Two Faces (Girl with a Flower)

This is "Two Faces", or two worlds since it's actually 2 drawings in one that contrast to each other. The topic is a girl with a flower. There are many ways to depict this topic, however, I wanted to push it further than just simply a girl and a flower. I wanted to create a whole story behind it. This is a story of 2 different girls whose lives and situations are also totally different. As you can see one is in a forest filled with life while the other is in a desert, empty and dead. The one in the forest is trying to reach a beautiful blooming water lily while the one in the desert is holding a dead sunflower. One looks healthy and beautiful while the other seems rather ill and skinny. 

The great contrast between them in fact is a depiction of the two sides of a person's life, of anything going on around us. Hence, the title "two faces" popped in my head.

It took me about 2 weeks, between classes and internship, to finish this piece. Perhaps it is not very great, especially the color since this piece is also my own practice on coloring since I am not good at it. There may be updating/improvement of the drawing in the future. For now I am quite happy with it.

Media: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Wacom tablet Cintiq and Bamboo

Here is the progress of the painting: 

I did a lot of corrections while working on this piece after getting a bunch of suggestions and advice from fellow artists and professional artists who work in the animation industry. I guess perhaps the final draft may not be a complete perfection for now but I am pretty happy with it. I know I will get a lot better in the future and at some point, I may go back and make this one even better and nicer, maybe close to "perfection". This experience has inspired me a lot and I feel like I have to draw more, a lot more.

The NIGHTMARE Characters

This is a drawing of all the characters from my current project The NIGHTMARE. It took me a while to design, clean up, and color all of them. It was fun, however.

As you can see, the style is inspired by the Nickelodeon animated series "The Fairly Oddparents", in which the characters were designed by Ernie Gilbert, who is also my current animation drawing instructor. The story of The NIGHTMARE is also somewhat inspired from the show since it is about a little kid in trouble, especially at school, and the trouble even comes to him in his sleep, creating an endless nightmare every night. The main character, the troubled kid, is Albert. He is the one in the green shirt on the very front of the drawing.

I am still trying to finish the storyboard and working on the rotation of all of the characters. They will be posted soon.

The NIGHTMARE

This Fall 2011, I'm working on my individual project called "The NIGHTMARE". It is for my storyboard class, by Professor Clisset. The time limitation is usually a minute for an animated short, but I doubt mine would be shorter than one minute, but it won't be longer than two minutes (hopefully :P). The storyboard is taking me forever though. But first off, this is the title page/poster I did for this project~

I will upload the rest of my work including character designs, storyboards, animatic, etc.