diane's art stuff

Children's Book #1

2012-02-15T21:53:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! Its been a while. I really need to draw more often, and by more often I mean draw outside of schoolwork. But I haven't and that is the sad truth. I admire anyone that can draw out of whim and not out of necessity. I used to do that and I miss it. I'm so unmotivated!

I also mentioned I would repost my Advanced Perspective final in the appropriate format but I haven't got around doing that yet. The file is enormous and every time I open it up it makes Photoshop load indefinitely. Or maybe I'm just making excuses so no one can see all the flaws and sloppiness of it. I dunno. You'll just have to wait (or not if you care less).

What I do have though is my assignment that I had done for my Children's Book Class! Well I wouldn't call it done. Its what I did so far though and I guess I'll have to just show it.

The poem is "Listen" by Lillian Moore. The whole class had to do the same poem, so it was all witches for the whole week.

After putting it up for critique in class, I just saw so many mistakes and things I need to fix. I was also originally going to do the incredibly obese witch cat but I decided to change my idea last minute and did a new sketch of the pile of food. Not sure if that was the best decision.

You might see a fat cat or two in the future though. Maybe.

A.P. Final!

2011-12-18T20:18:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! School's over! I was supposed to post this a week ago, but I kinda forgot to... Anyway, here's my Advanced Perspective final presentation:

Sorry for the bad photo, I'm currently in Sacramento and don't have my digital files with me at the moment. These two boards were 20x30 and were printed at Costco. I was pretty happy with the way they turned out, but honestly, I wish I was able to do MUCH more than I did.
They're still not finished yet, but I wanna try to polish these up some more for the Spring Show.

Hope you guys enjoy, and I'll post more better pictures soon + story behind it. :)

Thank you for looking! & HAPPY EARLY HOLIDAYS!! :D

Preliminary Roughs

2011-11-21T20:00:00.000-08:00

We were supposed to do 5-10 preliminaries this week but I was only able to do a total of 8: 3 in color and 5 in value. I wanted to try to do 10 but I was tired out. Still gotta touch them up some more! I think I'm getting a bit faster at this though. References helped a ton. Without them, I don't think I would have finished these in time for class today. I started on Saturday night and worked all the way until this morning. It was tiring but I did it!

This project is so fun, I hope the whole thing turns out well in the end.

Thanks for looking!

A Whole lot of stuff! Some redos, some crap, but yay new things!

2011-11-15T15:30:00.000-08:00

Stuff from Advanced Perspective I didn't get to post cause I was

1) lazy

2) didn't finish/not happy with them

But here they are anyway, in their super rough state. >< Some of them I don't even wanna show, but I'm gonna post anyway for the hell of it.

Week 3 Redo (week 6)

Week 4 Noah's Ark (Noah's Pet Shop)

Week 4 Noah's Ark (Parade)

Week 5 Noah's Ark (Flood)

Week 5 Theatre (Romance)

Week 7 Egypt (Excavation)

Week 7 Egypt (Queen)

Week 7 Egypt (Temple)

Week 8 Greek Mythology (Hermes)

Week 8 Greek Mythology (Sirens)

Week 8 Greek Mythology (Pandora)

Week 8 Greek Mythology (Hades & Persephone)

Week 9: Isometric (My own story thing)

Week 9: Isometric characters (own story)

So thats all of it! I'm really ashamed of my messy work and lazy work ethic, but its what I did for the past few weeks, so this is what I have to show. I hope I'll get to work on them more in the future.

The last two pictures are for my Final Project, which is an ongoing assignment until the last week of class. Its an exciting challenge and I hope I'll be able to put my best into it to improve myself. Its a little scary, because our class is 2 weeks behind because of labor day and some other weird scheduling thing, so we're cramped on time. But I really want to see if I can change, create my own story and work the hell out of myself to get better. I hope it will end up being an interesting story. So until then!

Thanks for looking :)

Advanced Perspective Week 3: Noah's Ark

2011-10-03T05:21:00.000-07:00

On and above horizon line

On and below horizon line

This week's theme is Noah's Ark. Yeah I know, Arks don't have sails, well whatevs, creative liberties. Flying ships yeahhh.

Still WIP, a little happy with them but its not there just yet. They still need plenty of touching up!

Advanced Perspective Week 2: Geisha

2011-09-26T10:21:00.000-07:00

Elevated close

Elevated far

Its week 2 already! This week's theme is Geisha. I had a lot of trouble with this one. I didn't get to do color this time... :( . But I will try to get to it when time allows. Unfinished but enjoy!

Advanced Perspective Week 1 : Samurai

2011-09-19T22:50:00.000-07:00

Horizon line passing the mid-section

Horizon line passing the leg

Horizon line passing the head

Um. So I'm taking advanced perspective class this semester. I threw up these within the last two days before it was due and they're really sloppy. The first week's theme was Samurai, so I decided to do Tanuki (Racoon Dog) Samurai. I'm not particularly proud of these, but I'm happy I was even able to do it. I think I will polish these up later on as the semester progresses.

Jack & The Beanstalk Final

2011-05-20T22:10:00.000-07:00

Uhh still not finished with it, but I didn't have time left. Kind of did the last-minute thing again. Oh well. I will try harder next time!

Also, I will be moving everything to my new domain soon: www.dianewu.net
but its not up yet. In the mean time, just feel free to browse this blog.

Jack & The Beanstalk Sketches

2011-05-13T18:50:00.000-07:00

Some lazy character doodles for my final project in ILL2

Animated Animal Assignment

2011-05-06T22:14:00.000-07:00

AAA. Haha. Its a jerboa postman. with another little jerboa guy on his back.
...What?

Toy Shop Shopping Bag Illustration Assignment

2011-04-18T20:17:00.000-07:00

I really wanted to do something fun, but in the end it came out a bit flat. Maybe I will rework it one day!

Environment Sketching 2

2011-02-24T21:53:00.000-08:00

Sketch at the park near Grace Cathedral... Forgot what that place is called. Another attempt at location drawing. It was super cold that day!

Workshop Sketch

2011-02-15T22:55:00.000-08:00

More sketches... This time of students drawing.

Environment Sketching

2011-02-15T21:52:00.000-08:00

First attempt at doing location drawing. It was fun! At Chinatown.

Illustration 1 Final - Narrative

2010-12-20T23:15:00.000-08:00

A scene from the book, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret". It didn't come out the way I wanted to, but oh well. Whats done is done.

Kiké's Portrait

2010-12-10T23:50:00.000-08:00

Portrait assignment for Figure Painting. Kiké is definitely fun to paint! I wish i did a better job finishing it though...

Heads & Hands Portrait

2010-12-01T18:27:00.000-08:00

Just a couple of portraits from heads and hands class. Bad photos, sorry about that!

Silly Ugly Doodles

2010-11-18T21:58:00.000-08:00

Nothing special.

Workshop Pen Sketches

2010-11-04T22:00:00.000-07:00

More practice with pen! Starting to get used to it, but still so far away...

Workshop Pen Sketches - Week 8

2010-10-28T01:59:00.000-07:00

Just practice with pen. I still don't really understand how to use it. I need to learn how to simplify and not overwork areas and make them too busy.

I need more practice.

Heads & Hands Pen Sketches - Mouth Study

2010-10-25T22:03:00.000-07:00

Heads & Hands homework.

Workshop Pen Sketches - Week 6

2010-10-13T22:18:00.000-07:00

Great model. Too bad I didn't get to capture her personality well enough.

Kao Playing Starcraft 2 and Floating Old Man

2010-09-28T02:14:00.000-07:00

Title pretty much explains it. Practice with Pen.

"Window" page excerpt

2010-06-25T21:46:00.000-07:00

A page from a children's book I've been working on.

Still Life Final

2010-05-21T22:24:00.000-07:00

Emo painting.

Character sketch

2010-04-24T17:06:00.000-07:00

Did a small orthographic sketch of one of my characters for fun.

owl doodles

2010-02-19T19:08:00.000-08:00

owls~

Warm and Cool Bears

2009-11-14T21:12:00.000-08:00

Some last minute Color & Design homework. Yes, I'm still taking that class. Why? Because I'm a failure.

Random Doodles

2009-08-13T14:57:00.000-07:00

Clothed Figure Drawing Session 15

2009-08-05T15:52:00.000-07:00

Meh.

Clothed Figure Drawing - Session 11 & 12

2009-07-26T17:49:00.000-07:00

Mother and Father as the models.

Clothed Figure Drawing - Session 10

2009-07-19T23:39:00.000-07:00

Clothed Figure Drawing - Session 9

2009-07-15T22:28:00.000-07:00

Again. I don't have any models here in NY. :(

Portraits

2009-07-08T17:21:00.000-07:00

Some quick portraits of my mom and sister.

Clothed Figure Drawing - Session 5

2009-07-01T21:14:00.000-07:00

Used myself as a model again. I need models. :(
Chris said it looks like shes blowing dust off her nails. I totally forgot how the blowing kiss gesture looked like so this came out dumb.

Clothed Figure Drawing - Session 4

2009-06-28T16:57:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, I'm taking this online for the summer. Bad choice.
I didn't have anyone to pose for me for this assignment, so I used myself as the model.

Clothed Figure Drawing - Session 1

2009-06-19T19:23:00.000-07:00

A clothed figure study of my mother.