Elise's Sketchbook

oh hey drawings

2011-12-05T07:55:00.001-08:00

well I'm back in school and still working on plush commissions, which doesn't leave much time to draw. Can't wait for Christmas break so I can hopefully draw some more!

hmm, kinda deserted here isn't it?

2011-08-15T19:25:00.000-07:00

nope, I didn't die. Actually, I'm quite alive, just not drawing as much as I really should since I'm busy making plush toys nowadays. But anyways, here's some art that I made in the recent past in no particular order.

drawings you say?!

2011-04-28T15:43:00.000-07:00

well, over the break I decided I wanted to draw tons of art. I did so by logging into Gaiaonline for the first time in years and offered free art. Not to my surprise 5 minutes after I posted the thread I had about a million requests. Here's a few of them

I might push some of these further someday, but not now.

characters

2011-03-27T07:58:00.000-07:00

a bunch of character designs this time. The cats are from my battle kitty-cats story, and the people are the result of the best life drawing assignment ever. Enjoy!

fighting cats?

2011-03-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

what's better than regular cats? Fighting ones with axes of course! And while I'm at it here's a side of crazy art.

some more doodling

2011-02-24T16:41:00.000-08:00

More recycled sketchbook stuff!

just a little something

2011-02-20T16:54:00.001-08:00

don't have much to post lately because I've been stuck with an art block, but here's something I forced out today since I needed a ref of my WoW character for a plush commission, and I needed it fast. Made this character sheet in about an hour I think. The fastest I've ever done lol! Hopefully I'll have more (better) art soon.

more sketchbook stuff

2011-01-25T17:45:00.000-08:00

Markers and photoshop/flash/sai this time!

sketchbook stuff

2011-01-03T18:16:00.000-08:00

a couple quick doodles from my sketchbook

backgrounds

2010-12-12T07:44:00.000-08:00

Just a compilation of the quick backgrounds I did for my last assignment that I thought I'd put up before I forget about it.

quick update

2010-12-09T18:04:00.000-08:00

Just a really quick update in between fighting rounds with Flash. Some x-mas doodles, and the finished Dranei lineart that will one day be colored.

Flash is fun

2010-12-02T18:20:00.001-08:00

I think Flash is really fun, simply because I can finish colored and shaded drawings super fast easily and they still look decent. or at least I think. For anything other than that, I prefer Photoshop. Here's the result of tonight's doodling.

sketches and Flash stuff

2010-12-01T16:47:00.000-08:00

did a few sketches lately *coughtodaycough*, so I figured I would post them now before I forget about them. So today we have my classmates as kids, cafe sketches, some pinup girls, and some Labyrinth and White Stripes drawing jam stuff.

more life drawing stuff

2010-11-26T07:41:00.000-08:00

Some more life drawing stuff.

Warcraft mood.

2010-11-21T09:58:00.000-08:00

Been feeling like drawing some World of Warcraft characters lately, so I did late last night.

I also thought it would be cool to show a work in progress of one of them, since I draw every stage on a different layer in photoshop and I just had all the steps layed out right there. I do plan on finishing the chick, but the dude is done.

I've uploaded the progress of the guy on youtube in 2 parts if anyone is interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8airosmhyM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIp4YG-5-f4

anyways, have some Draneis.

update? what's an update?

2010-11-17T14:50:00.001-08:00

okay so really, I update my deviantart ( http://magnastorm.deviantart.com/ ) quite a bit more than my blog because it's a lot quicker. So really that would be the place to check for updates. Plus I also have cute custom plush on there that I make.

Anyways, here's another blog resurrection update.

I've been working in a little recycled paper sketchbook. Here's some of the little illustrations that were born in there.

summer drawings and progress stuff

2010-09-28T14:25:00.000-07:00

well it looks like I only remember about this blog once every blue moon. I will be making an effort to update it more often though. School started and I'm in my final year of animation so I should have more stuff to show this year.

So here's what I've been up to this summer. Didn't do much experimenting , just doodled while babysitting.
Right now I have a challenge going on; to draw 2 finished illustrations per week until the end of October. The first 2 drawings are the ones for this week. I'll try to remember to post their progress.

Lion progress pictures

2010-05-12T18:43:00.000-07:00

I took some pictures of my lion painting as I progressed on it. I just thought it would be very interesting to see how I built up the painting.

more life drawing

2010-04-28T05:52:00.000-07:00

Some of my recent life drawings.

layouts

2010-04-28T05:34:00.001-07:00

Well here are my layouts as promised, finally. These are all the painted versions, I might upload the lineart versions later even though after seeing the final colored product I don't think it would be too necessary.

Sinbad Layout (painting only)

Egyptian layout

Jungle layout

And here's a random lion I painted this week!

Model sheet challenge part 4!

2010-04-08T08:11:00.000-07:00

well here's the 4th and final part of this challenge. I'm not too happy with my 4th take of this challenge, since I had to rush it more than I would have liked too. If I ever find time and motivation, I'll try to redo the model sheet one more time from scratches.

Anyways, here's the latest revised version!

And here's a compilation of all 4 version. I'm impressed at the progress that I did in only 4 months.

I'll be posting up some layouts soon.

another character turnaround revised

2010-03-12T07:56:00.000-08:00

yup, 3rd version. Made a lot of changes to this one. Made her look (way)more mature, and tried giving her more personality. Also remembered the joy of drawing tall characters.

By next Monday I'll try to upload the layouts I've drawn/painted in my layout class.

Life drawing

2010-02-15T19:47:00.000-08:00

here are some life drawing studies I finally scanned in. legs, feet and arms. I have hands and heads somewhere, I just have to dig them out of my huge life drawing newsprint pile.

some more art

2010-02-03T17:24:00.001-08:00

while I am remembering that I have a blog, here's some more art. All were drawn in an awesome recycled paper sketchbook, explaining why the paper is brownish. Seriously though, the sketchbook is great. It holds pretty much everything well. Even markers don't bleed out too much on it!

This post is making me realize that I should stop drawing girls and draw boys. I draw waaaay too many girls.

model sheet challenge part 2

2010-02-03T14:57:00.001-08:00

Part 2 of the model sheet challenge we're doing in my class. I drew the first one a month ago, got some revisions on it, got highly influenced by The Prince Of Egypt and improved my understanding of anthro feet viewed from full front. I'm happy with my improvement over such a short period of time.

...I already see some things I'd like to improve on her. oh well, I have to draw her again 2 more times so I have plenty of time to modify her

designing

2010-01-11T16:43:00.000-08:00

Had to design a character for an in-class challenge. I decided to create a character following the semester's theme; ancient Egypt, because I think Egypt's pretty cool. To make it into a challenge, I've decided to make an anthro character, something that I don't have much experience with. Right now I only have a rough version of the model sheet, but it's going to be cleaned up sometimes this week or next week. And while I'm at it, have some concept work too.

some more drawing

2010-01-07T09:57:00.000-08:00

I swear I'm going to start posting more things. for now have a little bit of art.

it's aliiiive!

2009-09-20T17:47:00.000-07:00

So I finally decided to upload more than still lives and studies and such to this blog because I realized that I'm not going to do much of those things ever again. :/

So here's a flood of all the art that did this summer that I think is okay.

drawings are in no particular order

more stuff

2009-08-10T16:41:00.000-07:00

nothing much, just a few still life drawings and hand tonal studies. I never really got the time to work on anything bigger this summer, how sad.

A few still-lives

2009-07-04T15:52:00.000-07:00

Here are a few studies I did this week. Of everything there is to miss about college I have to miss what I hated doing most. I guess that I apreciate drawing from live more now that I'm not forced to do it. They're not wonderful but I still enjoyed drawing them. all of them took around an hour or two to complete. The spool is my first digital painting.

Something more formal

2009-06-29T13:00:00.001-07:00

Since I don't have a big scanner, I decided to take pictures of my bigger school-pieces to put them up here. Some of them are fuzzy, I know. But sadly that's the best that my poor cheap little camera would do. I'll update them as soon that I regain access to the big scanner at school.

Ink on paper, 16x20

conte on paper, aprox. 18x24

Acrylic on canvas board, 18x24

Acrylic on canvas board, 18x24

Acrylic on stretched canvas, 16x20

Yes, I really love animals, especially big cats. Could you guess?

Let it begin

2009-06-28T07:06:00.000-07:00

Alright, so let's get this artwork dump started! I have my artwork separated by subject in my folders and I'm going through my folders one at a time. So this post's theme is going to be World of Warcraft, one of my biggest addictions.

first off a set of playing cards I did for my illustrator class this year.

Then a wordless comic I did for my color theory class.

Intro

2009-06-27T19:47:00.000-07:00

Well this is my first time ever using Blogspot. Or holding a blog at all. I'm really just testing things out for now.

So as it has been implied by my Blog's title, I'm Elise and I'll be updating this blog with my artwork. Even though I called this blog a 'sketchbook', alot of the work I plan to post here is going to be final. I am always looking for constructive criticism even if my work is final. I may not change the work that received the critique, but I'll keep it in mind for my next drawings.

So a little bit more about me. I have just graduated from my first one year formal art class this month, and I will be taking an animation course next fall. Since so far I'll be spending a jobless summer,I want to use it to work on my weaker points in art as in lanscape and perspective. As a young artist, I have been heavily influence by animes and mangas, as well as japanese culture in general. Today I see that heavy influence as a problem since by now everyone has seen anime style and wants something new. I have been working hard to get rid of that style's influence on my art for some times now, and I'm finally seeing some progress. I think I'm starting to develop a style of my own, and that is what I want to post here.

I hope that everyone who comes across this blog will enjoy what they see, from the silly doodles I might post to my more serious work.