Honors Western Civ. Doodle

Sand Animation

This week for Basic Animation Techniques class, we learned about sand animation. If you have never seen sand animation before, I suggest you look at Caroline Leaf (she's the animator who invented sand animation in the 70's):

The Owl Who Married A Goose

So for our assignment this weekend, we had to create a 10+sec sand animation of our own with 3 objects, 2 morphs. This was my first time ever doing sand animation and I must say, I absolutely love doing this technique. There's something really freeing about sand animation for me, like I just get to play as an animator and just have fun and experiment. Plus it's just gorgeous, the way the light and dark interact with sand is interesting to animate with, there's really no other technique like it that I've done before.

I choose to go a very different route for my animation this week and do something a bit more abstract because I've been dying to create a more abstract piece of animation and I felt that sand would lend itself to abstract animation very well. My only idea behind doing this was to listen to whatever music I was going to have in my final animation while I was animating and let the music influence my choice of imagery to create and the timing. This piece I chose to animate to was Scheherazade Movement 1. I'm glad I really enjoy this song because I listened to it on repeat for a good 5 hrs by now and I'm still not sick of it. X )

Anyways, here's the link to my first ever sand animation:

Sand Animation Experiment

And here's some of the frames from my animation that I rather like. Sand animation is just so simply beautiful!

Excuse Me?

Finally got this picture done. I've had the sketch of it done for about a week but didn't have time to color it in until tonight. Anyways, this pictures was inspired by Introduction to Animation. My class was sanding our character models, but I had to leave to go to Figure and Motion Drawing. While I was gone, my friend Casey Anderson made a lovely hat for my character Rae and when I returned I found this:

Picture taken by Casey Anderson

Haha, least to say, Rae would never ever wear a hat like this. So I was inspired to create a picture about this, expect I used Casey's character for our animation class, Mr. Grumbles. Rae is not amused whatsoever.

Rae (c) Lauren Krieger
Mr. Grumbles (c) Casey Anderson
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1 min. Life Drawings

I know I mentioned that I wouldn't be uploading much because I'm busy, but I need the break from homework, so I thought just to upload. I sat in the Drawing 1 class today because they started figure drawing and here are a few 1 min gesture drawings from today.

And I deleted the vent post I made yesterday(if any of you saw that), reading it today made me feel very silly and childish for posting it. But housing did get figured out and I do get to stay in my hall. So all is good, yay. Now back to work...

Until Next Time,

Lauren

Otto

I was talking with a friend yesterday about dog parks and it just really made me miss my family's dog Otto a lot. So I decided to do a speed painting of him. Since I don't really have the best handle on his anatomy yet, I used a photo I took as a reference picture. So from right to left: reference photo, sketch, final.

Done completely on photoshop cs3.
Time: 30 min.
Please do not use without permission.

Saturdays Are Always Fantastic

I love Saturdays. You get to sleep in and best of all, Saturday give you time. Usually, the day is open for the most part and you are fully in control how the day plays out. Today was one of those Saturdays, I had absolutely nothing planned and the weather was absolutely gorgeous, so I didn't have to be cooped inside. I definitely took advantage of the nice weather, going on a few walks with friends and I even got a nice run in. I also got to work on A LOT of art of all sorts today.

First I finished sculpting and sanding my character for Intro to Animation. This is my character Rae who is a wolf/crow creature. People have been calling him a wolf gryphon which I guess is close to what he is but he's not technically a gryphon. He's a character I've had for a few years now and mainly just decided on him because I though it would pretty sweet to have a model of him. So you'll probably be seeing more of him in the coming months as after this I will be animating him. With the model though, all I need to do is paint him and then feather the crow part of his body and then he shall be done which will be nice because I've been somewhat of a perfectionist on this...never a good thing for me.

Then I also finished sewing all my cut-out puppets for Basic Animation techniques and making the backgrounds. I'm not going to post much about it since I don't want this post alone to eat up the MB I have for this blog, but here's one of the backgrounds with where my character is roughly placed. I'll be animating this traditional cut-out animation tomorrow morning. I hope all goes well. I apologize that this image isn't very good....I need to get a new scanner that doesn't blur what it's supposed to scan in.

That was really all the schoolwork I could work on, so I even had time to work on some personal artwork-always a bonus.

This was another sketch I drew during in Honors Western Civ. on Friday but I started painting it in on photoshop today. I got about 1/3 done. I also sketched out a bunch of ideas as well...but I won't upload any of those, mostly because they are surprises for friends or in my sketchbook which I don't really feel like scanning in stuff from....because who knows if my scanner is going to work and most likely, it's will do a bad job of scanning my drawings in, so it's just not worth it for now.
So yes, this Saturday was quite enjoyable. And if anything, proved I'm a work-a-holic and always have to be doing something productive with my time.

Until Next Time,

Lauren

The Pink Lioness Digital Painting

Drew this sketch of my character The Pink Lioness(TPL for short) during Honors Western Civ.

Then painted it in on Photoshop after class since I kind of liked it and I needed the digital painting practice. I'm not too happy with how the sky turned out but I foolishly painted the stars and moon on the same layer as the blue sky and didn't really want to fix it since I have many other things to work on, so I made it work. Otherwise, kind of happy with this I guess.

And I also made the header/banner for my blog during Honors Western Civ(heh, I can't help but draw in that class...it's so boring, it's making me understand why people do not enjoy learning history). I'm quickly realizing I need a better scanner...the one I have now is a piece of crap and makes everything blurry. Gah, just another thing I need to get. :/

Fasen

Yay, so here goes my first post with some artwork. So exciting yes?

Anyways, I had a tough time deciding what to post first, but I decided on a piece I finished earlier in January. It's a portrait of my character Fasen. Everything was done on Photoshop CS3. I am still pleased with how it turned out.

Fasen (c) Lauren Krieger. Please do not use without permission.

Now Where to Start?

So, after much prodding by some of my friends, I finally found the time to start of a blog of my own.

I know originally I planned just to use this blog to upload my comic strips, but after thinking about it, I really don't want to confine myself to just comics because I know it will get old for me quite quickly and then my blog will die, like every other journal I have attempted. So I'm going to keep things quite open and see where this goes. The possibilities are quite endless, which is exciting.

So that is really all for now, I'll be posting some of my artwork sometime soon, hopefully tonight!

Until Next Time,

Lauren