Shoot.

Having a light term at the moment. I'm also retaking Study Models. Sitting in that class again here now, and I'm trying to work on stuff for my scholarship portfolio... But I'm already getting so sleepy. I turned what I started into this. Cause that's kind of how I feel right now. True story.

BANG. Cheers!

Design Process 1 Final - Renderings

This was for my Design Process 1: Development of Space final... Just some quick paintings of a Tron: Legacy themed Taschen bookstore at the Grove's Farmers Market; we had to redesign the bookstore and the clock tower on top of it. It's in the process book post I made earlier today but here are the individual paintings.





I could've sworn I painted this on a slightly brighter scale... It's dark but... meh. :]
Thanks for dropping by!

1st Term Process Books and Journals!

Nicely printed with laminate covers and spiral bounding and everything.
They're much nicer in printed form... >W< Design Process 1: Development of Space (ENTD)

Design Fundamentals 1


Way Things Work


1st term down!
P.S. - Me birthday was yesterday. Many thanks for all the birthday wishes and all, and hanging out with some of the classmates yesterday for some sushi dinner and some Rango was fun. And of course thanks to my bao bei. <3

Thanks for visiting!

1st Term!

Art Center's 2011 Spring term officially starts today! I've been at Art Center for the past four days for orientation, and I'm excited that that's finally out of the way. No class today, and no class Monday, so it means I'll be there for class starting Tuesday. See you all there!


Hard time getting used to digitally painting again after so long. A lot of flaws with this one, but it's good to start getting a general flow of things again.

A quick filler, it'll be revised and remedied soon.

In the meantime, a quick filler to start off. I'll be remedying this one soon. Thanks for visiting!

Brush Tip Enviros

New brush pen. Yaay. And getting some thumbnails out there again.

Term starts for me in a few weeks! :D

Doo Not Care... Much

Poo scooping and shooting roboto. It's supposed to take fecal matter into its furnace mouth, ignite the feces, and then shoot it out as a flaming turd. I also named it after one of my cats, Yumi. :]



Aaaand I don't feel like finishing this enviro. -___-

Maybe later.

Vehicles and Mechs Week 6 HW

Some more vehicle ideations from John Wu's class at CDA. BWAAGH I'M SO FAR BEHIND! D:

Environment Design SU 2010 HW Week 2

2nd weeks homework for James' class.




I know I'm not finished. Only two out of the five. I'll catch up.

Environment Design SU 2010 HW Week 1

1st week's homework I did for CDA's Environment Design class with James Paick.









Roughly an hour and a half each. I'm getting a little faster. Need more though, I want to be able to crack these out in 30 minutes soon.

Yay environments! Yay something new on my blog! :D

Vehicles and Mechs WK 1 HW

1st page of homework for CDA's Vehicles and Mechs class with John Wu for this summer. A bunch of fumbnails for mech/vehicle ideas.



Yaaay drawing again! :D

Huzzah Summah!

Sorry for them lack of updates.

Finally started CDA classes for the summer today. Saturday mornings I have Creature Design with Jerad Marantz again, Vehicles and Mechs with John Wu following that at night, and Environment Design with James Paick on Wednesday nights. So urmm... you can expect to see new things from me again.

Back at dedicated drawing again yay. :D

Neverending Story: Ext. Environment IX

From one of my thumbsies in my last post. Thumbnail number IX.

Too lazy to clean it up at the moment, but here it is!

Process

References/Textures


For right now though, there is really nothing special about the environment itself. So I talked to Rodney about illustrating these things in the next revision:
Story Point:
- Scene in a jungle before Atreyu meets Gmork.
Key Facts from Story:
- Atreyu ventures into man-made (cave) with stone bricks and walls, and murals depicting key points and characters in the story.
- The earth is experiencing disaster at the moment, ie earthquakes ( due to the invasion of the Nothing) as Atreyu meets Gmork.

Neverending Story: Ext. Environment Thumbs

My thumbnails for my Neverending Story exterior environments in Rodney's class at CDA.

Ivory Tower: I-III and VI.
Falcor's Nest: IV, VII, and X.
Forest: V, VII, and IX.
Rockies/Desert: XI and XII.
Swamp: XIII and XIV.



I'm actually having a hard time deciding on a certain thumb to take on a higher level for class; I like most of them equally for the most part.

External HDD + Spider Stand Combo

Today's product concept: An external hard disk drive and a spider stand combo to accompany it.


This was actually done just yesterday morning at Art Center while waiting around for the rest of my classmates from the incoming fall/spring term to show up for the ACCD Admitted Student Night. All of them are very friendly and outgoing , and it makes me feel so much better to know my new peers in person.

Semi-Weekly Moleskine Post (No. 5)

I lied. Weekly Moleskine update now turned into semi-weekly. So... Count this as update No. 5 from now on alright? 6 pages every half a week, or something like that. That means I'm making the jump from 10 to 12 pages a week now. :P

21 + 22

23 + 24 Inspired by/done at Lake Balboa when I was hanging out with Jenny Yan and her SG buddies.

25 + 26 My self-anticipated toilet paper system. Please don't steal. > <


Mainly cause I wanted to share my toilet paper dispenser sketches. Yeh I'm weird. And hey, it's all landscape today!

Toilet Paper Dispenser: The Problem

I find that I let out more creative and fun sketches in cases of extreme boredom. Like at work. One example of this is my concept for a toilet paper dispenser redesign. I have two pages worth filled with this just from doodling at work, and it's actually an idea I want to take further. :]

First step: The problem.


I'm annoyed at the fact that on top of taking the roll out of it's wrapping, we have to slide it over a telescopic pole, then pinch that so we can actually fit it into the device which holds up that roll. Urgh.

I already have a way, though it's not necessarily a solution actually, just a different way for those annoyed with this whole process like I am. Haha. When I upload my Moleskine updates you'll see, or perhaps before that I'll actually flush it out in Photoshop like I was doing just now.

Moleskine Update Wk. 2

Sorry about this late update on my Moleskine progress. I had an intense and immensely fun second half of a week, so I haven't been able to do my two pages a day. I did manage a bit over ten pages though, so I'll be posting what I promised.

11 + 12

13 + 14 The odd one out lol. Only page so far uploaded in landscape format, cause I spent more than a page on that little cliffside enviro.

15 + 16 Signed by Andy Park, Jung Park, and Cecil Kim at the GOW III exhibit at Nucleus last weekend! CRAZY COOL. :D

17 + 18

19 + 20


Wishing everyone a good and well month of April!

Coreander's Bookstore

Update on Coreander's bookstore from the Neverending Story. The last hour I actually spent drawing with a mouse in class because I left my tablet stylus at home. -____- It's my first actual interior environment I'm doing in Photoshop and I'm liking how this is coming out, but there still needs to be a lot of fixing and work to put into it.



Mystical magical things can be found in this bookstore. :]

Moleskin Update Wk. 1

So I think I'm going to do a weekly update on my Moleskine; every week I'll upload the next ten pages of what I have in there even though I'm cranking out roughly two a day. Also, I actually got Andy Park, Jung Park, and Cecil Kim to sign my Moleskine when I went to Nucleus to see the GOW III exhibition; Andy Park told me something about not uploading, but I don't know if he was being serious, so maybe I'll upload what they drew in there later on (and censor what they drew haha). They're mega cool.

5+6

7+8

9+10


More fun doodles coming along. See if you guys can find anything hilarious I usually write/draw when I'm feeling whimsical. :]

New Moleskine

So about a month or two ago I lost my old pocket Moleskine sketchbook somewhere on Pcc. Sad loss, I had some good stuff and some important info I was supposed to remember in there haha.

Good news is that after getting accepted into Art Center I celebrated, in addition to that logo rub-on on my car and a lanyard, I also bought a new Moleskine. I'm starting off great so far haha, much more dedicated to it than any sketchbook I've had. It must be that new motivation I'm getting from being accepted in Art Center.

Here's a little something something I have so far. Too lazy to rotate that other page. I've been trying Jerad's thumbnail process of sketching really small in an extremely short amount of time (thus producing somewhat a lot of happy accidents), and it's really cool to try out! I'm also getting back into some more product-esque doodles, just because I still love product. :]




I've gotten in a page a day at least so far, and I'm hoping to keep it that way. A doodle a day keeps the- err... I dunno. Something away. Drawing block? :]