Winter Break so far..

So... I got a new tablet! Woohoo!

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season! I am relieved, I got some time off of work to come home for the holidays and I've been busy drawing away. 

So.. This is a big post!
I've been frequent on my tumblr with these, but Blogspot does take a little more effort to upload and talk about each piece, so here it goes!

I've been receiving requests for commissions lately and I am ecstatic! 

I have never been payed for artwork until now and it is so wonderful!

A bear adventure!

A quicker bear and landscape sketch when I first opened my new intous! 

A commission for my friend Summer, who really loved the bear sketches
and wanted one for her boyfriend!

My first commission!! A friend of a friend commissioned this drawing of him and his girlfriend!

I think this is a record.. I watched a good six seasons of doctor who in about a week..
while still going to work and drawing.. its a good show.

 A Game of Thrones commission for my friend Claudie!

I got the Nausicaa manga compilation for christmas,
and I love the colours used in his watercolour sketches and in the movie.
So wonderful had to play around.
It is definitely one of my favourite Ghibli films.

A secret Santa gift for my classmate Erika,
She is so talented I was so worried she wouldn't like it!
It is a character from an anime called : tanken driland 

Doodless

Some character doodles, I am really trying to play with
 character design and get a little more comfortable.
I'd also like to push and further my style.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed all of this artwork! I shall have more to come I am sure by the end of the break!!

Happy New Years!
-Sarah

Digital Tools Short film!!

It is finally done!! For digital tools we had to display our understanding of adobe premiere with a short film!

We had to include at least 3 coloured layouts, 3 seconds of animation, 3 transitions, 5 layer moves and 5 sound effects/music!!

I think it turned out pretty cool, the animation is choppy, but it was a lot of work to do this on top of all of our other assignments, I am pretty happy with it!! The song in the video is written by my boyfriend Adam :) (Such talent)

Some of the layouts used:

Hope you guys liked it :)

-Sarah

Character Design - Posing

Hey guys! 

So for the last few weeks I've been working on character posing for character design class!

For this project we had to design an original character with a personality, and then draw that character in 8 different poses, and then do a nice clean up of those poses!

So here is Eloise!

Final Character Clean-up

Some roughs + Experimenting with cleaning up on paper.

Originally I was going to do my clean up with pencil on paper, but I decided I wanted to work on my digital line work instead! Character design really makes me nervous, but I think I am getting better already and I can't wait to improve further!

 I hope you enjoyed this post!
I will have more to post soon!
-Sarah

MARINE ANIMAL / BOOK PAGE TURN ANIMATION!! -- S & C curve woo!

Alright guys! Reading week has arrived!! Wow already!! 

I have some rough and cleaned up animation to show you!! Yay!!

I have my book page turn and of course the marine animal! -- what animal do you think I did? 

I think it is pretty obvious ;)

We could choose to clean up either our book animation or our marine animal. The book gave me a bit of trouble, but I am going to keep practising and hopefully get better :)

Book Page Turn - Rough Animation!

Marine Animal was a LOT of fun! I got to do an awesome background and animate a character!! We will be cleaning it up in digital tools, so I will re-upload a video in which the rough animation goes into the clean then into the coloured version!

Narwhal Clean Animation

Narwhal Rough Animation

My First Dope Sheets!!

Rough and Clean Animation on Paper!

One more cool thing to show you guys...

Panned Background!

One of the cool things about this project was doing the panned background! My teacher Michel Hannan really loved it, and she decided to make my background a "pre-set" for next year - meaning if anyone doesn't have time to make a background, they can use mine! So cool! So honoured!!

I hope you enjoyed this post! We had a lot due this week - hands and feet, life drawing portfolio, animation! Wow! 
I had great time management and didn't stress too much! 
I have to get going to work now, but I shall post stuff over the week as I get things done!

I also have a doctors appointment for my wrist/hand, so hopefully that will be fixed soon!

Have a great weekend! 
-Sarah

Digital Tools (Again)

For some reason I get too excited about projects in this class, here my "title page" for my work!
They are apparently going to use it before any animation work we do that is shown on the monitors at school!
Anyways here it is:

I will post life drawing this weekend, I have had bad hand issues this week and it really hurts to do much of anything/I am too lazy to sort through all of that newsprint right now hahaha, so bear with me! 
The weeks are moving way too fast, but it shows how much I love this program!

Thanks for reading guys
-Sarah

Digital Tools Yeti!

I lied, I am going to post Life Drawing tomorrow because I am too excited to show you guys this!

Digital tools is a class to help us learn about programs we will be using in our animation class. There is no need to do good art or animation, you just need to show that you can use the program.... I went a little over board...

This is the rough (basically pencil test) loop of the Yeti

Art Dump!

So I am MOVING!
My parents bought a house near Linsday, and we are moving Thursday to the new house! 
I finally found a living arrangement for school, and I move to Oakville September 1st!!
The house is almost empty, and lots of hectic packing has been done. It is my last day at my part time job tomorrow, and I am mentally preparing for that!

Here is an art dump of a bunch of stuff I have done when I've had time!

A little drawing I did for my boyfriend, he really liked my Sheridan one, so I drew him playing his acoustic!

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 Art Jam 2000
So we did an art jam with the facebook group for my program. In this jam we did 5 minute art challenges by combining words so animals / professions, turning objects into characters etc. Here is what came out of it!

"Corgi Wizard"

"Centaur Stripper"

"Guitar Character"

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So I started watching Pokemon from the beginning, and ended up doodling Misty while watching some of the episodes, I am considering doing a drawing of all of the characters and just leaving this doodle how it is!

Misty from Pokemon

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A little drawing I did based on a friend's band. They are amazing!

    I  have a lot of sketchbook stuff too, but most of them are packed, and my scanner and camera are all packed up too! I will update that soon :) 

Bye for a little while Blogger!
I shall check back in probably when I move into my apartment if not sooner <3
-Sarah  

How to Train Your Dragon -- Diving into Fan Art!

So many people have told me to do fan art... so I finally did. With the trailers out for How to Train your dragon 2, as well as my slight obsession with the app game "DragonVale" on my ipod touch... it just seemed like a good place to start! 

This was also inspired by Alanna and Katherine, who are both talented friends of mine (and future roomies). They have been doing a lot of digital art recently to sell prints at a convention, including some httyd stuff, which made me want to draw some toothless :) 

Hiccup and Toothless reaching for the stars!

 
This was a fairly fast drawing, only a couple of hours, and most of the time was spent figuring out what to draw!!
Anyways, its 3AM again... I need to start sleeping a little earlier! 
Hope you enjoyed it!
-Sarah 

Harbour concept

I have had a fever for a few days, and it has been pretty crappy, I haven't been in the mood to do anything. This morning I had to draw, so I did a quick concept layout of a harbour. (I really like the cat holding the fish)
This was a really quick drawing, looking at a computer is making my headache worse unfortunately, and I have to go to work very soon -- I don't know how I am going to pull off customer service today hahaha 
Anyways, enjoy!
Going to start doing some fanart for inspiration soon -- maybe Game of Thrones? Avatar the Last Air bender -- let me know what you'd like to see! 
-Sarah 

It was a Photoshop kind of night!

 So tonight I suppose I felt like drawing!! Did a quick sketch of a ginger girl, then decided I wanted to update my facebook profile picture, and I was fuelled with my excitement for school this fall. As most of you know I was finally accepted into Sheridan's Animation program!! The wait is killing me, I just want to get started!! My friend Holly has also been asking forever for a sketch so the final drawing is of her :)

Hope you enjoy!!

-Sarah 

Every Ginger i know is awesome!!

I can't wait for school!!

My friend and self proclaimed "Biggest Fan" Holly.

Forest Spirit

Hey guys!!   My t-shirt design is up on threadless!!
It would be a fantastic honour if you could vote 5 for me :)
  
VOTE FOR MY DESIGN! 

for more info on the design, check out THIS BLOGPOST!

A lot of my doodles lately have been spirit oriented. Its fun because you can do just about anything with the concept of a spirit, they can appear like almost anything, size shape colour... its pretty open ended! I think I am going to continue doing digital sketches like this, and maybe do a more time consuming finished photoshop painting some day! 
 
-Sarah 

Creature of the Forest

 

This is inspired by a contest on threadless (a very cool t-shirt website) to create a shirt inspired by the creatures of the forest... I may have taken it a little too literally. Here is my creature of the forest, he has become the earth the trees and even a home for some animals..

. EDIT: THE DESIGN IS UP FOR VOTING!!  I would super appreciate it if you could vote for my design!!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

VOTE FOR MY DESIGN!!!!  

 

I am pretty happy with how it came out!Sorry for the lack of posts this summer by the way, I am working practically full time! Which is great for money, and also not so great for the tiredness!
In my free time I have been apartment hunting, and stressing out about moving soon, new job, new school, my parents are moving away etc.

Hope everyone's weekend was great!!! Let me know how you like the design!
-Sarah   


 

3 way digital collaboration

So my friend Alanna messaged asking me if I'd like to take part in a 3 way digital collaboration with herself and Katherine.. (both destined to be my roommates this coming fall) Basically, we each do a digital sketch, then we all switch and do the lineart for someone else's design, then we all switch again and do the colouring.

Now there are mistakes on my part because it is the first time I have done this or even heard of it hahaa

Alanna is "train", Katherine is "foxery" and I am of course Sarah.My sketch is TOO detailed, which I realized after recieving Alanna's, my line art could be better (I have never done just line art before) and I forgot we were able to colour in the line art during our colouring turn which I went back and fixed and now I am much happier!. 

All in all though it was a really cool experience and I hope to do it again soon.. and a lot better on my part. 

They are truly masters at digital art, and I hope to learn a lot from them!! 

-Sarah 

PS. Check out Alanna's Blog and Katherine's Blog !!!    

On the left is each of our original sketches, we all switched up for line art, then traded a third time to do the painting.

Gazing

Today was Victoria day. 
Once again I did not go out to view fireworks. Hearing them from my room always makes me sad, for viewing them is one of my favourite things... and this year it was no one's fault but mine. I was just not feeling good today and the thought of going outside was just not present in my mind. 

So I drew instead - at least I can get inspired ;)

   
Here is a digital layout sketch (approx 2hrs) of sort of a back alleyesque setting. I have no idea what that creature is next to the girl, but it just sort of happened! One minute it was a bag, the next it became a sort of pokemon type being!
I don't know anymore!

Anyways, I am super sleepy!
Goodnight folks!
Hope you enjoyed it!
-Sarah   
 

Eyes Closed

I am not going to lie. I am pretty freaked out about next year...

It is the character design portion of animation that scares me.
When I design characters they are flat - more illustrative. For my portfolio however I tried to do something with more structure, using basic shapes etc.  But it really is not me.. and I'm not quite certain what to do about that.

Frustration!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while! I lost the cord to my tablet at the start of the summer, and have not gotten around to scanning anything I have sketched... Luckily, my blackberry phone cable works with my tablet!! WOOHOO!

Anyways, lots of things to look forward to!

I will be volunteering at TCAF on Sunday, not in the reference library but at Fortuna down the street where they will be doing workshops! I am very excited to be apart of this wonderful event!

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I will also be at Anime North with some friends, on the Friday and the Sunday of the convention (Wedding to attend on the Saturday) I am hoping one day to be among the artists alley, but I am thinking my style isn't quite "anime" enough for this particular convention!

Hope summer is going well for everyone!

-Sarah