balls... and character

So I finally finished my first four animations! :D
I dont love these two, but I worked really hard on them, and I guess the "learn from your mistakes" thing does apply here. Now here are my balloon and my bowling ball, aaaaand dear lord I just saw something I have to fix on the balloon... if I have time....







Also, I finished my character rotation of Goldilocks (the pupet/bear on the blog's banner) it took me like a month less on work than the character I did for my portfolio. I have no idea how did this happen, but I even think it looks decent. The only things that bother me are the line quality and the feet on the front view. I hope my teacher likes it too :/

the beginning

Sooo school has started, and its a lot of work! I won't lie, I saw it coming, and I'm liking it so far, but I need to improoove! there are so many talented people (but they're really nice people too)
Anyway I tried practicing with my tablet to make a drawing for my country's independence day, and yes I'm not good in photoshop, but the practice'll make you better^^

And also... I did my very first animation!!! It was the bouncing ball. For many people its like ¨a bouncing ball, boring, whatever...¨ but for me is a big breakthrough! I also did a bowling ball, a ballon, and a pendulum, but I might do some changes to the first two so I'll just show you the bouncing ball and the pendulum.

 

 

 

the ones that didnt make it

Just a bunch of life drawings that didn't make it into my portfolio's life drawing section... I've been really bad at updating this, but since its summer, and my bed and I have been trying to improve our relationship... not many new posts have made their way to the blog..
anyway here you go...

I loved this one!!

It was a hands and feet assignment, but I'll post the hands later

My teacher didn't like this one as much as I did, but I had fun doing it

My teahcers didn't consider this to be good enough for my portfolio, still I really like them

Summer glass

Sooo today I'm here to show what I do in my "summer job" which is called glass etching! well I'm not really the one that does the etching, I just do drawings, use an knife to cut them out trying to leave positive or negative spaces, and then its send to Rigo (the etching guy) who wears a mask and uses a pressure machine to add sand size pieces of glass into the part of the glass that's left exposed. (Remember English is not my first language so this is a little hard to explain, but here are some photos of what I do.)

I started by put tape all over the piece of glass I had, this was a free drawing so I decided to do a seahorse

Look at the knife there. It a signal of that poor tape's destiny

Next is to use the knife to take off all of the tape from the places where you want the etching to be. In this case the seahorse.

Here's a detail from his face, notice the little pieces of tape left in order to respect the shape



Once you're don with the knife, the glass is taken to the etching room (which doesn't take more than 5 minutes) and here's the result:

Now you just take all the tape off the glass and voila!

I'll show you more of etching next time!

dolls*

Hellooooo! I must admit I've been lazy on updating this blog, but my computer is so slow I get lazy just with thinking I have to wait for it to turn on completely. Anyway, a few entries ago I said I was working on 3 projects... I'm not sure I'll show all of them... one turned out really bad... and I need to steal my parents' good camera XD ........so I'll begin by showing my favorite:
My creepy doll sculpture!

Materials

• found objects
• clay to give it some weight
• thread
• glue
• acrylic paint
• fabric
• wire

basically...
her face was a mardi grass ornament, some sort of mask, which I painted later. I also took the bell from that ornament.

The fish tail is because of some creepy news I heard when I was little about a doll that had a fish skeleton

Do you like it?

Are you scared?

A little?

This was based on Batman's fear of bats, Walt Disney's fear of mice, and my fear of porcelain dolls...
well I kinda like them... from a distance. Rozen Maiden is one of my favorite anime :P

Animal Sketches!! and lame score sheet (T_T)

So I was seeing all these sketches I had, and I realized many of them were animals in my atempt to improve on the subject for my portfolio.
I did these guys last semester

Also durign the winter fair I learned that cows can be as big as an elephant... and they hardly fit in your page if you don't know that. So I just considered this guy to be decent enough to show.

Then during christmas break... Meet Carlos the Iguana :D (He has the face of a Carlos, so I decided that should be his name) and his friend...

Last week I went to my roommate's town and I met her dogs and cats! but since the cats barely appeared, I just drew her dogs

 I did some leg sudies and then I tried doing more of a character with the dogs

Finally, a new sketch of my dear character Chiripa who got all fours in my portfolio evaluation :D

Though neither of us deserve that.... She is mean and I don't feel like my drawings of her were good enough...



 Oh and my sad 3.15 scoresheet....

Why am I posting these? because when I was working on my portfolio these things were good feedback to me! so I hope this can help somebody :)

Let's start a musical number because... I got in!

Yes! I did it, after three tries I'm in now!!! I'm sooooo happy! yes! so much I could make a musical number about it. Sorry what I mean is.. that I got into the animation school I wanted :D 
Now I'll finally be making what I want to do! and that's a really nice feeling. I posted my animation portfolio a few days ago saying that I hoped it was the winning one, and it was. I just feel really bad for the people that didn't get in. I've been through that twice, and its a terrible feeling! Its the word they use to say it "refused" it sounds like they angrily said that they didn't want you. But I'll help anyone who wants my help, even if its moral help cause I don't consider myself thaaat good (and I haven't gotten my score sheet yet). Anyways I promise I'll do my best to add all the love of the world in every drawing I do. Hopefully I'll make some good magic that'll make others happy ^ ^
I had many ideas of musical numbers, but I'll just leave you with one that always makes me happy, and its also Chripa's (my character) theme song. For some reason  I just had more fun and inspiration drawing her when I was listening to this.

Sorry... no art today, just happiness. But I'm working on three projects right now, so its all good