Monday, July 18, 2011

MADE OF WANT.

The List of WANT. Thanks to Amazon. Those bastards.


Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s by Rian Hughes
Rebus by James Jean
Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer
Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 2: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters by Chee Ming Wong (Author), et al.
Layout and Composition for Animation by Ed Ghertner
Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Hans Bacher
The Art of Doug Sneyd by Doug Sneyd
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis
Setting the Scene: The Art & Evolution of Animation Layout by Fraser MacLean
The Art of Pixar: 25th Anniv.: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation by Amid Amidi
The Art of Tangled by Jeff Kurtti
Papercraft: Design and Art With Paper by R. Klanten (Author), et al.
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Layout & Backgrou​nd
Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation by Francis Glebas
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, Second Edition by Michael D. Mattesi
The ILLUSION OF LIFE: DISNEY ANIMATION by Ollie Johnston, Frank Thoma
The Art of Hercules: The Chaos of Creation by Stephen Rebello
The Art of The Incredibles by Mark Cotta Vaz
The Art of Bolt by Mark Cotta Vaz
The Art of Alice: Madness Returns by R.J. Berg
The Art of Kung Fu Panda 2 by Tracey Miller-Zarneke (Author), Dustin Hoffman (Foreword)
Fantasia 2000 : Visions of Hope by John Culhane
A Disney Sketchbook (Introduction by Ken Shue) by The Disney Animators
The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by Alan Lee
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Story (Walt Disney Animation Archives) by Disney Editions
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Design (Walt Disney Animation Archives) by Disney Editions
Animation (Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Archive Series) by Inc. Disney Enterprises
The Art of Mulan by Jeff Kurtti
The Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Stephen Rebello
The Art of The Lion King by Christopher Finch
Joe Chiodo's How To Draw And Paint Pin-Ups by Joe Chiodo
The Art & Illustratio​n of Walter Crane by Jeff A. Menges, Walter Crane
The Red Book of Animal Stories by Andrew Lang (Author), Henry Justice Ford (Author)
The Art of How to Train Your Dragon by Tracey Miller-Zarneke
Mucha by Sarah Mucha
Burlesque Poster Design: The Art of Tease by Yak El-Droubie
The Critic - The Complete Series DVD ~ Christine Cavanaugh

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Papercrafting for my best friend.

AND HER CAT. Who liked to sleep on Cacti.

I tired to show more of the process, but I won't like...I get all in my head about the composition, and then I just RUN with it.

I did a preliminary drawing of this papercraft, and actually used my lightbox this time, so get it as close to my original plan as I possibly could! It turned out really well! (I even included on my notes that there had to be an adorable animal butthole!)

At first I was apprehensive to use markers, pens, or anything else besides paper to make these crafts. This time I was unafraid. I broke out my brown Copic pens, used my prismacolor markers, AND even stickers from the crafting stickers I got.

Then all I had to do was get her up! I use shadowbox frames from IKEA because they are just cheaper and easier. Sorry I'm not willing to pay 50 bucks for a "decent" framing. I think it looks pretty effing good, myself.

Papercrafting just turned into Scrapbooking.

I have made the jump! Thanks my sudden acquiring of scrapbook paper, I decided to make some fun little stationary cards.

This first one I made for Ru to use as stationary! The sandcastle is one of those awesome 3D stickers! It's like...babycraft!

This one is made with mostly sticker border and stickers, but by god, I threw it together! I thought these colors represented Breena nicely!

I needed to see if the dark colors would work for me too, so I did one for Hayley that has even darker colors. I'm pretty happy with it. Hell, at the very least, the colors are complimentary.


Finally, I did one for my mumzy. She loves bees. I know right, EFFING BEES. Why? Because they are cute, and they make honey. Not because they kill more people a year than most other "dangerous" animals. WTF ever, the card is cute.

P.S., Amykins, I am going to make one for you, but it will have to be frilly and REALLY over girled, so JUST YOU WAIT.

Next, PAPERCRAFTING FOR FUNZIEZ.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Projects on hold.

WELL. I missed this week's post for the Paperlinks project, but that just means I'll have to double post next week, on Tuesday!

Check out the other posts!

I have been a busy bee though! I'm in the process of making 2 papercrafts, so that's really fun! They are really cool sizes, and are proving to be real pains in the ass, but I'm enjoying them greatly!

Over the past week, I had Amy with me for like...6 days. We watched Hoarders and I cleaned my apartment HARDCORE. In doing so, I got a great idea for the Umbra frames I had laying around.

I used the drawings I posted before, and I painstakingly x-actoed them out!


There's Breener...



Amykins...



and Ruthie poo!!

Saturday, July 2, 2011

DOUBLE POST.

So, I got some new indie ink stuff! Watercolor paper, inks, watercolors, the works! SO I finally had a chance to play with that. WOOOP. I decided to have fun and draw whatever came to mind.

And then today was the start of a new monthly project Amy suggested!! 30 days of drawing your original characters. It's amazing how many of them you can create. So I'm going to start this shit off with a character from the comic Amy and I are doing!
Colienne


Colienne was created as the female protagonist in the collaborative comic, Jebediah. She was lured by her brother into the wilderness, where she was attacked by a cougar and left to die. She survived it, but lost everything important to her because of the incident. Now that her past has caught up with her, she must face her brother, and let her life truly begin.

Ruth is going to be doing this, as well as Amy, and Breena. We will update Paperlinks weekly with our works, or you can continue to check them out here on the blogs as the days go by!

Amy's Blog!
Breena's Blog!
Ruth's Blog!
Paperlinks!