Summer Yay!

Woo I'm taking 3 classes this summer!! I'm also working at the same time. Tough but not impossible!

Sooo this was first day of Location Drawing with Eli Harris! Its such a great class. We went to Grace Cathedral today. I suck at using pen so I tried to force myself to draw with pen all day. Yay mistakes!

 My first drawing for the day... lack of perspective lol oops

I think this is getting a little better? I hope. I need to learn how to simplify my lines more

 Started doodling people at the park while eating my lunch.

 dorp. Playing around with brush pen and white out. and heres a complimentary art pidgeon? I dunno. I'm not very creative.

A sketch of my two friends, Cindy & Pin! And a floating mini Pin on the left!

Now onto my other class: Visual Development for Games! This class was actually a last minute decision but I'm glad I'm taking it. Fun assignments! The first module was to create a character out of a teapot and draw its emotions. I inevitably kept thinking of a baby elephant when drawing this.



And finally, something I promised I would do but never did because I was lazy. Finally ok-res versions of  Enchanted Sapling! I would like to eventually write out a proper summary  for what this story is about. I'll have to save it for another time, because I'm still lazy as ever.

These two got in the Spring Show! Theres still so much I wanted to fix.

Until another time! Thanks for looking! :)

Little Red & Astronomy Wiz Bear

Final for childrens book. Its Little Red-- as a rabbit! I had fun with the characters and colors. I'll post the sketches later. These are the no-text versions. Inspired by Gigidigi! Check out her work, shes fantastic!

This thing is a screenshot of a rather lazy animation I've been working on for my Astronomy class. I really don't know anything about animation but I thought I would give it a try. When I was rendering it to video though last week it just got totally corrupted so I have to redo it again for the final... But when I do get to finish it again I'll be sure to post it up! It'll be super boring though because all it'll be talking about is the classification of galaxies.

Summer vacation is almost hereeeeeee ahhhhh I'm so exhausted. Still two more classes to go for me :(

Anyway thanks for looking!

Environment Update

Yay! They're finished (kind of?) I hope you guys like them. I think I'll be doing more soon. If you guys see anything I need to fix then let me know!

Aesop's Fable

Sorry for the lack of posts! I've been super busy with work and school. I recently got a internship job at Phoenix Age. I'm super excited to be working with them. The artists there are freaking awesome! Its a little intimidating, but I gotta try to keep moving forward...

Here are a some drawings I did for children's book class I did a couple weeks back! I'm trying to develop my own style, but its hard because I want to be able to do something cute and funny but also develop another separate style that is a little more realistic. I don't know.

I'm so conflicted with what I want to do. I love children's book, but I want to be able to do concept work too! I guess I just have to keep practicing both styles and find a good balance somehow. Anyway here they are.

The aesop's fable is "The Lion, The Bear and the Fox".

A girl

Some quick portrait practice. Finally something on a whim, thats not schoolwork! I hope I keep doing this, I seriously need the practice. Hope you guys like it, even if its something kinda boring...;;;

Children's Book #1

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 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!

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

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!

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 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

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

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

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

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

Some lazy character doodles for my final project in ILL2

Animated Animal Assignment

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

Toy Shop Shopping Bag Illustration Assignment

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

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

More sketches... This time of students drawing.