Model Photography

This Halloween weekend, I went to a fashion show that takes place downtown every year. It was a lot of fun and I took a lot of pictures. I was standing behind 3 or 4 rows of people, but was somewhat close to the runway, so I was pretty excited when I got photos like this:

I've been noticing an increased intrest in photography with me. Photography of models/people to be specific. This is probably attributed to my love of sewing and fashion (I love a lot of things, don't I?). I think this started back in June when my friend and I went to a convention and we decided to take pictures of each other's costumes since we never really get good pictures of our costumes. As I was taking pictures of my friend, I realized I was starting to give directions to her when she seemed stumped how to pose and moving her around to different locations.

I know there are people hired by conventions (photogs) to take pictures of cosplayers so they have a picture of their cosplay, and there are also photographers payed by cosplayers to take pictures of them. My favorite convention photographer would have to be Elemental. Her photos have a very distinct style to them and are just cool. I'll actually get to meet Elemental at Ohayocon in January, as she is slated to take pictures of a Final Fantasy IX cosplay group I am a part of. She's also friends with some other of my cosplay friends so hopefully I'll get a chance to talk to her a bit!

Anyway, for right now, I'll be content taking pictures of friends in cosplay. I'd like an SLR camera in the future, but we'll see where this goes.

Have more photos from the show! (I know the composition isn't the best in these, but remember, I was about 15 ft away from the runway!)

Some Graphic Design Stuff

In addition to taking Illustration classes, I'm also required to take a couple of graphic design classes. Here is some work from those classes! Let it be known that I don't consider myself a graphic designer by any means!

In one class we had an in-class assignment to design a gift card for Target. All I could see in that Target logo was an eyeball so I decided to make a little face. It's pretty simple but I think it's cute.

Okay, haha. I think this needs some explaining. The assignment was to redesign a book cover and I found this book at the library called Japanamerica, which was all about Japanese influence in the U.S. If you're familiar with Japanese animation, panty shots are fairly common... and that turned into this. Hahaha. Don't mind the weird colors on the edges. I was trying uploading the jpeg file but it wasn't working for some reason so I had to crop this off of my desktop.

This is a three-piece ad campaign for Roots and Shoots. Click them to full-view! Had the same problem with these as I did with the book cover... when I uploaded them the color got all weird. So don't mind the stray black lines. Anywho, I think my layouts have gotten much better since the book cover. I used a lot of gridlines to try and keep everything fairly consistent. I think they came out pretty well. :)

That's all for now, I'll post some Illustration stuff next time!

Sophomore Year GO!

Oh gosh, I'm terribly sorry I haven't updated this blog in a few months. Summer went by in a flash and now I'm a sophomore! Oh, boy. There's only been like thing that I've done so far this year for school that I feel is worth uploading, but my teacher has it right now, so I can't do anything about that!

One thing I have been doing is writing letters to a few friends from across the country, and I feel obligated to doodle something for them in every letter, so I've been drawing a lot of chibis. I try to draw something "SRS" but my brain usually only lets me draw something simple and cute. Ah, well. Onto the doodles! This was drawn back before Otakon for Lyse and Jen, two cosplay friends who attended Otakon. I'm on the right fangirling over them (Why yes, I am a little boy). But no really, friends dressed up as characters they cosplay, from L-R: Lyse as Ema Skye, Jen as Mia Fey, and me as Cody Hackins, all from the Ace Attorney series.

Drew this at the beginning of the school year. The girl is Akaru, who used to be a personification of myself, but she turned into her own character. The worm is the Nameless Emo Worm. I drew quite a few comics about him and his friends but that's a whole other entry.
This is Luka from VOCALOID in one of her outfits from her "Just Be Friends" video. Go look it up on youtube. Now! Plz ignore the bad anatomy /facepalmAhaha I drew this for my friend's birthday. It's Ron DeLite from Ace Attorney in a bunny outfit. PLZ DON'T ASK. (Although it's relevant to another piece lolol)Both of these doodles are from a letter I wrote to Ashley. The first one is Miku from VOCALOID in one of her Project Diva (PSP game) outfits, and the second one is Switzerland and Liechtenstein from Hetalia.
This was a birthday present for Lyse that I drew a week ago~ It's Heather from Silent Hill 3 in her Princess Heart outfit, in a pin-up girl pose. It's silly, but I actually LIKE IT so, uhm, yeah. :D

That's all for now, I'll try to update for frequently! Thanks for putting up with me!

Last of the Freshman year doodles

Oh wow, I haven't updated in awhile! I apologize for that! School's been out for awhile, and I think I've been too focused on catching up on sleep and relaxing than scanning in new doodles. I'll scan some new stuff that I've done since school's been out soon, but for now, here are some doodles that I did at the end of the school year that I didn't post. Enjoy!
This last picture was actually going to be turned in for a structural drawing assignment, but I realized it would be waaay too hard to draw reflections of all these characters so I did something else, haha. They're all characters from the Ace Attorney series, since I am addicted to those games.That's all for now! I'll try to update with some new stuff soon!

Turtle Series - Pokemon Comic

Hello! This is my first post after finishing my first year! Hurrah! I have quite a few things to upload, but I need to scan them first, haha. This was already on my computer so I decided to share. :) For our final project in 2-D we had to create a 4-piece series based on an animal. I chose a red-eared slider (turtle) because I had a couple as pets and turtles are my favorite animal. :D One of the steps was a conceptual step, so I decided to use turtle Pokemon! I was going to have a single colored picture of myself as a pokemon trainer with turtle pokemon, but my teacher didn't know what pokemon was (WHAT) so I decided to make a comic to explain what it was. The comic ended up not reallly being about turtles so I turned in a 5th turtle piece, which I will upload later.

Anywho, about this comic. It's about me as a pokemon trainer getting my first pokemon, haha. I actually had to do some research on Pokemon to help me with this comic! It turns out that you actually become a pokemon trainer on your 10th birthday, but I decided to keep my short red hair instead of drawing myself as a ten year old because I had long brown hair when I was 10 and that's not as exciting as red hair. I also tried to draw in the anime style which pokemon is drawn in, which was a lot of fun. :D

Okay, I've talked too much, here is the comic!
I don't know why the 3rd page is like that. D: Sorry, just click it to enlarge it!
That's it! I know the pacing is pretty bad, but eh. I'm not very good at comics! Even though it doesn't look it, this TOOK ME FOREVER. Also while drawing professor Oak, I realized he looked like Phoenix Wright in my drawings. Haha!

Three of Four

In Drawing class, we were asked to pick our four best drawings from the entire year. I've picked three of them, but I'm not sure of the last one. There's one I'm thinking of, but I still have a couple of weeks to draw something that will be the fourth piece. We'll see what happens. :) For now, here are the top three that I picked.

Oh, hey, this looks familiar! I posted a work-in-progress of this piece last week. Here is the final! I'm really happy with how it came out. :) I should use charcoal more often, I get better results...

This is the second piece! This was seriously one of the hardest things I've ever drawn. Each finger is at such a delicate angle.. augh! I worked really hard on this, and I hope it shows! This is black and white conte crayon.
Last is a still-life of a plane. I had no idea what this thing even was when I first saw it. It's a tool used for shaving wood (Wikipedia link)! Anyway, I typically hate still lives, but this tool had so many curves and angles, it wasn't that bad to draw. Graphite.The fourth one will be decided soon!

Photography

By request of my dad (hi!), I'm going to make a post about photography.

Now, I don't consider myself a photographer by any means. I don't have any fancy equipment, or even a really fancy camera. I don't have the patience to be a professional photographer. Basically what I do is take pictures of things that interest me and try and create interesting angles. I am quite fond of electrical poles. I do not know why. Anyway, here are a few of my favorite pictures. I have a flickr, but I haven't updated it in ages. If I take some new pictures I like, I'll post them here. And I'll try and catch up with my Flickr!


As a bonus, have a couple of pigeons that were on the Empire State building. Be sure to enlarge the second one to see the EVIL EYE the pigeon is giving you. It's quite funny.

Figure Drawing

I had some free time, so I took a bit of time to take some pictures of some of my most recent figure drawings. Each of these is typically a two-session drawing, so about 5-6 hours goes into each one. A couple of these might be one session drawings (about 3 hours), but I'm not sure which ones, so oh well. :)

Here are a couple of pages of gestures to start this post off. Each pose is about 15 seconds.


Okay, onto the figure drawings! These first two are charcoal.
This one will be finished tomorrow. :)
Next one is a heightened drawing with black and white conte pencil.
All the rest of these are graphite!
That's all for now! Comments/critique are always welcome~

A few more recent sketches

Quick post today with a few doodles! These are all newer... done since starting college. :)

This first doodle was drawn while to design an original character. It ended up looking like a friend of mine, haha. But I love the angle of the face. There's just something really pretty about it...
I drew this while watching The Daily Show one night. I like blood and bandages. :X
More gore! xD I drew this on the back of my schedule in Digital Design... the idea was that the girl attached the bottom half of a mermaid to herself... yea. :D
This is a picture of myself and my roommates that I drew before winter break. I never got to finishing it. I'm the one in the purple sweater.