Cotton buoy returns

Bike HW and no...this is not a RISD home test

So me and some of my story buddies have been inspired by Louie Del Carmen's wonderful skill to draw bikes to draw our own bike pieces. Stephanie made a spectacular one with a cool, flying bike. So here's mine. I listened to a lot of heavy metal today, which probably affected my thinking process lol. Wanted to do the bike in a cool angle and what better way to make a drawing than to make an action scene out of it. Also, since it's Halloween I thought this Zombie Apocalyptic World would be appropriate to go along with the theme.

What do you do when you only have a pan and a bike in a zombie apocalypse? 

YOU RIDE ON AND BUST SOME HEADS! yeeehaww

This was actually the rough. By playing with the black and white, I was trying to see how my composition would look as a whole, and try to see if my image would read clearly. After that, I went ahead and did the outline and values. 

Terribly Wrong

Doodle of the Night

Something

Is

Terribly

Wrong

Goodbyes and Hugs

Well, as most of you know, I have taken a gap year of RISD and will be studying at LA for the whole year. What am I doing? I am exploring new lands, conquering weaknesses, and battling with perserverence in order to master my skills as a board artist/animator/illustrator/chef/babysitter/ (basically everything). The last month was incredibly tiring. As a result I've gotten weird tiny bumps on my face, and I feel like I should be wearing a paper bag over my head, like so:

I think it might be the different air pressures that's messing up my skin's sensitivity. I've been traveling literally coast to coast, along the coast, into the mid-west and etc. Also, possibly stress? Lemme tell ya guys something...DON'T BRING OR BUY ALOT OF THINGS AT COLLEGE! It's not worth it. Packing and shipping all my stuff back home was a total nightmare. I never wanna do it...again.

Anywho, when I was at RISD, I had my last shibang with a lot of my dear RISDians. For those of you who I didn't get to meet, please know that I still hold a special place for you in my heart and always wish to see you again :) But of course, thank you to those who made my stay enjoyable and adventurous. Couldn't have been any better without you guys.

Now, I wanna make a special shout out to Jen and Libby. You guys went thru EVERYTHING with me. LOL I seriously don't know how I could've lived my life without knowing you guys. I could make a list of all my favorite moments, but that would take forever. Instead, I made a little drawing that kinda shows our relationship ;P

I miss you guys~

So after I came back to LA, I was fortunate enough to see my little cousins, Love and Luke, because we will no longer be living together. Poop. When I came back from the airport they were already sleeping, but the next morning...Oh man, it was the cutest thing. I woke up to see that Love was next to me on the computer, and right before I could say anything, Love and Luke pinned me down on the bed with their hugs. Haha, and honestly, nothing could've beat that warm, grand welcoming. 

'

I sure am blessed with some awesome people. PTL

Perfect Weather

My favorite weather. 

Nice, sunny day.

Cool breeze.

Rich blue sky with puffy, white clouds.

Fall is in the air.

Point of view

You know.
I'm sure many of you go through this all the time, but whenever I have those days when I'm super tired that I can't keep my eyes wide open or too lazy to lift my head to look at a person's face, people usually think I'm angry. Especially the taller group of people.

Angry?

No, I'm just tired. Some of my friends that are my height can recognize it, but not the others.

So here's what I think is happening...

A person of my height's perspective...

And then a death glare for those who are way up high...

>_<;;



I'm sorry :(
I swear I don't mean it...sometimes :)

Swingin' By

Since I've been back I hung out with my mom a lot, and she's the perfect sketching buddy because she just sits there and enjoys the scenery with me. I guess that's the benefits of drawing with an older person. 

Speaking of which, when my mom and I visited the Chicago Botanical Gardens, we sat in a Chicago Blues concert where the elderly and their families were just chilling.

 It was glorious.

 One of the things that I love to draw are the elderly. They are such intriguing characters filled with history and blandness.  It's great.

So here they are.

This girl was actually from Caribou, but I thought I'd just slip this in here.

CDA sketches

I'm a little late posting these sketches up, but I was finally able to sit myself and just do it. 

Some of these were drawn at the Tigobo workshop and CDA. Hahah, I hope some of you guys can recognize who some of these people are ;)

Okay, maybe not this lady.

 She was the counselor who was running the Character Animation info session at Calarts.

Melanie

Emily Dean on the left. 

Preston Do's head.

Jessie Greenberg and Melany Altuna

Rad Sechrist

Ian Abando

Sherwin Abesamis 

 Rod Roda

Lemon doodles

I am finally back at the Chi and I have been working on a mini-board to show what happened when I was trying to come back home. It's not finished yet, but I got side tracked into making these doodles. I've been checking out Rad Sechrist's "Plastic Walrus" photos and it inspired me to do some of my own doodles with value. I hope to be as good as him some day =)

The character's name is Lemon by the way.

I miss Cali...



I will go back...some day.

Joo Hee Son Dancing Star!!

Hey y'all!

My mom and I are finally reunited and having a little week of exploring before I head back home to Chicago.

We got to meet up with our distant relatives from Korea who's visiting LA. I think...they're my 3rd cousins?? lol It gets pretty confusing to explain my family tree. We are just everywhere now. 

Okay, so there's this 11 year old girl and her name is Joo Hee, and man she is SO good at dancing. She can do all these sexy, cute moves while I...sadly can not....She was really excited to see my sketchbook and I told her that I would put her in my sketchbook too. She absolutely loved it and started to dance for me. And of course, I started draw her. 

Here's the size of the drawings, in case you were wondering. 

Now I'm off to Laguna for more people stalking and tanning. Aww yeaaa. 

Ciao!~

Sketch-o-rama Drama!

Haha as you can see, I've done a lot of sketching, BUT this isn't all of them. I still got a lot more to show you guys, however, I'm coming across an issue of how to color these guys in. I've tried multiple ways and I think I might just go with the first one. It's simple and it gets the values down quick and easy.

haha I kinda went crazy and experimental on this one.