theartbeth: (n) artist named Beth

2011-07-19T18:22:00.000-07:00

No real artistic doodles to add today. Just an "Oh, look! How neat!" I finally uploaded some photos of my Character design with his chocolate molded version. The design makes me smile because of the movement in his beard and the facial expression. He feels very "bouncy."

I do have sketches I am in need of scanning eventually. It's the curse of a compulsive doodler. :) I sometimes will go to the comic book store or see a show on TV and get motivated to do a better version. -Example: I have this immense URGE! to redesign VOLTRON and Thundercats Reboots. It's like an itch! I kind of have fun doing that, though.

In other news, I've found a love of making breads. Honey Whole Wheat, Cinnamon Raisin Swirl, Challah.... all in moderation, of course. :) Though I do have to say, the honey whole wheat does make fantastic crutons when you have leftovers! - I will leave my love of food there for now.

2011-07-07T18:07:00.000-07:00

In between projects, whipped up this little number. Was for a contest for "Why I deserve a vacation!" But Apparently it's either too good, too unusual, or the mods didn't like the "scary" situation of the picture. Oh well. I liked the composition and movement.

It was amusing either way.

2011-06-01T20:03:00.000-07:00

Hello, blog!

It's summer. Things are incredibly busy. Above is one of the place cards I did for my recent wedding. It was a fantastic challenge to do. I wish I had more time to do things likes this! I wanted to experiment with texture and color.

Hopefully an art dump eventually? Maybe? I don't know. Currently with work, I can't divulge what I do there, and it really does take all of my time. Maybe once it's all released, I can talk more and happily point it out. No guarantees.

I need to take photos of my Robin Eggs character designs. They were all over this 2011. It was pretty exciting seeing them replace the old robin.

Happy little guys, aren't they?

Recently contributed to a public radio podcast about life after getting the BFA. A little nervous. No names, very general, and "I love what I do." Only hope I came across clearly, and curious to hearing more discussions about outsourcing. I'm always interested in hearing more sides of the debate.

Girl

2011-02-19T16:46:00.000-08:00

Experimenting with no-lines in a design. Nothing much else going on that I can divulge in, currently. Working two jobs involving art, and both have a lot of potential to be huge. "Details" after it's released. -Typical of anything in the art fields.

New art.

2011-01-26T18:47:00.001-08:00

It's been a heck of a year! I have so much to share and so much to talk about, so in the meantime, have some new work that's out and about.

First, have some art that's been out this Holiday season. While working for a pretty rad package design firm, I did some character designs a while back. They're finally creeping out again! Here's a Santa I drew for them, colored by one of the team. He was even molded on the chocolate! Ah! Very cool......

And lately, I've been becoming entertained by Reddit. I had a huge kick to do some drawings in some different styles. The results below.

New Little something

2009-10-10T20:37:00.000-07:00

Figured I would share my lateset little something I drew earlier over the summer through my former employer/freelance client.

Just a quick little thing for the Local rescue league, sketches done by me, and illustrator work is done by another person. I've included a watermarked copy of the original sketch.

I think my pencils were cute.

Somehow...

2009-05-20T10:51:00.000-07:00

Somehow I keep forgetting to post on here. I guess you can call it life?

But anyhow, my Easter stuff for Hershey finally appeared in April! Take a look:

And detail, I didn't ask for him to be white with blush, but c'est la vie, right?

And recently thanks to a dear friend's suggestion, and a prank gift, I've boarded the Etsy train! It's an absolutely amazing community. I honestly love it. I swear, if I had more money, I would be in so much trouble. But please have a look at the shop! I'm still working on it, but it'd be appreciated if you had a look! :)

http://bethcandraw.etsy.com

Keep on Keeping on

2008-09-17T18:15:00.000-07:00

So I have been keeping busy. As said, above are some purses I made around this time last year. I have to make a tutorial on how to do these puppies for anyone else interested.

Unfortunately, due to the economy, I've picked up part time jobs like any dutiful artist, and decided after hearing positive feedback from some places in CA, but at the same time, rejections, due to my location, to move to town and just "Take the leap."

As frustrating as it has been, I really don't blame anyone for choosing to hire locally. There's so many talents in California that it would be a waste of money and resources to hire from out of state. I do love the industry, but know it's the way things are. I'm willing to go for it.

....asides, I am not too fond of cooler weather.

So remember this image from last year?

Well someone in Brazil was inspired enough to make these little guys!

I mean, honestly! How cool is that? I was surprised earlier when they came from left field, but once everything was cleared up, it's all good. Because honestly it's a huge compliment and totally made my day! I wish I had known about them sooner!

The credit for the sculptures totally goes to Joedson Rosa http://joedsonrosa.blogspot.com/

So what do you think, everyone? Perhaps I should go into toy design and Joedson Rosa does the sculpting?

AND! To top it off as well, MaGiK World, the studio I had freelanced for last year, has recently won a "shared" Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program! HBO's "Classical Baby: Poetry Show" I think that's quite awesome. 8th Paragraph down.

http://cdn.emmys.tv/awards/2008pte/CTA08_wrap.php

The Outstanding Children’s Program was shared by two winners: HBO’s Classical Baby (I’m Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show and Nickelodeon’s Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: The Untouchable Kids Of India. This marked two Emmys in a row in this category for Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. Last year the series won for the episode titled “Private Worlds: Kids with Autism.”

A little something coming this August.

2008-07-03T05:52:00.000-07:00

I tell you, there is nothing like a chocolate topped, white-cream (with real cream as the secret ingredient!) donut in the morning with coffee! Albiet sticky like crazy, and to be in the gym on an eliptical for 30 min to burn it off, but oh-so-good. :) Thank goodness the store isn't down the street! It's in around where my family used to live (and extended still do), so it's a good thing that they aren't nearby!

So as for this little piece of work below, as of right now, I am now currently working as the comic artist for the magazine, Gaku-X, a Japanese Rock/Pop Culture magazine written in English. I have the privilage to work on 4 pages a month, which I have therefore figured to turn into a little series paying an affectionate satire to the fan community that the magazine caters to. It focuses on a Japanese-American guy and his friends who are fangirls, or as some say "Japanophiles" or "weaboos." I've been to enough conventions to know. ...but am DYING to go to San Diego Comic-Con! I get jealous of anyone who gets to go. It just looks like so much fun.

Done in copic markers and color pencil.

And for more of your art fix, I still have yet to get the DVD of this film that I worked on, posted below. I think it turned out goregous, though I wish that I had the original voice track to work off of and time better. Note what I had to work with, and the end result.

"I Wish" is originally by Vera Brosgol, screenplay by Dalis Ponrattanasiri

My animation:

The film:

Moving up and forward.

2008-06-30T07:53:00.000-07:00

Goodness, I feel like a horrible person for neglecting my poor little blog! Things had been busy, but I am back on to moving forward towards bigger and better things. I've found I definitely do love and am happiest working in entertainment, whiether it's gaming, TV/Film, print or online. There's something there in the hours of work put in and the environment with that end result that is just SO satisfying. I can't really find a way to describe it, but it just makes me the happiest. Kind of like being in love, but not really. Cheesy? Yes. Happy in what I do and being a positive about it, oh heck yes!

And as of late, I am starting a comic that is in a new magazine, Gaku-X, entitled "Gaijin Rock" (Foreign Rock for you home gamers) that is an affectionate satire on the "Japanophelia" fandom. If you see it around, please let me know what you think! I'm quite excited about it. The first page I submitted I was surprised made it to the magazine since it was done in so little time (and not to my standards. Eek! I feel naked!) But the August 2008 issue, I promise will be much better.

So the art here, is one of a commission from last year, and another from a test I drew extra bunnies for at a graphic design firm which shall not be named. For privacy reasons.

But for now I have printouts to make and turnarounds to do in Flash!

Queen of Hearts

2007-11-05T04:45:00.000-08:00

Newest piece. I actually drew it while watching "Transformers" on DVD. I don't have much of an opinion on the movie, but I'll leave that as it is.

But as for the drawing, felt like working with color some more, and working with a more distinguished looking character. The background colorwise works though I think it could use a ruler.

Good Ship Rubber Tree

2007-10-22T19:02:00.001-07:00

"On the Good Ship Rubber Tree"

Mixed Media (India Ink, Marker and Acrylics)

I adore Rubber hose style.

I Wish

2007-10-19T11:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a pencil test of the short animation in the film "I Wish" my friend is doing.

These are bird women. They kind of remind me of Harpies. But anyhow, the film is based off of one of the stories in the "Flight" books.

Mona Lisa

2007-10-16T07:05:00.000-07:00

A long-awaited drawing for my friend, Lisa. I thought I'd be cute and draw her as the "Mona Lisa" but with a sari. I just recently bought myself some copic markers since my prismas are drying out, and sometimes I've bought a pack only to find that they're dry when I got them. Very disappointing. And cost-wise, it's better to have copic. (And I like the brush-tip, too) -But on a personal note for the future and anyone else: Don't use markers on Matboard. They suck up pigment like a sponge!

Currently I'm working on a small animation for a film called "I Wish" being done by a friend of mine. It's a student piece, but I sincerely think it has a lot of potential. I intend on sharing some snippets of the animation later since Blogger now has that awesome video posting option. :)

And my rubber hose pirates painting is finished as well now. I just need to frame it and get it to the local Art Association for their Night Gallery show. It's exciting! I'm going to be dressed as a pirate with friends running around kidnapping people, and saying "YARR! To the brig with yee!" I enjoy acting.

And maybe this weekend once I get some things in order, I'll be sewing up some purses I've had in my mind's eye as of late. They have the potential to be awesome, but I need to go find some cords for the clutches I have in mind.

Pirates of the Good Ship RubberTree

2007-10-12T16:40:00.000-07:00

Trying to make a point to post every Friday. So here's something I've been working on. It's already made in gray marker and paint and just needs a little more yet until I share it here. It's going to be in the LCAA's Night Gallery.

Samples

2007-09-28T08:51:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday! A textless WIP of my pitchbook! I'm toning it between jobhunting. I've got the pages and a few character art bits left, so that's good! It makes me excited.

But now it's time to go for a jog!

Sketches.

2007-09-05T06:27:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post as I want to make posting here more of a habit. This here is a sketch for a quick little video I'm doing in my spare time. Preliminary work of course. I will have to post my tone samples for my pitchbook as well later.

Flash Playing

2007-08-29T08:32:00.000-07:00

And more Fanart I guess you can say. But I saw some playing cards that were on sale at their website that upset me.

I am such an easily amused person. But this is another work in progress through Flash 8 to warm my skills back up.

Cutesy-wootsie fanart

2007-08-09T07:42:00.001-07:00

Yes! Fan art! What am I doing?
I was at otakon and made a decent amount for three days. It's amazing how people make a living off of doing that. -Not exactly for me though. I like working in studios and toiling on a show. I feel like a rockstar to 10 year olds. It's fun, though I should get back to more original arts soon enough and my own website which I have still yet to work on because of my freezing at the graphic making part. I'll get over it.

Long time no post

2007-07-26T14:45:00.001-07:00

This is driving me insane. First I go and make a decent amount at Otakon selling fan art. And I'm now with commissions and work as usual that I don't get around to posting on here. *tragedy* And I like to blog on this as well.

So I found some squirrels on my laptop. I love the kind with the pretty tails and tufty ears.

And totally off topic but I feel so bad for my account seeing as I didn't realize it was recently taken over by Google. I am racked with guilt now. (not really, but enough to bother me slightly)

Time to get back to animating this short for "Baby Poetry" now. Since I last wrote here, I have been currently working for Magik World. Lovely little studio to freelance to. The man who runs it, Maciek Albrecht, is an amazing animator and definitely a person I look up to artistically.

Friday the 13th and a Drawing

2006-10-13T17:22:00.000-07:00

Well, there's not much to talk about in the world of updates, really. Just something I'm putting together for a pitch book I'm working on for Image Comics and Tokyopop. Maybe some others if I feel like it.

I just did some Production Assistant work in NYC for a movie that prooved to be highly interesting. Other than that, just need to push myself farther.

I totally forgot that today was Friday the 13th...

More Pixels!

2006-09-16T07:14:00.000-07:00

Gee whiz! Another post so soon? I'm proud of myself. Here's some more pixel work I was asked to do, they are just samples I plan on using for portfolios and such later when needed, so they're not like a given test or anything from a studio to do.

and don't blink, you may miss these little guys.

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All done at actual size. Color me crazy, but I had fun making them!

Little things

2006-09-10T07:59:00.000-07:00

I really need to stop doing the once-a-month blog posts. I should be doing those once a week, ideally in my opinion, but sometimes that doesn't always happen since circumstances are a little more difficult at the time being.

Anyhow, I had done some low-res images for a cellphone game job that requested some samples. Here's some of my misinterpritation.

and when I sent those, I was clarified and all is well. Well, I would like to think.

To be honest, I like the little screencaps I did more. If you can catch what game I'm referencing with the jungle and alligator, you rock.

Post-it notes

2006-07-14T10:03:00.000-07:00

So for the past few weeks, still somewhat stuck at the moment selling soap, but decided during a break to borrow some post-it notes and ended up doodling and somehow timing myself. Kinda crazy, eh?

Oh you know those crazy emo kids.

And I am yet amazed that no one has attempted to have Harry Potter become a Jedi. I guess I'm not looking in the right places?

Back to the grind! Random comments are welcome.

Oh Roadblocks

2006-06-27T07:46:00.000-07:00

Due to technical difficulties, things seem to be hitting plenty of roadblocks here.
I have to relearn HTML (or ask friends) and find out more about Flash classes online.

Did you know you could get certified as a flash designer? Sounds pretty silly to me, but yeah, need to find a way to get those loans paid off.

And above is a character of mine for my Pitch book in the making! Well, more for comic books, really, but still! Who knows, maybe if I work hard enough with it, it could be on Adult Swim.

Oh to be a fresh graduate with some hopes and dreams still in tact.

Christening Post!

2006-05-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hey all! Tis me, Beth, and this is my art blog!
So right now I'm busy packing odds and ends, I'll share art shortly!