IT'S A KIKI!

Redhead

2011-12-08T11:03:00.000-08:00

Haven't posted in a while but things are good! Working at WB animation now as a storyboard revision artist. It's an awesome job and I'm throughly enjoying it, plus learning a ton. Here's a drawing I did this past weekend.

My thesis film!

2011-06-05T18:48:00.000-07:00

It's been posted pretty much everywhere else, so I thought I'd post it up here as well! My thesis film completed in Dec '10. Co-directed and produced with my partner, Brendan Clogher. Hand drawn animation on paper, scanned and colored digitally, and backgrounds drawn on paper and colored in Photoshop.

Photographs from B.Ki.Animation on Vimeo.

summer afternoon

2011-05-29T12:51:00.000-07:00

Wanted to draw something summery and warm, since I've been cooped up inside working... Sorry for the lack of posting, but I have been drawing a lot...I just can't post most of it here since it's for various freelance projects!

Figure Drawings!

2011-05-03T16:41:00.000-07:00

Some recent figure drawings. Wish I had more time to go to the classes!

owly

2011-04-27T16:17:00.000-07:00

Felt like drawing a girl in a tutu on a giant bird.

Thank you note

2011-04-07T21:55:00.000-07:00

A thank you note for my good friend Ashley and her boyfriend, Jon. (Ashley and I have known each other since the beginning of high school, and she affectionately nicknamed me "Shorty"....appropriate since I am only 5 feet tall!)

Lion lady

2011-04-01T17:24:00.000-07:00

An assignment for my animal drawing class. I included the girl too, since (maybe you've guessed) I like to draw cute girls A LOT.

Updated Reel, again....with new stuff!!

2011-03-30T23:30:00.000-07:00

Includes a newer scene I've been working on.

Batou and Major Kusanagi

2011-02-20T11:17:00.000-08:00

A guy AND some perspective! The two things I am terrible at. But, I couldn't just crap out something really easy this time....I love this show so much, I felt like I had to do it justice!

(Batou and the Major are from GITS: SAC!)

Nintendo girl for Dante

2011-02-01T23:17:00.000-08:00

Today is my good friend Dante's birthday! Anyway here is a drawing for him. He can't play his Nintendo 3DS until after he finishes his thesis in May, so I drew him a cute girl playing it instead, haha.

Flash girl

2011-01-16T17:53:00.000-08:00

A birthday card for my friend! He likes the Flash, but my muscly man drawing skills are not so great, so I drew a cute girl wearing a Flash t-shirt instead. Flash is copyright DC of course!

self portrait 2011

2011-01-09T13:01:00.000-08:00

I don't really like drawing myself, but it is good practice when I don't have anyone else to draw. :)

In the spirit of the new year and improving, here is a super embarrassing self portrait from June 2009. But, I still suck at drawing decent hair. :(

http://itsakiki.blogspot.com/2009/06/tired.html

I also just realized I dated it wrong, lol.

Turnarounds for new project

2010-12-17T20:20:00.001-08:00

A new project I'll be working on with my boyfriend. We're gonna draw a comic!

Warm Toes

2010-12-14T18:38:00.001-08:00

colored a crappy sketch I did a little while ago, in an attempt to make it less crappy....

Textures from:http://night-fate-stock.deviantart.com/

Figure drawings Dec '10

2010-12-10T13:18:00.000-08:00

Some recent work from my classes. They are (mostly) of Whitley and Richard, two of my favorite models. I especially liked drawing Richard in a baseball uniform, haha! (About 3-5 min poses.)

Lynn Design

2010-12-05T22:05:00.000-08:00

Her name is Lynn, she is a character from a comic my boyfriend and I would like to draw together....one day.....

Also she is a total BADASS!!!

Sketches Dec '10

2010-12-01T22:24:00.000-08:00

Some drawings from my sketchbook, the bottom ones are from waiting in LAX...hope you like them!

Drama Llama

2010-10-30T21:38:00.000-07:00

A girl and her drama llama....

Different from my usual stuff, but I thought I'd post it anyway. It was an assignment for one of my classes, and I learned a lot doing it! I painted it in photoshop CS3.

sexy spy

2010-10-16T11:50:00.001-07:00

Back in elementary school, I really wanted to be a spy. To my 10 or 11 year old self, this entailed wearing skimpy outfits and having sexy hair while still punching out the evil dudes like a badass. I made plans to train myself in espionage, which consisted of hiding in the lunchroom supply closet to spy on my classmates and take notes on their conversations, which often included highly classified references to boy bands' hair and the Spice Girls.

Needless to say, I never became a spy...although now I can draw them!

Figure Drawings Oct '10

2010-10-10T01:15:00.000-07:00

Some recent figure drawings from my classes. The lady at the top was really fun to draw! The poses are about 2-3 min for the gestures, the last ones were 10-15 min each.

sketches from Marina Del Rey

2010-09-20T16:55:00.001-07:00

Some boats I drew the other day in Marina Del Rey by my school!

ladies+drawings of home

2010-06-04T22:26:00.000-07:00

Some more ladies, and drawings of SF from Union Square (top) and the Pier (bottom two on the right), and also one of my hometown (bottom left) from my sketchbook. I tried to use tombo marker a little and failed miserably! D:

ladies+berkley marina

2010-05-15T01:51:00.001-07:00

I visited the Berkley marina with my parents today and I drew the boats!

Also, some ladies.

The end.

Haven't been here for a while...

2010-04-01T16:17:00.000-07:00

I had some downtime at work the other day, and I drew this! Kinda girly but I've been drawing lots of muscly guys lately so I had to get it out of my system. And I was sick today so I had time to color too, yay...

figure drawings Feb '10

2010-02-04T17:18:00.000-08:00

I haven't had much time to draw for anything but my thesis, but I have been trying to focus on going back to studying anatomy. They're kinda ugly drawings, but I tried to be as accurate as possible.

Brendan taking a nap

2010-01-14T23:32:00.000-08:00

Thanks to my very talented roommate, Marnie, for the inspiration to draw some guys! And, thanks to my boyfriend, Brendan, for posing...well, he was actually taking a nap. Also, I suck at cloth folds. Must practice.

Drawn on paper and pencil, scanned, and painted over in Photoshop CS3.

San Francisco Sketches

2010-01-09T00:14:00.000-08:00

I was in SF today, and (since part of my resolution for 2010 is to draw more buildings!) I decided to do some sketches.
The top one is from the 8th floor of Macy's overlooking Union Square, and the next two are from the coffee place next to the ice rink in Union Square.

They are all done with pen in 15 min or less.

3d Dad Comic

2010-01-07T22:26:00.001-08:00

A comic I drew for my dad...

Neither of my parents are serious movie-goers, much less animated movie-goers. My dad had never seen a movie in 3d before, and I was trying to explain to him what it was like. Unfortunately, I give horrible and confusing explanations, but luckily my dad is very patient guy who never fails to listen to me babble my mouth off about movies, animation, drawing, and everything else.

In short, I would like to thank my dad for putting up with me, and wish him a happy birthday!

last one

2010-01-04T23:52:00.000-08:00

Another little doodle I colored...I promise this is the last drawing of a cute girl I will do until I draw some guys! I need to draw more men..

Loosely based on Alizee, my favorite french pop star!

Happy Holidays

2009-12-24T23:44:00.000-08:00

I saw a pretty girl on the train home, and I drew her! :D

Colored and inked in PS3.

bad drawing day

2009-12-22T23:21:00.000-08:00

Warm up drawing from today that I colored. However, I can't say I am too fond of it. I struggled with the perspective, which is terrible, the anatomy is off, and the drawing does not have a strong silhouette either. But, I'll learn from it and move on, and try to focus on making these aspects better in my next drawing.

figure drawing 12/09

2009-12-17T18:11:00.000-08:00

Some drawings, mostly from the past month or so, from figure drawing. The weird gradients are because I am too lazy to scan, and instead take slightly crappy quality images with my camera. Hope you like them!

(Also I have noticed that my best drawings tend to be from the backside. I wonder if this is because of where I stood in relation to the model, or just because I am great at drawing butts.)

self portrait, kind of.

2009-12-10T17:56:00.000-08:00

I have a lot of trouble drawing myself, which surprises me considering how much time I have spent looking at myself for the past 20 years. So I will just say this is my...uh, cousin.

about 30 min. charcoal pencil, newsprint.

portrait

2009-12-09T23:51:00.000-08:00

about 15-20 min. Glasses perspective is pretty terrible.

Model is the lovely Whitley!

girls floating

2009-11-30T12:58:00.001-08:00

some girls floating! sorry for the hideous colors. (also I shamelessly used textures from http://loadus.deviantart.com/ for the background!)

dreaming lady

2009-11-07T16:54:00.000-08:00

Haven't painted much recently, so I spent a couple hours on this every day for a couple of days and here it is. It is a birthday present for my mom! (Thanks mom, for letting me go to college to make cartoons!)

Also, thanks to my very talented roomate Marnie for the inspiration and tips! (You can see her stuff here: http://cozychats.blogspot.com/)

falling robot lady!

2009-10-27T21:54:00.000-07:00

procrastinated working on my film today...this is the result....back to work now!

gesture drawings, oct 09

2009-10-25T17:22:00.000-07:00

some drawings from this past month, 1-3 min each. crappy camera photos, sorry...

robot lady

2009-10-23T21:57:00.000-07:00

did this quickly today after work and decided to color it cause I haven't posted much lately. It's for my boyfriend, Brendan...he likes ladies and robots! ...but who doesn't?!

another girl...

2009-10-02T22:34:00.000-07:00

not much time to draw for fun lately...all my time is being consumed by my film this semester... Anyway, sort of the usual but I did throw in (kind of) a background this time! and also as usual my colors are hideous. :(

And, just as a note...this is a take on my friend Red Mike's character...he is going to do a 2d animated film and I thought I'd try drawing his character.

new post finally!

2009-09-16T23:22:00.000-07:00

Lack of recent posts is not because I have not been drawing! I have been drawing all the time! ...But it is mostly all for my thesis film which is consuming my life. Here is a quick doodle that I managed to crap out in between some classes. As usual it is a cute girl! And, I suck at drawing feet... :( Hope ya like it!

zoo sketches!

2009-08-24T23:02:00.000-07:00

So Brendan and I recently invested in a couples pass to the LA zoo so that we will draw animals more! Here are a couple of my sketches from our last visit. Giraffes, zebras, and flamingos! There were kangaroos too BUT I sucked at drawing them!

Brendan

2009-08-13T13:36:00.000-07:00

It's Brendan...except for I think I made him a little girly looking...sorry Brendan!! I suck at drawing guys.... :(

A comparison!

2009-08-11T21:59:00.000-07:00

So, sometimes people don't believe me when I say that I started off with no artistic ability at all. Well here is some proof! The drawing is of the same character, the one on the right was done exactly two years ago (August 2007). The one on the left I did this afternoon!

pirate guy

2009-08-09T21:10:00.000-07:00

I have been sitting in on this portraiture class recently which I really enjoy. This week the model was dressed as a pirate!

approx 1.5 hours. Newsprint, pencil.

speed paint

2009-07-29T14:13:00.001-07:00

Pre production for Brendan and my thesis film has started, so here is a quick speedpaint I did yesterday after I finished a test animation. As usual it is a pretty girl!

(I have no idea what is up with the straps on that dress. Annoying straps.)

paint test

2009-07-22T14:25:00.000-07:00

so I got a job illustrating a children's book! Someone wants to pay me for my art...I think I'm gonna cry...

This was sort of a test I did to see what style I wanted to do it in. I'm not good at painting, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to learn.

obviously, as you can tell, I suck at drawing sheep. Reference was used for the sheep, but not the girl.

thesis time!!

2009-07-17T10:42:00.000-07:00

So I am very excited to announce that Brendan and I have finally settled on an idea for our thesis film that we will be doing this upcoming year. Here is the first pass of the design for our main character. Hopefully you all like her!

the woman and the lion

2009-07-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

sample illustration I did for a children's book! It is a folktale about a woman who must pull the hair off a lion's tail.

not my favorite drawing ever, but it was a quick turnaround so I kinda just crapped it out.

cartoon kiki

2009-07-10T08:12:00.000-07:00

submission for kalia's draw off!! it's on time! yay!

the theme was to draw yourself as a cartoon. some liberties taken: my legs are probably half that long and I can't remember the last time I wore anything lime green....BUT I am pigeon toed!!

you can see kalia's drawing here!
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and Matt's submission here!
[link]

train girl

2009-06-27T13:03:00.001-07:00

A BACKGROUND?!?! holy crap!! yes i actually did draw this!

i give up on coloring anything halfway decently.

no reference used but I was inspired by this artist's awesome paintings! [link]*drooooolllll*

space fish!

2009-06-22T21:05:00.000-07:00

space fish in bubbles!! I have no idea how or why I come up with these dumb ideas...

tired...

2009-06-15T00:14:00.000-07:00

a quick photoshop paint, about 1 hour. doesn't really look like me but oh well!

also, if I look tired it is because I always look tired... :/

Fanart time..

2009-06-10T16:50:00.001-07:00

I know I suck at perspective...oh well...I actually did a background for this and ended up trashing it, so I have that lame splattery thing in there instead.

I don't usually do fanart, but I just started watching Cowboy Bebop (the tv series) and who doesn't want to draw Faye after watching that?! I think these two are my favorite characters in the show.

ink brush paint test

2009-06-03T23:55:00.001-07:00

trying to get a ink brush look with photoshop...

sushi girl

2009-06-02T11:47:00.001-07:00

warm up doodle. that is a bandit sushi!!

more storyboards....

2009-06-02T00:19:00.000-07:00

more of these from last week...

storyboards...

2009-05-31T22:52:00.001-07:00

Some panels from this last week....I was pretty happy with what I was able to accomplish considering I am in classes, have homework, etc. I am still pushing myself with speed, trying to make less mistakes with my drawings so I get faster.

More to come soon!

warm up doodle villain guy

2009-05-27T18:22:00.000-07:00

hey, I drew something that's not a cute girl.... i had a bad day and felt like drawing something ugly. hence, this sinister fellow was my warm up doodle of the day! also, i hate his jacket design. and his face. awful. oh well.

storyboard panel

2009-05-21T23:38:00.001-07:00

I figure I'll post my favorite panel from the day as I work on this massive storyboard project I have planned for this summer.

Unfortunately, I am also finishing my gen ed credits, so a lot of my time I'd rather be spending drawing my storyboard is spent doing doodles of my Ethics teacher....

storyboard character designs

2009-05-20T16:52:00.000-07:00

So these are pretty much the final designs for my next personal project, a storyboard. It will take place in the 1920's and is largely inspired by Charlie Chaplin films. He is one of my favorite actors!

watercolors

2009-05-16T00:39:00.001-07:00

Memory sketches that I watercolored. This is the first time I've watercolored since preschool, and I've found that I enjoy it! Might start doing this more.

Colors are a little bluish cause of the scanner, I think.

zoo sketches

2009-05-16T00:09:00.000-07:00

Brendan and I went to the zoo the other day....here are some quick sketches I did, 1-3 min each. I did them with a thin sharpie.

feets

2009-05-10T19:01:00.001-07:00

I suck at drawing feet! So, I practice!

(they happen to be mine, since no one else wants to be a foot model for me...)

headphones

2009-05-04T21:45:00.001-07:00

hm...i like sound-canceling headphones... pink heart shaped pillow is sort of lame but whatever...

april gestures

2009-05-03T23:25:00.000-07:00

some gesture drawings from last month...1-4 min each.

sitting in the window

2009-05-02T22:22:00.000-07:00

just a photoshop doodle that I bothered to color...

San Francisco again...

2009-05-01T23:48:00.000-07:00

i miss it...

girls...girls....

2009-04-29T23:01:00.000-07:00

sketches from today...

3d Animation Stuff

2009-04-28T18:11:00.000-07:00

Some of my first animations in Maya!

The models are from highend3d.com, but all the animation is mine.

Also, these are lines from Seinfeld! I love Seinfeld!

mail girls

2009-04-23T16:26:00.001-07:00

Don't ask me how I cam up with this...it was 1 AM and I was tired of Maya...

Pose for the front girl is my least favorite, I am still struggling with perspective and dynamic poses...

photoshop doodle

2009-04-22T17:33:00.001-07:00

drawing I did today...

3d doodles

2009-04-20T01:58:00.000-07:00

During my 3d animation class, I draw! All just from my head.

san francisco storyboard panel

2009-04-05T20:34:00.000-07:00

I never post anything from my storyboard projects, so here is something....this is from my final project, it is a street in beautiful San Francisco. I did this in 10 minutes out of my head...I don't have the time to spend a ton of time on each panel, cause the board is pretty long...

anyway, back to work...

trees

2009-03-30T22:48:00.001-07:00

i have the most original titles...

perspective sucks but I liked the colors more for this one!

purple hair

2009-03-29T22:25:00.001-07:00

i may at some point go back and fix the crap-tacular coloring on this...also, give me a break, this is the first time I've tried to draw a cougar!

done in Alias Sketchbook.edit: fixed the weird neck of the cougar so it looks less weird, lowered the opacity on the background color.

Rapunzel...and hair

2009-03-28T23:43:00.000-07:00

I always wondered how she managed to take showers with all that hair...i mean, it seems like it would be really annoying.

....or maybe I'm the only one who thinks about these things...

robot chase

2009-03-26T02:20:00.000-07:00

I am finally done with my storyboard, so I did some ridiculous drawing for myself!! Finally!!

streetlamp girl

2009-03-25T01:54:00.000-07:00

Almost done compositing my storyboard!! Then I can draw again!

more gesture drawings

2009-03-24T02:42:00.000-07:00

some gesture drawings I have done recently. 1-2 min.

ooo lemon

2009-03-19T20:05:00.000-07:00

another 15 min doodle.

green pants

2009-03-18T00:14:00.000-07:00

I've been storyboarding so much i needed to do a silly little five minute doodle...i know the leg looks weird!! ok back to work.

today's drawings

2009-03-03T17:58:00.001-08:00

some drawings from today! Some outside between classes and some 3 min gesture drawings from figure drawing class.

do any of you ever feel like this?

2009-03-03T16:23:00.000-08:00

another one

2009-02-25T12:08:00.000-08:00

another quick sketch from figure drawing. Not too happy with how it came out, but I guess you can't win em all.

Figure Drawing Sketches

2009-02-18T01:25:00.000-08:00

Did these during a figure drawing class here at LMU. About 10 min for each.

sketches from LMU

2009-02-13T00:02:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the lack of posts recently! School started and I been too busy to do much "for fun" drawing. Here are some of my recent sketches, the top ones are from the cafeteria here and other ones are students from my art classes.

another speed paint

2009-01-09T22:49:00.001-08:00

because I'm too impatient to spend more than 20 minutes on a painting.

Done in photoshop with no reference.

More of these! Part 2

2009-01-08T00:30:00.000-08:00

At Borders sketching again.

zoo drawings!

2009-01-06T23:18:00.000-08:00

Most of these are from a trip I took to the zoo with Brendan last week. We both got some good practice drawing animals, which doesn't happen as often as it should...

Anyway, here are the results!

Dad's Birthday Present

2009-01-04T16:41:00.000-08:00

Pretty rough, I may clean it up and color it later. But my dad's birthday is today and I wanted to have something for him! He's actually not as bad as in this comic (my mom and sister are)...he used to be, but now actually now knows a little bit about how much work goes into animation!

also, animators may notice the little richard williams walk cycle in there....which by the way, wouldn't take me hours :)

one more!

2009-01-04T00:58:00.000-08:00

she runs up to it!

More of these!

2009-01-02T12:13:00.001-08:00

I've been in a bit of a drawing slump this week...but I'm finally beginning to get back into it. These were at a bookstore.

2009-01-02T02:23:00.001-08:00

Just a couple more backgrounds! I've been cranking these out, they're pretty easy!

and another one

2009-01-01T02:36:00.000-08:00

another background!

A couple more backgrounds!

2008-12-31T01:00:00.000-08:00

More backgrounds from my project. A couple of simple ones.

2008-12-30T00:08:00.000-08:00

Possible shot and character design from an animation project I would like to do. For now I am calling it "The Treehouse". You can read my plea for help here:

http://lmuanimators.blogspot.com/

2008-12-26T23:41:00.000-08:00

More coffee shop sketches. This time at Borders. While drinking a peppermint mocha...yum.

Christmas Chick

2008-12-24T01:56:00.001-08:00

A drawing for a friend of a pretty lady. Sort of Mucha inspired....I like Mucha....

(those are supposed to be ornaments hanging of a branch btw...)

I attempt painting and FAIL

2008-12-23T00:03:00.000-08:00

I am ashamed to say I got tired of this painting after working on it for about 15 min. So please don't judge it too harshly....I hadn't painted for a while, and finally decided to sit down and whip something out on photoshop. No ref used, just out of my head.