Rehana's SketchBlog!

Moleskin Sketches!

2012-01-09T14:26:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I've posted anything art related or updated anything. I FINALLY got to do some sketches for fun. After work I usually work on more stuff thats work related or relax and watch something on Netflix, or play some Battlefield. Well Netflix just put out the LA Ink series, and i've never watched it before but I do like Kat Von D, so I just decided to watch it for the heck of it. I recommend it for any artist out there, it just motivated me to sketch while watching the show and it's honestly been a long while that anything motivated me to sketch. It's filled with artistic inspiration, even if it is a show about tattoos, its awesome, and I recommend it yo!

And now to show off a sketch.

I used the iPhone app Diptic to take the photos :P (too lazy to scan)

More to come as i clean them up a lil!

Booyah Work

2011-11-18T17:19:00.001-08:00

Hey guys! So MyTown2 just came out and I can now show ya what work I did for Booyah!

Still more to come!

Angry Buddy

2011-11-11T10:35:00.001-08:00

While waiting for my next task at work.... I quickly did this guy in 15 min..!

I posted it on my fb and I got a TON of likes and requests for moar!.... so I may be doing moar...! It's an Angry Birds of my bf.. I call it Angry Shoaib lol.

(Done in Illustrator)

Poison Ivy Sketch

2011-11-06T10:09:00.000-08:00

I work on this whenever i get the chance after work. And ive just been sketching and sketching and sketching here and there til i get it perfect. I still have more to go, like her costume and the background and the snake, etc. But here's my progress so far..

In the next few months I'm trying to do more fanart to give me practice sketching and painting, ALSO finally finish the bellydancer :P Sometimes i need to take a break from that and do something else so fanart is the way to go :D

Bellydancer Update

2011-11-02T11:30:00.000-07:00

So I forgot to post this up a while ago, I'm actually still working on this and trying to color it up. For APE some friends suggested I keep it black and white, or give it a sepia tone, but i really wanna see this colored! O_O But i'll post what it looks like overall... with sepia.

I think it's one of my most detailed pieces of concept I've done. Mostly I do cartoony things for work etc, but I like that this is different from my other stuff. I obviously put in a ton of time into it. So here it isss not colored :). I'll post another update when it's fully colored and then you can tell me which you like best :P

Sketchessss

2011-10-21T08:42:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I've posted anything after APE!

I took the time to relax a bit and take a break cuz i was pretty burnt out, plus doing art at work lately has been nuts so my focus shifted to that. Here are some sketches I did the past week:

Poison Ivy

Princess Jasmine

I was in a crazy Princess Jasmine drawing mode the past 2 weeks so there are more sketches to come later. I wanted to be her for Halloween but didnt have the time to create a costume :( so sad.

Upon just randomly sketching yesterday i decided i wanted to draw Poison Ivy. I've decided to do some more fanart to practice my painting skills anyway.

Post APE 2011

2011-10-04T11:54:00.000-07:00

After a month long of no sleep and non-stop drawing painting and sketching for APE, it's over! It went by too fast it seems. It feels like a blurr!

But it was a total blast. Even if I was dead tired :P I met a TON of awesome ppl and for the first time my art was fully exposed to the public. So I was a little nervous at first but after I got over it, I had fun. I saw many familiar faces and met a bunch of artists, it's actually crazy how small the industry is, I met people that knew people I've worked with or gone to school with. There are so many talented people its both intimidating and motivating.

I even got interviewed by Geek Speak Radio Show and you can check out the interview here on YouTube! (Don't make fun! I was a lil nervous..)

They interviewed a lot of first timers at APE so be sure to check the rest of their interviews!

Overall it was a rewarding experience and an awesome place to make a ton of new artist friends and connections. Will i be doing it again? HELL YES. I'm considering doing Wondercon 2012 in Anaheim this year as well. So be sure to keep an eye out for that if i get a booth :P

I'll post up more pictures as soon as i get them....... since i didnt take my own :(

UPDATE!!! Pictures taken by my cousin!

Here is me at mah booth #420 :P (note the candy!)

I had the a helmet on display along with postcards with info on getting your own helmet painted on.

My amazing brothers and cousins who came to support.

ETSY Shop now open! :D

2011-10-04T11:29:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone I just opened up an Etsy shop

For right now I'm selling prints of my art! Check it out!

I plan on doing all sorts of crazy crafts :D So keep an eye out!

The Adventures of TJ & Skweek!

2011-09-29T21:01:00.000-07:00

Fiiiniiisshheed!......

Ok well mostly finished. :P I had to stop working on it bc I was outta time. I have some small fixes here and there that I'd like to make that i'll do later :P

I finally was able to do a full painted revamp of TJ and Skweek. I changed them a little from how I originally created them and made them more proportionate and cute, etc. So I is happeh. Thank you Cintiq!!!!

Ape is only 2 days away and I had to be done with the painting asap so I could get it to print on time! Oh so tired... sooo tired.

Ice cream time!

Evil Gnome Customs

2011-09-26T14:08:00.000-07:00

Hey All!

i just created postcards to give out to promote my bf and I's custom helmet project/ company. Evil Gnome Customs.

FRONT:

BACK:

For anyone interested, that is the email for inquiries, and website will be up soon!!!

Welcome to "Dead" 'Cenada

2011-09-23T23:31:00.000-07:00

Mwahahaha! jk... O_O

I finished the zombie concept. I added just a little more from before.. <_<.... >_>...

Check it out!

So It took me a while to figure out exactly what I wanted to do with the background. Luckily I have a pretty creative bf and he gave me the suggestion for the background and I ran with it. Backgrounds and environments aren't my strong suite but I've come a long way from barely doing background images :P This was a fun piece to do to loosen me and my arm up on somewhat speedpainting. Hope people likey! And if you do.. and you're in SF... come to APE and buy a print! ;) (you see what I did there)

Hawaiian Flower

2011-09-20T08:55:00.000-07:00

Achievement Unlocked: Completed another illustration!

:D

I changed the background sunset shape since I wasn't satisfied with the original one. Same with the water along with a few other adjustments here and there. It's weird the texture on it doesn't show up as well as I want it to... I'll have to look into that :P This is a pretty diff style piece from what I normally do/ am used to. And it was easy, fast, and fun! Maybe i'll do a series..? :)

ENJOY!

Allloohhaaa!

2011-09-19T13:30:00.000-07:00

Here's what I'm currently working on now! I still have some finishing touches to do on my other pieces, i just needed to take a break from them before coming back to all of them and finishing them. :D

I did this in illustrator and it didn't take me too long. I've already thought up changes to the image which i'll post when I get home. But here's what I started on it!

It's a different style from what I usually do, it's also faster :P I did it in illustrator and put a temp texture over it from cgtextures. I gotta admit thought, I'm liking where this is headed and hope others will too!

APE 2011

2011-09-19T02:14:00.000-07:00

I am exhibiting at APE this year and its going to be my first.. convention.. evar! I'm stressed, excited, nervous, scared, happy all at the same time. I'm not exactly sure what to expect I know i'll have fun and it's going to be an awesome experience. I've never exhibited before because honestly I wasn't too informed you can do that, nor did I have a circle of friends who were into exhibiting, or artists. But working at Booyah I made some great friends who happened to be doing it for years. I'm very fortunate to have some awesome friends who help out and have made this process easier than it would have been. They gave me all sorts of tips!

If you are attending please stop by and say hi!

Tickets are $10 a day, or $15 for both Sat & Sun. You can purchase tickets online HERE or on site!

Find me here!! @____@

Heh... that's right. Booth #420... where all the cool kids come to hang ;)

Kthanxbye!

Dhalsim Revised.

2011-09-19T00:28:00.000-07:00

I was going through my folder of art I've done and I saw my Dhalsim painting, and thought, why am I not making a print out of this for APE? It's always gotten a lotta love from people. I'm nuts. So I extended it so its a full 8.5 x 10, since before it was just a square. And added more to it along with adjusting some things here and there. So check out my.... redone... Dhalsim painting!

Comparison: (NEW!!!) Yaaaayy :D

(OLD) Aawwwww :(

Almost fiiniissheed

2011-09-15T23:26:00.000-07:00

Just have to paint in the maracas and make any minor fixes. Also have to add a background later.. not sure what to do :T

More Zombie Progress!

2011-09-13T13:38:00.000-07:00

Worked some more on this last night. I still have to do the face and more fleshing out in the sleeves, jeans, etc etc. But its progress from last time! :D

Grrr arrrgh

2011-09-12T23:18:00.000-07:00

Work in progress of Mexican Zombie (not official title) :P

Finished Sailor Moon!

2011-09-10T12:24:00.000-07:00

She's FINIIISSHHEEED!.... for now.. ;)

I readjusted a lot the shadows from before bc they didn't make as much sense etc. I'm pretty happy with this only because i have something finished. I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to making art so I could go on and on with it, but i stopped myself because i have quite a lot of other pieces to make :P But I'm pretty happy with it so far. I might find minor changes to make to it later but for now its DUNZO! :D

Sailor Moon Progress 2

2011-09-08T01:11:00.000-07:00

Some adjustments and stuff I did last night, mainly with the background. Messed around with random effects and ideas just to figure out what I wanted.

EDIT: Here's what I did for the night. I just added more stars to the background and started rendering out her face and one of her legs and arm more. I have more shading and rendering to do on her dress and costume. But overall i kind of like where its heading ;) I made her nose slightly smaller. and made her lips a little smaller but wider. I might have to mess around with her lips a lil bit more. Oh and added more shading to her face.

Its cool that i can open up both and compare my progress :P and so can u!

Progress on my Sailor Moon fanart!

2011-09-05T23:36:00.000-07:00

I've been working on art stuff the past weekend as much as I could. Unfortunately due to holidays and events I wish I was able to do more, but here's what I've done on my Sailor Moon Fanart! It was done in Illustrator and i still have a bit to do. But thought I'd share my work in progress! ;)

I wanted to do a Sailor Moon piece bc its homage to what got me to jumpstart my illustration skill. I drew a lot as a kid, but Sailor Moon got me obsessed with being an artist :)

Just a widdle update

2011-08-23T02:55:00.000-07:00

On what I'm working on!... that is..

APE is coming up closer and closer and I'm SOO behind! >_<
So I'm sketching stuff like crazy all at once so I can ink/ paint them soonish. As long as I have a bunch of cool lineart I think that's a good base/ start to where I wanna go with... my stuff... lol. Stay tuned for more!

Just for funnn..!

2011-07-31T18:47:00.000-07:00

So I recently made an investment and got a Cintiq. So I'm forcing myself to just paint for the heck of it. Just to find the fun in creating art again since the majority of art I make is work related. So here's a quick speedpaint of TJ. It's off an old sketch I did. A newer one is coming up soon! I figure i should exercise with painting some TJs since I was planning on finally starting on that comic I wanted to do. I might go in later and refine this one.

Lineart was done in Illustrator, painting done in PS :)

Yaaaay Cintiq!! @____@

LIKE ME ON FB!

2011-07-27T13:57:00.001-07:00

Pretty please? :)

Bellydancer Progress :)

2011-06-21T00:19:00.000-07:00

I've put this off far too long! And I'm finally getting back onto finishing painting her. I also gave her a new face. Here's a progress shot! I'm excited for the outcome of this. I can tell my painting skills have improved since the last time i worked on this painting (which was several months ago).

Check it out yo!

WishB Work

2011-06-20T02:45:00.000-07:00

I worked at WishB for about a year and a half on a project called Globworld. I couldn't post up any of the work I got to work on because until about when I left WishB for Booyah! they didn't release anything to the public at that time. So I finally get to show you guys the stuff I worked on while working at WishB! I just recently updated my website with new art from various stuff I worked on. :)

(Blogger is being a butthead and was making it difficult to put them in the right order. So ignore the strange order of images o_o")

The start of a new obsession.....

2011-04-29T11:50:00.000-07:00

FELTING!!!!!!

(see below!)

My coworker Steph introduced us into the world of felting and its the coolest little thing! She suggested I order from Woolbuddy for a starter/practice kit. So i cut the wool in half so i could make 2 instead of just one and I loved every min of it! I was sleepy as heck but I couldn't put the needle down! I plan on doing more since it is kinda therapeutic after those long days working.

Eventually I'd love to make my characters and sell them on my Etsy (which is empty right now lol). And if u know me i have a love for cute things so it will be a cool way to channel any cute art style in me through felties!... Since i wanna stay away from cute in my illustrations. (personal pref)

So yeah sharing with the world how awesome felting is!!!

HELMET IS DONE!!!!

2011-04-25T02:40:00.000-07:00

I finally finished painting the helmet!! :D It was a long process but I'm pretty happy with how it came out! I've gotten so invested in it that I didn't want to give it back lol. In these pix the helmet has not been clear coated yet. So I gave it to the bf to take care of that. Ill take moar pix after its clear coated. I can't wait bc i know it will look way better. The paint dried matte so some of the colors didn't look as bright and vivid as when the paint was wet.

Finishing this was definitely a great satisfying and rewarding feeling. Painting takes way longer than digitally painting and I've spent most of my life as an artist doing digital or only sketches. I learned a ton since I didn't take any painting classes so experimenting with colors was interesting. :) Stay tuned for the final final helmet results and pix!

Bellydancer update

2011-04-08T01:14:00.000-07:00

I never got to post an update on my bellydancer/ assassin concept. I haven't worked on it in a while due to being busy with life and work. But I had gotten more work on it than the last time i showed progress. There's still a ton to be done and i wanted to redo the face i had on her since i didn't like it and it wasn't what i originally imagined. But yeah here's what it looks like right now. Hopefully after finishing the helmet I can get back on this!

Pinup redo

2011-04-08T00:46:00.000-07:00

Several blog posts back I was working on an acrylic painting for my color theory class using a limited palette. I drew a victorianish pinup girl for fun and painted it halfway but never finished it. Since I've been using Illustrator at work I've been wanting to do some personal illustrations using Illustrator, so I thought of revisiting the pinup painting! The lineart is in vector, I was planning on coloring it and making it fancy. So here's what I have so far..

It's still rough lineart. I have a few changes I wanna make to it. I feel like i wanna push something, either the pose or something. Not sure what yet but ill mess with it and see what happens!

omg helmet progress!.... and a special treat!

2011-04-08T00:23:00.000-07:00

Here are some more progress pix ive taken with my iPhone! A lot of the streaky looking paint is more of the blocked in parts or underpaintings before i finalize the zombie/ guy. I finished the first zombie (2nd image) and was satisfied with the colors i have him etc. I might just add some more highlights on his left side but overall his face is done. I want to have all my zombies to this amount of detail. All i have left on the guy is his face, bullets, gun, hands, chain, and grenade. I have more on the helmet done which you dont see in these pix. Those will be up when i get to another good stopping point :)

I'm pretty content with where it's going and can't wait to finish it.

OH and I made oreo covered chocolate chip cookies.... @_@ which everyone should try bc its mind blowingly amazing!

And OREO... in a CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE ftw!!!!!!

Damn i want some more....

Peeky Peeky!

2011-04-03T23:19:00.000-07:00

There's a lot more done on the helmet but I havent had the chance to upload the photos off my camera... (that i cant seem to locate right now o_O) But heres a little peeky at the zombie i was painting today!

He looks a little blue in the pic, but i assure you hes more green than that!

Moar Painting Practice!

2011-03-21T18:04:00.001-07:00

Continuing on speed paintings. Only in this one I was trying to mess with a little more color. The goal was to make it so there's a focal point. The first 3 i was using the same colors, since i was too afraid to branch out into my own colors. The last one you can see that I made my own composition, even though it's a crappy composition. I was focusing more on what colors to use to make the rocks in the back seem far and the foreground be more noticeable.

Painting Practice

2011-03-17T18:12:00.000-07:00

I had to do some painting practice at work to prep myself for more painting that will be applied to the project were working on. I'm trying to do speedpaints of environments.. (which ive never done before) so doing this excersise i feel like im loosening up a bit. Im used to making things final and finished looking. Not so much loose sketches. So here's one environment. It's numbered in the order I did them. My time limit i gave myself is 30 min, but the goal of course is to be able to do these in 5 min. ;)

Motorcycle Helmet Project Part II

2011-03-07T23:09:00.000-08:00

Update on the helmet!

Here's what I have on the helmet so far after doing a paintover concept in Photoshop.

I started out by sketching the scene in white pencil and reg pencil then decided to ink it with a sharpie so i can tell all my lines before painting all of it!

I'm liking how it's turning out so far. :)

Stay tuned for moar!

Fiverr commish

2011-03-04T18:56:00.001-08:00

Motorcycle Helmet Project

2011-02-28T01:21:00.000-08:00

I wanted to share what I've been, will be working on as an ongoing project with my bf. After painting his helmet up with sharpies we had a few people interested in me doing helmets for them. One of his buddies donated a helmet to us to paint and mess around with so I guess ill be posting the progress here! I'll be making a seperate website dedicated to this that will show these images as well so customers can see some of the process. My bf's friend Rudy really likes zombies so we came up with this concept.

Here I drew up thumbnail sketches for composition purposes. After a few ideas and fixes going back and forth with the bf....

I painted a quick sketched concept of the helmet in different views to get a better feel for what it would look like to make the drawing/ painting process easier. And a better way for my bf to visualize so he can approve etc.

Stay tuned for more progress! Ill be taking photos of the process as I go for my site but ill post them here too :P

Enjoy!

Tat design for Fiverr

2011-02-25T08:56:00.001-08:00

Here's another Fiver sketch. I wish I had more time to clean this up a little more for a tat. But initially its supposed to be Adam and Eve with a KAWS snake. For those of you who dont know who KAWS is, he's a graffiti artist. Check him out!

I decided I might just go in later on and make some of these sketches in illustrator.. try something cool for practice!

Moar Fiverr Commisshe's

2011-02-21T23:24:00.000-08:00

So i had a cool opportunity to sketch for the amazing Jenny. She wanted the image to use in her blog which you should read btw because shes awesome. It's pretty inspiring. She's on a journey to travel and live life to the fullest.

And this was for someone who wanted a wolf with an Indian Headdress. I actually liked drawings this one. I don't get to draw animals much. I'm usually drawings humans so it feels good for a change. Oh and I love wolves! I got into wolves when I was doing research for my bf's helmet because they are just gorgeous. I enjoyed drawing them too. I've always loved dogs that resemble wolves, like Huskies or German Shepherds, or Alaskan Kleeklu (sp?). Love Love Love! I especially love Shiba Inu's because they look like a mix between a wolf and a fox :)

So anyhoo I liked drawing this one:

So many more drawings to go!! -__-"

Life Update

2011-02-19T00:06:00.001-08:00

Well since I've been so MIA on here I guess I'll give a quick update on what's happened in my life as of late. I was working for a startup called WishB and working on a game called Globworld. I was the main concept artist there til i hated working under my inexperienced lead who had no idea what he was doing and disliked me for being better than him. True story. Not just saying that :P Luckily I got a wonderful opportunity to work for Booyah and I took it. I've been working there since mid october as an Artist and its awesome. It feels good to work somewhere where you feel like you're learning something everyday and makes you want to work your butt off get the products done. We just finished working on Nightclub City and are getting ready to release DJ Rivals soon (which is gonna be so awesome). Oh and i learned to use Illustrator which btw i think i like better than photoshop maybe... maybe.

Not too much is up with my personal life. Still hangin' with the bf and family as usual. And as far as art goes.. most of the stuff ive been working hard on are work things. Then I discovered Fiverr where it forces me to draw for people who are willing to put in a little cash for a sketch. So even though they get a great quality sketch work a few $$ for a mere $5.. Im getting some sketching and practice in... finally. So i can finally post up stuff on this empty sad blog.

I'm also getting ready to start on a few side projects. Im working on a project with the bf and plan on doing more custom painted motorcycle helmets. He preps and sands and primes the helmet i do that art, some shop will clear coat :)

I'm trying to start up my TJ and Skweek story. Ok guys.... i really really reallly reallllly want my own booth eventually at wondercon or comic con. Im too late and short of many drawings to have one this year. But im prepping for this years Ape, and possibly next years Wondercon. Im trying to push out as many sketches and art stuff to possibly make a sketchbook book that ppl can purchase. I know i dont have much of a fanbase. But im hoping ill make a mark within a year. Exposing my art as much as i could...!

So that's all for now. Stay tuned for more art and sketches!

Moar Fiverr!

2011-02-18T00:49:00.000-08:00

Here are some more sketches I did tonight upon request:

Fiverr Madness!

2011-02-17T14:48:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since i posted anything on here. I've been using my Tumblr more than Blogger just because its easier to upload and blurb about whatever i wanted. But since i just started an account on Fiverr i'll have my sketches to upload on hand rather than waiting til i get home and scan etc.

For those of you who have never heard of Fiverr, its a site where people offer whatever kind of services for $5. Some normal and some bizarre. So of course I joined in on it and decided to do sketches for $5. it forces me to draw :P And since its of the requests of the public i'm forced to try new things. Here are 2 i finished yesterday!

One was for a character someone created for their D&D game and the other one was for use on his personal site.

It feels pretty good to get back into drawing. What's even better is that these go to people and they have such nice things to say!

Check out my Fiverr post!

Sketchbook Project 2011

2010-09-15T13:49:00.000-07:00

I recently was looking at some art blogs of different artists when i came across this link on one of the blogs (ill have to link her and look her up) about this Sketchbook Project. I was curious so i checked out the site and OMG is it an awesome cool idea! Basically you purchase and are sent a moleskin sketchbook by ArtHouseCo-op and u fill it up based on the theme you chose and send it in before Jan. All the sketchbooks are collected and exhibitioned around the state, as shown in the picture. THEN they are archived as library books for the public to check out at the Brookly Art Library. I mean hundreds and thousands of people will get to look at your sketches!

OF COURSE i’m gonna jump on that! That is TOTALLY going to motivate me to sketch often. So I can’t wait for it to come in the mail so i can get started :D

For anyone interested heres a link to the Project (http://arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject)

I’ll be posting some of my sketches on Tumblr when i get ittttt!

Wait a sec.....

2010-08-09T11:10:00.001-07:00

Am I actually updating and posting on this blog..? Holy cow! Yes i am >_<

LOL annyyhooo here are some screenshots of the work in progress i have for the bellydancer im working on.

Close up.

Ive never tried this technique before. Where u paint the tones in black and white first when go in a new layer and change the layer settings to color. and paint your colors on them. Then build up from there etc. She's not as realistic as i want her to be but I'm workin' on it. Still have a ton of detailing and rendering to do. I didnt have the image at a tilt angle before but i just changed that since the previous one looked a little boring.

So that is that!

Scanny Scanny!

2010-07-31T22:50:00.000-07:00

I forgot to post up the full scanned image since the pic i took on my old iPhone (cuz i gots the new one!!!! :D) prob looked a lil funny. So here it be!

Progress...

2010-07-25T23:41:00.000-07:00

She's purty hot ain't she?

Work in progress shot! Still slapping on colors on her. Then doing orthographic illustrations so i can start modeling her :)

Motorcycle Helmet... and a silver Sharpie!!

2010-07-25T23:05:00.000-07:00

I forgot to post pictures of the motorcycle helmet I did art on! My bf asked me if I could draw a fantastic illustration on his helmet with a silver sharpie and to go crazy with it.. and so I did.. heh heh heh... >:)

I was in a rush to do it bc I wanted to surprise him. So I believe I finished it within 10 hours.. all Sharpie! :D

He sparked me with the ideas since he requested a tiger on one side and a wolf on the other (what can I say he's my muse.. :B)..

He clear coated it with a special clear coat that doesn't have alcohol in it (since alcohol makes sharpie ink run).. and voila!!!

So yesterday I went and bought a helmet for the heck of it.. well for myself, just in case I'll ever need one to ride with him, and am gonna paint the heck out of it! I'm thinking maybe acrylic paint on it. I'd use airbrush if I had an airbrush machine and knew how to do it. I'll just have to wait around til my bday comes ;)

Jedi Training.

2010-07-13T23:01:00.000-07:00

So I had to do a test for a company that I applied to. It was a UX Illustrator position. First of all........... I'm not a user interface person or user experience person. But a recruiter pointed me to the position and thought hey why not apply. The company itself is a successful one that works on award winning iPhone apps. So eh, why not. They gave me simple instructions to the test, to re-create Minesweeper (i totally loved the game for the longest time!). To try and make the plain grey colored blocks all modern and cool looking. I took a shot at it and heres what i did!

I felt pretty proud of myself cuz I did something.. I've never done before. I took a shot at something outside the box. And u know what.. if felt fullfilling. Now i could say i know how to. I didnt look up tutorials on the template itself. I just looked at the actual Minesweeper game and created what i saw but my own brainstormed version. Then i looked up tutorials for making the buttons. :B

Unfortunately I didn't get the position, BUT i learned something new and that was worth it. I also realized how much extra time i could give myself a night to work on anything art related. I'm determined to learn MOOAARR!! hehe.

Maybe I can pretend I'm apply to... ohhhhh lets say.. a matte painting position!! Then I can make up a test for myself and do it within a day or something. OOOO IDEA RIGHT THERE! :D

(I'm always gonna have to find ways to force myself to draw!) :B

I think someone out there should give me candy for everytime I pump out an art piece! Yes, thats a great idea.... Someone.. do it.

Doomy Doomy Doom

2010-07-05T23:35:00.000-07:00

I have kind of a hard time keepin' this blog up to date! Well it's also bc i haven't been doing much of my own personal art that I can post up! BUT I've had ideas and goals that I plan on setting by the end of summer! I've made somewhat of a summer bucketlist... but geared towards my art! I had this cool idea to broadcast myself drawing an illustration from red pencil sketch to inked. It's a great way to motivate myself to get more personal work out there! Besides, I have no choice but to draw.. since I'm looking out for a new jobby. Yes, that's right.. I think I'm ready for the next new step in my life, where I am more challenged to illustrate and model bigger and better things... instead of the kiddy stuff..

With that here's a preview of a new illustration I'm working on..! :)

Sorry the quality ain't amaaazing. I took it with my phone. Speaking of phones...... I CANT WAIT TO GET MY IPHONE 4 IN THE MAIL SOON! :D WHOO!

I also just joined Tumblr. I use it to express whatevaaa. Since I didn't wanna post up random links and youtube vids on my art blog. It's also just easier to post random stuff there.

SO HERE"S MAH LIST!

~~Edit Pixar photos~~
~~Update my website with new artwork~~
Concept S’s Bellydancer Assassin character and lock in pose and final illustration for painting
Paint Bellydancer character
Orthographics for BDA character
3D Model and texture BDA character
Update My website again!
Brainstorm intro/outro for upcoming vlogs on YouTube page
Create into/ outro for vlogs
Get windows/bootcamp and zbrush for laptop
Create my own tshirt line and skateboard line through Zazzle or Threadless
Get someone to make a purchasing system on my website so I can custom paint or make things for people
Start documenting and creating drawing vids like Nate Van Dyke’s vid
Paint up some Munny’s
Remodel TJ + texture
Model Skweek + texture
Concept and Model some monsters + texture
Learn to rig
Finish concept car I never finished
Brainstorm ideas for zbrush practicing
Moar oil painting!
Start a script for TJ & Skweek Web comic
Start a TJ & Skweek Web comic

Doom! Doom! Doom!... The End!-- Gir (Invader Zim)

Oil Painting Commission.. sorta.

2010-02-22T21:35:00.000-08:00

My bf requested an oil painting as a present for him mom. And I'm not like a crazy painter but I do remember when I did take classes I absolutely loved oil painting. Since I had to drop the class (lol) I couldn't finish up on the learning. So I had to turn to...... BOB ROSS!! Yes that's right... The one and only. I downloaded like 10 seasons of his Joy of Painting videos and watched them while working. I learned so much from him and damn does he make everything look so simple! And the fact that he was able to paint a full amazing picture in an hour was freaking fantastic. I did research on him because really, i didn't know too much about him. I just remember waiting for Barney and they would be playing his show... yes I watched Barney and only the cool kids watched Barney so shush. :P It turned out he was in the military and his job was to yell all day. And painting took him away from all the anger and the yelling and the tense environment. He's awesome. That's all I can say. :)

So I'll post up the progress pix as soon as I save them onto my computer.. but here's a snapshot from my phone of what it looks like so far..

I worked on this for a good 4 hours. I first drew out everything. Oh btw, this is going to be a painting of an Islamic Mosque; Masjid Al- Nabawi. It's a famous mosque and we muslims know it as the Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) Mosque. Which u can see here:

Obviously i have ways to go before it looks anything remotely close to this reference picture :P

I wanted to give the sky a sunset cuz sunsets are awesome!

Thank you Bob Ross for teaching me to paint those happy clouds!

UPDATE: (May 25, 2010)

So i finished the painting and i had to do it fast since i was under a deadline. If i had a little more time i think id improve a few things here and there. But here are some snaps of the paintinnggg!! (They were color adjusted to capture the right colors painted since the pix i took made it look a little washed out.)

Some detail shots of the pillars..

I think i pulled 2 all nighters back to back. maybe got in 2 hours of rest in between. Oh man... i forgot how hard all nighters are without the aid of coffee or energy drinks!

I'm definitely motivated to paint more with oils. I already have another idea for my next painting.. stay tuned!

And so it begins....

2009-11-12T08:31:00.000-08:00

I'm so MIA on this blog and i keep saying ill post more but i dont get to it! There's been a few cool things that have been goin' on. I've been super busy at work since it is crunch time and we should be releasing Globworld in the first 2 weeks of December. It's pretty exciting and i cant wait to show people what i've been working on since feb.

In other big news, the Christmas Carol came out in theaters which is pretty exciting! You can find my name in the credits under the Motion Capture Artists!! yaaaay! (Rehana Khan) for those of u who don't know my name. I also want to congratulate those who worked on it cuz they did an amaaazziinng job on it! It's cool being able to see your name in credits along with many other people you know. It definitely feels like a good accomplishment! :D

I also recently started taking this toy modification course at 1AM and i get to mess around with Munny's!!

I always wanted to try and paint a Munny since I've seen artists do some cool things with it but i couldn't afford it at the time. In this class we were given a small-med sized Munny ($10) to work on. At first i thought it would be too small and went and bought the next bigger sized one but i think it would be better to practice on this first before painting and messing up a bigger munny :P

And so it begins...... haha

Ill post up my progress as i go.

Comic/ Graphic Novel time!!

2009-06-28T14:35:00.000-07:00

Ok. I'm gonna do it. I'm going to do a comic book/ graphic novel and show it off to APE Con. I wish it was as easy as i just made it sound haha. But really. I'm gonna DO IT! I'm writing out a script and storyline for a story i came up a while ago with my characters TJ and Skweek.

I'm gonna do this! Honestly tho, i don't know where to start. Like i know the process but i want ppl to look at it or read it or like it. It's not like i have a fan base. I'll just be coming out of nowhere and handing random publishers and saying here look at this!

I once was gonna work with my friend Eric on a web comic idea that he had that i hella liked called Plastic Sword Heroes. It was Genious! This was when i was working at Seattles Best Coffee but school got in the way then i had to start work and then i met my bf and i always have some family thing to do so everything.. basically life, got in the way!! I'm dedicated to make this work this time. And I can always pick up where i left off with Eric's idea :P Eric if you read this we should collab sometime :)

So for those who dont know what TJ & Skweek is about... It's about a kid (TJ) who has a stuffed animal monkey (Skweek) and they're adventures in fighting the monsters under his bed and closet. I don't see it as being a kiddy comic. I actually see it as dark . While TJ and Skweek have their adventures discovering the world underneath his bed and inside his closet, there's something evil brewing. An evil monster decides to go against the rules with human contact for his own evil purposes. To take over both monster and human world. Of course there's more but you'll just have to check it out for yourselves!

I wanted this to be geared towards both adults and kids.

I'll be doing revised sketches of TJ and Skweek and post them up very soon. More concepting, more monster sketches (which should be uber fun)! It would be a great chance for me to practice my environment concepting skills (which i have very little of :P)

You can check out old and newer concepts of TJ and skweek that i've had. Of course ill be re-drawing a lot of this stuff!It's been a while. (www.khanart.com)

Ill post some sketches real soon!

Doodle self portrait

2009-06-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to get in the habit of constantly sketching or drawing. Since i got into IMD.. and outta there and then working at a new place.. my will to draw has gotten.. less sadly :( So only thing you can do is force it and hopefully it will come back!

So when nothing comes to mind to draw.. draw yourself! and that's what i did :)

Check it out!

I didn't know if I liked the colored version. 'Cuz the colored version looks less like me. But it was good practice. I learned more about color in my color theory class and why not mess with it? I'm sure none of my colors are correct but I guess this is the first time I let myself go free with colors. I used to just try brown and peach for skintone.

I'm trying to work with the one a day drawing/ sketch but everytime i tell myself i'll do it i end up not drawing at all. I know it could be simple 'cuz a sketch doesn't have to be extravagant. I see people on deviantart do "one a day" pieces where they draw whatever and paint. I NEED to do that!! I wish i could hire like a drill sargeant to scare me into drawing and painting insanely lol.

Let's see what i post up the next few days ;)

Pin Up Girl painting 2 + doodle

2009-06-01T23:49:00.000-07:00

Here is an update on the painting i was working on. I was finally able to upload the better quality pix off my camera!

It's still being worked on.. im trying to do little by little any chance i can get. Im happy with how the drawing came out.. i just hope the painting looks good too! It looks better in person than in pictures :P I didnt have great lighting. I also have a habit of taking progress pictures with my schtuff ;)

The assignment was to use a color and its compliment. 2 colors and its compliment was an option but they would have to be next to each other on the color wheel. For example.. i chose yellow and its compliment violet, and yellow-orange and its compliment blue-violet. I can also use black and white to mix with.

So thats that.. ill post up the updates as i go :)

I also did this quick doodle at work. My bf said the funniest random thing to me and it sparked a drawing :) too cuuute!!

It makes me happeh! :D

Mother's Day!

2009-06-01T22:39:00.000-07:00

I made a cake for all mothers on mother's day. Well not ALL lol. On mother's day the family gets together to celebrate at a park or someone's house. Then we exchange gifts, etc. This year i decided to make a cake (no suprise there). And i wanted to make something yummy and cool looking. I found this recipe online for a rainbow cake (Conversations with a cupcake) -or-

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Bow in the Clouds Six Stack Cake

Coming out of the oven, the combined smell of each layers fruity flavors from will make you wonder if you've just created a dessert version of Fruit Loops. Fear not. Though the wild colors will appeal to even the tinsiest tasters, adults will adore the subtle fresh flavors of orange zest, lemon, lime and picked berries. As the host, you'll get far.too.many kicks from arriving at the table with a crisp, white-frosted cake then cutting into it to reveal a full spectrum of surprise!

2 boxes white cake mix

6 eggs

1 c. water

2/3 c. oil

1/2 c. raspberries

Zest of 1 orange + 2 T. juice

Zest of 1 lemon + 2 T. juice

Zest of 1 lime + 2 T. juice

1/2 c. blueberries
1/2 c. blackberries

Wilton Icing colors in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple

In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, water, and oil together. Scoop 1 cup of batter into six small bowls. In the first bowl, mix raspberries and 1/4 tsp. red coloring. In the second bowl, mix orange zest and juice, and 1/2 tsp. orange coloring. In the third bowl, mix lemon zest and juice and 1/4 tsp. yellow coloring. In the fourth bowl, mix lime zest and juice and 1/4 tsp. green coloring. In the fifth bowl, mix blueberries and 1/4 tsp. blue coloring. In the sixth bowl, mix blackberries and 1/4 tsp. purple coloring.

Prepare six 8 inch cake pans by greasing and flouring each generously. Using a spatula, spoon and spread each color of batter into its own cake pan. Bake in an oven, preheated to 350 degrees for 17-20 minutes, or until tops spring back when touched lightly. Allow to cool completely. Frost with White Chocolate Frosting.

Billowed White Chocolate Frosting

You're going to want to lick the bowl, the spoon, the cake. Do try to restrain yourself.

1 c. butter, softened

1 bag white chocolate chips

3 lbs. powdered sugar

1/2 to 1 full cup milk

In a large bowl, microwave white chips until melted. Immediately beat in butter until smooth. Add remaining ingredients and beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Makes enough frosting to ice between each layer of cake, and around the outside of the cake.

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Everyone LOVED it!! :D Check out the pix/ process :

The End result

Yeah it was really good :)

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How cool that there was a rainbow in the playground! It was meant to be lol. And at the end of the day.....

Hope everyone had a happy mothers day!

Pin Up Girl painting

2009-04-20T23:14:00.000-07:00

Another class assignment! So for this assignment i am to paint something (anything) only using 2 colors on the color wheel that are next to each other and their compliments. I can use white and black to mix in too. So while most people did abstract things and such. I decided to do something cool and the first thing that came to my mind was a woman from the 1800's. I dont know why but it did so i went with it! I drew out a few thumbnails and i wanted her to be in those nice big gowns holding a pretty umbrella. A guy in my class had a graffiti book and on the page he was on there was a devil pinup girl and it gave me another idea. To make the 1800's girl pinup style!

Here are some progress shots.. It's a work in progress. Ill post up updates as i finish up. Sorry the pix are crappy quality. i took them with my phone with low lighting. Better pictures to be posted soon!

The last one is a colored thumbnail so i would know what color to use where.

Check back soon for more progress!

Oil Painting 2

2009-04-08T21:58:00.000-07:00

Finally... ART!! lol. So i had to paint some lemons.. and here is the start.

I took a photo ref here:

Then i went in and blocked it in here:

and thats what i have so far but ill be posting the progress with that. :P lol.

More Cakes!!

2009-04-08T21:06:00.000-07:00

Man this is starting to look more like a baking/ cake blog rather than an art blog.. Baking can be an art too... right? lol. Well i have been drawing and creating... I just can't show to ya because its not my property.. or i don't have the rights yet.. u know what i mean. Til then ill just post up Cakes and Photography. :D

So I have made 2 nice cakes one i did for my bf's birthday in Feb which is a Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting (he requested it) and blueberries on top. I have a hard time working with fruit because they give off water/ juice when i stick the cake in the fridge. And i want fresh fruits.. not glazed fruits. And blueberries are the only fruits i've worked with that don't give off the juice stuff.

Here's are a few pix!

Thennn... (no im not done yet lol) I took this class in SF called BakingArts which has a variety of different classes from chocolate molten cakes to souffles to layered cakes. And i took their topsy turvy cake class and came out walking with this!! Unfortunately i didn't take a picture of it before i drove home so i only have the pictures of what it looked like after the drive home :( The top part fell off so its even more crooked than its supposed to be :P The flowers are done in Fondant and so is pretty much everything on the outside. The inside is a Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting! YUM. My design and neatness could have been better but i was running out of time. But the next topsy turvy cake i do.. It will rock i promise :P

Caaakkeetoowwn!!

2009-02-05T20:17:00.001-08:00

So I forgot to post up the bigger cake I baked for my uncles wedding party!! It's a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. It looked awesome..! Unfortunately I didnt get a chance to have some cuz I had a huge headache and didn't have an appetite for anything :( But at least i managed to snap some pix of the yummy cake!

*droooll* i love red velvet!! LOVE IT!! *mouth watering* I had a hard time looking for white chocolate blocks. I thought Trader Joe's would have them bc I do remember seeing them there. But I couldn't find them anywhere local. And i didn't want to rely on a hershey's white chocolate bar. So i just bought a block of milk chocolate. The fruits look so mouthwatering good tho :) Apparently people loved it at the party and were really impressed! I wish I tasted it. Maybe next time :)

Oil Painting

2009-02-05T19:28:00.000-08:00

So I decided to make use of unemployment and take the time to take classes at the local community college to further improve my art skills. I haven't had much traditional training so better now than never :P

The first painting were doing in my oil painting class is an abstract painting. Here are a few iPhone progress shots :)

I've never gone crazy with color before :D There's still more work to do on it. More progress pix to come too!

Moto X Show!

2008-12-20T22:54:00.001-08:00

So my bf took me to this motorcycle convention and asked me to bring my bros along. It was pretty cool. It was like a small comic con but with motorcycles lol. People were sitting on bikes and taking pictures with them and they even had some artwork on bikes thing which i found pretty interesting. It was also fun seeing my boys get excited over bikes like kids with new toys lol. It was cute. I definitely want to ride a motorcycle once in my life... maybe even want to own one. They look so awesome!

So here are some pix I took of the stunt show :P

Oh yeah btw i bake too...

2008-11-18T17:52:00.000-08:00

Haha.. yes. Besides drawing i also love to cook and bake. So the past wed i made a red velvet cake... and i cheated bc i used red velvet cake mix. But thats the best way to learn! Cuz im baking one from scratch this friday for my uncle and his new wife. The family asked me to bake a nice big cake in celebration.

So here was my practice cake:

I gotta admit.. it was purty yummy ;) Wait this this weekend for the better one!

Painting Practice

2008-11-17T18:00:00.000-08:00

So i thought id finally start some realistic paintings/ illustrations to add to my website and portfolio. I see a lot of job posts that require some realistic styles but since i dont have current drawings i prevented myself from applying. So why not start now? My first practice is Ms. Marilyn Monroe. It came out nice. I mean of course there's more i can add but i just left it at that so i can start on another one. I copied a picture i found on the internet.. NO TRRACING tho! Just compare the two and you can tell i did it on my own :) Im gonna do a few of these kinds of paintings so i can add more to my too cartoony portfolio! Comments and critiques would be greatly appreciated!

My Painting:

Photo reference:

Progress:

This is interesting...

2008-08-27T11:44:00.001-07:00

Drawing on Money!!

Oh and this :P

Artwork

2008-08-27T11:31:00.000-07:00

So i sorta finished my warrior painting. I say sorta because i could be making small adjustments here and there based on critiques ill get :) So heres what i have so far!
Ill also post up some screen shots i had during the process:

I decided to keep it somewhat sketchy cuz i liked it better. I had some parts smoothed out and blended better but changed it so its a bit more stroke painterly.

Artwork

2008-08-10T18:00:00.000-07:00

So i finished my Dhalsim and decided to paint it and heres what it looks liek:

I used photoshop cs2 :P

I've been pretty busy lately working up a new demo reel to submit for jobs. I revised my TJ model and fixed up his hands and legs to look more like the concept i drew. I also textured him better.. finally! So here's how that looks:

Sooo that is that! Im working on my site now so once that's updated ill add a link!

COMIC CON 2008!

2008-07-28T11:06:00.001-07:00

So I went to Comic Con on Saturday.. and it was my first one ever.. and gosh.. it was the best thing i've ever seen! It's unfortunate that I was there for only that Saturday but I had a great time! It's totally worth it. I usually go to SIGGRAPH to get my stuff looked at and to look for jobs etc. But i think Comic Con was a better fit only because its all about art and illustration and imagination. While SIGGRAPH is more about business and professionalism. Here are some pix i took:

Overall I LOVED IT!! I recommend it to anyone and everyone! I got to meet comic artists and talk to them and everyone is sooo nice and chill. I can't wait til next year!!

Fun links

2008-07-10T11:32:00.000-07:00

So i just installed "stumble!" to my Firefox browser and its just about the coolest thing i've seen! It uses my preferences and by clicking stumble it gives u random websites based on your interests! here are a few that I found to be really really cool and interesting!

http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/

You do a little scribble on the screen and after you're done with the drawing.. you hit the start scribbler button and the computer does their version of your scribble!

http://www.maninthedark.com/

Flash based, its creepy but kinda cool. For your own entertainment :)

http://www.sketchswap.com/

Cool site where u can sketch something and select swap.. and you recieve a sketch that someone else has made :)

http://bomomo.com/

I really liked this one! I could play with this for a looonng time! You'd have to check it out urself!

Well those are all i have for now! Ill post more when i find 'em!

Doodles

2008-06-26T21:45:00.000-07:00

It's been a lil while since my last post. Just been busy at work. It kinda sucks bc I'm at work 13 hours a day (8am-9pm) which leaves me tired at the end of the night.. which means no drawing! So I've kind of lost my motivation to draw which makes me saaaad! Because right now is the time to draw as much as I can! Comic- Con is coming up and so is Siggraph! I need something to show! Hopefully I can kick my rear into gear and pump up some cool stuff.. yeah? So i started getting myself into some digital painting yesterday (bc im pretty weak at it).. and here's some screen shots of what i worked on...

April 25, 2008- Doodles

2008-04-15T10:52:00.001-07:00

New Drawings!!! I finally got to scan in some stuff from my sketchbook.. check it out!

Here's a quick paintsketch of my cute man!

I did a Rogue for fun.. (ball pointpen, Prismacolor marker)

Here's my Dhalsim scanned finally :) Havent done any cleaning to it yet.. but once its ready to be colored ill post up another one :)

April 8, 2008- Doodles

2008-04-08T18:00:00.000-07:00

Here's my progress on my Dhalsim!

Again.. sorry for the crappy picture phone quality!!

So I've been thinking of getting a car.. and u know which one i want? A MINI COOPER! Ch'yeaahh baby!!

Apr 1, 2008 Doodles

2008-04-01T15:16:00.000-07:00

April Fools Day! Yaay! I haven't pranked anyone :(...... yet... >:) haha

Here are some doodles i've been doing at work: (sorry for the low quality photo... it was taken with my iPhone)

Aand here's a WIP of a Dhalsim drawing im workin' on :)

Welcome!

2008-04-01T10:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Rehana's Sketchblog! I'll be posting random sketches, photos, and cool stuff here! Look out here we go!