Animation Reel (Spring 2013)

Animation Reel (Spring 2013)

Online Portfolio and Resume

I miss drawing

Sorry for the lack of update. I was doing iAnimate in the past three months, have been working with maya day and night, 7 days/wk. I missed drawing badly!!
I often have to fight in head either to ANIMATE or DRAW after work/on weekends.  They are definitely the two areas I would like to work on the most.
I have been reading a lot lately, I really need to stop posting too much random sketches, but really dig deeper on what I would like to create for myself as an artist. Writing it out in words here can remind me on what I need to work on to make it to the next level.
(but the rest of this post is still random life drawings :P )

First of all, great news!! Toronto School of Arts is BACK on again!!
Just found out about it last week on Facebook, and I went to their very first open life drawing as my way to support. Though it is even further away from my place (Dufferin / Bloor), I have to go downtown that evening anyways, so it worked out perfectly. At least it is right beside the subway station so I don't have to get frustrated with the streetcars.
 Though they only do nudes, but I love to listen to my own music while life drawing. It was my time which I can really relax and enjoy myself :D

Secondly, Toons on Tap is another thing I missed while doing iAnimate.
The sessions had switched to Tuesday night which overlapped with my class time, so there was no way I could make it for 14 weeks. Costumes are FUN to draw!
This session was Venom, which I am not familiar of. Just did a quick google before the session, only know that he is a villain from Spiderman. Annnd, by the amount of drawings I posted, you can see that I'm not good at drawing guys/monster. ('cause the rest are crap :P)

Plus four colored versions of toons on tap sketches I did for their art show earlier.

Happy Holidays 2012!

Let us cherish the gift of family and friends this holiday season!

 (Did it in 8 hours... lol)

October gesture drawings

Life Drawing from work (Sept)

Toons on Tap: The Vampire

Toons on Tap: Terminator

CIBC Run for the Cure

I’m participating in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure on Sunday September 30. One of my closest friends recently had her cancer treatment. Besides participating in the walk, this is the least I can do to help spread the words to people. 

Life is very precious, and we don't know when we will leave this world. Go live your dream, love the people you met in your life, and treasure very moment in this world.

My only goal is just to let others know, less fighting and more caring.
I am not expecting anything from anyone, if you are kind enough to make a donation, please visit http://www.runforthecure.com/site/TR/RunForTheCureFY13/Ontario?px=2606017&pg=personal&fr_id=1453 

Side note: I have to say I haven't draw a more realistic face in years! It's so hard to get the expression right.(Honestly I'm still not happy with this version yet... :P )

Tangled! Tangled! Tangled!

Exhausted this week, not because of work though. I got lazy with managing my time, which I ended up with 5-6hrs of sleep. I got super tired all day most of this week. I used up all my left over energy to this Monday's Toons on Tap Tangled theme, which I've been waiting for for two weeks.

Tangled has a special meaning for me, I really had a wonderful time in this session.
The cosplayers, Tamar and Kyle, look very much like the characters!! (especially Flynn).  They are so great on doing the gestures from the animation again. (They should have their own DA account, sorry that I couldn't find it in the moment)

Buskerfest and first ipad drawing

Gesture sessions from TSA. I prefer models who can pose with meaning. The male model is great for body structure/muscle studies, but he doesn't fit with my purpose of gesture drawings.
These drawings range from 30sec to 5min.

Toronto Buskerfest 2012 is on my way to work, I stayed there for a bit.  Mainly drawing people playing hula hoop.

After getting my ipad for almost a year, I finally started to draw with it.  I was drawing with fingers before getting a Wacom Bamboo stylus.  They both feel weird (but adjustable), though I still like pencil and paper, but ipad is very convenient.  (Since I carried it with me most of the time for reading)