Saturday, December 07, 2013

2013 Art Summary


2013 has been pretty great. Looking back, it is incredible how much things changed within a year. Early in the year, I was still trying to bounce back from depression. Getting a job where you physically work in a studio helped greatly with that. Also, branching out from blogspot to twitter, tumblr and eventually amazing Facebok Page, (Thanks Andy!) allowed my personal doodles at home to have more of importance. The personal drawings I have done this year, I tried to keep them more clean and presentable.

I used a lot more colour as well. Though I still have much to study in term of tone and colour value, just having to work with colour helped me to develop ways of working in photoshop with greater time efficiency. Huge props to Muddy Colors blog and Serge's tutorials. After practicing few rendering pieces, I picked up on many techniques that I used throughout my work. However, as much fun as they were, I decided to abandon rendering. For what I wanted to do professionally, either in animation, design or storyboard, it made more sense to focus on putting down solid lines that define the shape.

I am slowly feeling less frustrated by drawing and having more fun. Now I am trying to move forward from drawing same type of female form and to getting more interesting silhouettes and creating characters that feel real(or at least real in their world)

There is so much to learn and practice, it's frightening and also very exciting.

Thank you always for all your support and love. You guys have made my 2013 a blast.

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Last year's art summary: http://sqetches.blogspot.ca/2012/12/2012-art-summary.html

Some notable chronological events and inspirations 
January - Joined Cup O Doodle. Still inspires me to draw things I wouldn't even imagined otherwise.
February - Looked at lots of Serge Birault and Otto Schmidts's work.
March - Created FB Page with gentle push from Andy Hickinbottom.
April - Did lots of caricatures this month. Also started to participate in few Trinquette Weeklies
May - Started to draw more from photographs to expand wardrobe library
June - Built and animated few Katie tests.
July - Started to reference more of Bill Presing's work.
August - Joined Frederator Allied Media on youtube
September - Unemployed. Had some time to record bunch of Toonboom tutorials.
October - Compiled a pitch package for the first time.
November - CTNx woo!
December - Just playing with whole lotta character development type of personal work.

Friday, September 13, 2013

No love for blogger.

With me having to update on several social media websites, I decided to stop updating blogger for the time being since it has very low to zero interaction with the art community.

My most recent work and updates can be found on my Facebook Page.

I keep my Tumblr updated as well.

I recently started to put up Toon boom Tutorials on my youtube channel.

and.. here's my Twitter too.

Thanks!

Friday, July 05, 2013

Chair

oops Forgot to post this one as well. This is for Trinquette Weekly drawing Challenge for July 6th

Thursday, July 04, 2013

art dump




Sorry blogspot fans for keeping this site updated daily. Here's some stuff I did.

Monday, July 01, 2013

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Katie build tests.






Animation tests of the character rig I've been tinkering with.

Animation done using Toon Boom Harmony

Photo by Stefan (http://mrcheyl.tumblr.com/)

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Bricks

"The Last of Us" fan art

Monday, June 17, 2013

Cowgirl

for Trinquette weekly challenge June 17th

THE BFG


This past week I was invited to be part of an Art show at Gladstone Hotel. The theme of the show was works based on Roald Dahl's novels.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Art dump



Photo Model: Josefien Rodermans


Bunch of stuff I did in last couple of days that I was little too lazy to upload to blogspot.
I'm thinking of transitioning the purpose of blogspot to archive more refined art and use tumblr and facebook for more casual blogging.

Monday, June 10, 2013

F & C

Adventure Time fan art

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Film Fun

For Trinquette Weekly Drawing Challenge

Thursday, May 30, 2013

2k

For the facebook page.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Mandy




Mandy Struction from Cartoon Network/YTV show, Sidekick


Monday, May 27, 2013

characters




I'm pleased with how mrs. whitehouse turned out. I will revive others to be more graphic

Nel

Personal project character sheet

Happy hour

Cup O' doodle post

Thursday, May 23, 2013

1000

I got over 1000 likes on my FB page!

Jungle Queens

For Trinquette Weekly may 28

https://www.facebook.com/trinquettebooks

Monday, May 20, 2013

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Trixie

Fan art of Andrew Hickinbottom's Trixie.

Checkout Andy's fantastic works HERE

Friday, May 17, 2013

changling

I'm thinking of abandoning painting and colour. Instead, focus on improving my draftsmanship skills a lot more. Hopefully, doing screen studies like this will take no time at all in the future.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Wednesday, May 15, 2013



Model: Snejana Onopka

Monday, May 13, 2013

Good Ol' Hockey Game

GG. Game 7 was intense

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Clash of the Titans

Special effects legend Ray Harryhausen passed away today.

Monday, May 06, 2013

DBL BFG


Quick mashup of my two extra projects.

Sunday, May 05, 2013

Cover


Cover image for my Facebook Page
Facebook page is where I'll have majority of activities regarding my art stuffs.
I still prefer blogspot for my own personal archival purpose though.

Thursday, May 02, 2013



Photo: Marcella Tanaya by Hakim Satriyo

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

vrroom



It's been awhile since I made any cup o' doodle post.
It really jogs weirdest part of my brain.

Friday, April 26, 2013