Cartoon Fanart Mania

Been discussing cartoons from the past with my partner Gene and we recalled our favorite cartoon shows.

So I decided to make a fanart of 2 of my favorite from among many I like.

Power Puff Girls

These are my favorite kindergarten girls who kick ass and save the world. It was fun drawing my version of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice.

Rugrats

Left to Right:

Kimi, Angelica, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil, Susie
At first I didn't like this show, coz I think the drawing style looked ugly and not cute. Later, as I watched the show regularly, I find the characters really interesting.
This is a "cute" looking version of the main characters.

I will be making more fanart soon... ^__^

Graduated at last!

I finally finished my 2 year crash course in Animation! Yet I still got plenty to learn, I barely learned the basics and yet haven't mastered each principle yet...hoping I could get into an opportunity to be able to learn more and practice the skills. Meanwhile, oh no... I got no job as I am welcomed to the world of unemployment. Thankfully some friends, who are artists as well, tried to help me out and I am thankful for their generous opportunities they gave me. I don't have a regular job having regular pay yet, but hey! Summer is the season and it's quite nice to get some time to relax for a while, and be back by June to find a work full time!

At the moment let me post some works I did over my vacant time for the last months since I've posted.

Did some digital portrait practice, and quite happy that I've began to improve. Still, my pacing is quite slow and I know in time, I would learn to point out the parts I need to work on further.
Below is a digital protrait painting of a beautiful friend of mine-- Seabee. Beautiful name too. :)

Will be posting more works soon! 

Maddy is back... Weewoowee!

Christmas had passed, New Year had passed... and I wasn't able to post anything for months! Oh my, this blog's purpose is going down! Tsk... But not yet! It's not yet too late! ^_^ Today I will once more share stuff I made. ^_^ Well you see just because I wasn't able to post means I haven't done anything ... :) Now I have to share everything in one post, to make up for the lost opportunity. :)

Let me get started by presenting you my Villains Character Designs- done for school work as usual. :) We were asked to create character designs of villains. My concept here is a Library Setting Concept. :)

The Villains involve the Evil Nerd, the Obsessive-compulsive Librarian, the Bully, the Enigmatic Librarian, and the Sexy and Dangerous Librarian.

This one is another school stuff. We were asked to create a concept for Hansel and Gretel story, so I chose the oriental concept. :)

So that's about it guys!!! ^_^ I will be posting soon for updates. Keep posted coz there's more. This is all for now. Til next time :)

Skewl Stuff 2: Viking Character

Wow! It's been quite a while since my last post!

Before anything else, I would have to tell you a bit about what has been going on during the past weeks away from giving my blog some attention.

Last semester ended with a nice beach outing in Carmer together with my other Animation schoolmates! It was a great place to chill and swim-- a private rest house owned by our classmate's uncle-- the best part is we got the place for free!!! YES!! FREE!! All we had to spend for was our food and other needs-- which was as agreed by everyone --be taken from the funds we earned during our Intrams week.. Oh yeah! 

Sadly, not all were able to pass all the subjects, some need to retake a few ones next year. And for us graduating students-- those who passed, we are quite anxious about this coming semester! It's our last! We have to hold and not give up! This is our final quarter! XD

Now back to my drawing post, here's another one from our digital essentials-- digital sketching exercises.

This plate is all about making our own Viking inspired Character Design. Vikings are kind of cool coz they have been notorious barbaric seafarers in the Northeastern European land and seas.

I had several references for the clothes, armor, weapons, etc, even how they look.

This character of mine has a good upright posture, indicating that he must be a leader amongst other vikings whom are commonly seen in a slightly leaned forward, our slight crouching position as if ready to lunge at anything anytime.I made the horns not twisted upright which is common among viking characters, this time I kind of thought that not all helmets in their time actually are upright. I chose a nice bright shade of ginger for his hair and axe as my weapon of choice that best fits this character.

I have to admit that I had tedious work done especially on the fur-took me long-- though it wasn't difficult. All for the reason of paintng them individually instead of customizing a brush that would make things work faster. I still have issues in painting drapery and metal. But I am happy I had gone this far. :)
Will be posting more drawings soon! Gotta make up for all those days not been able to post. Will be sharing about the next part of my semestral vacation too! till then! XD keep drawing!!

Skewl stuff 1: Character Design 1-- Female Assassin

This one is schoolwork. Our task was to create 2 designs from one original character design. I chose to create a female assassin, around mid 20s to early 30s, black hair, asian.

After doing some prelimary sketching, I finished up my lineart to make it ready for painting.

Then, I filled it out in grayscale first to distinguish the values and tones. Determining the source of light is very important here to help me create the shape of each form.

Afterwhich, I then now overlayed the colors and used complimentary colors similar to "asian dragon" colors or themes. I determined she should have black hair and kind of made it to blue black hair.

After being checked by our instructor (who's awesome by the way), he encouraged and advised me to reduce the outlines or make them thinner if possible to give it more solid look. He also advised me to use the entire range from black to white in my grayscale so that it would effectively give a 3d look rather than looking quite flat. He also taught that it is also important to know the kind of material fore each form so that it can help me determine the reflectivity or the glossiness of such form which is applicable to determining the tone transitions in my grayscale: such as the metals, leather, cloth, skin etc. each has its way of values.

Finally, I got the colors overlayed again and done some changes and cleaning.

Here's the summarized overview of what I have learned so far in digital painting. I had much fun in doing this, learned new things especially the tips from our instructors.

Maddy Portrait Process

This is the first portrait rendering I made entitled "Maddy" which I really credit first of all to my cousin Ed. My cousin is also an artist and in fact gave me a lot of tips in digital painting and stuff. He is also one of the great inspirations and supporters I had to carry on my ambition to become a great artist. Thank you Ed! ^__^

 This is the original sketch made by Eddi. 

A Tralala Birthday Wish List... (I actually have one?)

Hmmm... I always want a LOT of things... but I really don't covet to have 'em all. It just would be nice to have 'em. Mind you, these things that I want are mostly things that I also need! ^_^