Busy term!!

....but im surviving.

Yes, two blog entries in one day. It was such a long post that I had to split it into two (well i didn't HAVE to, but it seemed more organized this way)... I probably won't have time to blog until the term is over anyway =(

My first assignment for character sculpting class. We were each given a vegetable and we had to design a character based on whatever we got. Mine was a cabbage (i went with a Chinese cabbage)

Hipster look hahaha... I tried to sand it, but it came out a bit bumpy and uneven anyway =/

 Original design turn-around. My instructor told me to give him eyes instead.

Pre-baked. Sadly, I think it looked better before I baked it. I didn't bake it long enough so it looked washed out. I also got the clay dirty while i was sculpting and the spots became more apparent after i baked it.

Second project in progress, mechanical hand design.

I actually made this two years ago, back when I took ceramics in highschool. Finally got around to take a photo of it.

My work from last year. This was when i first started learning about line of action, dynamic poses, etc. That class really changed my approach on drawing. (sorry pictures are a bit hard to see, i resized them to fit my blog)

Finished this two days ago for background design and layout class. Learning how to do perspective drawings (something I really needed practice on). I think i FINALLY understand perspective drawing. *gives myself a pat on the back*

We were given a plan of the room and we had to design and draw it out from different cameras. Also had to tone the drawings without adding any shadows.

Did drawings on tracing paper, on top of a grid layout. Scanned into the computer and then toned in photoshop.

Taking intermediate modeling (more like beginners modeling), our first assignment was to practice basic modeling with polygons and tools.

Robot character design thing

Tried out instagram on my messy desk during work time. Crappiest picture ever, but instagram makes everything looks a bit better. 

My sister introduced me to this book called Tokyo on Foot, done by an artist who traveled to Japan for a few months and drew random pictures daily. Really interesting and fun book.

One of the pages.

Two new additions to the party.

From my large to-fu set I won on ebay awhile ago. Still need to set them out for display.

Only took these out to photograph, I will need to move everything on my shelves to make room for this. This is probably the second most valuable toy I own within my collection. I was lucky to win this on ebay for an amazing deal. When I opened this, I finally understood why its expensive, there are tons of small details, the two figures are made with metal (nostalgic vintage toys!), extremely high quality painted parts and materials...its pretty rare to find toys of this quality nowadays. The design and materials were definitely based off of vintage toys (90's and earlier).

Random thing I found at home (gift from relatives in HK), Its a hello kitty measuring tape, it goes back in when you press the nose. It can go to around...5-6 ft i think.





Trois Petits Points, a classmate shared this short animation with us (around 3 mins long). Really awesome.


MakingOf Trois Petits Points from Tracy Nowocien on Vimeo.

"Making of" video. I love the character sketches!!



*phew* finally done. I spent the whole day getting these two entries together...better go get started on hw now.