! Hopefully more to come this weekend.

Hockey sketches

Boyfriend played his third hockey game of the season last night, and I took the opportunity to try and draw some of the speedy guys on the ice. So. Difficult. They kept moving so fast! I wish I had gotten some more cool shapes out of it, but what I got was a start. There are many more games to come before the end of his season, so I'll get more chances to practice :) here are some of the better ones.

Friend-a-day

Decided to start drawing a friend a day for a week, after my two sketches of my sisters prompted an artist friend of mine to request one himself. Here are two more from Wednesday and Thursday, and I finished a colored version of my sister, let's count that for Friday.

Julius

Sarah

Nellie

Tripping, Sisters start school

3 Doodles. Descriptions:

1) Tripped on the stairs at work and spilled hot tea all over myself.

2) Littlest sister started high school! All grown up! 

3) Little but not littlest sister started USC! So proud! Go Trojans! (high five for fat pony reference. <3 hark! a vagrant)

Old China Doodles

Here are some doodles I did back in January during my trip to China. I had a great time with my friend Gabby who is currently teaching English in Shenszen (sp). We went to Hong Kong, shanghai, and Chengdu. I'm glad we didn't make plans to go to Beijing (she had already spent a month there) because it had that whole pollution issue at the time. I guess I'll have to go back one day to see the Great Wall and Forbidden City!

Apartment Doodle and Work

A quick sketch of an apartment across the street during lunch today.
Two of my friends got hired at my company, and one of them started this week. :) So we have been taking short walks on our lunches and drawing things. It's nice having a sketching buddy again!
Work is hard. Somehow I am now doing graphic design... cause we are so swamped with card design orders. Too bad I was never actually trained in graphic design, so I am winging it mostly. I am doing well, but am way slow! It's becoming a bit of a problem so I stayed late at work today... until 7pm. Which means I put in a 10 hour day (not counting my hour lunch). The hardest part about my day is coming home to my desktop and readjusting myself to using PC hotkeys and shortcuts instead of Mac ones lol. I keep hitting ALT instead of CTRL. Ah, artist issues.

Post-Halloween Pumpkins

I really haven't been drawing much lately :( Even these were drawn near the beginning of October, but I just didn't get around to scanning them until now. Correction: I haven't been drawing much ON MY OWN. I draw plenty for my freelance job :) P.S. its here: http://www.youtube.com/user/watchwellcast

I do some episodes along with some awesome fellow animators. It's really fun, though stressful and time consuming especially cause I still have my full time job to do! But it's ok, what else am I doing with my life right now? Basically just watching Dancing with the Stars with my grandma. But now my friend Whitney is helping me with episodes, so it'll be less pressure on me for the deadlines.

I can't believe it's already November! I  have to start planning Christmas presents before it sneaks up on me... and buy my CTN ticket... I suppose this year I'll only be able to go on Sunday, as I work on Friday and have a funeral to go to on Saturday :( So I guess it's a good thing that I didn't buy a 3-day ticket earlier this year. It'll still be a good time to go to a few panels and check out some awesome animations and artwork. Until then, I have to get my act together, update my website and make more business cards!

What to do with boring flats

Just a couple more pages of random doodles. The first are some ideas of what to do with these boring shoes I have. I ended up buying ribbon and gluing bows to them :) Mustaches and monocles would've been cool too though. The second are just random drawings... a couple kids making halloween costumes out of bath towels :)

Girly profiles

Making up some random people while I render out After Effects videos :) P.S. some hairstyles may or may not be inspired by all those Pinterest pins about hair.

Cats and Desk

Some work doodles from this week. I have a few more, and will post more throughout the week. I miss my kitties, so I drew them on post-it notes and posted them to my computer to keep me company while I work :) The desk was just a doodle to see if I remember what my desk looks like (the trim on the desk is completely off but other than that it's pretty accurate!)

More Heads

Some more head drawings doodled during work! And a couple cats for good measure :)

Head Sketches

Here are some head doodles. I liked playing with the hair ones in Photoshop :)

Face Doodles

Some faces I drew recently. Profiles are fun. Also, the second guy is in drag of course.

Happy Belated 4th of July!

Just a couple doodles I did during the day :) It was a rather calm holiday. Hung out with my bestie and had dinner with her family. Maybe next year I'll have my own place and host my own barbeque? Possibly.

Bikini Girl PhotoShop version

Decided to do a quick Photoshop version of the bikini girl I drew today. Definitely fixed up a few things I didn't like about her. Sometimes it's so much easier to fix things digitally! (just my excuse for being lazy) Side note: It's not supposed to be me, but I just tend to like coloring girls with hazel eyes and brown hair, and I also just bought a bikini almost just like this and so yeah...

More work doodles

Doodles from work... they look better IRL! I swear!

Work Doodles

Just some doodles during work today :)

More Work Doodles

Just some more drawings I did at work! :) Hands, shoes, and some flowers done across the street during lunch.

New Work

Nothing much has changed since I last updated this blog with content on my own life, except that I started a new job :) It was quite by accident, as the freelance position I applied for ended up changing into a full-time animation assistant position for some Flash e-courses. It's pretty awesome so far, as I get to draw every day! Yay! I work in Glendale, but still live with my awesome grandmother, who has me to help her out with various activities, including making homemade kumquat preserves, weeding her garden, and watching Dancing with the Stars Monday and Tuesday nights. She is quite hilarious at times, and I hope to soon illustrate some of her antics here!

Until then, here are some work doodles (did you know I like cats?), and a drawing of a church tower from across the street at my work. My co-worker said he would like to draw the architecture, and I went along with him to the little courtyard at the Episcopal parish. It was quite nice, and the stained glass inside is phenomenal. I hope to draw more with him there soon!

LA Drawing Club 2 + Finally have Internet

So here are a few of my drawings from an LA Drawing Club session a while back,  maybe a month ago, with a Bladerunner theme. I finally ordered internet at my grandmother's house, now that I got a new job that will last a while! Since I last posted, I got a position as a Flash animation assistant working on some e-courses for a marketing company. It's not really so much animation as it is moving illustrations, but I am just happy to be drawing for a living (at least for a little while)!

Anyways, that position made me decide to actually get internet here, now that I will be here for quite a while longer than the initial 3 months I was planning on. Yay! Ok, well, Dancing with the Stars is on now, and I always watch with my grandma, but I will definitely post a bunch of drawings from the past few weeks now that I have internet access. :)