nice and neat

This time I'll show some shallow, cheesy, nice stuff. I made postcards for my parents weddingday and sent them to them. I figured out that Gerbera means "With you, everything is more beautiful".

In order to take a break from character design I drew a portrait without reference. Like inventing a girl and trying to make it look as real as possible. I hope nobody will take it as a perfect drawing or portrait, which it isn't. I just think I might have improved a bit drawing faces. The result is rather dollish.

Birds and Bunnies

Still developing character designs for our animated winter tale. Still not the final designs, but I like these pages quite a lot! Robins are so cute <3

ballerina bitch slap

So, here's the thing:
Along with me, three other students from animation school went drawing ballet dancers at training for one and a half hour. The ballerinas were very mixed: from approximately 25 to 80 years old, all shapes and colors. So we went for the red haired, hunched, 80 year old, constantly grinning woman. She could hardly move, just turn around and make a few steps. She was quite a character. After their training most of the dancers came over and were impressed by our studies. I had done the drawings with both, right and left hand. They recognized the old woman and everyone liked the sketch.
A bit later, we were standing in the corridor, the old lady approached us and said: "Can I see the great artist's drawing again? For it was said to resemble me very well." So I showed it to her and she went on about how she liked it. So I offered her the sketch as a present. She gladly took it and explained: "Good, now I can tear it apart."
And so she ripped the paper apart several times. We were all shocked, incapable of moving or saying anything. She went on about the others, who had drawn her well and stuff, but what I had done was impossible. Keeping on grinning all the time.
She left and we couldn't believe what just happened. We had experienced pure perfidity. Sure, we figured out that the woman really doesn't see herself the way she is. But I guess every artist out there knows the feeling of pain and disrespect, when your artworks gets destroyed.
I've learned to be more careful with my work: Sell it or keep it ;P

the negative looks quite cool :3

foretaste on studies

the human body - unwrapped

Wait for tomorrows post: my own personal encounter with the wicked old witch of the west, coming along with studies on ballet dancers!

yellow tasty cheese & corn

Now that I think that I can finally use my right arm for drawing purposes again (after 4 cruel long weeks) and after I've been reading some manga (which I haven't done quite a long time), I felt like drawing a fanart/ pin-up in manga style of my own character I am developing for a short cartoon.
It is kitsch, cheesy, totally corny, too much blur, but I love it. Felt so good doing this.

Jazz and Felt-pens

I went to a bar where jazz music was played. Drew the band, the audience and my friends from animation school. My injured arm got much better, but it still has to rest. So I am getting better with the left one. Which is nice :) And lots of people like my lefthandwork, which feels nice and awkward at the same time. Anyway, an interesting experience, these past few months.