New online Etsy Store!

Hello!

So in an effort to fundraise for a really important service trip I'll be going to next spring, I've opened up an Etsy store to sell some of my digital sketches! I'm going to Guatemala during spring break for a week to work with a local school, renovate the facility, and teach students English, arts, and crafts.  It's quite pricey, but it's totally worth it, which is why I'm trying to start ASAP to raise enough money.

If you would like, please support me in exchange for one of my sketches! I know they are nothing amazing, but each sketch is inspired by something really memorable in my life, so it's drawn from the heart!

For more info, please visit www.etsy.com/shop/TiffanieMangArt! Thanks :)

By The Road

Inspired by my road trip to Sequoia.  Stopped to watch the sunrise over some farmland on the freeway :p

Indiana Jones and King Kong Film Studies

More film studies! After meeting with friend/ storyboard artist Ian, he was so helpful in breaking down my not so clear film stills into even more simple shapes to really distinguish foreground, middle ground and background.  I still struggle with value, but I feel like breaking it into simpler elements will the key to seeing the planes better!

this is a revised page where I tried to simplify the shadows and lighting even more.   I think it did help the read a bit and made it less mushy/ messy!

some random Indiana Jones stuff! 

Jurassic Park Film Studies

I'm going to start doing film studies every week, just 10-15 panels ish.  I haven't done them in a while, and when no one makes me I get lazy.  Watched some clips from Jurassic Park, the parts with the intense T- Rex and velociraptor scenes and sketched panels about 3 min each! I learned that it is so important to always keep the rule of thirds rule in your head and analyze the position of objects according to that.  On the next ones I do, I'm really going to try to break up characters and background into even more simpler graphic shapes so I can understand shape language better and how it frames the main characters of the still.

Bottom Right: Friend and amazing storyboard artist/ caricaturist Ian Abando helped break down my panel into even more simpler shapes. It's amazing how with fewer lines, his reads better than mine. 

Right side: Ian again demonstrated how I could further make the composition simpler in terms of shapes and lighting! So cool.

Andd people sketches from last night.  Don't like them much at all, but I liked the brush I was using :p It really lets me get that painterly fast brush look I love.

Sketch of the day

Driving back from Dreamworks on the 110 South around 7ish ( I think?) and the city silhouette looked beautiful against the traffic lights so I wanted to capture that feeling. Playing around with a more graphic look, which is harder to do than I thought. Played with different lighting as well.  I think the first one is more representative of the colors I saw but I like the vibrancy of the second!

More Style Frames

Continued to play around with the look for my thesis and honing down on a style! Loving the grainy look. 

Ext of orphanage? might make it more stylized and blurry.

Below, I tried to simulate an impression of how it would look like with the watercolor seeping in. Painted first with watercolor then added on some digital brushes. 

Original watercolor!

Carn

I saw this film yesterday and fell in love with it immediately.  The story and look is so simplistic yet so powerful that it almost brought tears to my eyes. The use of silhouettes for both the boy and wolf for the majority of the film is brilliant, and the composition in each of the shots is well designed and dynamic.  I love the use of the same colors for certain elements- red motif for the scarf and blood, blue for the hostile, cold backgrounds, and the fiery brilliant sky at the end marking the climax.  Great stories can truly be told with just the right colors and cinematography.


Check out the film through this link: https://vimeo.com/search?q=carn

Below are some film stills I think are soo incredibly beautiful!

I love how absolutely creepy he looks. 

LOVE the silhouette!!! Simplicity tells story best. 

Bloooood red. LOVE the mountains in the background and how to converge to the midpoint. Works great to draw our eye to the wolf.

This bright fireball sky definitely got me. He's dead center but the composition works well in creating tension.

Just love the trail of red blood and how everything is blocked out in black.  

Great birds eye view.  

Love how straight and rigid the trees are.  It works to enhance the mood of the film.

Again, great use of simple characters and dynamic deep background. 

Some concepts for my thesis...

So as a senior, I am currently slaving away on my thesis film... kind of happily. I feel like I'm working too slow all the time, and right now, all I want to do is crank out a bunch of vis dev pieces to determine style and color, which I feel like I need to settle on more.  It's all in my head... gotta get it down on paper.  The art style for it is going to be sick- at least that's how I'm envisioning it. It will be a myriad of watercolor, and digital, and a transition of black and white to color.  It follows the journey of a blind boy as he dreams through music one night following some notes he hears in the air, thus embarking on a magical journey.  That's all I'll say for now! :p

Experimenting with colors for the ending sequence! I really want to play with pastels, calming, kind of vibrant colors. Also working on composition! Not sure if I was too successful here.

Experimenting the with the grainy effect, which I really want to use for the beginning of my film since it will start of black and white.  I wanted the outside to look purposely blurry and drippy, as he is not really seeing anything but putting together his own interpretation of things outside. I was also playing with silhouettes as well, trying to keep it simple but graphic at the same time.  Going to experiment more with this look. 

Sketch of the Day

The Giants!! Inspired by Sequoia National Park, last road trip of the summer! Miss that trip dearly.

Outfit Failure on Wednesday

Did this quick watercolor sketch for funsies on Friday before work to express how I felt Wednesday.  I was freeezinggg.

Sketch of the Day

Another sketch inspired by Catalina Island! I hiked up to this hill overlooking the whole island and the only thing I could see was the lights from the pier reflecting on the water.  It was really dreamy and almost ethereal.

Getting Sick of Oatmeal...

So I thought I'd do a quicky sketch of it. Had fun with watercolor!

But seriously, on days I work at Dreamworks, I kind of forget to eat and don't get back till 11 o'clock so this is pretty much what happens because I get too lazy to cook.

Sketch of the Day

Inspired by Catalina once again :) Still trying to work and experiment with colors with these random sketches.  Like right now, I'm thinking the grass is tooo yellow...

I also have been obsessed with using textured brushes which I think are great, but now I'm starting to think I'm overusing them.  Looking back at Pascal's art, it seems textured, but I notice that when you zoom into his artwork, it still maintains a really clean look.  I'm going to play around with how to not busy a drawing up because of distracting textures, but putting just the right amount to give it life and interest.

I probably could have simplified the grass up a bit and just indicated it some some places. More experimentation! :)

People Sketching!!

It's been soooo long since I've people sketched.. and actually enjoyed it. Went with a couple Dreamworks friends today to the GoldenRoad Brewery! The place was super cool, and well packed with interesting people to stare at... hehehe.  It was really inspiring to be surrounded by great artists from the animation industry and I think it helped in getting my creative juices flowing faster  than usual :)

I want to continue going most Wednesdays if I can because it's so fun!

It looks like he's floating unintentionally...

I have a trend with not finishing people's bodies when I sketch so that it doesn't communicate the whole story.  Gotta work on that!

The guy had been sitting by the bar looking at his phone for at least an hour...like only looking at his phone and doing nothing else.  I got so caught up drawing everything else for some reason that I forgot to draw the arm actually holding the phone which is the most important part (kind of)... silly me!

My friend Ian doing his snarky face and Jonathan! 

My friend Katia :)

Storyboard Artist Ian Abando drew me in 3 minutes! I love it :)