Mean Girls the Later Years Update

My favorite paint colors have always been yellow ochre and pink so it just made sense to create paint my next layout. The painting is a bit more simple and abstract when comparing with my prop design, which will be posted soon. This is because after creating a quick wash background I heavily layered it by using nothing but my pallet knife. I wanted to focus more on color and feel rather than creating a fully rendered room. I can almost see a poster on the wall saying "Live Laugh Fetch". The painting is 18"x34" and the medium is acrylic.

A Yellow Submarine Spyglass

The Beatles Yellow Submarine has been one of my favorite films since I very little, so when I was given an assignment that let me explore just about any art I wanted I immediately leapt for the psychedelic animated movie. The paper which I was assigned follows the idea of taking one literary artist, (I chose poet Matt Shears) and any piece of art that relates to our field of study and for me that's animation. The first part of our assignment was to create something visual, and that was about it. With so much free reign I wanted to combine painting which is something I often do, and paper arts which I've never really explored before. The inspiration came from Robert Sabuda's Alice in Wonderland pop-up book.

The first piece you look through is the portal to Pepperland, the main setting of the film. Next is the Blue Meanies as they take over Pepperland. Then the Sea of Monsters is next, the first of many obstacles the Beatles face. After that, the Foothills of the Headlands as they give vague directions as to where Pepperland is located. Finally is the Sea of Holes, if you look closely, you might find the Sea of Green. The of course the yellow submarine is somewhere in-between. Sorry if it's a little hard to see the inside, it's kind of awkward sticking a large camera down the small peep-hole.

Mean Girls the Latter Years update

Here is an updated version of "Doris", the final part of the sculpture I had to finish was the face which is now complete. Now that that's done I'm currently working on a large bust of her. I'm not sure how I'll do the glasses quite yet but they will be made out of a different material so that they can be removed. Right now I'm just slapping clay on foam board for the bust. Once again I'm using Chavant medium clay.

Meerkat Animation

This is an animation that I've been working on for about a month now. An animal exercise involving a narcoleptic meerkat. I think I'll still work on a few spots including adding some in-betweens.

Mean Girls the Later Years update

This is a sculpture of one of my ladies made out of chavant clay. I had a little trouble with the face of my first sculpture (this is actually my second attempt) because I'm used to drawing in a style that doesn't always transfer well three dimensionally. I ended up switching to medium hard clay which held it's shape better so it was easier to work with. I still need to add her glasses, I'm going to black sculpey bake clay, the same stuff I used to create the weights.

Coming Soon!

Currently I'm in the middle of designing a new twist on the classic story Mean Girls. An earlier post showed early character designs and that's how the project started. Currently I'm spending my spring semester working on the visual development of the series, while in the fall I will be creating short comic strips following the lives of these mean girls as they climb their way up the social ladder within their retirement home. Until then I will be creating and posting home layouts, prop pages, clay models and more.

Live, Laugh, Fetch!

Tree Trimming Friends

As much as I like to create fan work I also like to create my own characters. The characters that I showcased here stretch from college to high school. Starting from left to write, my nameless lamb, kind of a basic girl personality. Sydney the platypus which has been on my blog before. Nameless dog, still new so she has room to grow and develop a personality. Rocko the raccoon (need to change his name because of Guardians of the Galaxy, He's a bit of a troublemaker and once had his own comic, a kind of western Prince and the Pauper. Nancy the cow is a scientist whose best friend is a flamingo (not pictured) and is roommates with unnamed cat. He is also fairly new but I like the idea of these two polar opposites that have to live together. I made this all the way back during winter vacation so sorry if it's a little out of season.