High School Senior Insanity!

I've been very busy the last few months getting ready for college. Yay!!! I'm going to Laguna College of the Art and Design in Character animation! These are some of the drawings I submitted for my portfolio.

 This character has been with me for a while, though I haven't drawn him until now. His name is Makhleb and he is the sole antagonist to my protagonist, Sebria. Kind of like the Joker and Batman or Moriarty and Sherlock! ^-^

 These are just a few of my emotions-- I actually don't know about "drunk" since I've never been drunk, but I'm basing it on what I've seen in movies.

 Here's a collage of drawings from my sketchbook. I attend several local life drawing class with awesome artists! I also draw a lot from life. I try and look for the line of action in the pose and form-- as my wonderful mentor Ellen Woodbury taught me--- then I add the solids like the head, ribs, and hips. What I aim to do is capture the essence of a pose-- I also try to be quick about it. Most of these were maybe 5 minute poses.

 Here are some practice sketches of dogs. I don't do animals that much, but I know I'm gonna need to learn a lot about them and their physical structure. A lot of these quick gestures were from either watching my two dogs or from videos posted on New Masters Academy-- a really great website for artists of all ability levels and mediums. 

 Like I did with the dogs, I watched my neighbor's horses and sketched them while they were riding them. I also obtained valuable information from watching an episode on horses at New Masters Academy.

I worked on this drawing with the wonderful Ellen Woodbury! She had me do several versions of this pose until I captured the essence and movement. I found it surprisingly difficult to think like an animator. For one sketch I have to be thinking about not only the pose, but also the line of action, attitude, squash and stretch, movement, overlap, etc... There were four layers to this drawing (pink, light blue, medium blue, dark blue) before I got the final result.

These are just sketches of the many animals in my backyard. We have six chickens and one rooster. They're fun to watch and draw! The rooster's name is Honey and he only has one wing because he tore it off as a baby. They're pretty old now-- 4-- so they aren't really that active. As I mentioned, I have two dogs and, up until a few months ago, we had three cats. Now we only have two.