Sherlock

If you haven't seen the BBC show Sherlock, you are missing out. It's fantastic! Benedict Cumberbatch is so great as Sherlock Holmes, and he's such a fun guy to draw.

Cats

Here are some very unhappy cats.

Stylish Grannies

We CA Juniors recently finished pitching our first prepro ideas. It was stressful and rewarding at the same time. My beautiful partner in crime is Emily Jourdan http://emilylynnj.blogspot.com/ and we had a lot of fun with our story. I won't give too much away, but I do want to share some character designs that I did.



I found an amazing blog that really helped inspire me to draw some stylish grannies. It also inspired me to be a fashionable elderly lady myself one day!
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/

Westerns

This was done for my Drawing For Animators class, and we were told to do whatever we want. I wanted to do something with monsters and sexy cowgirls. Because, you know, who wouldn't?

Here's some prelim sketches for the cowgirls.

And some prelim sketches for the monster.

Sketchbook

I decided to upload a bunch of my sketchbook pages from last semester. I thought about editing them to have maybe five pages of my best sketches, but I don't feel the need to make my sketchbook look flawless. I love looking through people's sketchbooks, because sketchbooks are more than just books to practice drawing in. They're like stream-of-conscious diaries, but prettier. I can look through my sketchbook and remember just what was going through my head when I drew on that page. And I love looking through other people's sketches and trying to guess what was going through their heads.


An email was sent to us Ringling kids at the beginning of the semester that had a link to a Ringling professor's blog. I will never be able to remember which blog that is and I'm sure I deleted the email by now, but I like what this professor had to say. He said that sketchbooks shouldn't be places to show off. They should be places to practice, to make mistakes. I agree with that. I used to be worried about making sure my sketchbooks looked nice, because God knows when you're friends with a bunch of art nerds, sketchbooks are going to passed around and scrutinized. And of course, I still like sharing my sketchbooks, but I'm no longer ashamed of the not so pretty pages. So enjoy, friends! Scrutinize away!