...moved

Moved

2009-11-05T09:35:00.000-08:00

I will no longer be updating this blog. from now on new work will be posted here:

http://nulynne.blogspot.com

thank you! :)

~Cassandra

Cowshoes and Monstrosilly

2009-09-18T16:55:00.000-07:00

2009-08-29T21:37:00.000-07:00

Oh my goodness. Finally, an update. Anyways it's been so long since the last update. I felt the blog itself needed to be, erm, "revamped". So I changed the link lists, reorganized them, and sketched out a really quick drawing for the new banner. I drew inspiration from my last banner, a head and feathers. The second pic posted was the previous banner. I think there's some improvement from..my goodness a little over a full year now. Time sure does fly.

Anyways, although this site has been neglected, I've done an at best mediocre job updating my DeviantART account here:

http://nurcum.deviantart.com

hazardous candy

2009-01-20T10:38:00.000-08:00

Ug what a quarter it has been so far. The first week of school our hallway got flooded and so we were evacuated to Tybee island. At least I got to do some kung fu on the beach. That was nice.

But the workload has been insane so far.

My 3D design project was a nightmare. I had to make a giant fruit out of something "ironic". I made a Lychee out of candy- BAD idea. Everything was great until the candy, which was sticky and began to melt, then broke off when the thing fell of my desk. ug. I have cuts and burns all over my fingers from the hot glue gun.

My life drawing class is much more fun, but a lot of work. We had to draw our own "cannon of proportion" based on the one created by Dr. Paul Richer, author of our textbook, "Artistic Anatomy."I really like my teacher- he's odd, but incredible. Here's mine (sorry for crappy photo quality.) It was alright but I was trying to make an "ideal" drawing based off a picture of a woman with an oversized arse...so it looks a little strange around the bootay...(and short because we're using 7.5 heads instead of the more "Artistic" 8 head figure.)

Well im exhausted and my room is a disaster thanks to that frustrating fruit...better get cleaning.

2008-11-25T01:35:00.000-08:00

i have nothing to show for art except a couple works in progress and some sketches. It's a bit lame actually. None of these are for a class or anything, all for fun or gifts for friends at school.

1. A drawing of a friend's character. He was going to draw me a portrait in return but neither one of us ever finished. I don't know if or when ill pick this up again.
2. A small commission.
3. A quick live portrait of my friend Erik. He is a photography major at SCAD.
4. just a face for fun.
5. Again, just for fun. the beginnings of a conceptual illustration for a children's book I started writing.

2008-11-23T00:56:00.000-08:00

I am home again for a very long winter brake. I arrived tired, sick, and grumpy yesterday night from three long flights from Georgia. Today I taught myself to drive again, stopped by "Pudding on the Rice," a place I used to work at, bought a magazine, and said hi to an old friend. By the time I got home it was still early, and I was already bored out of my mind. So I looked to the future. I am going to have to take some sequential art classes in order to get my storyboarding minor, so I thought i may as well start practicing. I decided to start a comic based on a project I've had in my mind since last year. Unable to rough out a solid enough portion of the story, I became frustrated and just attempted the cover instead.

Also, my friend Nick gave me the complete Adobe CS3 master collection, Microsoft Office, and Maya 2008, which is probably the best gift I've ever received in my life. So thanks Nick!

Melissa and I are invading Lakeridge on Wednesday.

2008-10-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

Classes for the quarter are as we approach midterms, is Drawing for Storyboarding, Advanced Survey of Computer Applications, and Composition. I was successful in skipping three classes, thus pushing me forward an entire quarter. I am the only freshman in most of my classes, but I don't mind it. In storyboarding we had just finished a 30 second commercial for "Dark Chocolate Snickers." We also have to do 200 gesture drawings- I'll post those soon. In computer class we are moving into learning Maya! I first made the head of a cat and now I am moving into making a woman set in an imaginary landscape. It will be tough but interesting.

Right now I am a little overwhelmed with my own hunger. I want to learn everything! Every tiny piece of knowledge I can pilfer from this college is at my disposal, but there is simply too much. I am going to try to major in Animation with a double minor in both Storyboarding and Concept Art. When I reach grad school, I want to double major in Animation and Design Management. We'll see where this goes.

I love SCAD more and more everyday. My father called me this morning to plan my trip home for winter break, and I realized that I did not want to return. After all this time away from home, I am finally ready to grow up. I have so many ambitions for my future; going home is like a step back.

Then again, I can't wait to see Lake Oswego. I do miss the dojo and my old friends. Maybe I'll even stop by school again to say hi.

Arrival at SCAD

2008-09-22T13:05:00.000-07:00

it was my first week of SCAD (The Savannah College of Art and Design) last week. It really is a wonderful place. I am glad I was able to come here. I've decided to major in Animation and minor in Concept Art. It will be a few weeks before I have anything to show for it, but hopefully this site will not lay dormant for too much longer. Cheers, Cassie.

2008-05-29T07:15:00.000-07:00

2008-05-20T06:08:00.000-07:00

Well, I've got to say...I am very excited for graduation. School is almost out, and I feel like I'm out already. It's actually very difficult to get any work done now at all- and man- do I have a lot of it left. I'm going to have to try and really discipline myself these next couple of weeks.

Lifedrawings, I'll upload more later:

2008-05-03T22:26:00.000-07:00

my very first animation :)

2008-04-21T21:08:00.001-07:00

The first is finished (well...im calling it done, and im not working on it anymore) the second is nearly done, just a few more quick colors. (any ideas for the background? I'm hopeless.)
...after that...
well...let's see...i still have two to finish and one to do. o yeah- piece of cake...congratulations Cassie for following your schedule...

2008-02-27T18:50:00.000-08:00

this is one of my two pieces that was due on thursday. A little different from the description earlier- although i still like that description, so i may do a second image , from the point of view of the mouse. I have decided to take the other piece home to finish. Ive been experimenting with different compositional backgrounds- but any way i think i want to go downtown and take some pictures for reference. I think ill do something similar to what Kelsey is doing- completing smaller pieces here on so i can continue to work on my larger image.

In other news it was my 18th birthday on sunday. I was hoping that sometime saturday night Peter Pan would literary knock on my window and be all, "come away with me". I'd have gone in a heartbeat.

Speedpaints

2007-12-24T20:12:00.001-08:00

Ill post some speedpaints over the break, so ill be updating this until school starts again.

Alien Escape

2007-12-16T15:12:00.000-08:00

Here's a wip for one of my new pieces. Aliens using a Stonehenge-like structure to return to outer space. I wanted it to be cute and fun, not serious or realistic. This is what i got finished today. The first is the B&W sketch, the second is the colored version, and the beginning of my "real" painting process.

edit: Another piece im working on. This one i think im going to paint traditionally. Throughout my life, ive always felt like im constantly switching between interests. I think the best example would be sports. I've played baseball, basketball, soccer, and tennis, and i liked every one of them, but I always felt like I needed something "new" after a while. What makes me feel this way? I have no idea, but it is the kind of feeling im trying to capture. The desire to travel to a new place, just because it is new- it doesn't have to be any different from what you already have.

2007-11-29T08:56:00.000-08:00

2007-11-22T22:06:00.001-08:00

So, Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I have less than a week to finish my art for school...will i get it done? probably not. I was going to work on my third piece today but instead i drew these in pchat and watched the Ghost Hunters marathon on Sci-fi. I am a loser. A very full loser.

edit: alright, well...heres a work in progress for my final picture for this month. pencils on bristol. Im going to finish the sketch, and then tweak it and color it in photoshop.

2007-11-03T23:56:00.000-07:00

NFAA thing was scary- i feel like i submitted some of my best pieces, but i don't have my paintings or a digital camera- so i feel i was lacking in the traditional art department. i did have two traditional pieces- one in each section- so i hope thats good enough...oh well...

um...concentration: I want to paint a series of drawings illustrating the physical and emotional connection between the desire to enter and the desire to exit, including the doorways that separate them.

good new reference sites:
http://www.portrait-photos.org/
http://www.conceptart.org/wiki/doku.php
http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/

2007-10-28T21:29:00.000-07:00

I kept my promise to myself- that I would study the male figure. And i think this is the manliest man I have ever drawn.

I took a lot of screen-caps of this image during the process, i thought i might as well compile them. This is my usual process for most of my digital sketches.
Just to clear things up...
It took me a long time to decide whether or not to draw the...y'know....but I figured that if i am going for realism and accuracy then i might as well be realistic and accurate. This image was made for study purposes only, so please don't think i'm a perv...

2007-10-04T06:35:00.000-07:00

quick update- last week's sketches.

i think that i should draw more men :( I find them more difficult i think because the way they are shaped (like huge lima beans), and their mannerisms are either boring or difficultly dynamic.

these sketches are random draw for draw sakes, and each took about 15 minutes to an hour.

2007-09-19T22:55:00.000-07:00

wow second post today o.O i think this concludes any dispute over whether or not i have a life. anyways, did these sketeroos in pchat. After posting some sketches on http://conceptart.org some time ago, i noticed that a lot of critism for my work was about the face. Faces are tough. I figured that sense i had some time to spare this afternoon, i may as well tackle the situation and buckle down, grab some references, and practice the face. Im not very pleased with them, and there were a lot of little things about them that didn't match the references i used, but its practice non-the-less. I think i could have gotten more done today if i hadn't fallen asleep mid-draw. it happens more than you think...

ULTRA HUGE sketch compliation

2007-09-11T21:38:00.000-07:00

a compilation of some quick sketches. These, id say, were done for the most part within the last month in a half. They are all digital, but most of them (like 90% of them) were done with a little online program called PaintChat. PaintChat allows multiple users to share a "canvas". Whatever one user draws, everyone else in the room can see it- as it is being drawn. There is also a chat box, so users can type to eachother and carry on conversations. The tools are basic, a "pencil" a "pen" and a "watercolor" brush. You then choose the size, color, and opacity. You are limited to two layers. while in the paintchat, you cannot save a work in progress. once you start- you MUST finish within one sitting (that is- if you want to finish it). Otherwise it will be erased after a few hours.

if you have questions about any of these pictures, just leave a comment. ^^ otherwise im too lazy to explain them (and be warned there is NO explination for quite a few of these XD)

Summer '07

2007-09-11T20:37:00.000-07:00

I felt like my blog needed to be a little more personalized, so i pixeled this real fast. I am not ashamed of my DS LOVE!

Ive decided that for my concentration id like to work with different forms of transformations, as change has always been an important part of my philosophy.

The image with the bubbles represents a change not within an object, but merely within the object's surroundings. Ive found surroundings to be vitally important, and in the case of transformations, they must not be overlooked. For example, Harry Potter would give an entirely different aura were it set in space. Made with acrylic on canvas; about two weeks.

for my lamppost image, i wanted to portray a transformation from something that can be dark, and dangerous (a lonesome park in the middle of night), to something that becomes almost friendly; welcoming of sorts. it is a tranformation of emotion-not within the image-but within the observer. Made with acrylic on canvas; about two weeks.

The indian, however, was my first idea. A physical transformation is always the most obvious, and ive found people have always reacted to a physical mannifestation of emotion (tears, for example) much more than words. An indian woman, who has such a strong connection with nature, starts to sprout branches from her back. This image was made with a combination of Photoshop CS2 and Corel Painter IX; a few days- no ref.

Lastly, the crocodile image: not much is to be said. I simply thought it a cool idea. Moss and branches of an old tree breaking and stretching; morphing into the green and scaley hide of your common crocodile. This image was made with a combination of Photoshop CS2 and Corel Painter IX.; a few days- no ref (though i should have used one the crocidile looks like a stuffed animal).