IF - Spooky

Yay! Another IF post!



This weeks if topic is Spooky. And I'm all about spooky. So, naturally I had no choice but to participate.

I had a bunch of ideas, but I thought a nice cartoony zombie, would do the trick. Zombies aren't really suppose to be cute like this guy, but, I think the guys in the background make up for his lack of 'scary'. Also, the text is suppose to be like a play on the "Subway; eat fresh" motto, something my friend Mia said about a year ago. I thought it was real funny. XD

Aha! I think I might do another for this topic, just because it's almost Halloween, and I'm really in the mood for it. Maybe I could even slip a rainbow in somehow. Now there's a challenge. Well, we'll see what happens. Moving this weekend. ._.

Bye for now. 8D

IF - Beneath

Wow, I'm actually posting something! D:



Aha. . . . Yeah, I've been such a slacker on these IF's. But, I thought of a good idea for this weeks topic. The topic being "Beneath".

So, basically I just drew like a giant girl, stomping all over my chibi - aha, I'm so mean to my chibi - with her awesome high-heels.

I'm sure almost everyone has had this feeling at one point or another. Sometimes you just encounter those people who make you feel the size of an ant. Like you're beneath them some how.


Bye for now. 8D

Dear Diary

Oh my goodness, it's been so long since I uploaded anything! But my computer broke down, and I just recently got it back from the shop! D: So, here's to me getting my computer back! :)




So, this weeks IF topic was "Diary". I don't keep like a real diary, but I keep a dream journal (that's right, I use the word journal to make it sound less sad). But, anyways, I write down my dreams as soon as I wake up - sometimes while I'm still half asleep - so that I don't forget them. It's not for some reason like I think they can tell the future. They're just funny to read, some of the dreams are real messed up.

Well, I thought maybe I'd share one entry from the journal. Something less... morbid, and more colourful. :)

"So, tonight I had a dream that I went on an adventure with The Doctor (from Doctor Who; british tv show). But it wasn't the real me, as always, I was my alter-ego. Sparkly skin, rainbow-white hair, and all. The TARDIS was different. Brighter than normal. Then again, colours are usually more vivid in my dreams. Anyways, it was sort of like the episode with the star-whale thing. The whale ended up throwing us off, and the whole city was destroyed. We didn't make out alive..." DUN DUN DUN!

Okay, so, that was my actual entry. XD
They're so funny to read sometimes. I like the morbid ones the most. Maybe next time.

Bye for now! 8D

Fearless

Hey there! Been a while since I uploaded anything. -.-
Thought I'd get back on the ball with an awesome illustration for IF.

This weeks theme is 'Fearless' thankfully is fits pretty well with my most recent illustration.



I love this movie. And to me, Jack was pretty fearless when he pursued his dream. No matter how twisted the idea was. Even when his friends were a little ify about the idea, he went with it anyways. ^-^

This is going to be the skin of my friends laptop. I like the way it turned out. :)

Byee.

Linked

Hey there!
Guess what?! I finished my IF illustration for this week! Yay! This one was also very fun. :)



I kind of went with my pin-up thing again. ^^
Her hands are linked! It counts. :P

I wish I had more time to work on this. But I've got loads of work to do right now. Also I'm kind of digging the looseness to it. And it's suppose to be done for Friday, which is in... 40ish minutes.

Anywho, hope you like it. :)

Byee.

DIP

I had so much fun on this weeks Illustration Friday! ^-^



OKAY! So, it took me a bit to think beyond chip dip and skinny dipping. But I finally thought of something I actually wanted to do. Jessica Rabbit!

In the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" the main villain created this toxic stuff that killed toons. He called it "The Dip". So that's what is in the barrel.

And I adore Jessica Rabbit. Also it kind of goes along with the whole pin up project over on my other blog. XD

Rescue

Yay illustration friday!




So, this may not be exactly what you think of when you hear the word rescue. But, another word for rescue is save.

I know I can't be the only one this happens to, but, the teachers always tell us, 'save, and save often'. Yeah, sounds simple enough, but when you get all into your work, it can be easy to forget. And, occasionally this little guy pops up. Now, he may look harmless, being all colourful and pretty-like. But, he's the devil. I swear they disguise him with rainbows just to distract me from how truly tragic he is.

And if you're like me; sometimes forgetting to save for a long period of time, this is not a fun experience.

You know the five stages of grief? Well, when this happens, I go through something very similar.
Denial: "No, no. Okay, just wait a few seconds, it will go away. I only have a few things open. There's nothing to get upset about."
Anger: "Now you listen here computer! I swear, if you don't stop I'm throwing you out the window. I'll do it!"
Bargaining: "Please, please stop. I'll do anything you want. I'll save every five seconds from now on if you'll just stop! D:"
Depression: "All that work.. what am I going to do?" *sobs and curls up into the corner*
Acceptance: "Gah! I have to start again." (That's probably a mix of anger, but that's at what point I actually start again. To me, that's as accepting as I get)

There really should be like a Mac god that rescues you from this sort of thing...

Ride for Cancer Postcard

Hey there!
So after my last blog entry this next one is probably going to seem less morbid. But not exactly a bowl full of sunshine.
It's meant to raise money for research for Cancer. And it's suppose to reference this in some way.

I kind of went the more symbolic way. See where it took me. I think it turned out okay. :)



I think I should probably explain. The girl is like dead. But coming back to life because of the fairy things above her. ZOMBIE! No, I'm kidding.
But really, the girl is symbolizing a person with cancer (not to say that they are dead, but feeling hopeless, and lost), and the fairies are the research for cancer, bringing her back to life, or giving her hope.
That may or may not of been another Zelda reference..

I'm not sure if it was okay to go all dark with a subject like cancer on the plate, since it is kind of a sensitive subject. But, I put hope into it with the pretty fairies. :)

I think that's all.
Byee.

Expired

Just kind of a warning to anyone really sensitive. My illustration is kind of morbid. If you're offended easily I wouldn't look down..

Okay, so this weeks IF topic is "Expired".
I was actually debating on whether to put this up here or not. I never really know when art is crossing the line or not.. But I remember in art history class the teacher always saying that lots of artist pushed the envelope. (That's not to say mines that far out there. Perhaps just mildly offensive) But I always worry about offending people, cause.. cause I wanna be nice..?

So I figured, if people have any kind of an emotional reaction to this, whether it be shock, find it funny, or just flat out mad at me for 'going there', then I kind of succeeded. Cause that's what art is suppose to do.. right?

Okay, seriously don't know what else to say. I'm just trying to fill space before the picture so that the little warning thing isn't completely useless if the picture is to close to the top that you see it anyways.



Hope it's not terrible that I did this. >.<

Face your fears Mischa. Click that 'Publish Post" button.

Subterranean.

Hey there.
So, this weeks IF topic is Subterranean.

You would not believe how long it took me to think of something for this. I almost thought I was going to have to resort to drawing Diglett from Pokemon. Which would be the only other idea I had for this.
Kind of funny, but I can't imagine it being very challenging to draw..



Don't laugh, (okay, you can laugh) but when I was a kid, my dad convinced me that if I where to dig to far into the ground that I'd end up in China. (I liked to dig holes in the beach, and I was a very gullible kid)
Anyways. This idea just kind of popped into my head at about 4:00 am last night, which woke me up. And I wrote it down, still half asleep, so that I would remember when I woke up today. Since it was so darn important, that it needed to wake me up, it must of been worth remembering, right?

Yeah, good plan Mischa. It's a good thing that my writing is totally legible when my eyes are still all blurry (sarcasm). I almost needed a decoder ring to decipher the random squiggles I'd written. But I did manage you figure it out. :)

Hope you like it!
Byee. 8D

Shameless self promotion. Postcard.

Hey there.
Are you ready?

No, are you really ready?
Ready for the rainbowy-ist illustration evar?!

Then you may continue. ^-^





Can you tell I like rainbows? Like a lot. >.<
You could probably tell as much from a few of my other illustrations in my blog. Occasionally trying to sneak one into whatever I'm doing. They make everything look better you know?

So, this is a self promotion postcard. It's suppose to have part of my soul in it. Well, I looked into my soul, and honestly, the only thing that's in there is a bunch of rainbows, about a thousand books, and a few of my fandoms, Dexter, House, Doctor Who, Zelda, Shhh!

The background of the top one is actually the background to my, soon to be, laptop skin. I liked it so much, and it worked perfectly for my rainbowed-soul theme. The little cartoon looking character is like my mind if it decided it was going to take the form of something. I actually draw little chibi characters like that a lot. I'm thinking of incorporating that style into a lot more of my stuff.

The black and white image is meant to be the back of the postcard. I just took the colour out of my cartoon character (which by the way; really hard for me. o.o') and placed it on the side. I was thinking of putting another of my characters there instead. But for some reason I like the consistency of putting this one on. That, and you've already seen the coloured version, so it doesn't really detract from the character to see it as just line drawing. They really are meant to be seen in colour.

I think that's all I wanted to say..
Byee. 8D

Storyboards - Photo Reference

Really quick post before my computer dies!
Here are the story boards that were due today.. Oops.







So I ended up switching the main guy, pretty much because I thought the guy with the glasses kind of looks like Dilbert. Also you can see him better, and I thought seeing the front of the main person might be an important aspect. Heh. Not to mention that the waiter is right beside him, and it actually looks like they're interacting. :D

I kind of like the guy beside him because he looks all pissed off. XD

Okay %11 percent life, gotta go. Byee!

Brave

Rainbows prosper again!
This weeks IF topic is "Brave". And I couldn't think of anyone more brave..



It's Link! From Zelda! :D
Link, is very brave. Not only does he save the princess from Ganon, and Hyrule from some sort of impending doom, but he jumps off of just about anything I tell him to. He does all of this, and more, because he holds the Triforce of Courage.
Couldn't be because I control him..?
Nonesence! He is a hero! He would do all of the things he does, even if I didn't make him. I mean.. he has to. He's Link!

I didn't like the way this turned out at first.. Mostly because the legs make him look a little.. awkward.
But, I've decided I like it now. Link was always a little awkward in my opinion.
An awkward swordsman. XD Such a great mix.

I slipped another rainbow in because I can't help myself. It didn't look finished without the rainbow background. Something about rainbows make everything better. 8D

Cereal Commercial - Concept Illustration (No Reference)

This is my concept art for the commercial story board I'm doing!
I intend to actually do them all. But I thought I should probably put SOMETHING up for class.. So I did the minimum of three. Just for now! I will do the rest. I pinky promise!







I love the last frame.

Say what!?
You ordered cereal? You fool... -.-

You'll be sorry! Cereal is nummy! *nom nom*

Perspective

Homework during reading week!? What is this!?



Naw, I'm just kidding. I mean, what else am I going to do during reading week? Read? What is this.. READ you speak of? You must tell me more. Not now, I'm blogging!

Yes, so.. this weeks IF topic is "Perspective" if you couldn't tell from my, oh so cleverly, titled post.. ^-^'
And, I illustrated my finger squishing someone's head... Maybe I'm just THAT big of a nerd because I actually do this. Like.. a lot. Especially if someone is sad. I don't know how it's suppose to cheer them up. But it makes me happy. 8D Gosh, isn't my perspective a wonderful thing?!

Esh! What a short post. Well I should go. Lots of reading to do, you know? Yup! Reading, reading, reading. :)

Peace!
Don't do that..
No good?
No.
Kay. ^v^ Byee!

Illustrations for Rick Court's Blog

Our school has a new Dean, Rick Court, and we were asked to illustrated a few images based off of his blog post. One of the pictures were to be a main illustration, to show at the beginning of the blog, and we were asked to do a couple small illustrations to put throughout the post; just kind of narrowing down that one area.

So for the main illustration I kind of wanted to show how he'd been with Mohawk from the beginning. Kind of like he watched it grow up. So, on the left it shows Rick as a kid with his friends playing "kingers" in the background and the chestnut tree, subtly, off to the side; his past. Then on the right would be his present self with Mohawk in the background.
I went really cartoony with this one because I've been drawing little depictions of my friends for the last few weeks, and they liked them so much, that I thought it might be kind of cute to use the style for one of my projects.



In the main picture there are chestnuts, and a tie in the top corners of the illustration. I thought it would be a nice touch. Also it gave me a way of transitioning between the two styles used for the main picture and the smaller ones. I thought it was a cool way of tying them together. I also gave it the same sort of background.. thingy.
This one is of a hard hat, which I would assume he wore while working at the Blast Furnace mentioned in his blog. The background kind of looks fire-ish to maybe imply what kind of working conditions he had to endure. I'm thinking it was kind of like hell...



The next little illustration is of a basketball. So exciting! Please tell us more! Rick had mentioned that he played basketball in his spare time. And I like basketball, so that's why I went with that.
I know right? So symbolic.



This was actually a rather fun project to work on. I liked tying everything together to make it look like it all fit. And drawing little cartoon people is so much fun.
I hope it all works as well as I think it does. O.o'

Propagation.

Heh, so, hello everyone.
Just a really quick illustration for IF this week. Since I'm supposed to be focusing on something else right now.
I didn't want to miss IF this week, so I didn't go with anything terribly personal.

A few of my friends and I may understand this just a little more, and find it a tad more amusing because of it.



Kay, so I got the idea from one of my friends (use to be a roommate). Now it didn't actually happen like this, but it's just where the idea was born. You see, my friend... we'll call him Tim.. Yes, Tim.

Well Tim loves the internet; he loves to play games and talk to friends. But one day, our landlady decided to cut the internet for some unknown reason. This makes Tim sad. :( see, that's Tim sad.
And after a few days of no internet, and nothing to do, Tim got a little crazy. One night Tim and I were sitting in the common room, watching the limited channels that we had.

Now, before I go any further, let me just say that our landlady, at the time, was like in love with plants and had them all over the house.

So anyways, back to the story. We were sitting in the common room, with all of these plants, and Tim started to tweak, because one of the plants kept touching the back of his neck. Next thing I know Tim had taken a bite out of the plant and was looking really crazy.

So that is where my idea started, from there my strange mind just took over. Added a little twist to the whole situation (since the real one had nothing to do with propagation) and this is what I came up with.

Doctor Who.

I've been wanting to do something like this since I heard that David Tennant's character was being replaced for the role of The Doctor, in the British t.v. series Doctor Who.

I felt the need for the introduction, because anytime I talk about Doctor Who with anyone, they never know who I'm talking about. If you are one of those people, then I suggest you watch a few episodes. It's only one of the greatest shows I've ever seen.

So this is my tribute to David Tennant.



When he first started as the Doctor, I was kind of unsure of him. Probably cause I actually liked the Doctor before him, and we only had one season with him.
I quickly realized that David Tennant was brilliant. His quirky habits grew on me, and before I knew it, he was gone. What can I say? I was so heartbroken, that when he said his last line: "I don't want to go," I shouted back at the t.v.: "then don't go!" D:

We Doctor Who fan's only got a few seconds to judge the new Doctor (Matt Smith) in that last episode, but I really hope he can live up to the expectations that we have.

Adrift

This weeks IF topic was "Adrift".
This time, I didn't put up the first thing that came to mind. To be honest, the first thing I thought of was a scene from "Castaway", when Tom Hanks character is yelling for Wilson (the volleyball), and the ball is just drifting away. I always laugh at that part. XD I'm so terrible.

But after a few days of, playing video games, long hard thinking, I decided to go with something a little more personal.




Yes, so... I looked up the meaning of adrift, and I got a few definitions...
-drifting, afloat, cast off, unmoored, aweigh, unanchored
-aimless, goalless, directionless, purposeless
-free, separated, divided, loose, severed, loosened, disconnected, unconnected, disjoined

My research note taking was much less organized than this initially, I just kind of cleaned it up so I could sort of show my thought process a little. The last few were ones I related with most (I think anyone can, really).

This illustration represents how I sometimes feel in society. Kind of like I'm separate. Disconnected. Not quite living in the same reality as everyone else; somehow gone adrift (Yes apparently I see everything in rainbows... XD Gosh I wish).

Cereal Commercial - Rough Sketch

These are very rough sketches for a cereal commercial I'm working on.



Frame 1: It's a busy restaurant, clearly a very classy place. It shows a few tables, with men in suits all sitting around tables.
Frame 2: Zoom in of a businessman looking at a menu, you can also see his companions looking at menus.
Frame 3: Waiter comes up and asks what they want.
Frame 4: Again it shows the man looking at his menu. He kind of looks divided. Like he's not sure of what to order.



Frame 5: He's ordered Din-O's the cereal. And everyone is looking at him with odd looks. Like he might be ill or something.
Frame 6: Everyone then turns the the Waiter and changes their order to the cereal.
Frame 7: Time skip to them 'nom noming' away at their cereal.
Frame 8: Zoom in on cereal.

Muddy

Hello world!

Sooo.. this weeks IF topic was "Muddy"... and I had no idea what to do for it. I didn't even start it until like 10:00 pm last night, even though I had the entire day off. The rest of the day was occupied by Zelda playing.. heh.
Procrastinating aside. I did get it finished! And this is what I came up with.



Awe so cute right?

Yeah, not so much when it's your cat, and that mud is on all over your bed, and through the house.

Alright, so the cat is loosely base off of my own cat, Nelly. I basically just stole the markings on her face. The illustrated kitty looks far to young to be my Nelly. I think I'll name this little gal Muddy actually.
Gosh I'm so good at naming animals. 8D I really should do it more often. I would tell you how I got Nelly's name, except it was a very long time ago, and I cannot hold my younger self accountable for that; I wasn't the smartest cookie back then.

Anyways. Muddy was just doing her thing; rolling around in the mud and all. Then tracked it all in the house. Mischa is not impressed. :/
But goodness, doesn't she look cute? How can you be mad at a face like that?

Cereal Ad

Hello world!

For this post I will be showing the process I took, from sketch to finished product, for a project in my illustration class. We were meant to take a children's cereal that we designed last year, and target that to a different demographic in an ad for a magazine.

Okay, so to start, this is a very rough sketch. Rough enough that I really wouldn't expect anyone to understand what exactly you're looking at. It's just for my reference really. I did a few of these, but I'm just showing the one I based the finished off of.



Yeah, doesn't look like much yet.
So, from there, I went to a comprehensive. Again, I did more of these. But for the blog I'm just showing the one.



As you can see I have three of my most favorite characters from different t.v. shows. And incase you can't tell, it's House, Dexter, and Doctor Who. At this point I wasn't 100% sure where I was going with all of this. But Leif (my teacher) said that I should tie them all together some how, and obviously get a background going.

Tie them together you say? I hope this works...



So, as you can see. I kinda threw a rainbow at their faces. Yeah, that should tie them together well. I really hadn't intended to do that. Honestly I was just doodling on House's face with colour just to see what it would look like. I got the idea from a Dexter episode. If anyone watches Dexter they may know what I'm talking about, when Lila found out Dexter was a serial killer and painted him all creepy-like with really pretty colours.
Anyways! I liked the outcome of House, why not do the others! Since my cereal box is rainbow-ish anyways (which is shown as an ad on Dexter's newspaper.. incase you missed it), it worked.. in a, if-you-eat-this-cereal-you'll-look-rainbowy, kind of way (which by they way, would be my perfect world). Everything else just kind of fell together after that. Everything was done digitally with my new tablet, I'm still getting use to it..

The little blurbs on the side of each character were last minute ideas. I just thought they were funny. The one for Doctor Who doesn't really work for the cereal, but I seriously couldn't think of anything else to put... It was "Allons-y" or something about his dislike for pears...

Focused

Hello world!

This week for Illustration Friday (IF), the topic was 'focused'. My teacher Leif Peng wants us to participate in IF this week (I totally didn't forget to mention him last post... Heh), so got a jump on it and worked on it all weekend. Even though I was meant to be babysitting... I mean.. w-what? No, I wouldn't do that.



Okay, so if you're anything like my most of my family, you're probably pretty confused (mind you, they really didn't get the concept of IF, so that might of been it). But let me explain... as best I can.
Well, for the word 'focused' the first thing I thought of was reading. Because, I am never more focused then when I'm reading. The world around me just ceases to exist. So I went from there.

The reading girl was the only thing I drew at first. But my brother Wess asked me what I was doing, and we got talking and he jokingly said I should have a bomb going off outside, and the girl unfazed - because that's about how bad it is.
So, I actually liked the idea. Sometimes my brother has some brilliant ideas, (at least to me) even if sometimes they're a little strange at times.

Anywhozels! That's how the idea came to be.

AND! If you're thinking the hair looks weird. It's not just you. I'm not exactly pleased with how it came out, but it's better than my first attempted, which defiantly didn't take me a day to do...

Wilderness

Hello, world!

My name is Mischa Marple, and welcome to my first post, and first attempt at Illustration Friday. ^^

This is an illustration that I created for Illustration Friday . We were supposed to create an illustration with the word 'wilderness' in mind. This is what I came up with.



Now I didn't submit this, it was more of a warm up. But I will be participating in the near future.

I've been wanting to do something with a native headdress in it for awhile now. I've always found them really pretty, and the word 'wilderness' makes me think of natives. Not gonna lie, Pocahontas was my favorite movie as a child, and still remains one of my top ten. So that might have something to do with me immediately jumping to this.

I hope you like it. Bye for now. :)