that darn Tu-Anh!

Long time, no see

2012-01-12T20:51:00.000-08:00

I've been bad I know. It's been way too long since my last post. Hopefully the next post WON'T be for another 3 years....heh.

I drew this for a close friend of mine I met at work. Nicole has 2 chunky--I mean fluffy cats that has these pink poosh bellies that remind me of utters. I wasn't able to do this in time for her birthday, so I made it her xmas gift. I originally wanted this to be inked and colored all in markers...but halfway in I realized I no longer had any grey markers. So I water colored most of it. Had I known I was going to watercolor this I would have used the appropriate paper, but its ok this time. :)

I had fun, and again, its been way too long...

Screen Printing Image #2

2008-09-24T16:13:00.001-07:00

All righty here's my 2nd image for screen printing. I can't wait for this Saturday to come so I can burn it to the screen and start printing on paper! Yeap, its the same popsicle from my business card. What's hard was transforming the image to strictly just black and white...yet my "popsicle" is actually a chocolate-dipped ice-cream bar...on a stick...yum.

I'm not too happy with this image...but I'm sure later on in time I can make it look better. I decided to make it these colors instead of black and white, even though I will only print it on white using black ink (its the only color I have at the moment). I'm open to any suggestions...please :D

Screen Printing

2008-09-23T20:43:00.000-07:00

Screen printing has been something I've wanted to learn for the longest--and I'm finally doing it! I honestly have no idea how it works or the process...but now I do! Right now it seems like a long process, but I'm sure once I do more of this again and again it wont seem too bad. I think the pay off is great! It's my other current fun class I'm taking :D

I couldn't decide what I wanted to do for my first image. Since I was asking Jared for some ideas, an angry squirrel came up to mind! Thanks Jared! :D I've already some prints (that ended being thrown out by someone the following week, boo), so I"m ready for my second image!

Mini-Portfolio

2008-07-22T00:20:00.000-07:00

I know I should have posted some long ago, but I was never satisfied with my portfolio. My book doesn't give me justice! Why? Mostly because it's not my most recent work. So I decided to fake the funk and slap together images from here and there into backgrounds to a few of them to try and give them this "fresh" and "new" look. Hey, it's better than nothing. ;]

These are really pages out of my "mini-portfolio" that I will carry to Comic-Con with me in case anyone is intereseted in taking a look. They are all 4" x 6" photos that I will place in a photo album.

Demo Reels

2008-05-05T23:57:00.000-07:00

My 2D Animation Demo Reel from college...

...and my 3D Demo Reel

Natalie's Birthday Gift

2008-04-17T23:22:00.000-07:00

For Natalie's birthday, I thought I'd draw for her again. Since I drew a monkey for her last year, I thought of drawing another animal: her boston terrier, Pancha. So I sketched this out late last night on Flash and she loved it! Natalie is actually a very talented girl who I know one day will become a great artist (trust me I've seen her current sketches).

PETA

2008-04-17T23:15:00.000-07:00

I sure hate animal cruelty, but darnit I love to eat them. I've made attempts on cutting back on red meat for health purposes, but its really hard to not eat fish and poultry. Sorry PETA, I won't buy fur, but I need my milk to go with my cookies!

These were my entries I did on flash for the PETA2 t-shirt contest. However, there is a limit to one entry per person, and I think I got disqualified when they figured out I tried to enter all of them using different emails and names, heh. Oh well, it got me to draw! Woot!

Oh, as for the designs that were chosen to the voting round, you can view and vote for them here

What the!?

2008-04-17T14:50:00.000-07:00

How'd I get here?

Well, many great artists (like Cheeks!) told me to do so. So here I am dag-nammit! I'm no writer so I'll keep things short, and do expect grammatical errors! I don't draw as much as I use to anymore, but hopefully this blogger thingymajig will help motivate me to. Jeebus, I never thought I'd become a blogger...ugh...