WIP- Lovers Card

Oh, holy Hell, I guess the year is over.  

Amidst my "free time" I started this tarot card artwork for a friend:

Happy New Years, y'all!

<3

Hooligan Portrait

It's finals week and Maya is getting hairy, so I needed a break, and painted my friend's cat!  :3

Just kidding... I made it better.

Sanctuary: Before / After

                                              Before:                                                 After:

I think that looks better, now.

Photos Again: Oblivion Book

Book Crafted by Justin Meade @ JustinsBooks.etsy.com

Photos (and inner page art) by me

IRORI ROOM-- block out

I don't think you know just how much it blows my mind to already be making things like this.  It's Week 2 of 10 in the 1st of 8 quarters, and I'm already impressing myself.  3D is all so new and fascinating to me right now, and I'm loving every second I spend in it.  And working in Maya (or trying to figure it out as a noob) is like solving a bunch of mysteries.  ALL THE TIME.  Which is also incredibly entertaining and fascinating.  Anyway!  First step in my Intro to Maya class at Gnomon: blocking out an interior of my choice.  I found this awesome picture of a traditional style Japanese irori (sunken hearth) room, and am dying to see how far I can really take this in a render.  3D is so limitless, especially with the knowledge that there is an INCONCEIVABLE amount of information I don't even know that I don't know, everything is exciting and surprising.  Long story short-- if you can't tell-- I'm loving this.

Also, I haven't painted in a while, and have been dying to, so here's what I managed to squeeze into a half hour before I crash for bed:

I MADE BALLS YAY!

My first time EVER working in Maya for my first homework for Texturing + Shading class.  Had SO MUCH FUN MAKING THESE!!!  Using only Blinns.

 BLACK JADE

GLOSSY PLASTIC

STONE/ CONCRETE

YELLOW JADE

COPPER

IRON

ROSY QUARTZ

MALACHITE (iffy about this one, but an interesting experiment nonetheless...)

Marush!!!

Justin's Books!

My boyfriend, Justin, makes these lovely hand-stitched journals / sketchbooks and recently opened an etsy store to sell them.  His store is Justin's Books and he DOES take custom book orders!

Here are just a few of the books I took photos of for his shop:

^ This one's mine!  I bought it and wanted to show how the toned paper can be rocked :3

Recent Painting

 Another painting for funzies!

Also, finally done messing with this poster.  I got it how I like it:

DONE WITH THE ONE YEAR!

To celebrate not doing finals anymore for Summer 2014, I painted this lil' guy.
Also, this means I'm finished with the 1-year Gnomon track!
I begin the 2-year track in Fall!

Creature Design... DONE!

JUST TWO MORE FINALS, THEN I CAN SLEEP AGAIN~!

So proud of my awesome team!  Great work, guys.  

Vehicle Design Final Update

Finals In Progress

MUCH more to be done to these before I'm done, but here's my progress so far:

[not shown: Sculpture 2]

Digital Painting:

Environment Design:

Film History:

Vehicle Design:

Creature Design:

Portrait of a Kiwi

Portrait of my good friend for digital painting homework

Lot of Homework~

Gnomon ENVIRONMENT DESIGN hw:

DIGITAL PAINTING HW:  Portrait of Justin Meade

Master copy homework

SELF PORTRAIT

CREATURE DESIGN HW: