This is another thing my mom and I made. It is a Transformer named Prowl, from Transformers. I don’t know much about the franchise, so that’s about all I can tell you.
We were either very brave, or very foolish, to offer to hand-sew something of this complexity. Possibly both.
4My mom and I have been getting a steady stream of Etsy commissions lately, which is great though it can be frustrating when it interferes with personal work. Here is something I helped to make. I did the groom’s hair and face, and sewed his tiny suit. Photograph is also mine. The rest of the beautiful, intricate work was all done by my very talented mother.
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I went back to my old job this week after a long, finals-induced break. It was slow getting into sketching animals from life again so here are just a few decent drawings. The first one is a flamingo color study from a few weeks ago.
The others are: a baby banded shark, just hatched; a study of Belladonna, the resident ball python (it’s a bit rough because she was wrapped around my neck, making a concentrated effort to squeeze the life from my body, the whole time I was drawing her); and a chameleon, what kind I don’t know, but gosh was he pretty. The malformed hand he is sitting on in the drawing is my own. Have you ever had a chameleon wrap his paws around your finger? It is AWESOME.
In other news, my job has baby sharks. Does yours?
3Covert 3am posting so nobody will see this… -__-
This is the thing I did for this semester’s animal jump assignment in traditional animation class. I’m proud of it despite its flaws because it’s the most complicated thing I have animated so far… but looking honestly at my work I suspect I lack the innate sense of motion that some of my colleagues possess. Which just means I need to practice, practice, practice this whole summer to get to the level I want to be at. Which will be fun!
So sorry, 3am rant. I am going to sleep now.
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So, um, I’m done. Here is the thing that I did. I may put up some detail images when I am less of a dead person.
P.S. I am now completely, officially done with this semester. Time to get drunk!**
**I am kidding.
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Almost there… almost there…
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‘Nother WIP because I am going to sleep. -_- I am going to be working on this all the way until Saturday, aren’t I. Ech…
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WIP
So, tell me kids.
if you have one final project for school
and you get a week extension
would you choose to paint a complex, multi-figure composition in this style?
I didn’t think so.
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This was for a quick perspective class project entitled “monster in the bedroom.” One day I will draw a graphic novel about the adventures of a sweet little old Russian granny who kills monsters with a machine gun.
Incidentally, the AK-47 (which is the rifle I attempted to depict in this sketch) is manufactured in my hometown. You can buy bottles of vodka shaped like Kalashnikov rifles in grocery stores! /fun fact
2Remember these guys? This is my final project from our 3D class. It was a great class, one of my favorites this semester, and this project was hella exciting, though I overshot myself JUST A WEE BIT making three characters and ended up scrambling at the end.
…the fact that I spent three months of my life sculpting a woman sticking her hand up a dragon’s butt says something about me. Probably something not very good.
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