Figure Drawing of Burlesque Performer, and drawings from my trip to the zoo

Just more practice. :)

Die Zombie Hitler!

In between working on drawings and UI, my coworker Adam and I try to rid the world of evil, one water cooler break at a time. First on our shit list was Zombie Hitler. We got it all taken care of, and all before Jason called a company meeting.

Watch out, #2 on the shit list.... you're next!

ps. sorry for how rough the drawings are :) For some weird reason I can't sleep anymore! That affects quality a lot. Off to try and sleep now!

Introspective Centaurette

There are times when thoughts linger in your mind and don't go away. It doesn't matter that you've resolved all the questions in your mind already, they find themselves easily in the forefront of your mind and cycle there holding your mind hostage. This is a drawing of a centaurette whose mind is trapped. What do you think she is thinking of?

Zoo Day and Figure Drawing

See you tomorrow! :)

Illustration Friday - Puzzled

Today I decided to get back on the Illustration Friday bandwagon. Here's my illustration :)

I'm really curious about a book called "Imagine: How Creativity Works". The author was interviewed on TV lately and he said that 40% of creative people are depressed. Artist readers, are you depressed??? I hope you fall under the 60% category who are not depressed. Life's too short to be depressed!

Centuarette feeling free

I keep going back to drawing these horse-women, and I think it's because lately I'm identifying with my sign, the horse. (I'm Chinese by race, Filipino by birth, but now American by choice. I talk about the horse zodiac.)
I'm not superstitious at all, but here's some resemblances.
*Horses leave home "young" - I left my home and family when I was only 14.
*Impatient pursuit of success
*Attracted to art
*Freedom and independence are as essential to Horse-born people as the air they breathe -I'm not sure about the freedom part, but I value my independence more than anything. I think it's the thing that defines me more than even being an artist.
Anyway, if you feel like reading about the horse sign, here's a link

A drawing for Robby

Robby is one of the most likeable guys I know. He's the kind of guy you feel good to be around. He compliments easily, he's bubbly, passionate, enthusiastic, funny and charming. I miss him! Robby, I miss you, and happy birthday!! You're adorable!

Lucky Red Sweater

I only own one red sweater, and it's my lucky sweater.

Louise, Phoebe, and a message of thanks.

I finally got done reading The Catcher in the Rye. This is a scene from the book that I sketched. The girl's name is Phoebe.

An acquaintance of mine died today. I didn't know her too well, but I still cried. It reminded me that we are all of us dying. Life is a long (or short) journey to the grave. As expected, it gave me time to reflect on the fact that everyone that I love is here only temporarily. To my friends, my family, my coworkers, my loyal readers that say such nice things and make me feel good, I thank you for making my life happier, a little heaven for me here and now, before it's my turn to go. I hope I make your life a little happier before it's your turn as well.

Here is the book of the recently passed. Her name was Louise Shelby.

Gonna bike tonight!

This is a look into my evening:

I try to be good about exercise. There are times when I would crawl on my bike after a 16 hour day, and bike for a half hour no matter how tired I am. I have drooled on my bike. Some people think I'm not vain because I dont wear makeup or wear anything nice. Frankly, working out is way vainer, cos it takes hard physical effort to look trim. So I guess I am vain after all :) Yes, I have double x chromosomes. I do care about looking good, sad to say.
So this is what my night is going to look like, going to crawl on the bike and finally finish The Catcher in the Rye. (I know, Jason, that I was supposed to finish it last night but I'm at a really boring part where Holden is talking about a movie he just watched. Must muscle past the sleep reflex. Anyway, consider it read. dammit)

sleepy post

So I told myself that I'm not allowed to sleep until I draw at least one non-work-related thing a day. I told myself that yesterday when I drew the centaurette, and I told myself to commit to a habit. Today I crept home at midnight, had dinner at 1, and sketched this while I had dinner. I thought about giving up and just calling it a night but for some reason I told myself that commiting to this habit is important in some way. my mind plays tricks on me.

Nono, they're not slave drivers at work, in fact I'm always told to go the fuck home. I just have a hard time switching off. A damn hard time. Even when I'm riding home from work my hands are busy, I've knitted piles of socks on my commute.!

Anyway, this drawing is about the rest of my night. I have 35 pages left of The Catcher In the Rye to read. This is me groggily powering through the book:

And no I'm really not that cute, but I only know how to draw cute girls. This is what I really look like (taken at the zoo 2 days ago). I hope I didn't scare you away :) Please keep coming back to my blog.

ramblingly, sleepily yours
tiff

Centaurette in Action!

I drew a cute centaurette! Hope you like her.

Zoo Day, more Figure Practice, and Flight VS Art, what would you decide?

went to the zoo today. I love drawing animals.

My coworker Adam asked me if I would trade art for flight (like superman). After spending time practicing today, I decided that I would still rather do art. Earning something feels better than being handed something I think. Being an artist in the games industry is definitely hard-earned. Competition is rampant and fierce, and McArtSchools are graduating hoards of hopefuls every semester. Psychologically, it feels fantastic that I made the cut! It makes me feel special, especially that I'm a female in a male dominated industry no less. Plus, art is about possibilities, flight is just a way to get around. If I were a bird, I would trade flying for the ability to create. There is no question in my mind.

Until next time!

Painting for the Office, and zoo sketches from last Sunday

I really really like my office. I've got a nice sturdy wooden desk, a nice big paper lamp, a big cozy executive's chair (that I think I stole from my boss by accident. I think we borrowed it for an extra chair for a play tester, then forgot to give it back.) I've got an Adam, which is a person that sits quietly, and once in a while swears at software, and I've got a nice big whiteboard (which is an artist's playground), and big tall walls for taping sketches to. The rest of the office is a private art gallery of misc paintings I've decided to hang on the walls. Some of it is work-related, some of it isn't. They let me hang whatever the heck I want, (probably because they feel sorry for me,) which is the neat part about working for a small company. Anyway, taking advantage of that, I arted up this painting of our mascots for Trivia Adventure. We named them Generica and Broseph. (Before then, we called them Generic Female and Generic Male.)

 and here are some details:

and here is the sketch:

In some ways I like the sketch version better because I enjoy linework. That quality sorta disappears in my watercolor, but in some ways watercolors do sorta look loose and sketchy still, I left most of it loose and only really rendered the figures. I hope it works :) What version do you like better? Colored? Sketch? Neither are good? Both are awesome?!

OK so there's that, now for some fun little zoo sketches. My back itches with sunburn :( I baked as I sketched these animals. I still had fun though!!

So I guess that's that for now...
Until next post!
Tiffanny