I'm currently a senior student at the Academy of Art University: BFA in Illustration. Specializing in Storyboards, Character Design & Visual Development.
"Striving for Excellence is totally different to striving for Perfection. Cause prefection is unreachable, but excellence is tangible."
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SNEAK PEAK: So close to finishing my last semester of school. I’ll soon post-up my current artwork for ya’ll to see. Blog: www.eleARTs.com (at myStudio)
YAY! Here’s a character I designed named Millie, and her little rabbit, Sugar. Imagine hearing her call to her rabbit with a southern Louisiana-accent say, “Come Here, Sugar.” :) Tehehe…I Love it!
Landscape painting is really much harder then it looks. I’m too Ambitious for my own good, I guess! :P (at Home, SWEET Home!)
Here’s an older piece that I came across of my first attempt to do a fully layout illustrated page for a graphic novel. This piece was inspired by a story within the book of Ezekiel titled “The Valley of Dry Bones”.
Here’s my long awaited Character/Creature model sheets from Fall’12 semester. YAY! I’m super proud with everything I got accomplished under the time frame I was given. Of course, there’s still so much room to grow. ;)
I’m officially finished w/ the semester!!! 😄YAY! Just submitted all my work & I’ll be posting new artwork up soon! (at Home, SWEET Home!)
Down to my last week of the semester & working hard to finish my final projects, strong. (at Home, SWEET Home!)
Some Rabbit Studies for a few upcoming Character Designs. ;D
AAU Character Design: Animal Design - British Sterling (Horse)
Since I was a little girl I loved horses, and I’ve always tried drawing them in my sketchbook. Honestly though, Horses are they hardest animals to draw, even for professionals. Hope these sketches look awesome to all of ya!
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AAU Character Design: Human Head Caricatures
AAU Character Design: Shape Drawings
- I started out by drawing three randow shapes that were made up of curves and straight lines, then I went onto creating a character within each shape.
Sketching at the library. - 10/1/12
![One of my Exaggerated-Gesture Drawings for my AAU Character Design class. :) [off a reference photo]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mav6j2pXgo1r0xsfgo1_r1_250.jpg)
One of my Exaggerated-Gesture Drawings for my AAU Character Design class. :) [off a reference photo]
BUNNIES! Yay….I love rabbits! Just thought I’d do some fun sketches after a long summer absence. I for sure needed the break, but “Here I AM, Again!”. :D Feeling Strong and Ready to tap back into the creative flow.
A couple of celebrity caricatures I recently did of Kyarypamyupamyu (Japanese Pop Singer), Johnny Depp and Zoey Saldanas. :)
