derp derp

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

2011-05-02T22:09:00.001-07:00

Here it is :D my 3rd year film!!

film crowds

2011-05-02T17:27:00.000-07:00

used for backgrounds :)

crunchedy

2011-04-20T01:54:00.001-07:00

crunch time D: i'm feeling it

cowboys

2011-04-06T23:47:00.000-07:00

xboob expressions

2011-04-01T02:07:00.000-07:00

( x )( x )

hweh

2011-03-08T15:36:00.000-08:00

oh hey more sketchbook stuff.... -_-
eeehhh relearning how to draw my film characters, other key character designs, the usual....most of my sketchbook right now is like..scrawled story notes and messy thumbnails of boards and layouts....yep

gallery show wall

2011-02-20T19:02:00.000-08:00

more gallery stuff...i'll have new things soon i swear

I shared with amanda, violet, and julia

Happy Valentine's Day

2011-02-14T21:50:00.000-08:00

i'm really sick...so happy mucus day...have some germs!

Character Animation Gallery Show 2011

2011-02-01T12:37:00.001-08:00

I put up this line up of characters:

close ups...

finished

2010-12-27T19:23:00.000-08:00

now onto a new sketchbook
and my third year film characters....if you hadn't guessed yet haha -_-

true grit

2010-12-26T19:04:00.000-08:00

made me want to draw some gritty dude faces...

hansel and gretel line up

2010-12-17T20:06:00.000-08:00

more like gretel and gretel... lisa keene's class :)
Takes place in the Edwardian era. Two sisters instead of brother and sister...The youngest saves the oldest and kills the "witch" in the end. The "witch" character is a high society lady who bathes in the blood of young girls to stay young herself.....kind of dumb...but i liked the idea...mostly as excuse to draw the clothing :/ so good

Jake and Brett

2010-12-05T00:53:00.000-08:00

from Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

I could do with a night of getting tight on wine -_-

tiny robottttt

2010-12-02T02:33:00.000-08:00

tea time from Erin Kavanagh on Vimeo.

animation for scott wright's class.... i got teapot and gear for my two words :B

BAM

2010-11-30T21:54:00.001-08:00

sketchbook so far... (oldest to newest pages)

adventure time

2010-11-30T21:47:00.000-08:00

:O we have phil rynda for character design this semester! one of the assignments was a test for adventure time...here's some character designs for that..myupp

moarrr sketch pages

2010-10-17T19:11:00.000-07:00

i like where these are going :>

art nouveau ladies

2010-10-17T18:56:00.000-07:00

sketchbook pages

2010-10-17T16:37:00.000-07:00

so here's some of mah sketchbook this semester...so lots of project runway inspired fashion farts, film character possibilities, Halloween costume lols, sailor moon? i am so sorry for that -.-

mmyep i like filling the pages...and i also have a bad habit of writing stupid speech bubbles next to drawings...they're oldest to newest...i like seeing how some of the characters evolve...or just get drawn to death haha

:)

brontosaurus and bunny

2010-06-27T23:00:00.000-07:00

tattoos (okay i cheated a lot for this prompt :/)

page o' monkeys

2010-06-27T22:57:00.001-07:00

legit ship's cats

2010-05-26T20:51:00.001-07:00

Ship's Cat

2010-05-09T19:11:00.003-07:00

2nd year film Ship's Cat

...still in progress :/ I'm really disappointed in myself...but I will finish it over the summer.... ended up switching ideas a third time...tried to do a bit of an epic..oh well.. I learned a lot and am still learning because of it...definitely liking storyboarding and the story process..I want to get better at boarding.. I had the most fun with that :)

a hodge podge of character designs, some layouts, and my film's animatic:

Ship's Cat animatic from Erin Kavanagh on Vimeo.

bloop

2010-05-09T19:11:00.001-07:00

film idea that died before winter break... i still like the characters though...perhaps they'll worm their way into something else :>

merthings

2010-05-09T19:04:00.000-07:00

lolololololololololololololol...

blah blah blah

2009-11-24T13:53:00.001-08:00

oh hey look my first pan in after effects!! woooooooooo :)

dur hur

2009-11-20T02:20:00.000-08:00

well..... not going to be my semester end film for Mike's class.. alas... back to the drawing board...

film stuff

2009-11-17T15:32:00.000-08:00

Still meddling with my main character designs....this is what they're looking like right now.....i like the idea of her scrambling around the woods in a pair of tights...like she just escaped from school/whatever and didn't have time to change yet....

lighting layout

2009-11-13T20:17:00.000-08:00

layout assignment...take the same drawing and light it two ways. The shadow is a robot towering over them...perhaps not as clear as it should have been

day:
night:

Di"BRO"nysus

2009-11-05T10:51:00.000-08:00

Character design assignment was to design Bacchus/Dionysus:

I did "Bro"cchus/Di"bro"nysus the frat god of partying and drink :D he is quite the connoisseur of boxed wines..and never loses at beer pong haha:

some more character designs and layout assignments

2009-11-03T12:53:00.000-08:00

More character designs and layouts :)

Supposed to design something ridiculously tall and something small (similar to the match up of Hogarth and the Iron Giant)....in hindsight..my monster ended up looking very Cloverfield..i didn't mean for that to happen at all haha:

and then the monster fluffier (my characters that showed up in a previous perspective assignment only a little different):Funny skull designs (except i just drew some kids hanging out in some dinosaur skulls...just because):

Layout assignments:
Silhouette something with local color...since it was Halloween..I did the corpse scarecrow that featured prominently in my nightmares as a child o__o:

And my characters for my film idea at the moment :)

character designs and layout

2009-10-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

Character designs so far....
work is oldest to newest...just being here a month i feel like i've gotten miles better...calarts is kicking my butt haha :)

Bus stop line up:

Emus:

Bugs:
Different shaped people/poses/show good gesture (i just did a group of sexy ladays hahaha):Layout assignments so far....
Pig in a jungle (i hate this one..i feel like i've gotten better w/ layout class :/):Coyote and a Goat having tea:

An establishing shot from your film:
and just a doodle of Monty...because i miss him ;_;

Color and Design

2009-09-21T12:54:00.001-07:00

first assignment for Color and Design (another class I'm auditing from the first year because i'm crazy):
Theme: A Cafeteria Meal
-Must be hand done (oil, pastel, water color, pencil, marker, acrylic, etc.)
-full color
-mailed to the teacher (lame) place something on the outside that relates to the inside

ah ha ha ha water color barrrrfff

Perspective

2009-09-21T12:46:00.001-07:00

Here's the first assignment we had to do for perspective class (which I'm auditing from the first year):
Draw 3 characters that if standing side-by-side they'd be the same size BUT they're in perspective
-2 of the characters we see the entire character
-the third character is in the foreground so we don't see all of him/her
-be sure to draw your eye level and it must be perfectly level....no background

I'd like to color it up eventually but am ridiculously overwhelmed right now with class work... It's my three alien characters...they've been bopping around my sketchbook since last year :) hope to flesh them out more and develop a concrete backstory

9-17-09 figure drawings

2009-09-19T13:51:00.000-07:00

this figure drawing class is going to be so epic... our project is going to be Batman through the semester :D :D :D vehicle, location, and character designs omfg

mmmfffff definitely getting back in the groove.. I felt good about what i'd been able to do that day though...for not having done life drawing since winter quarter...my goal is to have my work pinned up in the display cases....so many talented people...it's daunting and mind blowingly inspiring all at the same time o___o must work harder

class schedule

2009-09-11T15:59:00.000-07:00

Orientation week is crazy...i love everyone i've met so far!!! Why did I wait so long to apply here? I could not see myself anywhere else :)

Here's my class schedule...although I kind of want to add a few classes if possible...which..it probably isn't..but I'd love to squeeze in Directing for Animators, Acting for Animators, Advanced Life Drawing: Illustration, and/or History of Fashion..... o_______o want want want want want.... but i may have more then enough on my plate already....hmmm

also I'm auditing the first year courses Perspective, Color and Design I, and Intro to Digital Production for Animators....this is going to be INSANE :D :D :D :D no sleep for meeeeee

cannot wait for Monday!! classes start and i get to sign up for my cuuuubbee!!

BAM

2009-08-28T20:33:00.001-07:00

Making it official :P should've posted that up when i got it....ah well here it is now...legit class of 2012..we'll see how this goes :)

I'll try to keep this blog updated about school and how this transfer situation works out...so if there are future transfer kids like this...then they'll know what to expect... since me along with David Wolter are the guinea pigs for this year :)

off to bed... my dad and i are driving out to LA tomorrow (stopping off at St. Louis, Sante Fe, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and who knows what else...biggest ball of yarn? haha) ROADTRIP!! :D :D :D :D

see you guys at CalArts!!

short film studies

2009-08-24T20:33:00.000-07:00

More character ideations for my short film...had this idea since high school..always wanted to have it animated...won't give it away yet..i want to keep it as much a surprise as possible...not that anyone cares but...i doubt you'll figure it out from the characters :P

I aged the girl down to more like 6 or 7 years old versus the original 12 years old i had in my mind... still messing around with her mother's design :)

my sketchbook is so messy...i tend to start overlapping drawings to keep with ideas...whoops :P

Poison Ivy and Two-Face sittin' in a tree

2009-08-09T20:43:00.001-07:00

and now "batman villains week" has become "batman pairings whenever the hell i feel like it" hahaha right... so here are Poison Ivy and Two-Face...

i like the weirdest couples...but i could have sworn they went on a date in an early Batman animated episode...before Harvey Dent had become Two-Face....fwhatever...i love them dearly...

She'd nag him about the environment..and part of him would care and the other half would want to go torch saplings..it'd be magical

Thoughts behind why they look that way... Two-face is a combination of Nolan's version in Dark Knight, Batman animated, and Gregory Peck (I like him with the burn versus the weird chemical mutation...Blasphemy i know..but...personal taste). Ivy is me trying to be Jim Lee and Adam Hughes... and FAILING..whatev they are HAWT.

I'd love to continue this with a Joker/Harley, Batman/Catwoman, and Batgirl/Nightwing..but who am i kidding..i'll probably get distracted....either way...that is my goal for this week..to try to keep this up.. HA

Bop it!

2009-08-07T16:20:00.000-07:00

Hey.... so that Batman villains week totally hit a wall.. and that wall's name was INSANE EYESTRAIN... i've been wearing glasses all week..and hiding in a dark corner because it hurt like a mo fo...but against my parents wishes i was doodling away..just not able to color up stuff in photoshop like i really wanted too.... expect the Penguin, Poison Ivy, Two face, Catwoman, and the Joker up this weekend.....

on to something completely different... I can finally show ONE thing from my time at Hasbro games... Because the new Bop it! is out on shelves.. and it is awesome... i played with it at Target today....YOU SHOULD ALL GO BUY ONE.. because the DESIGN IS SWEET and there are a couple new totally awesome features like "Party play" and Shout it....
I didn't do anything with the design.. the interns mostly got to play with it a lot and noodle with packaging concepts...i did concept board stuff though..and now i can show you... my KIDS.. let me show you them o_______________o

first is the concept board showing "Party Play" ...the next is just the kids... I sent this in as part of my Calarts portfolio for supplementary work....they are so ethnically diverse :P

next was just a kid to throw on the box packaging as a place holder:

i really like the art they've got on the packaging though..it's a nice style.. :D totally miss Hasbro games...best time ever working there... i believe by next month another thing will be on shelves and i can throw out some other artwork

:D

Harley Quinn monday

2009-08-03T16:11:00.000-07:00

I declare this week BATMAN VILLAINS WEEK!!! I solemnly swear that each day i shall draw a batman villain!! huzzah!

Today i drew Harley Quinn...

the original goal was to create a design that could fit in the Nolan-verse..but instead it ended up looking more Burton-verse. I don't think she'd fit well with Nolan-verse anyways...especially with the Dark Knight's Joker...I think he'd probably show HQ the pencil trick before he let her call him "Mistah Jay." love love love her character either way...

so here's my take on Harley Quinn:

recent sketchbook stuff

2009-08-01T16:57:00.000-07:00

Some development for my first film...trying to figure out the main character.. who knows it could end up being a little boy by the time i'm through with it...

Now that i've seen Coraline (finally)....i think she looks to Coraliney...bleeeehhhh whatever

and then some character drivel for my "Immortals" plot hole.. they're getting more comic booky.. which is good...because the storyline is getting more comic book/graphic novel/whatever you call them these days...sdjfladkjf;akjf;kd i like where they're going....i also like how the pen and prismacolor marker look....i need to get out of my grayscale funk :/

I must make myself update this more regularly o___o

portfolio

2009-08-01T15:56:00.000-07:00

I got this thing back like last month...but i'm lazy about uploading anything or even taking pictures so decided today was the day....

looking at it now i'm scratching my head over why calarts is letting me transfer (or even why i was accepted)...i hate my portfolio..especially after seeing these wonderkids coming into the class of '13 holy crap...you guys.... you guys are unreal...
and i think i missed the memo of everyone doing really "experimental" figure drawings..mine are very traditional (i always just want to capture the model realistically)...i've never had a chance to splatter around water color or draw people in costumes...the models that wandered into daap were very naked and very old...sooooo myup nothing crazy beautiful...just charcoal....dur hur

also i think i've way improved since these were drawn... Putting together this portfolio was very helter skelter...i was in Springfield, MA last fall on co-op with Hasbro games...so i had no idea what figure drawings i had on hand from my winter 2008 quarter (since they were at home)...and all the animal drawings were done at the zoo in the park with like...gloves on because it was freezing from sept-nov and then i flew home for thanksgiving and threw everything together in time to make the early due date.... and the day i sent my portfolio in everything went to shit as far as family...our horse Tee passed away horribly that night...and i still feel sick to my stomach that i couldn't drive down with my parents to kentucky to the equine hospital to at least say goodbye to him..oh god ;_;

right i'm rambling....here's my shit portfolio (pics are really bad..because it's overcast today..maybe i'll retake them on a sunny day and reupload...probably not though)...a lot isn't shown (as far as not from life work) in this because it's confidential character work for Hasbro..that i was allowed to show only because it was for an application to a school...i can probably never show this stuff...or at least until after 2011..probably not though....wish i could..it's my best work by far...

Calarts Portfolio

kept my portfolio small as far as quantity (all these figure drawings are from like early 2008 and late 2007...yuck)...and as far as the supplemental stuff...there's actually a lot more to it...but it was supplemental so i don't really feel like scanning in every page of my sketchbook..and then i can't show the main character stuff because i signed it away...with my soul to Hasbro :P

Here's the last in class figure drawing i did in March 2009... to wash the bad old portfolio taste out of my mouth :/

quickie and the witch

2009-04-10T21:06:00.001-07:00

no more DAAP EVER!!!

2009-03-23T16:47:00.001-07:00

I'd like to start off by saying...i have no idea how to post comments on this site...at all.. so to everyone that's been commenting thank you so much for your feedback!!! I just have no way of replying to you yet....for some reason the word I need to type..in order to prove I'm not a robot..never loads.....sigh.. so...I'm not ignoring you...I'm just really bad with the internet...

But in more SHAZAMALAMMIN' news!!!! I got accepted to CalArts!!! into the second year of Character Animation no less!! which...i didn't think was possible.. but i seriously hope that wasn't a typo on my acceptance letter..because being able to shave off a years worth of tuition is a godsend... because i am POOR ..alas...seems like my future in a cardboard box on some abandoned boardwalk is a little closer now..hahaha....here's hoping i get a job in the animation industry (Pixar or bust) and the economy doesn't continue to tank in the year 2012... :P

adkfa;kdjfa; i think it's just starting to hit me... i get to start animating in the fall adka;dj man i'm so giddy about that... no more industrial design projects... EVER!!!! on to character design, figure drawing, environments, story classes.... huzzah! Man i cannot WAIT to have professors I respect and who completely qualify for their jobs....unlike DAAP...

oh hay speaking of a complete waste of a quarter... our second project (also my last industrial design project EVER hoorah!) was a point of purchase display.... insert extra barf here... i tried to push it towards my interests as much as possible....so i did a POP display for urban vinyl toys. Originally had it where I was doing DIY munnys from KidRobot, but like... 2 weeks before the damn thing was due my professor was all like... "jk you should make your own store and toy" yeah... great idea... wish we'd decided on that at the beginning of the quarter...so I ended up cranking like mad and doing my own DIY figurines called Chunkies for my own urban vinyl toy, print and apparel store called Moshi Moshi. The company of Moshi Moshi ended up having an entirely nautical theme of characters.... 3 eyed octopus, narwhals, a pirate girl (who is basically sushi girl with a tattoo), skulls and crossbones...

if i had the money i would totally start my own urban vinyl company.. kidrobot and tokidoki are so sweet....even though i don't drop serious cash on collecting the vinyl figures i love the characters these artists come up with (this is one of my favs right now: Heroes of Burgertown ...i pretty much want all of them)

any whoozle.... here's the poster art i did to go on the back of the display:
i'll upload the actualy POP display design art and marketing board later.... apparently blogger is running into internal errors when i try to post more art...

frill

2009-03-08T14:15:00.000-07:00

oh hay guys.. some actual industrial design work... only not really.... haha... first project of the quarter (2 weeks) was focused on Biomimicry (which is awesome) so the inspired by nature project was to take an animal, plant etc...and take something from them and find a use for it in a product.... pretty much the whole class went a soft goods route.... bags, shoes, etc..

I did a jacket design based on the Frill Necked Lizard's frill mechanism.... and incorporating that defense mechanism into a hood for a jacket... so below is my inspiration board, sketch board, and then final marketing board...in which we needed to make an advertisement showcasing our product... i went the route of like a billboard/magazine fashion ad for mine... the models have aboriginal body paint since the lizard can be found in Australia:

i lied

2009-03-05T14:37:00.001-08:00

so i lied... this is the last post for today... i completely forgot about this doodle. done during figure drawing class in one of my space out moments.... it's a character from The Immortals plotline...Evey (pronounced eh-vee).

and one last post for the day i swear

2009-03-05T14:16:00.001-08:00

and some fanfarts....the iron giant, mulan, and avatar one are from like... 2006? 2007? i am embarrassed by their fanfartyness...but i do love me some iron giant, mulan, and avatar the last airbender...the spawn and batman...are from last summer...and i blame my friends as well as the dark knight for being so incredibly awesome...

more oldish stuff

2009-03-05T14:08:00.000-08:00

Alphonse Mucha inspired art (2006-2008):

the last one is a commission for http://germancitygirl.deviantart.com/ of her character Tanake Trang and is still in progress.

oh hay more stuff

2009-03-05T13:53:00.000-08:00

sushi girl artwork (from 2006-early 2008):

old stuff.... i just don't have the time to do full colored photoshop pieces anymore...here i was learning photoshop and i had a little more time to play around... :/

some random arts

2009-03-05T13:17:00.000-08:00

OMYGOODNESS... another post... in rapid succession.. haha didn't want everything all on one post...so i divvied it up..

just a compilation of random doodles/ideas that have been floating around and some stuff from last year that i'm very fond of:

some dancing girls... I draw women too much.. but i wanted to mess with styles a teensy bit...if only for how their legs are drawn as well as for the mohawk and afro girl...because they are my favs.

GOATS!! I actually have a goat....for reals.. his name is Ozzy and he's adorkable...and he really does run like that... I've had a little kid's book idea bopping around that would center on a goat.. but haven't really done much about it.. I just love the idea..goats are such silly animals and there aren't many (if any) big characters out there (animated or in story format) that are goats...i should change that...

my sushi kids!!! these are my brain babies...first real characters that i've poured my love into...left to right: Kimchi Boy (Jin), Sushi Girl (Emily), Saki Girl (Alice), Fortune Cookie Boy (Jonathan, Nate, "Lucky), Miso Soup Boy (Tobias, Tobey), and Green Tea Girl (Gemma). Growing up they had nicknames for each other based off of food. I have so much backstory for these guys i could take up this entire blog with it (next post i'll flesh them out..if not for the three people following this blog..but for myself so i finally have it written down). I'd love seeing this as an animated series for more of a tween and up range.
AND MY OTHER BRAIN BABY!! The Immortals....my epic plot hole full of cliches.... If I could take a year off of school and just draw these guys i would.. i love them so much... The story takes place in the future during the third world war. There's super powers, immortality, action, an epic journey across the world, and not an entirely happy ending. this sketch compilation is like the tip of the iceburg... i have a sketchbook overflowing with concepts for these guys...but that sketchbook is at Calarts right now....hopefully getting me in :P I really want to make this into a graphic novel....badly...

more monty and me

2009-03-05T12:55:00.000-08:00

some more Monty and Me "concept" sketches... I worked a little more on making Monty's tiger form more unique... before I was just drawing him realistically.. now he's able to show a bit more personality i think...

also some more sketches of the girl and how she interacts a little with Monty both when Monty is a cat and when he's "imagined" as another animal... and introducing another character. The little boy is her neighbor and they are bffs for reals... even though the girl can be a bit bossy sometimes and the boy hates playing "girly" pretend...she bullies him into it anyways... they need names... it is so hard not to just name her after myself and the boy after my old next door neighbor.. because if anything..i'm just retelling all of our shenanigans...

figure drawing

2009-03-05T12:32:00.000-08:00

I'm taking a figure drawing class this quarter...which I love! It's nice to come in for four hours and just relax and draw however i want... no ideating, designing, bleh...i just pop in my headphones and draw....love it

so..here are some gestures and long pose drawings... if they look wonky it's because they are too large to scan so they're just photos of the work... or i just completely suck at drawing the human figure...haha...
gestures are on newsprint with charcoal pencil (1-2 minutes) and the long pose studies (2ish hours) are on colored canson paper with charcoal pencil and white pastel pencil:

I would also like to add that the gesture drawings of the woman are so quick...she held the poses for like.. 2 seconds then would change...not my favorite model...also..models should stay away from tattoos that cover important parts of their anatomy therefore making it impossible to see definition and where to shade.. aka don't tattoo your boobs..ever...if you want to model for a figure drawing class...it makes drawing you exceptionally difficult and it's shockingly unnattractive :P

The guy featured in these sketches is the best model ever. I was so sick of drawing flabby guys... it's great to draw someone whose muscles are defined... you could see every muscle in his back!! it was like drawing a superhero and he's like 50 too... makes me feel so out of shape.

doodle

2009-02-14T17:42:00.001-08:00

just for fun :)

mrow

2009-01-17T18:22:00.000-08:00

here's some more Monty & Me ... because drawing happy cats makes me happy:

arts and farts

2008-12-29T13:19:00.000-08:00

Needed somewhere to post original character designs...until I can muster the computer knowledge to make a professional website...
Character ideations for an idea i've been kicking around for a children's book/animated series (i wish).... called Monty & Me

Monty & Me is sort of an homage to my childhood adventures I had with my old cat Shadow...as well as the summers I spent in California with my Grandparents.

Ignore the obvious Calvin & Hobbes references and the fact that the title is very close to Marley & Me... it's still in its beginning stages....

This was mostly a challenge to get my bum in gear and do something with the ideas i have floating in my head. Trying to explore different styles/body shapes in the characters. Also going to try to do nice colored scenes with these guys for once... instead of character lineups over and over again.