Firefly and Panda

Here is the finished Firefly cast drawing! Woo! Click on the image to make it bigger, or for an even bigger version, click here.

 Mal, Zoe, Wash, River, Kaylee, Simon, Book, Jayne, Inara

On a side note, I just saw Kung Fu Panda 2. It was good! What stood out to me most were the visuals... A lot of time with 3D animation (and even 2D), I feel like the rawness and beauty of the concept art is lost, but in Panda I really felt like the look and feel of much of the concept art (particularly some environments/lighting and Nico Marlet's awesome character designs) were intact. (After the film I went to Barnes and Noble and drooled on the 'Art of' book for a while). There were also some wonderful hand-drawn animation scenes, which made me super happy; I actually enjoyed those scenes more than the 3D stuff. I would love for Dreamworks to do an entire feature in that style! Anyway. Good stuff.

-Anna

Joe's Graduation Card

My brother Joe graduated from Cornell yesterday with an Econ degree. My dad asked me to make a card for him. I tried to capture his current situation/state of mind. He's moving to NYC and hopes to get into the film industry if he can, and needless to say he's kind of intimidated. He's super smart and awesome and I'm sure he will be successful in whatever he chooses to do :)

Front of the card:

Inside of the card:

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Firefly Sketches

Sooo it's summer break! I haven't posted in a while, but I have been drawing... I've been working on a few things, one of them being an epic Firefly cast illustration. I've been wanting to do it for years, and my brother has been bothering me about it too (that and Star Trek TNG). So I'm doing it! It's so fun to do these caricatures, and I find it really helpful... it forces me to look at a person's face, and draw features that I wouldn't normally draw.

Anyway, these are the drawings. I'm almost done coloring, and I will post that when I'm finished!
PS. If you haven't seen Firefly, drop everything you're doing and watch it NOW.

Finished Stardust Illustrations

Here are the 3 final illustrations for Stardust... I'm kinda meh about them overall. I just don't like traditional painting as much as digital... it's too constraining, there's not enough freedom for mistakes or experimentation. And no Command-Z! Oh noes! Anyway, here they are, in all their mediocre-ness.
PS. Summer in 2 days!! (Well, for me... I realize summer doesn't actually start for a little while.)

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

For Concepts this week we had to pick a crappy illustration and make our own (better) version. It just happened that for my Jane Austen class we had to read a little bit of 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies', which is a silly novel full of crappy illustrations! I was disappointed to see how such a ridiculous concept could prompt such lame illustrations, so I decided to do my own! Darcy and Lizzy, kicking some undead ass.

Here's one of the original illustrations:

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Jump Rope!

Watch the weird bird monster jump!

The Princess Problem

So for Concepts we had to pick an article and illustrate it. I had a really hard time finding an article I liked (partly because I'm not really good at the whole article illustrating thing, and partly because everything in the news is SO FREAKING DEPRESSING). I managed to find an article in the Guardian (UK newspaper) about the royal wedding, and how all little girls want to be princesses. I'm not sure how well this illustration carries out that whole idea, but I think it works with the article.
I'm a little meh about the Union Jack collage in the shadow/silhouette of Kate Middleton, I might play around with it a little more, but this is what I've got for now.

UPDATE: Just had a critique. Our instructor for this assigment is the Art Director for the Business section of the NYTimes, and he said that it illustrated the point perfectly and if he had gotten it for a NYTimes article he would have run it... sweet!

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