Timelapse

I wanted to do a time-lapse of a drawing- so here is me trying it out. Its fun to watch something come from nothing- even if your not too crazy with the end result. 

Run Cycle

I am working on adding a little animation to my portfolio. I only took one animation class in College. I loved it! Now, I am re-teaching myself. Here is a quick and easy run cycle I put together. I will post it again when I have the background in! 

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Woman Who Run With Wolves

I have been Inspired by a book my mother sent me, so I decided to Illustrate it. 

"There is an old woman who lives in a hidden place that everyone knows but few have ever seen. As in the fairy tales of Eastern Europe, she seems to wait for lost or wandering people and seekers to come to her place.

They say she lives among the rotten granite slopes in Tarahumara Indian territory. They say she is buried outside Phoenix near a well. She is said to have been seen traveling south to Monte Alban in a burnt-out car with the back window shot out. She is said to stand by the highway near El Paso, or ride shotgun with truckers to Morelia, Mexico, or that she has been sighted walking to market above Oaxaca with strangely formed boughs of firewood on her back. She is called by many names: La Huesera, Bone Woman; La Trapera, The Gatherer; and La Loba, Wolf Woman.

The superstitious call her soul stealer, claiming she weaves a dream catcher to snatch up those who would cross over and cage them in the light of her fire. The sole work of La Loba is the collecting of bones. She is known to collect and preserve especially that which is in danger of being lost to the world. Her cave is filled with the bones of all manner of desert creatures: the deer, the rattlesnake, the crow. But her specialty is said to be wolves.

She creeps and crawls and sifts through the montañas, mountains, and arroyos, dry river beds, looking for wolf bones, and when she has assembled an entire skeleton, when the last bone is in place and the beautiful white sculpture of the creature is laid out before her, she sits by the fire and thinks about what song she will sing.

And when she is sure, she stands over the criatura, raises her arms over it, and sings out. That is when the rib bones and leg bones of the wolf begin to flesh out and the creature becomes furred. La Loba sings some more, and more of the creature comes into being; its tail curls upward, shaggy and strong.

And still La Loba sings so deeply that the floor of the desert shakes, and as she sings, the wolf opens its eyes, leaps up, and runs away down the canyon.

Somewhere in its running, whether by the speed of its running, or by splashing its way into a river, or by way of a ray of sunlight or moonlight hitting it right in the side, the wolf is suddenly transformed into a laughing woman who runs free toward the horizon.

So it is said that if you wander the desert, and it is near sundown, and you are perhaps a little bit lost, and certainly tired, that you are lucky, for La Loba may take a liking to you and show you something — something of the Soul."

 

SIA inspired

I bought a SIA record for my boyfriend for his birthday (he LOVES her), and I ended up falling in love with her too! She is extremely inspiring, so I decided to let myself be inspired by her today. Here is the sketch straight from my sketchbook. 

Yay! I made it!

I submitted my work to the American Illustration, each year they publish the top Illustrations of that year, back in February, and I recently found out that my work has been selected by some of art directors I admire most. I am so honored and excited! I cannot wait to attend the events in NYC in November for Illustration week. 

Masking fluid and ink textures

This time I tried out some of my masking fluid. This stuff is really neat! It starts out as liquid, but then it dries as a sticky solid. It adheres to the paper while I go through and ink blot the necesary spaces, and after the ink dries, the masking fluid rubs right off, leaving the only the white of the paper. If you decide to try this out, be careful using it with brushes, as the masking fluid can really ruin it. I used a glass pen and it worked really well! 

Textures

I love when ink hits water, and the textures it makes. I decided I want to experiment with this effect, so here is the very first one! Hope you like it! 

Contrast

I wanted to play around with pale colors (like from my last post), with dark shadows. Not sure I am totally in love with this particular one from this experiment, but I will keep playing around. 

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Broken Flowers

Seems like everything broke on me this week, so I wanted to portray it. Let bad things inspire you to make good in the world. 

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PLaying with Pale Colors.

I have been really fond of minimal colors lately, so I wanted to play around with how little color I can put on the paper and still get the idea across. 

Just got done setting up for my new show. If you are in San Francisco at all during the month of August stop down to City Arts Gallery in the Mission district. There is a show opening with all the artists on August 5, 2016 from 7 to 10, and there will be drinks, snacks, and fun people!