Inspirational Artists - Nick Cross and Marlo Meekins

EVERYBODY LOOKIT THIS PIE CHART.

I copied it on a piece of paper and put it in between the casing of my tablet. I think every artists should post this somewhere. I wish I went to their panel at TCAAF. I listened to their interview on the Guys with Pencils podcast. I was listening to them while I was digital painting, but then I looked at their artwork. Marlo's comics were so gaddamn funny and Nick is super talented, that I had to listen to them again carefully.

 

(Nick Cross interior painting) 

 From what I can tell, they are an amazing couple. I can also attest to the importance of a very supportive significant other. It helps that my beau is also an animator. We help each other in artwork, emotional support, and motivation. If it were anybody else in any other profession, I feel that they would tell me to get a real job or choose a different profession. Like Nick Cross, Vince never gets mad and is always super chill.

I want to dedicate a portion of my time according to the pie chart. Yes, I wouldn't be able to create more of my own crappy artwork, but I'll get so much better faster. Studying other artists is basically them teaching you everything that they have learned through their art. Isn't that amazing?

I now have a huge girl crush on Marlo.

Flap your wings awkard Asian mom angel

I thought about mom being an angel and what that would be like. Can't help it. She's gotta be drawn. I pictured mom finally getting her wings and it being a very awkward and difficult (we tried teaching her dancing and it was nearly impossible).  It would take her a little while to learn how to fly properly. All the other angels or whatever would have to shout at her to stop running in the air, and to just flap her wings. If she couldn't learn how to text all these years, she'll probably just end up trying to 'walk' instead. (On clouds? Sure.)

Man that cat was scary.

Thumbnail drawings of a Korean lady

The expressions of a person who is scared, in pain, and trying to keep it all in.

I wish I drew more drawings of her when she was alive and well, but I thought she was going to live forever; telling me to always marry Korean guys or don't date at all, run around singing, saying weird Korean-mom things, cleaning, and cooking all the time.

Banner Fail.

What I realized from making this banner:

-Making it look too flashy may make one seem a bit pretentious.
-Always draw designs  on paper before you paint it digitally unless you have a cintique.
-Highly realistic style guns don't really go with super cartoony things sometimes. (That was supposed to be the point but it didn't work
-Texture overlays are awesome.
-One's name doesn't have to be so huge. Just placed/designed well. (I wish animation provided one graphic design class)

New Banner

ALMOST DONE. Posted it anyway!

I've been meaning to do a banner for years! I really just wanted a very colorful viscacha firing an anti-air gun, and the design became a bit too flashy.

I wanted it to be fun and simple.

I love small cute and fat animals. I wanted to make the viscacha squinting as they normally do. But it's difficult when so much of it was covered up by the gun.

New Avatar!!! (Finally)

I have been meaning to do an avatar for a long long time. But because I haven't painted in so long, I was afraid I'd come up with something that would look like this meme. It doesn't look like much but it was a test to see if I could still do it and I did! It's really simple and it actually ended up looking better without lines, which was awesome. I'm trying to produce art fast but with at least some remnants of who I am and what I want to do in it. I think the one without line is the better one but if you have a different opinion, let me know. I tried to give it that 'unfinished' look.

*Inspiration: Pokemon, Art Nouveau, and Up

Updating blog, portfolio, demo reels, avatars?!

My gyad...

      It's been a long time.

                    I'm BACK from hiatus!

There's a lot of updating to do and I am very excited because I am getting all this stuff done! It's amazing. I was on a bit of a brain meltdown, had a bit of a vacation, and now I am getting a bit of space for this week to work on things. I've learned that the ability to focus is a super power (during very eventful times).

I want to create new artwork and post recipes. Feel free to share with me any recipes and whatnot people have tried! Helpful art criticism (for future posts),  inspiration, hilarity... Anything!