Summer Postcards

Art is hard

2010-06-01T15:08:00.000-07:00

Boogeyman concept and ortho:

Best:

new elephants

2009-08-26T09:41:00.001-07:00

I like this artist

2009-08-17T18:00:00.000-07:00

I was watching Antiques Roadshow while waiting for UM AMERICA'S BEST DANCE CREW and a lady brought in some posters by Louis Icart, who I decided I loved.

Check it out.

http://www.baronfineart.com/Gallery/louis_icart.htm

birth of a new elephant and sketch for water color

2009-08-11T16:18:00.000-07:00

I present to you a true rarity, a baby wooley mammoth.

Here he is playing with his papa

and a sketch for a water color.

ink

2009-08-10T11:29:00.000-07:00

I've been doing some ink sketching too. I posted a lot on my blog, and there were a lot more that were too ugly to scan, but I liked this the best.
gah. need to draw more!

oil

2009-08-10T10:32:00.000-07:00

yeah, I started something oilish

Always into shows

2009-08-05T14:06:00.000-07:00

Well i was just looking to some art contests and i noticed this one:

http://www.artistsnetwork.com/annualcompetition/

which has already past, but i though it was interesting that they have a division for student/beginner division (which i will be ineligible for next time it happens) just a heads up.

mica pre-college sketchbook

2009-08-05T11:21:00.000-07:00

A preview of some sketches I did this summer: click here

Clone - Finished Cover

2009-08-02T16:57:00.000-07:00

I finished my second commission/experiment with PaintTool Sai. I was lazy when it came to rendering the mirror, could have been better. But it has been a long, emotionally stressful week and I just wanted to be done with it. Overall, I'm happy with the outcome. And so was my client. :)

second painting finished

2009-07-31T20:35:00.001-07:00

oh why did i have to change the under neck shirt reflection color and the lips.

Jackie - Finished!

2009-07-27T20:37:00.000-07:00

I finished him! I also finished the secret project. One commission left! Oh, but right after I finished this one I got another commission. Fingers crossed on me making enough money for Japan! ><

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. I tried very hard to make it look like something that might, in some strange universe, be passable as a real book cover. Hopefully my next piece won't be as painful. I started over a couple of times (partly because I was learning a new program, but really because I'm bad at digital painting). I did this entirely with PaintTool Sai, a program like PS--but free, lean and REALLY fun! My PS died on me, so. Yay open-source programming!

I am kind of bummed that I can't spend as much time on personal projects this summer...Between teaching and these jobs, I'm drained. :P

2009-07-22T09:45:00.000-07:00

Behold the world's first fuzzy mewing baby elephant.

week one of painting

relevant news

2009-07-17T09:20:00.000-07:00

'Not to plug anything here, but I just discovered that Deviant Art is doing something that you guys might find cool and useful for a change.
I know, I hate Deviant Art, but apparently now they have a tool that lets you build a simple portfolio website. http://news.deviantart.com/article/86515/

I made a quick one, http://katnicoleb.daportfolio.com/ but I think I'll probably continue working on the one I've been building in Dreamweaver these past few weeks because I don't want DA's logo on the bottom of my page, and I want to do some awesome, custom things.

Anyway, I thought you guys might be interested in this if you don't want to purchase a domain name or hosting service and you don't feel like ripping your hair out over uncooperative CSS

finished

2009-07-10T10:18:00.001-07:00

2009-07-08T09:19:00.000-07:00

Week 2 of the portrait

past week

2009-06-30T17:21:00.000-07:00

week one of 2hr oil portrait painting class

ink 'n paint on comic character head. i'm not to happy with the look. probably will just bite the bullet and draw the comic, once some scripts come my way.

random digital drawing i have been working on to get my self more acquainted with my tablet and the drawing powers of photoshop.

Clone Cover and Sexy Ladies

2009-06-30T14:17:00.000-07:00

The last of the sketches I'll be posting for a while. Besides these, I'm also working on a top-secret project for a toy designer. All I can say is that it's a lot of fun. Neda, the Detective, and the sketch below will have to wait until I finish the top-secret stuff. But I'm trying to get everything mostly done before next week! (16 drawings! Fingers crossed!)

This is a cover for my friend's comic book, about a girl who discovers that she's a the clone of a super-villainess. I'm also posting the sketch of the villainess, which I'm quite happy with. After drawing all the kiddy-toy stuff, it feels good to draw a sexy lady. :)

Voice

2009-06-28T21:37:00.000-07:00

Among other things, I've been following the twitter feed for the Iran election protests, and was inspired last Saturday to draw this up. It is in honor of the young woman, Neda, who was shot in the street and killed during the chaos in Tehran. If you're like, "What's with the birds?"--they're Twitter birds. When I get some free time I'll paint it.

Rest in peace, Neda. Presently in Iran things seem to have settled down, and the government-run newsfeeds have been broadcasting the arrested protesters reading "confessions" that the protests were entirely a foreign plot.

In the meantime, I'm wholed up with 3 illustration jobs (totalling some 20 illustrations) and the prep work for my art class that starts next week. I feel so stagnant right now, with all this work and nothing getting done very quickly. So, for now, please suffer through these half-finished works.

Detective

2009-06-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

This is a "book cover" illustration I'm doing for a guy in Australia. I sketched a lot of the stuff seperately and then mashed it together in PS because I didn't feel like dragging my lightbox out. Now I'll ink it and color it. Moody blue hues, film noir lighting.

Important update! Baby animals!

2009-06-21T11:34:00.000-07:00

This was the view from my window at home yesterday.

Progress

2009-06-20T07:57:00.000-07:00

parade

2009-06-19T10:18:00.000-07:00

I helped make these bird puppets! They'll be in the Halloween Lantern Parade in the fall. You should all go see it.

This is the closest thing I could find to a close up:
Also, I'm walking on stilts in this photo (I'm the one on the far right):
I'll post more about this on my own blog. (Maybe. If I feel like it.)

edit: This was all done for/with/through Nana Projects.

explorers

2009-06-17T19:14:00.001-07:00

scanned some SB pages and colored them

NEW ART PORTAL ;)

2009-06-17T15:14:00.000-07:00

hey as a favor to my pal Tom

you guys should all join and submit artwork!

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/

the art portal has launched today

your art will just be shown on your userpage until you are scouted by a fellow artist. WHICH I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO FOR YOU ALL ;)

its just a means of keeping out the crap that Deviantart and Sheezyart are mostly comprised of.

anywho just letting you guys know!

yay tablet

2009-06-15T09:26:00.001-07:00

HEY!

2009-06-14T23:30:00.001-07:00

I know you guys all want to see what I do everyday, but I have decide that is quite impossible so I summed it all up in one baby .swf

HERE

I did this a little while back I just totally forgot to post it

I also completely overhauled ULTIMATE PWNAGE and acquired some stupid CSS know-how in the process.

also IN OTHER NEWS, I have found some new tunes by that mysterious KID EXP:

LET IT ROCK IN MY CAR

WE ARE TIPSY (UNFINISHED COMPRESSED VERSION)

**EDIT** - Here's another new one: STANKY RODEO

anywho enjoy

Jillian Tamaki's sketchbooking tips

2009-06-13T13:20:00.000-07:00

I highly recommend everyone check out Jillian Tamaki's new post with her thoughts on sketchbooking. What she has to say is very relevant, and probably something I should make myself read at least once every day.
http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/sketchbook.html

She also has a post on Idea Generation for Illustrations, which is pure gold.
http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/2008/10/idea-generation.html

Steam-punk Contest!

2009-06-12T13:41:00.000-07:00

I won FIRST prize (instead of Grand prize) which is a copy of the game Damnation (which was panned in reviews... oh well) but at least I know I'm one of the top 6 people who entered the contest (1 Grand prize winner and 5 First prize winners) if they post the other entries online then I'll post a link!

Plumbago Portraits

2009-06-11T14:39:00.000-07:00

Hello there.

I've been doing some small portrait drawings. I have decided to fill a moleskin with a person a page this summer, these are a first few. They are graphite, two to four 1/2 inches in height.

(Portrait miniatures: Intended originally to celebrate romance or mourn the dead. Usually accompanied with ornamental hair of the beloved/deceased. Let me know if you think I should collect hair to go with these portraits.)

Web comic

2009-06-10T18:25:00.000-07:00

i've been working with a friend on starting a web comic, all visuals are on me and the story is on him. I told him i wanted to try making 3d models and then posing them for the comic because i'm not very consistent at illustrating and to build up a bit of 3d experience and work examples. His only requirement is that he wants it to look flat so i'm going to learn how to use ink 'n paint and create a nice look for the comic.

So right now i have part of the base model for the main character, i mean he needs ears and hair and clothes, probably some more personality in the features. Also the eye/brow area looks a bit odd to me still. I need to look more at the wireframe i'm not sure how "correct" and efficient it is. I'm not using orthos because i didn't feel like it. in other news i ordered and intous4 and want to enter 11second club for this month (as soon as i get over my lipsync/2d inability, and get back from south carolina)

fisherwoman

2009-06-09T14:06:00.000-07:00

hand letters

2009-06-08T19:48:00.000-07:00

here are some letters i made to go with my number set below. :) i hope everyone is having a nice and productive summer!

hand numbers

2009-06-08T17:58:00.000-07:00

just practicing some hand letters... or numbers really.

cartooning

2009-06-08T15:49:00.000-07:00

too much Kate Beaton

shell stuff

2009-06-08T11:22:00.000-07:00

I made these yesterday with some wire and shells/sharksteeth I found.

CHARACTERS

2009-06-06T09:57:00.001-07:00

Why, if it isn't some character designs! These are from my summer class with Brian Ralph. Top is a rabidly riteous pilot (pick a character trait and profession from a list at random and DRAW) and my odd couple assignment, Black Scarf and Yolene (whom some of you may remember from thier short-lived comic idea freshman year). I did a comic about those two, but my scanner is TOO SMAAAAALL and can't handle how badass a punch to the face from Black Scarf would be. Also it's scanning everything at an angle for some reason... Either way, comics coming soon!

yuk yuk yuk

2009-06-06T01:19:00.000-07:00

badass $$$

a new character from a BRUTAL new game that will be released in SEPTEMBER 2009

ART - NOGFISH
CODE - NEGATIVEONE
MUSIC - REDMONGOOSE

PREPARE YOURSELF

Demon Boy Ortho!

2009-06-05T00:01:00.001-07:00

Ortho for my Demon boy Character! Modeling starts first thing tomorrow! hopefully I get to post a finished render of his head in 24ish hours! But I'm not going to rush I want to do this right!

Concept! Demon Boy

2009-06-03T00:05:00.000-07:00

Save for any major changes this is the Demon Boy concept... I need to figure out a name to call him... I was going for a sort of Saturday morning cartoon sorta look, I'm pretty excited about starting to model him... I haven't concepted the waistband design yet but I want to do some Mayan design studies and maybe some south american weaving designs under my belt... no pun intended... until I do a complete concept, which I will obviously be doing in a separate document... ANYWHO it's getting late! time for bed... after some Pizza...mmmnnn

Toadling

2009-06-02T18:08:00.001-07:00

for John...

A Birthday Card

2009-06-02T15:38:00.000-07:00

This is the birthday card that I made for my friend Andrea. She loves rainbows, stars, and flowers. I have a book of charlie chaplain stills, and a few bags full of scraps, stickers and doo-dads. The little bar by our kitchen (I don't have a desk at home) is covered with paint, glue, tape, scraps, etc.
The main picture on this card is a combination of a picture of the Tramp and and an upside down photo of trees in the winter. Add some paint and stickers, and ta-da! I love it! I hope she likes it too.

Fanart is Not Dead

2009-06-01T21:49:00.000-07:00

I just want you guys to know...this is totally relevant. And good cartooning practice. A lot of research and studies went into its production, and I had a whole lot of fun doing it.
Since you most likely won't recognize them (although since it's me, you can probably guess), they're the Power Rangers from this season. Yes, I am watching it.
p.s.--love you all! <3

Vs Exhibition blog

2009-06-01T09:47:00.000-07:00

Sean Murray, who's organizing the VS exhibition that I'm participating in, put together a blog showcasing the VS work!

http://versusexhibit.blogspot.com/

You should definitely go check it out!

Also, VS was chosen as one of The Baltimore Sun's "Swift Picks: Entertainment Not to Miss This Week"

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.ten-pg,0,4913018.photogallery

which one!?

2009-05-31T23:44:00.000-07:00

I ended up not abiding my own goal to keep today as a work free day, I was too excited about a new character that instead of going off of the previously shown Nun character I decided to just go ahead and do a ton of new silhouette sketches, and I picked 3 that I liked and refined them!

And I'm sure you're asking yourself now: "3 Silhouettes you say?! but there are FOUR Silhouettes in the image above!"

And to THAT I answer:

The 4th silhouette is a joke character, I just want to see if someone recognizes who it is, (my guess is Ricardo will laugh ones he realizes who the 4th character is) I don't think I will model character number 4 but if enough of you like her over the other three characters... I might consider it...

ANYWHO! Just tell me which one you think will create the most interesting character!

ANY suggestions are welcome

Just looking for some input since I'm away from school it's hard to get a good discussion started (that and It gives me something to entertain myself with...) but I'm going to try my darnedest!

VS

2009-05-28T18:07:00.000-07:00

Done! Yayayay!

steam-punk WIP 4

2009-05-27T15:58:00.001-07:00

I'm just posting for progress, This is what I have done with my re-concepted furnace/boiler/generator... in my earlier "concept" I did wasn't sufficient... let alone interesting enough to follow through with... I really just rushed to build the thing without thinking too much about it... so I put a lot of research into it and now it's supposed to be a scavenged steam-engine modified to generate electricity.... A lot of the bits and pieces are missing (a lot of the parts that actually make it a 2-way valve system for instance) but this is the over-all look of the thing, all I need to do is add some magnets around the generator and all of the smaller parts of the 2-way valve system ... ya that's a long description... This isn't the whole scene because I haven't worked on the other parts recently, this is just for the engine.

some more stuff that i drew @ work

2009-05-27T12:24:00.000-07:00

some more studies of antiques.

Girl VS Sea

2009-05-26T21:31:00.000-07:00

Progress on my VS piece so far..... I still have so so so much work to do on it.
I have to mail it to Baltimore by Thrusday or Friday. Eeeep!
Time to kick my ass into gear and work work work! I'm feeling a ton of pressure about this, so if you guys have any suggestions or critiques I'd really appreciate them.

vincent hui study

2009-05-26T13:33:00.000-07:00

'Quick study of one of my favourite painters' work. Acrylic on watercolour paper

some more new stuff

2009-05-24T07:02:00.001-07:00

trying out some new things again :) and some more visual journalism.

poetry slammer

2009-05-22T16:15:00.000-07:00

I attended a poetry slammer the other night and did some drawings of the coffee pots and came home and did a small bad painting and put the drawing over the painting in photoshop. What do you guys think?

fun with zbrush

2009-05-22T12:25:00.000-07:00

zbrush is so intuitive, i wanted to try a bit of sculpting (especially since 3ds max is not working for me) so from polysphere to a kinda self portrait. with a mouse..

sketchbook page

2009-05-22T10:50:00.000-07:00

I haven't really done much art (yet!) (actually, I haven't even thought about making any sort of art other than sketchbook doodles...), but I felt bad about not posting on this blog. Here's a doodle I did in my sketchbook the other day.

Hey, I have a blog, now!

2009-05-21T22:31:00.000-07:00

Hey, guys! Hope everyone's having a good summer, so far. I just realized that I should probably announce that I have an art blog, now!

(the banner's temporary until I get around to making something a bit nicer)

Other than that I haven't been super productive, so far, though I've been trying to do a little bit everyday. I found a tiny sketchbook for free at Swap-and-Drop (oh, how I love Swap-and-Drop!) that I'm planning on doing a little drawing in each day of the summer. Just a little illustration of whatever happens each day. I'll post what I have so far when I get around to cleaning them up a bit.
Anyway, I really love what I've been seeing in this blog so far and I look forward to seeing more posts!

Awesome Post

2009-05-21T07:07:00.000-07:00

I liked this blog's post about awesome things. I thought Kat would like the beach glass gown. :D

http://calamitykim.typepad.com/calamity_kim/2007/11/awesome.html

2009-05-20T21:25:00.000-07:00

Captain America? Captian "I"? I think it looks like the 'I' from Image comics, but whatever.

=P Art tomorrow, sleep now =)

2009-05-20T20:40:00.000-07:00

I just thought I'd let everyone know that we're still alive. =D Super enjoying NYC, its so AWESOME. Work forthcoming. Might upload some random pics later tonight.

Old Woman

2009-05-20T19:34:00.001-07:00

blarg

Steam-punk WIP Day 3

2009-05-20T01:47:00.001-07:00

Day 3 of Steam-Punk project... Didn't get to do as much today as I wanted... I actually didn't wake up till 4PM soooo it's obvious to draw conclusions that I'm pretty spacey with around 13 hours of sleep the night before... ANYWHO I did get to work on the furnace finally... I'm still working on how to add a coal pile... I dunno... that's going to be a problem solving event, if you have ANY suggestions please tell me... I think the Chair is pretty much done... I am going to have to add a power line from the [yet to be created] power source to the chair but other than that I think I'm sticking with it as is...

PLEASE give me any critique/ideas you got for me!

It's probably only my current state of mind... but I feel like I'm running out of steam... HAH! STEAM! ya... I'm pretty wiped out...

Steam-punk WIP Day 2

2009-05-18T23:57:00.000-07:00

Day 2! Hope it makes a little more sense with the one arm control added... and the control panel...

VS Exhibition!

2009-05-18T21:23:00.000-07:00

If you are in Baltimore you MUST COME TO THIS SHOW!
It will have pieces by a lot of local illustrators, BHG artists and MICA alums. You should go show your support of the local illustration/video game/comic book arts community! It's in The Windup Space on North Ave, which is really easy to get to and almost right across from the MICA bank building. If you don't go, the MICA illustration community will be disappointed in you : <

Work in Progress

2009-05-17T22:10:00.001-07:00

This is what I worked on for a little bit today...

it's going to be part of a steam-punk themed set... this piece of the set isn't even finished yet...

I kinda think it looks like a hair-dryer-machine thingy...

Hat

2009-05-16T18:53:00.000-07:00

MY HAT HAS MY FACE ON IT

Blog Redesign

2009-05-16T16:58:00.000-07:00

I redesigned this blog to be a little cheerier and more accurately reflective of its namesake season. 'Hope you guys like it!

Doodle Nun

2009-05-15T10:28:00.000-07:00

Doodle I did last night... Copying Jens Claessens' Style but just want to play around in Photoshop... more to come!

Summer Daily Blog

2009-05-14T19:52:00.001-07:00

I started a journal blog that will be filled with silly stories about my life and relationships.

Yup!

http://riprelationships.blogspot.com/

George Washington

2009-05-14T19:48:00.001-07:00

A zine made using collage, painting, and photoshop. Based on a madlib that was originally the tale of George Washington and the Cherry Tree, but.

Also, Layer Tennis is the best thing to watch on Friday afternoons.

Lost my mind

2009-05-12T11:58:00.000-07:00

I haven't even been home for 24 hours yet and I've already lost my mind... and found my Warhammer 40k guys from elem/middle school... I think I'm going to re-paint some of them for fun... NOT BECAUSE I LIKE TO PAINT MODEL MINIATURES!... (breaks down crying)

3D Character Final!

2009-05-11T21:04:00.000-07:00

John Ward's Squid Warrior Character Final from John Patrick Ward on Vimeo.

My favorite from Spring

2009-05-11T13:17:00.000-07:00

My favorite print from intaglio. plate is 5"x5.75" --Ian.

10 min sketch

2009-05-10T19:46:00.000-07:00

During Finals I borrowed my recently back from Italy room mate Carolyn for a quick portrait.

And now on to preparation for my first animation at home based on my radioactive cat. no joke true story.

first ladies

2009-05-08T12:46:00.000-07:00

My final project for Illustration 2 with Deanna Staffo.

2009-05-05T13:58:00.001-07:00

Helloo I haven't seen/heard from any of you guys from a while and I haven't logged into Blogspot in a long time....

SO EHEERRMM...

I took a pan shot outside my dorm's window. I plan to track the footage and super impose this stuff over it. Eh. This was originally meant to be completed in March for a class assignment.

Later guys.
Danica.

Gargantuan

2009-04-26T13:58:00.000-07:00

loki and freja

2009-04-19T18:19:00.000-07:00

I started doing some sketches for my illust final....a Norse mythology themed card deck

some collage work

2009-04-19T08:06:00.000-07:00

This is some of my work I'm working on for my final in Alain Corbel's Collage class.

Greatest Thing to come from MICA so far!

2009-04-18T12:29:00.000-07:00

Story from North America from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Poirot

2009-04-17T22:38:00.000-07:00

Environment I'm doing for Illustration class... It's Detective Poirot's Study... you know... Agatha Christie's Poirot... ya I didn't think you would get it... oh well... Kat told me to post something...

I think I'm going to adjust some colors... most likely of the wall... I'm also doing Ms. Marple's study which will probably be MUCH more exuberant...

dear

2009-04-17T22:25:00.001-07:00

This is REALLY old and thoroughly embarrassingly awful, but it happened to be on my laptop desktop and the lack of pictures on this blog so far made me sad : [ Anyway, my point is that you should feel free to post whatever work you do here regardless of how embarrassing you might think it is. Post anything; sketches, thoughts, doodles. I just want to keep everyone's minds active and engaged through the break.

Initial Contact

2009-04-17T22:10:00.000-07:00

A note to everyone,
I've set up this blog as a way for us all to communicate and stay motivated about our work over the summer. I want us to use this page as a public forum to post our summer art, and in turn, critique and encourage one another. The function of this blog depends on all of the authors, so I'm counting on everyone to post work when they have it and comment on others' work when it goes up. Hopefully, though encouragement and critique, we can make all of our summers more productive than they would be otherwise.
Anyway, I think this should be super-fun, soooooooo.....GO! GO AHEAD AND MAKE SOME SUMMER ART TO POST!
Also, I'm aware that it's not quite summer yet, but you should feel free to post whatever you're working on right now for finals. It's never too soon to start encouraging each other.
-Kat