A couple of things

I've been working on a show for Copernicus studios as a key animator for the last 8 months, so I have been busy adjusting to working life. I thought I would pop in and share just a couple of things I  have made lately!
I was working on this digital painting tonight, to play around with using colour in photoshop. I thought maybe I could do a self portrait each month of this year to help me learn to paint in photoshop, and as a kind of artistic progress marker.

Some older stuff I made and didnt post anywhere: This roman archer I wanted to clean up in Manga Studio 5 (havent done that yet) and an unfinished run cycle I was using to try to learn Flash. We have been using Toonboom Harmony at work so my Flash knowledge is more limited than most animators in the biz right now. I really need to remember that tutorials are my friend... lots of things to learn haha. 

Thats all! Hope you are all well. 

heeeeyoooo

I put something up here on The Place To BE.

you can see other things I've posted there if you click on the tag 'Ana'. Fun fun!

Err-

whaaaaat.

tuesday

just screwin' around! I needed to warm up a bit before I could draw properly.

Birthday!!

My older brother celebrated a birthday on Saturday. This is my card for him since he lives far away!

I tried to make it look like him, it sort of does? Aaron, you're hard to draw! anyway he's a really great artist also. He hasn't been puting things online much since he's in Mexico with better things to do, but you can still find some of his art and illustrations at http://steel-eyes.deviantart.com/.

wooooo.

So it's been a few months. if I start apologising then I'll just start feeling guilty, and I won't have that on my blog because that will just make me put off posting even more!

So instead of that, I'll just pick myself up and start again. Sound good?

I'm thinking I'll make a post about once a week. if it's more often than that, so be it, but once a week should be the minimum for productivity's sake.

Anyway, FYI, I've posted a couple of times over on "The Place To Be" which is a fun little themed art blog my friends put together. If anyone's interested, it's open to whomever would like to participate. It's a free week right now, so it's the perfect time to introduce yourself if you'd like to join in. ;)

I think that about covers everything. Thanks for coming back, those of you who are reading this!

friday

here is some stuff I doodled.

today was my birthday! it went pretty well, I did a few things I like doing and overall it was pretty quiet. I'll get some more presents when I fly home on sunday, yay!

I might do a drawing or two over the weekend since I am going to be leaving my tablet behind, so I may post a few times over the next few weeks. however, I'll be taking my official break on this blog after tonight!

hopefully I can come up with a few plans over christmas for how I'd like to proceed.

merry christmas, everybody! I care about and appreciate you all and I hope you have a safe and happy holiday with loved ones, whoever they may be. :)

Thursday

so when I was a kid we'd climb up on the netting in the soccer net at the park. there was a guy who sometimes yelled at us to get down and not do that, but we went back up there when he left.

it was FUN. man was it fun.

wednesday

A memory I have from when I was young. I thought her hair was beautiful.

Tuesday

oh wow, tuesday already? hum.

Monday

I had a ladybug incident today.

so sorry....

Friday

exam tomorrow. gonna fill out those "bubble" sheets like they made us do from time to time in highschool. woo.

watts and power watts and power watts and power, golf, tango, oscar. charlie! PNP! BNC connector, Cathode-Grid-Anode/Plate. Section 6. 300 million. pico nano kilo mega farad henry AF amp.

bwaaaa. I'll probably update tomorrow on whether I pass or fail.

EDIT: I passed!!! hurrah! I did better than the minimum 70%, I got 80 which means I've got a few more privileges than normal. mostly just being able to use higher frequencies. I should totally celebrate with a cake. mm.

Thursday

I'm gonna venture a guess and say that nobody decided to try out Tegaki E based on my last post. ah well, it's not for everyone. while I'm working on my laptop which has linux on it, I find it easier to use the browser based flash app than actually trying to figure out The Gimp. I guess I'm lazy or something. :(

anyway, I am studying for my HAM license exam that's on saturday morning! wish me luck!

I drew this using a website called Tegaki E. it's like a forum but each thread begins with a drawing and all replies are also in the form of drawings. I think it's a neat thing. I mean, the site is filled with teenagers, but whatever. I still think it is fun. the drawing tools are kind of challenging though.

Tuesday

hey guys, it's tuesday.

(um. I guess I was cold.)

Monday

200 posts, hooray! only a couple more weeks of this and then I'll be taking a break. thanks for payin attention to little ole me, you guys. :) it really does make a difference to have people looking at the stuff I make besides myself.

Friday

I don't really like how this turned out. I'm kind of looking forward to changing the blog so I don't have to post things I'm really not that crazy about.

hey, anyone going to be in the Corner Brook area at Christmas/New Years eve...? just wonderin'.

thursday

I wish I had started drawing earlier in the night. this is just a memory of Amsterdam I have. I really liked the way they built their houses and rode bikes so much and had a bunch of boat houses and it was all pretty relaxing.

not pictured: all of us getting frustrated on a pedalboat.

also, I pretty much approximated everything here... so it's not very accurate. like I said, I wish I had started earlier so I could have gone by some reference photos and put in more detail! ah well. such is life.

Wednesday

what do you mean that's not what spacemen do? EVERYONE knows you do funky space ballet in "Zero G" when you go to space. duh.

monday will be my 200th post. wooooo.

Tuesday

hey who remembers the stairs in the hostel/inn in Amsterdam? like holy moley. we have it easy here in the Americas. I swear we climbed up there like 200 times during our stay.