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Legs

2012-02-01T04:58:00.000-08:00

I have a tumblr now where I'm going to be posting drawings every day, feel free to check it out! This teaser of the first daily drawing, the full one is on my tumblr.

http://kateaday.tumblr.com/

teaseteasetease

Daisy

2012-01-25T02:31:00.000-08:00

I found a new show, it's called Downton Abbey and it is amazing. It has gorgeous shots and costumes and the writing is just brilliant.

Go watch it!!

This is Daisy, she works in the kitchen.

Detail:

In the kitchen the sunlight is always creating a glow around it's inhabitants. Daisy is portrayed as a fresh faced, pale and pink character. Always innocent, young and forever in that light.

Until Season 2!! Which I'm currently watching, so shush!

On top of all those amazing things I listed about the show, the music is gorgeous too! Have a listen.

Film Concept

2012-01-23T21:48:00.000-08:00

Here's my first bit of concept art for my third year film.

There's more art and film stuff to come very soon!

Widow

2011-12-03T23:58:00.000-08:00

I usually just have a thumbnail and go for it in photoshop, but I actually did the drawing on paper so I have all my steps.

I had the image of the fragile woman and her ring finger in the beam of light idea in my head, doodled it out.

Then I had to back up to see where the beam of light would be coming from to make that angle on the bed.

Sketched out version

Final Sketch

Final sketch with values laid in with more pencil work and the levels altered in Photoshop.

Added photoshop values to block it out even more.

Then I added colors and kept tweakin! Final is at the top o'course.

I even drew the couple in the frame on a different piece of paper.

Sea Cave

2011-11-19T00:01:00.000-08:00

Here's a sea cave and a touching moment.

Because they totally go together right?

Expect a regular posting schedule, no but really.

SAMKING

2011-10-26T02:30:00.000-07:00

Let's try drawing something in 30 minutes!! This is what I got...

SAM KING

Hair!

2011-10-25T05:31:00.000-07:00

Trying to be more shape and line conscientious.

Her-my-oh-knee

2011-10-19T06:35:00.000-07:00

Here's Hermione.

Herman.

Thanks to everyone who gave input!!

Manly Facial Hair

2011-10-12T04:04:00.000-07:00

Thank you, 4 hours of Critical Studies, for letting me produce these guys.

I compiled them into this!

Color Study

2011-10-07T18:38:00.000-07:00

I wanna do daily color studiesssss, outta picture's that I've taken.

Here's the first one!

Thanks for the photo-op, mountain in Utah.

Mug Shots

2011-10-06T22:28:00.000-07:00

Here are some portraits from last year's figure drawing class. One day we didn't have a model and we just drew each other, and a Martha Baxton!

It's been ages!

2011-10-01T05:48:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates.

I have so many sketches in the works that I can't wait to finish and share them. Here are some sketches in the meantime.

Expect weekly updates.

Nifty Hat

2011-07-28T19:02:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick sketch.

They give you the niftiest hat when they rip out all four of your wisdom teeth.

Don't be jealous.

Hagar the Horrible

2011-07-04T17:49:00.001-07:00

Gonna do a whole series of these babies.

Words

2011-06-25T23:51:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to update!

I'm so sorry nothing new has been uploaded in a while, but I'm going on a cross-country road trip and through daily drawings in different environments I hope to overcome my art block. And I'm also hoping this trip will jump start daily postings of art.

Art to follow very soon!

Spoiler: SUPER 8

2011-06-10T22:09:00.000-07:00

DETAIL:

I went to the midnight premiere of SUPER 8 at my local movie theater and fell in love. The characters and the situations they were in with their reactions were all so great and heartfelt.

Go see it!

Color

2011-06-08T16:33:00.000-07:00

Trying to get back into the swing of summer. This is a part of something that I did for my Mom's birthday.

Lines of Love

2011-05-17T22:31:00.000-07:00

Second year is coming to an end, and I had a great friend filled day today.

Our second year class is what I consider a family and an amazing community of people, and I can't wait to continue our education into our careers and hopefully all stay in touch as we all continue on.

Finished this one surrounded by friends! Mushymushmush.

Black Swan

2011-05-14T01:14:00.000-07:00

Producer's Show was yesterday!

It was full of great films and great people, I loved how the opening and the ending credits turned out.

So for some reason I had to kill the lingering happiness by watching Black Swan, and thus I ended up discovering that I had to draw something from it to be cleansed from that feeling that the film gives ya.

Another Cave

2011-05-03T00:57:00.000-07:00

Caves!

2011-05-02T18:49:00.000-07:00

Sorry!! I'm a tiny bit behind on posting. But hello to new followers! Thanks for watching me!

Here's a scribble for my 3rd year film.

Films Done & Figure Drawings

2011-04-28T19:01:00.000-07:00

Life begins again!

Until I start working on my film for next year, which is tonight or tomorrow.

But yes, my film is turned it! It is what it is, after all the "set backs", which is what made my film what it is now. It is, was an is, is an is, as an is, in the is.

Here's some figure drawings from today, the first bit of my own drawing outside of my film for the longest time.

Films are almost due!

2011-04-25T05:14:00.000-07:00

11 hours and 45 minutes, until films are due!

The computer lab that I've been in day in and day out this whole weekend has be constantly full of upbeat and happy people. Such a great work environment.

Background W.I.P.

2011-04-21T00:15:00.000-07:00

Here's one of my Backgrounds for my film that I'm workin' on right now.

Film Frame

2011-04-19T07:09:00.000-07:00

Pose to pose animation!

Another!

2011-04-17T02:14:00.000-07:00

Here's another with the same couple.

Color!!

2011-04-16T21:32:00.000-07:00

Lies

2011-04-12T20:45:00.000-07:00

I'm a liar... but all for good reasons!!

Films are due in... 13 days.

Time to bring this guy out again.

So I haven't been doing daily postings since I've been trying to get my film up and off the ground. Here's a quick coloring test for one of the stars in my film.

And this big boy is almost done. This is just a tiny bit of a pan that I'm finishing up tonight for my film.

Doodle Noodle

2011-04-05T23:23:00.000-07:00

Daily Doodles starting up again, after it's rough start out of the gate. Portfolio day was today! Time to focus on my film 24/7.

Shoulder

2011-03-31T01:43:00.000-07:00

Sorry for no posts recently, things have been happening! Good and bad.

Three day drive to and from Utah was a great thing, met up with friends and we took part in the Holi celebration! Drawings of that to come soon.

Class Time!

2011-03-23T21:23:00.000-07:00

That lined paper says that I'm a scholar.

It also says that I carry around a plethora of books.

Two for you!

2011-03-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

I forgot to post yesterday! Whoops!

So here you get to see what my work for my film looks like.

And what my spare time looks like. As a director. Eat your heart out J.J. Abrams.

And as always and forever, eternal thank yous to Tiffany Ford.

Animation!

2011-03-17T18:54:00.000-07:00

Tryingtogetmyanimationdoneinaweek. What? Wish me luck!

Calm

2011-03-16T00:52:00.000-07:00

Doodle Day 2! Had two pencils in my hair today.

Doodle a Day

2011-03-15T00:15:00.000-07:00

The best things are created out of accidents, unintended things are always the best. So I'm gonna have an accident every single day and post it here. Starting NOW! 123GO!

I'm pretty sure the people following me right now all know Pascal Campion, but if you don't, get over there! He creates something every day.

Quick Poster

2011-03-07T14:29:00.000-08:00

Here's a quick movie poster that I did for a story project that I'm doing with Rika. Out of a paper bag we pulled da Vinci and Submarine. Horror Da Vinci Film!

If you can read this whole image, awesome!

If not, it can be kinda hard to read, so just in case I want to tell you what's there because I liked how this came out. This broken ship is in the foreground, with a mermaid statue that's on the bow of the ship, with our creature(s) legs crawling around. Then we have our submarine housing our main character da Vinci coming down to investigate.

I love layout and vis dev, just placing things within a frame is so much fun for me.

So I created a lot of thumbnails for this, and I still had my original thumbnail for this opened in photoshop when I was finishing this and I accidently clicked it. I always think it's great to see where you started from, so I have my original thumbnail and the finished piece below.

I also love documenting the progress and process when creating a drawing/painting/sketch however you wanna call it. I always take screencaps throughout creating things when working in photoshop.

I drew a da Vinci and I might post him later.

Clouds!

2011-03-01T21:47:00.000-08:00

Here's some film stuff!

I'm going to start animating two scenes a day starting tonight for the next two and a half weeks. Let's make a film!!

Two for You!

2011-02-19T21:49:00.000-08:00

Both finished!

Valentine's

2011-02-14T16:16:00.000-08:00

All I do is tease. Here's yet another work in progress being shown for the sake of today's holiday.

Gold Was Created

2011-02-09T13:31:00.000-08:00

Here's half of it, the other more important half on the right is in hiding for a while longer.

TEASE 2

2011-02-08T21:30:00.001-08:00

Here's another tease for my film!

Animation starts tonight!

Makes you dig your jive on the mellow side

2011-02-05T11:59:00.000-08:00

Animation to commence soon!!

Harry Potter

2011-01-29T22:55:00.000-08:00

This is part of a bigger doodle that I'm working on!

I was going to start work on my film for the day... but then it turned into Harry Potter.

5 AM

2011-01-26T22:18:00.000-08:00

I know you've always wondered how I draw at 5 AM, and now you know.

Thanks to 5 AM drawing my animatic is done!

TEASE

2011-01-24T17:42:00.000-08:00

Some of the many stars for my film!

Rudolph Hawthorne

2010-12-29T14:49:00.000-08:00

That reindeer had better watch out because Santa might've found a replacement.

Hope everyone is having a great holiday!

Good Stuff Maynard

2010-12-20T21:07:00.000-08:00

Gotta have fun when you draw.

I misread something that my friend Brittany was typing when she was describing her workspace for when she was creating dolls. She misspelled "patterns" and I read it as Patterson or Pattinson and VOILA! Robert Pattinson sitting on Brittany's bed helping her sew her dolls. Had 'ta draw it.

PocaTrontas just had to be drawn.

I should've been sleeping or studying or drawing for some other project. But sometimes you just have to create something simple or silly or you'll go crazy trying to do serious or required work all the time.

Star Wrangler

2010-12-19T18:27:00.000-08:00

Star wrangler on top of his balloon.

I'm excited this break to do Vis Dev stuff like this for my film. I've finally settled on an final idea so it's time to finish boarding, do layouts, character designs and animate this break!

Final Layout Assignment

2010-12-06T23:52:00.000-08:00

Last one!

This is me using photoshop for the first time, from start to finish. I usually wander away from photoshop somewhere in the middle. I went color crazyyyy. Thanks to everyone who put up with me and my questions!

Bears!

2010-11-29T00:55:00.000-08:00

An appealing and unappealing bear. Enter witty comment here.

Scribble

2010-10-31T01:45:00.000-07:00

In the middle of an assignment, I did this quick scribble of a picture of my dad and I that I have on the wall in front of me.

Mary Mary Quite Contrary

2010-10-18T23:35:00.000-07:00

How does your garden grow?

I like The Secret Garden, the countryside, a big mysterious house, adventures in pajamas, rainboots, gloomy cold weather, McGonagall.

Mary is always so serious and angry looking, but I would be too if other kids taunted me when no one came to pick me up after my parents died in an earthquake in India. Kids are so mean. Yes, her parents just died, let's throw nursery rhymes at her.

Tiffany would like to add: "kids are so mean, yeaaaaahhh. play with that crooked spined mean boy. PLAY WITH HIM."

Another Layout

2010-10-18T01:50:00.000-07:00

Another layout from Layout class.

I'm sticking with a film idea finally, rough storyboards and designs are in the making!

I haven't posted in so long because I keep telling myself I can update once I change my blog layout, still haven't done it yet so I'm updating anyways.

Oh! My friend accidentally found us an amazing pumpkin patch. I got some more ideas to add to my film.

Layout

2010-09-27T12:46:00.000-07:00

Layout homework for this week. Two characters, one with a start and ending pose.

It scanned weird at the top. Getting back into watercolors after a summer without them.

red light... GREEN LIGHT!

2010-09-21T00:28:00.000-07:00

School, is in session.

I've been working on a header, I'm changing my layout, and I wasn't allowing myself to post until I had all of that together. But here I am.

I have two doodles to offer in preparation of bigger and better things. Sleepy guy right here is gonna lead to bigger and better things.

Oh life...

2010-09-03T22:33:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted anything or have drawn this much this summer. My dad passed away on July 10th, 2010, very, completely, unexpectedly. One minute he was here, the next, he was gone. Gee I love commas huh.

He was an amazing guy, and I will talk about him for the rest of my life. He completely backed up my dreams and career wishes. My dreams became his dreams. And he didn't question it when I wanted to get into the field of animation, of all things. No one in my family is an artist, I always talk about how they must've picked up the wrong baby from the hospital. The support I received and still receive today is astounding because I know there there are people out there who don't get supported to chase their dreams. He went so far to help me get to my dream school, CalArts. He was there the moment I got the call saying that I was accepted, and he was a part of my first year.

He sadly isn't continuing his journey, but I will take him wherever I go. In my decisions, in the quirks and habits that I've gained from him, in the looks that I have from him, in the lessons that he's taught me, the knowledge that you only need to act like an adult when needed, and especially all those sayings he would always be shooting off; "Lighten up Francis!" "Negative Nancy" "Because Willy likes cheescake."

He was the biggest kid that I knew and he had the biggest heart, he was fearless, he was from Ohio, and he the best dad I could've ever dreamed of having.

Expect frequent updates, I mean it this time. Doodles and artwork will be posted.

Look to the skies folks for my film idea this year.

Here's a monkey, 1st year.

2010-05-30T04:50:00.000-07:00

The past year has been amazing. I got to wake up everyday and do something that I love. I've made so many amazing friends during my first year at CalArts. The students and the teachers have taught me so much, I can't wait to apply all the things I've learned this summer and next year to my work.

Here's a monkey to start the summer off!

HAH!

2010-04-23T00:33:00.001-07:00

Melissa van der Paardt is the first film for the Open Show!!! Followed by Samantha King!!!

HAH! Makes me ridiculously happy.

Future

2010-04-21T02:59:00.001-07:00

Prepare for this blog to actually be used regularly! I feel like such a bad person for not updating when there's kind people out there following this blog.

I was working on this scene today while talking to friends and we were all laughing and having a good time so I kept channeling my feelings accidentally into my drawings. It happened a good 4 or 5 times where I drew my character smiling instead of having that neutral frown.

John Sebastian

2010-04-14T21:00:00.000-07:00

I've been listening to Lovin' Spoonful recently, the lead singer has quite the chin/jaw on him. I doodled it before starting animation, I love the hair in 60's! This look is from "Summer in the City", but I'm posting "Do You Believe in Magic" for the chaotic fun going on in the video.

Films

2010-04-07T14:53:00.000-07:00

Films are due in 19 days.

Figure Drawings Say YEAH

2010-02-23T16:33:00.000-08:00

Nudity Beware

Film!

2010-01-23T14:40:00.000-08:00

Let's make a film! I thought that I had an idea, but now I'm kind of scrapping it.

Glen Keane came and talked last night. He shared some Rapunzel stuff with us, like I had been hoping, and I'm even more excited then I was before. I found out that he had been working on this film since 1996, which is pretty damn crazy. He showed us some rough animation he did of Rapunzel and some sketches of her that showed how her hair is really apart of her and her personality. How she would talk with it, think with it, and walk with it.

He got all of us excited to work on our films, and thanks to Kyle's question we got to see some sketches from his sketchbook when he went to the United Nations.

I'll be posting some projects that I've done soon.

Winter Break

2010-01-03T16:38:00.000-08:00

Happy 2010!!

Let's start with another picture of Tiffany and her obsession with the curtains in the cubes back at CalArts (look for the foot at the bottom

and the arm sticking out at the top).

My poor animation disk.

Tiffany Ford & Keane Street

2009-12-08T15:37:00.000-08:00

If you're ever on Keane Street and you see that. It's because of this.

(Tiffany ((left)), Hyojin, and Sammy Jo ((right)))

Tiffany Ford makes forts using the curtains on Keane Street, she gets better and better every time.

Here's Sophie and Hyojin, they were eerily like the twin girls in The Shining. One day they were wearing the same clothes, so I had them pose like this. Sophie got a haircut so they're no longer twins.

Catching Up: Visiting Artists Post

2009-12-08T13:49:00.000-08:00

What is this madness. Winter break is almost here!! When did this happen?

I love CalArts and I love this giant dysfunctional family. Here's a picture of a group of Character and Experimental Animation girls and a Tom.

I've met so many people and experienced so many things that some people will never manage to do during their whole life. The visiting artists and opportunities that CalArts has produced has been amazing.

Visiting Artists:

Tina Price, the head of the first ever animation expo, CTN Expo, was our first visitor. The first 25 people to show up got free 3 day passes to this amazing event which happened 2 weeks ago. What an amazing experience that was, a room full of our idols were there for us to talk to, get criticism on our portfolios, and look at their work. There are already dates for next year and I'm so there.

Mark Andrews from Pixar came next, and he storyboarded for over 3 hours. He was very funny and sarcastic, and whenever he thought that we were getting bored he created his own theme music and sound effects for the scenes that he was working on.

James Gurney came next, the creator of Dinotopia. It's great hearing from all these artists and seeing all of the different areas that they specialize in and seeing their techniques. In order to figure out how lighting would hit certain buildings or objects, or figuring out how some made up object would work, he would create models. He makes tons of models to figure out what they would look like in a real environment so that his paintings would look realistic.

Up next was Shane Acker and Joe Ksander. Shane Acker is the creator and director of 9, and Joe was the Animation Supervisor. They gave us probably the most realistic talk that we'll ever get out of our four years here. They were thrown countless obstacles but they made it work. I will never feel hopeless if I come across some issue, because I know that if Shane and Joe could make it work, then I sure as hell can. Those guys did an amazing job with 9.

Then we had Lindsey Pollard, John Holmquist and Greg Colton from Family Guy. It was cool to see how they directed certain episodes, how the humor would be changed, and obstacles that they had to deal with. For instance, hundreds of people in wheel chairs coming together to form a giant man.

Gil Kenan who directed Monster House and City of Ember came next. He showed us the process of creating a scene in Monster House, and he also showed us his film that he made when he was a student.

Randy Haycock came but I was at CTN so I didn't attend. And the last visiting artist that we had was Pete Sohn from Pixar, creator/director of Partly Cloudy, the short that showed before UP. I had forgotten that he was the voice of Emile from Ratatouille also. I remembered once he started telling stories about how he got the part and so on. He was a really funny and genuine guy, he talked a lot about love for animation.

NEW POST TOMORROW

2009-10-20T23:56:00.000-07:00

I PROMISE TO UPDATE TOMORROW. I'M LAME IT'S BEEN A MONTH.

Get ready to stalk

2009-09-12T22:49:00.001-07:00

Hey boys and girls!

(My schedule is at the bottom)

I'm in my dorm room at CalArts! All of the orientations and registrations finished yesterday, so today I've been relaxing probably for the last time. I wanted to come on here and post my classes, I'll do a post where I show pictures of how I was surrounded by my stuff in the back seat of my parents car on the ride up here. And more detail about orientation/registration, the naked parade and such (hahaha, don't worry about it, I'll explain soon). Oh, and also pictures of my dorm room. SO, first, here are some drawings I did during one of the orientations.

During our Character Animation orientation, Leo Hobaica, our Color & Design teacher, really made me realize that I'm at CALFREAKINGARTS. He told us that for each butt in a plastic chair, there are 4 or more people per person that want to be in that seat. I am so excited and happy to be here. I'm so ready to learn, I don't understand how kids skip class. When we checked in we got a free CalArts bag. This bag symbolizes a lot, especially for the freshmen that had been trying to get in here for a long time. We're finally here, at our dream school, getting to do what we love.

Everyone at CalArts is so happy and so friendly. We all smile as we pass each other in the hallways, and talk to each other even though we're complete strangers because we're all so damn happy to be here. I love it.

Here's a pic of the bag, and a little coin purse type thing that you can put your ID into if you want (we got it at another orientation). I wanna paint the lettering.

Alrightly! Here's my schedule. There's a class here called Film History, it involves writing a 2 page essay a week (that was the first thing I heard and I was just like no way). I have a schedule of all the films and dates we'll be viewing them, and I am so excited. I wasn't at first, but I was able to make a copy of the course syllabus and such and reading through it I can't wait to "examine the visual language of the medium." I think (dare I say, know) this will help me with my film making. I know it'll change how I view films and criticize them. Bring it on Film History!!

***HIGHLIGHT MY SCHEDULE WITH YOUR MOUSE. THE TEXT WONT CHANGE TO BLACK FOR SOME REASON***

Class	Title	Instructor	Units	Schedule	Room
CS110	WRITING ARTS: 20TH C. ART & SOCIETY	Nelson, Maggie	3.00	T 4pm to 5pm & W 10am to 12 Noon	BIJOU
CS175A	FILM HISTORY I - 1895-1950	Mairs, Gary	3.00	Th 4pm to 7pm	BIJOU
FC100A01	BEGINNING TRADITIONAL ANIMATION (A-K	Nguyen, Mike	2.00	Th 7pm to 10pm	PALACE
FC101A03	BEGINNING COMPUTER ANIMATION	Domingo, Robert	2.00	M 7pm to 10pm	A109
FC105A01	INTRO TO DIGITAL PRODUCTION	Metzger, Ethan	1.00	T 1pm to 4pm	A108
FC110A01	BEGINNING LIFE DRAWING (A-K)	Brown, Steven	2.00	Th 9am to 4pm	A221O
FC115A01	BASIC PERSPECTIVE (A-K)	Hansen, Dan	2.00	M 1pm to 4pm	PALACE
FC140-01	COLOR AND DESIGN I (A-K)	Hobaica, Leo	2.00	T 9am to 12 Noon	PALACE
FC155A03	BEGINNING STORY DEVELOPMENT	Stillwell, Jennifer	2.00	W 7pm to 10pm	F200
		Total Units	19.00

FEETS!

2009-08-26T16:39:00.001-07:00

Valencia in 11 days!!!!!!! AGGGHHHHHHH!! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?!??!?

Tim?

2009-08-12T20:20:00.000-07:00

Where art thou Tim? I heard you met my "crazy aunt" at your job.

Dreams do come true, for serious

2009-08-12T17:17:00.000-07:00

I took a few hours today to search for rooms to rent so that I had some place to stay while at CalArts. After e-mailing 6 or 7 people about renting a room, I get a call from CalArts saying that a student cancelled their dorm room, and I won the luck of the draw and got the room!!! AND THEN, she took my roommate request that my friend and I sent in and we get to room togther!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So heck yes, this is amazing insanity! 26 Days.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-08-07T21:52:00.000-07:00

Did the 'title' give you enough excitement?! Because I just wanted to come on here and make up for my last lackluster post. I SWEAR I'm excited for CalArts, for serious. I've just wanted this for long and have researched and read other students blogs and thought about what I would do for their class projects, that I'm still in shock and disbelief. I'll have rare moments 2 or 3 times a day where I realize I'm going to CalFREAKIN'Arts, but otherwise I'm still oblivious. It hasn't fully set in. I just wanted to make sure that whoever reads this knows I am just in shock and awe that I got into my dream school and that I get to follow my dream.

In other news I cut 10 inches off my hair and donated it to Locks of Love. I've done this one other time before in my freshmen or sophomore year of high school, and now I'm not sure if my hair's ever made it. I left before either place bagged 'em up. I mentioned this to my mom and she was just, "Ah geez just stop."

I've been wait listed for a dorm room at CalArts, but someone on animatedbuzz just got an e-mail that he got a room, so I'm still hopeful...

Finally

2009-08-01T21:04:00.000-07:00

After 7 months of being on the wait list, I got a call 3 nights ago saying congratulations, then I received the legit congrats in the mail today. The picture quality isn't that great. ANYWAYS, there are sparse moments where I realize I'm going to my ultimate dream school, but for the majority, it hasn't hit me yet. Which is RIDICULOUS!! Maybe when I hear back from Financial Aid and Housing it'll start to register...