Beach Buggy Take 2

A newer version of the beach buggy, painted on wood. The cars proportions are off compared to the original, but it's all good

Beach Buggy

I really don't like this one as much. But then again its only first few watercolors ever. Still trying to figure out this medium. I was summoned to paint a tropical scene reminding someone to retrieve their keys when they left the house. I am deciding on how I should portray it. I already have one in marker and ink. Next step, do it all over again on canvas. 

Mini Elephant

And yet another elephant. I can't keep away from the elephants. Acrylic and ink on mini canvas. I saw table settings for a wedding on pinterest, my favorite website ever, and it had the mini canvas' set up on their mini easels with ribbons attached to them which had the guests names on them. I'm so excited to do that for my future wedding, that I've already started! This mini canvas is for sale at my etsy shop,

http://www.etsy.com/shop/designbylj

Mini Camel

A camel I painted on a mini canvas with acrylic. I love this one. I especially like the ink lines. I think I may have found my new desk piece! This mini canvas is for sale at my etsy shop, http://www.etsy.com/shop/designbylj

Tiger

A watercolor of a tiger I painted today from my watercolors book. It looked pretty plain so I added pen and outlined everything and added the stripes to it to give it more depth. Plus you can actually tell what it is this way. I went with my dad to his studio today, and I figured it's about time I tried watercolor. So once I got home, I set to work straight away. This way I can have something to show for my portfolio that actually contains some color!

My workplace

An ink drawing of Hagrid's Hut. I work at Harry Potter in Universal Studios, and this is what I saw everyday before I switched to another attraction. I had snapped a picture of it one day because I needed more perspective pieces for my portfolio. I would have loved to do it on location, but my longest break was only 45 mins. and that was barely enough time to eat my lunch!

Socilaizing Girl

An ink wash of a girl sitting on a planter talking on her phone. In my drawing class at UCF, we had to go outside and do 16 quick sketches of what we saw around us. We had to do a mixture of architecture, plants, and people. It was pretty tough to constantly find 16 scenes with all three elements combined, and only a few in the class actually finished before we had to leave.

Chinese Mandarin

A chinese Mandarin I made from my Birds Book. A quick sketch that I made it with charcoal.

Steam Locomotive

My steam locomotive! Took about 11 hours of my lifetime, but it was my first modeling project. This is a polygon model created in Maya for my Modeling for Realtime Systems Class. I'm so psyched to actually start my animation classes. Only one more semester to go! I'm not counting down or anything.

Grateful Woman

A charcoal nude model who was sitting on saran wrap. It was so difficult to draw and looked so off that I turned it into cloth when I was done.

Tool Box

This is a toolbox I had to create in Maya for my animation class. It was one of my first biggest projects, and it took way too many hours to count. I'm pretty proud of it saying as how long it took to create. I would come home, and sit here for hours on end just modeling this guy. I was still learning all of the tools in the program, so that's part of why it took so long. You can definitely tell that I'm not a modeler though, and my focus is on animation. Mostly because of the number of ngons and faces that are on this beast.

Flag Pole

An ink wash of a flag pole at UCF outside the memory mall. The flag and tree was drawn with pen and I added the wash to the background after. That's why the ink is bleeding, but I kind of like that about it.

Animal Safari

I originally started this one the day I graduated high school. However I did all but the lion within a week and put it away. I didn't touch it for two years because I wasn't sure how to go about the lion to bring everything together. Finally I pulled it out when I had to turn in my portfolio. I knew it needed more, but I wasn't sure what to add. Maybe some watercolor in the background? I was terrified I would ruin it by adding anything else saying as it took me three years to finish. Best part is, I never even submitted it with my portfolio. Maybe now I'll go back to it, and add in a background since I don't really care about it anymore.

UCF Arena

An ink wash of the UCF arena and psychology buildings. The ferris wheel is for Light Up UCF, an event they have during the winter. It's an outdoor ice skating rink with carnival rides and a big ice slide outside the arena. The best part is the outdoor drive in christmas movies they have every week. I've only been in the ice skating rink once, because when I did I fell on my face way too many times. This is a view taken from memory mall.

Little Bird

A charcoal drawing of a little bird on a branch. Taken from my Watercolor Birds Book. This is where I got the idea for my mini Twitter Birds series!