So, My graduation present was a 24inch HD Wacom Cintiq. I've been trying to get used to it because you have to draw more normally and less with a flick of your wrist. It's so nice! I'm incredibly satisfied and cannot wait until I hone in on a style that I can do easily and with consistency.

Here are some images I have been doing over the past two weeks or so to practice. I realize I'm trying too hard in some and now I'm just sort of putzing around trying to find what I want to do.

The first sketches are of Disney Characters that don't get much love. I'm going to continue this series and hopefully get better as I keep practicing and trying new techniques out.  Kida from Atlantis, Esmeralda from Hunch Back, Jane from Tarzan, and Megara from Hercules.








These are original characters. The  two images are of Daerua and Errandis. I wanted to do some stylistic things, I think they turned out alright. 






This image is purely practice. I pulled an image with strong color and used it as a sort of faux-pallet. I also wanted to work in the lines I tend to be drawn to. I'm working on another piece but it's not turning out as nice.
Th-that's all folks~ Until next time (hopefully next week)!

So, I realized I've neglected you, oh pretty blog, for more of an instant gratification through tumblr. I do feel bad, so here I am...gonna post some of my last images from school. I'm now a proud graduate from Califorina State University Northridge and I am soaking up some free time. I haven't done any good finished drawings since being out,  but that's okay. So, here we go!

This was the 8th assignment we were given in my Illustration class. We had to find a product and create a one page Ad for it. I naturally chose hair products and Photoshopped some bottles in. I think this was one of my most successful for all time. I really enjoyed doing it and everyone responded to it very well.





 My final illustration for this class was another really successful one. We had to do another editorial and we were given free reign. This piece could also work for a poster. It was based off an article about fostering your creativity and I came up with the images using the "Matrix Method" where you can lay random stuff out and pick things you may not have normally thought to put together.



In my Digital Illustration class all we worked on was our final for Robin Hood. I decided to scrap the traditional story and go with something more interesting where Maid Marion is also Robin Hood and wears a reddish orange cap like the red breasted robin's of Europe. Her love interest is Lil John. I even went cartoony with this one! What was hardest about this was stripping my logical mind and letting design take over. I didn't get it completely but it surely pushed me to think about things differently!

Final Scene

In my Maya class I finished up my 3D Midterm and we did a final project of lighting, modelling, and texturing a room. We didn't have a lot of time and I don't have them on this computer! Next post! Thanks for looking and for supporting me!

I will post a good post over the weekend. For now, here is a tumblr update.

http://ringaroundcapozzi.tumblr.com/post/21371367121/we-had-to-do-an-advertisement-illustration-so-i

So, spring break is over and it breaks my heart cause I don't wanna go to school! I want to keep lazing about and staying up until crazy hours of the morning with little consequeeence! Anyway, I was somewhat productive this week. Here's what I have to show for it!

Concept Art....Robin Hood! I've got two of three characters, Marion and Robin...and then I'll do Little John...by Wed. Heh.

I felt like this all weekend. Didn't get much done. I also have instagram and a brushd account. They're all under this alias, Ringaroundcapozzi.

The End.

http://instagr.am/p/I-LFRvIiIa/

I feel like this has been the longest two weeks of my life! It hasn't, but...I want a break! It's the week after next, so I still have to wait!

Anyway, I've been up to a whole lotta stuff, finishing my animation and doing paper craft(something I may never, ever do again) So, enough with the talking. Here is some art (if you wanna call it that).

PAPERCRAFT FROM HELL. Here is Derpina the Fairy










I used two different patterns, hand painted it, glued it, yelled at it, nearly broke it several times, glued it the wrong way a few times, and almost forgot the arms. DERP. It's like, 5-6 inches tall. I can't say I'll be doing one of these again....ever.

Jekyll and Hyde hasn't been completely put on the back burner, I did fix up the sketch in the last post and worked on a lighting study for another scene. I'll be finishing up what I'm showing you now tonight and tomorrow.


I'll be fixing up the girl in the shadows, putting in a crack to let you know he's leaning against a fridge, fix up his hand, and adjust his reflection and expression.

This lighting study was going to be the preliminary drawing for another scene (if I ever get to it) of the detective/lawyer finding out that Jekyll knows Hyde.
aaaaaaaaand now some sketches.

fantasy sketch

sketch of a new character, Avora

fantasy sketch

fairy sketch

sketches for stardust

And, here it is. Week 8. I can't believe how fast it's going! I so far haven't died and I've kept up on all my school work! Hopefully spring break will be nice and relaxing so I can kick the second half of the semester's ass!

So, here are a few things I've been working on. If you guys have noticed, I updated my pages, now giving an illustration portfolio page (unfinished heh...) and I'll be putting up a concept art portfolio page here real soon. I was looking through my progress steps on some of my work from last semester and realized I hated doing all the work but they came out great in the end.

Enough blabbering. Here!

Book cover illustration for Stardust. It wraps around the book so the face would be the cover, hair the back cover.

Here is a tee-shirt design I came up with. So far I'm pretty happy with it and could see a series coming of it.


And yes, those are the Threadless Tee shirt templates. They're all so dorky. Done with pen and ink, then scanned into Photoshop and tweaked! I think neither of them goes over 2 or 3 colors.



Now, a small update on my Jekyll and Hyde concept. I did a few more sketches to further experss some vulgarity in Hyde. My class had said, and I agree, that he was much too tame and didn't nearly read dangerous enough. So, here are some quick sketches and the composition I'm working on for a critical scene. I kind of made one up, where the detective is coming in looking for Jekyll who is trying to hide while Hyde is showing in the reflection.

This is still a WIP but I got pretty far in the few hours I worked on it. Most of the time was spent figuring out how to use the space.



So yea, thanks for lookin' and I'll hopefully have some personal stuff to add...some...time? Maybe? I don't know.

Alrighty then! Twice in a week, I know it's crazy talk. However, I have some drawings I wanna share with you guys and if you have some feed back to please, please give it! All of the images are low resolution so if you want to see something up close, let me know. I might just submit some detail shots because I'm actually quite proud of myself!

Firstly, here are some line drawings :D

This was the preliminary drawing that I used for a promotional piece I did. I will probably be using parts of it for business cards/postcards/stickers/what have you. I like the way it came out.

 This was me fucking around with pen and ink again. I really like how these are turning out but I'm struggling with a way to make them a bit more unique. I feel like I'm on to something but I'm not really getting enough feedback to know where to go from here.  These flowers are "Arab's Eye Lilies"

And this one was a drawing I did right after the one above it. I got a little curious about what flowers mean what and according to the Victorian era, flowers meant a lot! From secretive love to I'm sorry we're through, I found it a very interesting read. These here are white clovers. They were kind of hard to draw, but not really. I don't know how to categorize them. Anyway, they mean "I Promise" and I thought it was interesting to juxtapose that with crossed fingers. "We can't always keep our promises." Perhaps it's something I'll delve into more, putting more meaning into my work will make it more successful.

Lastly! I finished my character designs for Jekyll and Hyde and colored them! Enjoy!

Well, I realize It's been a good 10 days since I posted....okay okay...15, but I've been so busy I just couldn't find the time to sit down for a good thirty minutes and come up with a post (pffft, no body reads this anyway...right?) So, I've only got a few things to show you...by a few things I mean the finished piece from Little Red Ridinghood (which I hate) and the next few sketches for my new Project...Futuristic Jekyll and Hyde. So, yea.

Ugh, this is just awful. I still don't like it. I took out the patterned wallpaper that I had in because it just made everything too busy....and now it looks too plain. I really need to just work looser. This tightness isn't going to help me with these short deadlines. this is about twenty hours of work. I think the only thing I like about it is the clock haha. It was fun to paint and actually came out looking pretty good.

This is our new project. I chose Futuristic Jekyll and Hyde cause I thought that'd be kind of fun. So far it is proving to be very fun, even if I don't have a lot of sketches I have a ton of research. Jekyll is going to have been so old that he wanted to transfer himself into an android and in the process of doing so, a glitch happens and thus Hyde comes out. I'm changing the detective into a girl because I want a girl. :D I've got more sketching to do tonight. I am in love with the chalk brush right now, it's making me draw better somehow. I'm going to be changing some of the design to include glowing things on his face and other parts...think of Tron meeting Aeon Flux.

The prototype for my website is all good and done. I actually like the way it came out. Here are some pages. All the buttons are hand written and then scanned into Photoshop. I decided to use the octopus lady as my banner cause I like her so much! Anyway, this is what some of it looks like....