LETOYA

Wow! It has been a while! So sorry to everyone. 

The animation program continues, and as always, I am loving it! Its a pretty epic class between the evil character designs, the epic battles and love affairs.. 

Anyways, I have designed a new character.  Her name - Le-toy-a (she is a toy haha).  In more detail she is a small stuffed mouse, with yarn for her hair/fingers/tail and buttons for the eyes.  She is setting out to rule the nursery with the help of her Legomen minions. A wind up toy rat is her enemy, who constantly tries to take over the nursery himself. 

Here are some drawings of her.  You may notice some of the earlier drawings of her look slightly different from the later, this is because her character evolved. 

Need to know information- her crown is actually a mood ring keychain she found. Her septor is a lollypop, and this lolly pop always matches the colour of her mood.

Different expressions - including seducing and the grinch face.

Character rotation.

poses.

My storyboard.  This is very rough thumbnails of a small section in the story. Basically what happens is she is standing on top of a wooden block surrounded by her minions.  She tells them she has gathered them to reveal her new plan.  She leans down and says, "the plan is.." (pauses for effect) then snaps up and yells, "TO TAKE OVER THE NURSERY!!" There is no reaction from the minions. She shifts her eyes right and left.  Then one minion whispers, "wasn't that the plan all along?"  She gets mad and her eye twitches. Then she smiles and stands up straight and calmly says, "separate him"  (because he is lego). He screams while the other minions drag him away to his doom, and a slow smile creeps up on Letoya's face. The End.

Here are some non-letoya related drawings.  These first ones were drawing people at the mall.  At the bottom of the page is drawings from Disney's Tangled I pasted for inspiration.

Random stuff.

Sorry again for the long wait. I have just been really busy and my scanner hasn't been working so I have had to go to Melissa's. 

Florida in nine days!!!!! AAAAAHHH! I can hardly believe it!

Birthdays

Just a little update on the animation program. I have now made an animation of two bouncy balls, a bouncy ball with a tail added (harder than it sounds), started my raccoon animation and have started a walk cycle. Lots of work, but also lots of fun. 

We had a portrait drawing class... Soo hard! I always wanna make my faces look cartoon. ie. enlarging the eyes, or making the head too big. 

Anyways, I'm still loving the program. learning lots every day.  Of course I have those days where I just sit there not being able to activate my brain enough to really do any work.  However, I mostly seam to be on schedule.  We start the speaking animation on Wednesday... eep! This involves being given some recorded speech and animating our character to say the given recording. 

There is a couple birthdays that have past that I made cards for. Ashley (short dark haired girl in my grad pictures) and Phil. 

Ashley's room is black and white so I couldn't colour her drawing the way I usually do, if I want it to go in her room.  Of course it needed to be of her in a gown. I am really hoping she doesn't come look at this before tomorrow. 

Then Phil's card.  We plot ways to kill each other so I thought it would be funny to have the first picture (outside of card) with me distracting him.  Then he opens the card and BAM its my hired hit man come to stab him. Yeah I am pretty funny. I also hope he doesn't see this before he gets it.  *Cross fingers

Original Sketches -

Edited-

Here is also a random picture I drew of a naked girl (ha-ha).  I was practicing life drawing.  With these classes though, it makes it soo much easier to draw people in different positions now.  Its great.

Once I put my animations on to a cd I will post them on here so you can see.

First day of the Fundamentals of Animation

So sorry I have been away from you all this last while.  I just didn't draw much, so I had nothing to post. I know I am a visual person myself so when I go to blogs, I usually look for pictures or something to capture my interest or I get bored. Unless they are a fantastic writer like Melissa. Also she will kill me if I don't read it... Only kidding!

Anyways, I started the Fundamentals of Animation summer program today. I loved it. We talked quite a bit for the first while, but in the second half we had to create a character to animate later on. just a couple minutes of film I believe. I drew quite a few characters at first just playing around with what I wanted.  I needed it to be simple, yet interesting.  Also, it must be able to be funny.  Everyone likes humor.

So after all that I decided on a little raccoon.  Meet Skip-

Working out the different views, and shapes.

In order to be able to draw him in multiple views and angles, I need to practice.  Tomorrow I will be watching Pocahontas to watch the drawings of Meeko. I'm very excited. 

Some people have crazy detailed characters, I don't know how they will be able to animate them. Good Luck!!

The other day before going to the movies I headed to the mall and sat in the food court so as to draw people. As always I had tons of fun, and enjoyed the results.  When I draw people I feel like I get to know them, or at least make up a story about them in my head. When I look back on the drawing later, I remember everything about the moment I drew it. 

Here are the drawings -

First life drawing class tomorrow..

The Winner!!!

So I decided to make two winners and they are... LAUREN AND KRISTEN! hahah it is very funny because they are sisters.

Thank you for everyone who entered, sorry if you did not win. I appreciate your entries!

I also will be giving Jen a drawing and postcard because she has been such a great follower always so supportive!! Thank you!!


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Epic Post!

Last chance to submit for the contest!! You can put your entry as a comment to this post or the official one. I will find out the winner tonight and post it tomorrow.  Are you excited? You should be!!

Okay so this post may not be epic, but it is very random and full of pictures. So brace yourself!

This is the final product of my dad's Fathers Day card. He loved it haha. Chris (older brother with red hair) looked at himself and made a funny face, haha.  I guess I can't blame him, it's not overall that flattering.

Last week I think it was I watched the trailer for Disney's Tangled, which looks amazing, and I decided to draw Rapunzel.  I changed her look a bit, cause I don't fully like it.  I feel like she could have been prettier. I dunno. Here is a couple sketches -

So on Monday I had my Graduation Ceremony from the Musical Theatre Program.  I was a lot of fun seeing everyone again. Well the half that showed up, hah. There were 11 out of 19 so thats over half. Anyways, here are some pictures-

All of us (that showed)

Fosse Pose!

Gillian and I

Luke and Lauren (Adorable)

Sean and Ashley (not adorable.. Kidding)

Kristin and I

Me and my parents.

Nolan and I

Morgan, Lauren and Me

We were doing a funny picture, I said I was melting and this the end result! haha!

Megan and I

Lauren and Ashley (My two favorites)

Us three!

The five of us (glued from the start)

There you go! It was so much fun. Most of these pictures were taken by my parents new camera, I love it!  The other half by Ashley's dad!