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....

Daaaang. So much drawing this weekend! So, what I had to do was at least 3 sketches of my Illustrations for my Little Red Ridinghood, at least 3 sketches of our proposal for our webpages, and 3 sketches for my Illustration based off of an article( eh-heh the only one I haven't done yet...I still have time). So, I was feeling a bit down on my luck on Thursday because I really didn't feel I did well on that butterfly piece (yea, see blog post before this) but now I'm feeling a little better about myself. I think I was just in a bad mood. So, without further adeiu, here are sketchesss! (Oh yea! And some test animations that I said I'd put in my last post but decided agaiiiinst.)

Little Red Ridinghood

So, these are all shots of the interior of Grandmother Gang Leader's House. Old fashioned, antique, a little colonial, a little Victorian( Gothic and Baroque), and still not quite highly decorated enough. Hey, I'm only one girl with one weekend that has to be split about five ways. I think it's a good start, anyway. ONWARD!

Webdesign. These are not the final designs, just sketches for the layout. I feel that the boarder I want to create will be very crisp, clean, and somewhat faded into the background. I really want a personalized site that invites and welcomes my viewers. I'm all about making connections and portraying myself as a very easy going (and easy to get along with) person!


Last but not least I did try my hand at a little cell shading, took a few hours (I was watching all the starwars things on Adult Swim last night) and finally, finally drew Errandis. The owner of the character is quite happy with the outcome as am I. I had fun with the little shapes of light and shadow in the clothing and hair. I have some improvement to be made on the hands but whatever!

So, that was about the biggest freakin' post I've ever made and probably will ever make. Well, maybe for the next two weeks. I appreciate your views and even your comments (if you guys ever made any!). I did make a tumblr, so if you are tired of all my talking, I just post images on there. ringaroundcapozzi.tumblr.com. Ta-ta!

Oh man am I tired. It's been two weeks of classes and I'm just feeling exhausted. Going from having all the time in the world to no time at all is really quite a shock. It will be interesting how the next 14 weeks are going to be playing out as projects begin to over lap and I have to budget my time.

I've now turned in my first project of the semester and I'm really not satisfied at all. I am now beginning to doubt myself in every aspect of making art, whether or not I can actually make art that is sellable or printable. I'm trying to network more, broaden my horizons but It's just so discouraging when looking at 13 other pieces of art from my contemporaries who had the same amount of time and the same problem to solve and they did it so much better. Smarter design, better drawings, contemporary look and feel. Maybe it's time to somehow come up with another style, do something different because I dont see anything that I have as a viable portfolio that can be directed at any of my potential clients of Merchandising, Editorial, or Conceptual.

So, here is my stain glass butterfly...I will have to revise it or something...as of right now I'm putting it up to just start off. Even if it's not exactly on the right foot. I've got lots of sketches to do this weekend so perhaps on Monday or Tuesday I'll get up all those ideas and hopefully feel better about myself and what  can accomplish. I guess I have some soul searching to do.


I also did some basic modeling and animation in Maya. I'll upload them later too, laptop is about to die and I'm tired as heck. Probably couldn't find my flash drive if it was sitting in front of me.

Alright! I just had my first week of classes and let me tell you, I've got a lot of work ahead of me. If I don't die before Midterm, I'd be amaaazed. Anyway, I've already got homework and started on a few things so here is what I have. I also finished more Girls but I can't post them until my mom gets them in the mail(I'll be mailing them next week!!) Anyhoo...

Project 1 in Digital Illustration: Redesign Little Red Ridinghood. Okay, I was terrified at first, until I got a theme I wanted. It's Steampunk/Western! My sketches are really vague about the placement of the familiar steampunk items, when I get to digitally painting them I'll fill all those yummy details in!

I'll give you the sketches individually, they're low res...sorry :/

Yup, so I decided I was pretty done with digital work...well...for now. Probably pick it back up in the next week. Instead, I picked up my sketchbook and sketched.

So, here is the first one...I'm calling Cherry Blossom. I drew it out and then I scanned it in, blew it up, printed it out, and drew on top of it. Twice. I didn't really know what I was doing. It was fun though!


Here is the second one...Akebono Tulip I knew a bit better what I wanted to do, something simple and flowy. I'll probably add to it at another time.

Yea, that's all I gotta say. Done.

35-40 hours, Photoshop CS4

Sylvanas Windrunner copywright Blizzard
Image copywright me

Oh god, this piece is killing me! I really took on a lot of stuff here and I'm still not done, nowhere near where I thought I'd be but I wanted to give you guys an update. I'm not sure if this is what it's going to look like but I was messing around with what I do have and it's kind of interesting. Probably not what I'm going to do but hey! Whatever. It's an update.

I'm about 80% ish?

Wow! I can't believe it's the new year already! As you can tell I finally was able to break away from drawing non-stop for about two weeks. Okay, less than that, but still. It was a much needed break to get my umph back! I have been trying to relax and think through just what I want to accomplish. I just want to improve this year. I want this to be the best art year for me yet! Here's to 2012! *cheers*

Anyway, I've been working on this piece of fanart on and off for the past few days and I thought I'd upload a little teaser! I know a few of you have been curious as to what I've been up to with this Sylvanas picture I keep complaining about.

That's right, I'm doing Sylvanas in her Cataclysm armor. It's driving me nuts. Anyway, I have much more work to do and I wanted to get it done by tomorrow but I dont really see that happening since I decided napping and fucking around on Youtube was a better idea than painting :D

Here it is! the WIP of "I Am Forsaken"

Well, here it is. Finals week. I've been lucky and had some time off of work to relax and work on my last few projects as well as get studying for my final exam on thur (yikes!). In the mean time I've been catching up with my friends, doing some writing, and doodling... a lot. Here I thought I was all drawn out and all I can do right now is draw, draw, draw....

So, I thought I'd share something with you guys. I had fun with it, it's extremely experimental but I felt like it was taking on the same vibe as my Gyspy and Nix piece. Myserious! ooo!!

This is my character Daerua...she's summoning...a...bright purple blob! Oh noooes! Cower! Or something.  I dunno. I found some new brushes so I was testing them out. Haha. Little over 3 hours from sketch to what I'm calling finished color. I know there are some issues (mainly the feet which are driving me nuts but I dont want to fix cause my hand hurts from clenching my pen).

Here :D

I can proudly say I am just about done with my first semester of my last year. With 2/4 projects completed, I am heading into finals week a little less stressed....key word 'little'. Anyway, I'm completely unsatisfied with the print quality from Kinko's and should probably find another place to print my stuff out...but I'm currently poor and Kinko's is right around the corner. However, I do have my eyes on two different printers to invest in after graduation.

The first is the Epson Stylus Photo R3000 13" printer. My teacher has the R2400 and it produces amaaaazing prints. Waaay better than anything I got from Kinkos and is priced at 849.99....though it's on sale right now for 649.99 and if I didn't have a car payment, I'd be all over that. The second one is the HP Design Jet 111 24" printer for 895.00. The advantage to the HP is that's it's bigger and is a roll printer, meaning I could print really long stuff if I wanted! The disadvantage is I haven't seen it print anything! So, We'll see. Maybe something will come out in the next few months that'll top even that. I still have my eyes on the Wacom Cintiq, which just got a new upgrade to HD! How awesome...but also 2500.00. PAH. So much money I don't have. Soon enough, though. Soon enough.

So, without further adieu I have some projects to fill you guys in on!

My last project for my Composition class came out shy of what I was hoping to produce. Something got lost in my vision, and I think it was stress related. Perhaps if this was the third or fourth project it could have come out better. Inspired by "When the Day met the Night" by Panic! At The Disco. This print came  out terrible. :(

So, that's that. I'm taking a little break and then getting back to work! Only have a few days left to finish that self portrait! Ack!