Sketchy sketch...

I've found a new method for producing lots of designs which I enjoy. :D Well maybe it's not that much but it keeps me interested in designing things I would normally be bored with... I love trying to fill in all the space on a page now, filling in the negative space of one silhouette with the positive of another.

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to talk about thesis concepts! Obviously a town and townspeople... and of course monsters, who hunt the townspeople should they venture too far into the woods. Interestingly enough, the monsters only hunt adults. Children are unharmed by these creatures, but that doesn't mean the creatures won't follow children home to their parents. They seem to be harvesting human hands and skulls, and why they do this is unknown. That's for our little main character to discover.

Portfolio post!

Here's what's currently in my portfolio!

What a week...

Non-art related things have been hectic so art has been slow! This picture went in a different direction than planned... hm hm. Either way I'll babble a bit more once some dust settles. 

HEY LOOK I'M STILL POSTING STUFF!

More thesis ramblings! I refuse to quit rambling about thesis here, it will get my thoughts in order! HERE HAVE A WORK IN PROGRESS-

So now I will ramble more about Elle's world and her position in it. This world is obviously a sort of fantasy world. There's many less people in it, many more forests, monsters, and the like. This world feels like an old storybook, but with a slightly anachronistic feel. You could probably say it's a steampunk world, but i dunno if it's really that steampunk yet. 

The point of this world is that it seems like a scary fantasy world, when it's really a sort of soft scifi. This world is basically one that was once our own, and there are remnants of it here and there. Ruins of metropolis and all that jazz. There are only faint clues as to what happened between then and now. My favorite thing about this world is that this is unexplained, it is not the plot or reason for the story. It is a motif in the background for the audience to know, and make theories about. 

One thing Elle realizes about this world though... is that she doesn't relate to the few humans in it very well. She is a distorted mechanized person after all. She is about 7 feet tall, doesn't move like a normal human, and doesn't know much of the society outside her old home. She still strives to survive, as confusing as it may be... What's stranger though, is that she can travel relatively safely through areas people can not. The places where monsters reside. She is not considered human prey to them, it seems. Some even attempt interacting with her, and she learns to bond with them. 

That's all for now. o 3o  

THESIS POST

Here have a finished painting of my ballerina lady being worked on by doctors!

SO SO SO....

Let's talk about some plots with my ballerina lady. Or really the characters... no wait, plotz. Elle's home was destroyed. She wants to find out why, and find a new home as well. While on this mission she encounters Ian. Ian is a very modified person like her, also surviving in an alien world. These two basically become companions before (of course) it turns out Ian is THE BAD GUY. Or so it would seem. If I imagine this as a video game in the perfect way or some jazz, you can play either character cause that's always fun to me. :]

Anyway.... I originally made these characters to be enemies with that special bond you see sometimes. What I love most about enemies is that they cement each other's ideals. What I love more is when enemies recognize this on some level. This isn't the sort of twist where Elle's friend is DUN DUN DUN her enemy! This where they are friends regardless of what they do. They fight for what they believe in, what they think is good for each other, and each other. This idea is absurdly romantic but fun... I want it to illustrate the sort of vagueness people have in their relationships. How solid or malformed can your relationship (or what you see of it) actually be?

And now it's time for burgers! I will see you later!

Hi Joe!

A certain someone has convinced me to post a new blog entry. > w >

I'm going to ramble about my thesis now!

Oh man I sure like video games, and their worlds and characters and whatnot. And so my thesis....

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okay, just got distracted by the horror movie my friends were watching in the other room, but now it's time to talk about my thesis character! 

Dawww, she found treasure!

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Haha, all my actual finished work is on another computer! But I still have some visuals... 

~check out my unfinished character sheet~

Elle is a lovely lady of sorts. She is a modified... in that sort of Frankensteinian sense. Elle has been designed to be more of a ballerina than a human. She embodies grace and etherealness with mechanical precision. She also has music box gears in her back! Nifty! She is a very pretty, rare, entertaining thing, that dances to her own tunes. You can switch out the tunes if you don't like them though. Just open up the interface in her vertebrae and customize to your heart's content! 

Elle was raised and modified to be an entertaining object. She's polite, compliant, and sturdy. This isn't necessarily sad. Not to her anyways. It's how she was raised after all, and it's all she knows. Until I drop some PLOT on her, of course. Elle lived her life as an expensive toy in a mansion, until most of that mansion is destroyed. Luckily she was stored in a sort of preservation tank in the basement and was unharmed, but eventually wakes up to find nothing she knew before. She seeks out the truth about what happened to her home, and the whereabouts of the one who owned and loved her. 

One could say she is an extreme of the naive young woman stepping out into the world..... and wanting a father figure if you want to get freudian about it. 

There's more info about her but I'll save that for another post. :3

More illustrations!

I really can't seem to get into this blog thing.... >w<;;; But I'm going to try real hard and work on my thesis here!! Or something... • w •  I really want to get into this social networking phenomenon that is the internet, but I seem to be a huge lurker~

Either way, have some illustrations from illustration class! Yay! 

Check out the assignment in which I had to do a portrait of a famous person:

And my movie poster:

And then something not humorous (unless you imagine the guy going 'woah, slow down lady!')