Alison's Art Blog

Monsters and Magical Girls

2012-01-29T19:28:00.000-08:00

Sketches from this week. I'll see how long I can keep this weekly posting business up...
I did a little Tumblr request thread and one of the suggestions was Sailor Moon.... so I drew her (all stylized and such) and speedily slapped some color on after. Also, monster sketches

Schoolkid and Birds

2012-01-22T20:33:00.000-08:00

Purple

2012-01-02T10:10:00.001-08:00

People sketchin'

Stuff

2011-12-04T15:34:00.001-08:00

Got all Annette Marnat inspired for the first one (specially with the round dotty eyes).

Second one is Skyward Sword Zelda, shame on me for doing animu-styled fanart but I couldn't stop myself, the game is just too colorful and cute.

Also I got a Cintiq so life is exciting. Woot.

Witches

2011-10-27T12:57:00.000-07:00

Halloween things :P
Finally gettin' back to drawing stuff.

Elemental

2011-07-29T14:44:00.000-07:00

Something I've been messing around with here and there, and finally finished.
Thank you everyone for the comments :))))

Turning

2011-07-19T12:51:00.000-07:00

I was practicing turnarounds at work and wanted to try to do one of this girl since she's rather graphic (I ended up changing her design so it would work though...and her clothes, so its almost like a new character) She's unfortunately armless at the moment but I guess it was good practice.

Beardly

2011-06-07T15:44:00.000-07:00

I need to draw more male characters...so I'll try to keep exploring these beardly men (and the schoolkid).

Colorin's

2011-06-03T07:50:00.000-07:00

Trying out the whole "black and white value painting converted to color" technique that I've seen everyone and their mother use at some point. Also using gradient maps in PS to add the color...though it is sort of borderline "painting with sliders" it does give an interesting basis.

And heres the final lineart and colors for that Arianrhod picture. Will be included with some other deities in a book here: http://tikimachine.blogspot.com/

Plankton

2011-05-17T15:22:00.000-07:00

Waah, so this is a project I'm finally finishing. This one is for the GDG book; theme for mine was plankton. Trying to choose between these color versions now. Experimenting with more simple flat coloring styles.

Goddess

2011-05-13T11:47:00.000-07:00

Yay! Blogger lives again!

Part of the drawing I'm doing of a goddess (Arianrhod). Still have to draw a bunch of pieces of it (the background wheel mostly)...though I did a super junky thumbnail of the general idea I'm aiming for. I'll tell more about it when its done/closer to completion (which will be soon).

Dogs

2011-03-09T12:34:00.000-08:00

Doggage

Oldbies

2011-03-02T15:16:00.000-08:00

Old people.

Owls

2011-02-09T16:21:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted in forever... :/ I have been a bad denizen of the internet. Lots of random stuff going on (mostly bad weather and work) But here are some owls and some stuff I added to that castle I drew a while back.

Sand

2010-12-29T21:47:00.000-08:00

Back from Christmas stuff, time to not forget about ze blog.

She reminds me of sand art :P : Sand Art

Castle

2010-11-27T01:28:00.000-08:00

Sky castle, heck yeah.

Harry Potta

2010-11-22T22:23:00.000-08:00

Saw Harry Potter this weekend in LA, :P ....and drew more houses.
will totally stop drawing too many cutesy girly characters soon... :/ stuck in a pattern

Watermelon

2010-11-09T20:38:00.000-08:00

New random artage....including more stump houses :P

Going to CTN Expo next week, should be fun. :)

The Great Race

2010-10-03T16:34:00.000-07:00

A side project we have the option of doing at work is to draw out some designs for the characters in "The Great Race" (which we ended up watching). Hopefully I'll end up finishing these up...for now I'm just practicing drawing quickly with the grease pencil. Not really getting a total likeness yet, but getting somewhere, at least.

Doodles

2010-09-08T11:31:00.000-07:00

Tiny house doodles

Not Dead!

2010-07-17T21:37:00.000-07:00

I haven't died (after a month of not posting), just got an apprenticeship at ReelFX and have been dealing with all the moving and madness that comes along with that. Either way I'll try to put together a post here...and start putting up some drawings. Just watched Avatar (the series, not the movie :/) so here's an Aang ^_^

and redundant, but I love lineart/wips :|

Digital Painting

2010-06-01T21:26:00.001-07:00

Trying to get better at this....

Studies from ref

Animal Sketches

2010-05-30T00:24:00.001-07:00

Some stylized owls, and some deer Sketches:::::

Stump Houses

2010-05-18T01:59:00.001-07:00

WIP!

Done with school now, so hopefully I'll be able to upload/do more art nowadays.
Painting some of these tree stump house sketches.

Sketchery

2010-04-26T08:38:00.001-07:00

Crazy Hair

Crocs

2010-04-18T18:46:00.001-07:00

Trying to model him in Zbrush for a school project....also in an effort to get better at using Zbrush. Not done yet...
Mocked up his possible colors in PS

:)

Portfolio

2010-03-09T21:43:00.000-08:00

Making a post with all of my updated portfolio pages. I'll keep adding to it as I finish them.

Lighting Thumbs

2010-03-05T16:34:00.000-08:00

Trying to fill in all of my shots...

Lighting Benchmark Stuff

2010-02-05T12:06:00.000-08:00

What I had for first pass lighting critique, so of course, subject to many changes in the next 6 weeks:

Lighting and Texturing!!!

2010-01-21T23:18:00.001-08:00

We are lighting and texturing our thesis' during this semester!

I'm working on the bathroom now, the top is the paintover idea (aka what I want to achieve) I have and the bottom is the render I have as of now (aka yucky). However, the render will improve as I make my tweaks:

The weird glowing teeth above the mirror are stand-in lights. Everyone seems to get confused by them, but they will be replaced!

Here are some quick paintovers (and some renders at the bottom) I did to get an idea of what sort of lighting I wanted to accomplish, but I think I'll tone down the colors a bit when I finish the real thing:

Thesis Takeover

2009-11-03T12:52:00.000-08:00

Yep, Thesis....(btw he should have wings)

I haven't really been doing much lately besides 1st pass animation on my thesis...so...not many posts. I was messing around with this old painting trying to block out the rest of it.

and I drew this bird...but that's about it.
Also messing with colors for website themes and whatnot.

Quick Mabel Animation

2009-10-11T21:46:00.000-07:00

Part of my Blendtest, which we do primarily to test our blendshapes and character's facial expressions. It's something pretty short, quick and simple. Her hands/arms have barely any animation (I've been putting too much time into my thesis layout shots to work too much on these animations) now so I may go back and fix that later. I'm also going to fix the rig so her swirly hairs have some drag.

Mabel Blend Test from Alison Donato on Vimeo.

Also an "angry and prickly" themed one hour drawing for Chiustream! :)

Chiustream stuff

2009-09-30T20:12:00.002-07:00

Here are some Chiustream drawings of mine. Basically, for the Chiustream, we have a bit under an hour to draw/paint a character based on a theme we are given.

He is my temporary header image for now :) I may try to paint him later. (Cute/Furry Theme)

Been working more on my fat monster. (Fat/Drooling Theme)

Stuff

2009-09-28T20:15:00.001-07:00

Mabel can move....HORRIBLY! (her hands are especially weird right now) I will paint her weights soon, but at least the back controllers for the rig are decently versatile. People have mixed feeling about the skirt frill though (besides the fact that its weirdly weighted now).

I did some drawings in order to figure out how I wanted Mabel to stand, her body
was kind of a boring shape before...luckily the rig works to make her bendy.

...and some fanart.

Experiments

2009-09-18T10:11:00.001-07:00

Ack! I forgot to draw her left hand....

TEXTURES!

2009-09-10T19:09:00.000-07:00

Preliminary textures subject to change. I just got critted on these guys so they will be changed, but I'm getting closer to a final look, I hope.

Upped contrast on this one....

Mabel!!!

2009-08-30T12:51:00.001-07:00

She isn't done but she's much closer than my old man (Frank)

Mabel still needs some clothing trim and hopefully a bit more of an interesting front view.

That, and she has some lumpiness going on :( ...also I think I'm going to change her shoes.

DRAWINGS (of Mabel and etc):

Nyeah...shame :(

Frank! Thesis Work...

2009-08-15T19:02:00.000-07:00

Hey! Okay so I've been working a bit on my thesis over the summer. This is one of my main characters Frank in a couple of styles....the one on the right was an old drawing while the left is newer...but you can get the gist from the drawings....:
Here's the model so far....he's not near done, he'll have feet, proper ears and other things eventually (and those splits in his body aren't supposed to be there haha) but he's getting there. I didn't do it in ZBrush but stuck it in there to take some (non-lambert) screengrabs...I like the sculpy shader in there.

Starting to Wake Up :)

2009-07-24T00:23:00.000-07:00

Something? Will be more in the future....I hope O_O Tis a Cigarette girl from a party I went to (a murder mystery party)

I shall try to revive this thing!

2009-05-08T19:36:00.000-07:00

Since its summer I hope to actually produce more stuff to put up here. For now here are a few things:

More Stuffs. WOAH.

2008-09-15T22:39:00.000-07:00

More Stuff. Errr..... A bunch of random animal/char sketches made while sitting in my art history class, and then....Random stuff from DFA and...Yep. I should try to update this and get it up and running...I'm not a big blogging person. :(

2008-07-01T20:08:00.000-07:00

Testing this blog thing out: Just a few practice drawings of faces turned to the side/profile view practice. The ones on the left are references, while I made up the cartoon-like ones on the right.