Back from vacation/ late honeymoon + commission art!

I'm baaaacckk and more inspired than before! My husband and I FINALLY went on our honeymoon/ vacation last week to Disneyworld Florida. It was greeaat! It was much needed for the both of us since we both haven't taken a single personal vacation since... years. No exaggeration! We stayed for a week and did everything there that we could. Went on all the rides, ate a ton of food, took a ton of pictures. Basically enjoyed it to the max and savoring every vacation moment before getting back to the work grind lol. I DID have to finish up a piece of commission work that I couldn't finish before my vacation so I did have to work a little bit. I thought I'd share it since it is a little different from what I usually do! A friend of mine had an anniversary coming up and was looking for a drawing of her and her bf kind of in the inspiration of paperman. I had a few versions drawn up but we settled on this one and this was the end result!

I have a few more sketches I did in my sketchbook for my sketch of the day, while my work computer was being fixed and ill share those later :3

I'll probably write a more thorough review of Disneyworld and my experiences later!

Some "professional" work from Playdom

What have I been doing with my life as of late? Careerwise? For the past 1.5 years I've been working for Disney Playdom in Palo Alto as an artist. It's awesome, i love it there, yada yada lol. I haven't posted any work I've done just because i got a little lazy. So I started looking through my stuff and decided to  make some "pro" sheets to show off. I've been working on the facebook game Disney's Gnometown for the past.. year and a half. It's a cute fun addicting game! If you haven't played yet check it out! We also have a mobile version as well, so check that out tooooo!

Now onward to art!

I still have more to post, which i will after I'm done arranging them on the sheet of photoshop paper. All of these were done in Illustrator! (the.. uh.. art,  that is) Excuse the fonts and template, I'm still working on that one.. -__-

More to come!

Angry Buddy

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)

Hawaiian Flower

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!

APE 2011

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!

Sailor Moon Progress 2

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!

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 for funnn..!

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!! @____@

Pinup redo

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!