CTN!!

I know I'm a little late in posting this, but that's because I haven't had a computer for the last week, so accessing one has been a little more annoying :/

Anyhoo, Last week, or last last week, I had the opportunity to attend CTN for the first time! It was overwhelming, full of energy, and just simple fantastically amazing.  Being able to see artists that I have been admiring for along time and finally be able to see them face to face was intimidating but kind of mind blowing.  I met a lot of super cool artists, among them Pascal Campion and Lindsay Olivares, two artists who I have been dying to meet!1 It was also great just to see and support all my friends from DreamWorks and hang out with them as well!

CTN housed a really inspiring environment that gave me the kick starter mentality and motivation I need for next semester to work on my shizz.  Definitely want to go again next year, but hopefully not spend as much money as I did buying artwork and books... which I'm not going to say how much :p 




My roommate and I got a caricature with Lindsey Olivares!!

Ivan Aguirre! An amazing artist from whom my roommate bought a print from him for my birthday :)



I finally got to meet Pascal Campion, who's art I basically worship.

My newly decorated wall in my room with all the prints I got hehe :)

More film studies!

So I absolutely LOVE the show Breaking bad.  Words cannot describe how much adrenaline rushes through me when I watch each episode.  On top of that the cinematography is soooo beautiful.  Each shot always foreshadows something and are all brilliantly constructed. I finally got around to doing some film studies from season 5 episode...6 I think? Super fun!! Lots of awesome dark contrasty shots. I really tried to focus on being graphic and simplifying the darks and lights to two values, its challenging but really fun!

Also went to Descanso Gardens two weeks ago, and did some studies as well, so I'll post them here as well.  They are eh.

Caricatures!

Soo, it probably doesn't show on my blog, but I lOVE drawing people, particularly their faces.  I really admire people who can do great caricatures and really capture the essence of a person through their most interesting facial features.  And be able to exaggerate without shame without making them look like a completely different person.  This summer, I decided to draw a few of my friends for fun.  Super fun to draw, so I decided to post here!

He hated me for making his nose so big...

He has a really intense russian face I tried to capture! 

This guy is the cockiest in the world, so I tried to make him the nerdiest looking person ever :p  He's actually incredibly nice if you meet him :)

So this guy... an international student from Portugal thought it was ok to call girls sweetie when he first came here.. which I thought was hilarious, so I wanted to make fun of that :p

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My friend from my summer internship! He wanted me to draw him in a super boy suit, so I did just that :)

Sketch of.. yesterday :p

Inspired by Descanso Gardens, not so much the couple, more the lighting :)

Sketch of the Day

First snowball fight!! Inspired by my Christmas trip to Zion last Christmas, where I was in falling snow for the first time!! Sooo cool.