Far Far Away...

exams

2012-01-15T08:01:00.000-08:00

It's time to concentrate on the winter session to close it, and I will be back in February with a ton of new things =)

New Year!

2011-12-31T13:10:00.000-08:00

Well, it's a new year!!! =D And that means that I'm 22 years now =\.I hope all have a wonderful weekend!

picture inspired by cats of Apofiss

practice and other

2011-11-06T12:29:00.000-08:00

Sorry for not updating! My working practice continues so I'm still very busy. Anyway, I have something to show a little =)

   Yeah, here is a guy!For a long time, this is the first time when I like how it turned out. Men drawing are not so usual to me, it's hard to catch a good facial proportions -.-
   I so much love when you can see brush strokes in paintings, so I tried to make it painterly, feel like I wouldn't want to use color blending for ever!

   And here a picture ( actually they are not very new), where I tried to use some of styles. It was so fun and easy! I have one epic idea to illustrate in this style. I hope I can realize it someday.

P. S. The next few months I will concentrate on the study of anatomy, so do not be surprised if you see some nude paintings for study here, he-he =P
Thanks for looking!

goodbye Hogwarts

2011-08-01T12:29:00.000-07:00

Just a quick sketch, after watching the movie. I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, but I'm sad that this story is over. It's part of childhood after all!

Looks like I have not updated the deviantart for ages! Time to get myself to finish some drawings, heh =)

Forrest

2011-06-04T05:25:00.000-07:00

I'm busy with exams lately and don't have much to show yet (

wip

2011-05-21T14:35:00.001-07:00

Work in progress =)
youtube

Something

2011-05-08T14:23:00.000-07:00

I found something special

and I want to take care of it.

Jamping stuff and pic

2011-05-08T13:55:00.000-07:00

At this time I'm working on the animated short film. I would like to show something, but the stage on which I work a bit boring and I want to wait when there will be something interesting.

The picture I drew for the blog. I also recorded a video but will upload it later =)

Jumping! I'm just beginning to study animation with the tutorials by Jason Ryan!
And I just love this rig "Boris"

Must say that the 3d animation is much more painful than 2d!

Spring day

2011-04-03T04:38:00.000-07:00

I got working practices at the university so I'm very busy again. My little weekend I spend on the study of Maya, because my new animated short film is ready to move into a stage production, some wip's will be up soon.
But today I found time to finish that little picture, which started a few weeks ago :).

2 small things

2011-03-23T01:07:00.000-07:00

Timelapsing video I've made a few days ago. Youtube
I like the effect which gives a square brush, it's one of my favorite now =)

Sketch of Rinoa. Still in search of good composition for fanart.

practice

2011-03-02T11:02:00.000-08:00

quick sketch for practice
Dark skin is much easier for me!

well, the new year

2011-01-30T04:54:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the slow update. I was too busy with some projects, exams and real life. I try to come back online but very slowly because it still have a lot of things uncompleted.
I finished one of my illustration. It took me too much time, more then 30 hours i think. Here some close ups and steps.
I think I was a little crazy decided to draw detailed trees, heh

Sketches

2010-12-21T11:54:00.001-08:00

landscape practice.
long time not updated ^^

Watercolors

2010-11-18T10:30:00.000-08:00

learn watercolor techniques ^^
two pictures below, some of the sketches for 15-20 minutes, just copying some of the work from this channel on YouTube. After a short practice, I tried to do something original, the painting at the top is from imagination.

back to practice -.-

grayscale

2010-11-08T07:53:00.001-08:00

I completed this portrait of a little bit.

Sometimes when I paint something, I see that something is wrong but I can not understand the problem, and no matter what I was doing the wrong thing does not change for the better. The same happened with this painting.
But now I know, I just sometimes lose control of the tone and the only way to see the mistakes is to convert the image to grayscale, or put on the top layer of a white/black fill and set the blending mode to "color". The strange thing I knew about this simple method, but never used .. argh. Now I've learned and added a layer with a white fill in each new work.

I promised to upload a video process, but I do not like it anymore. I will record something more simple and better next time.

Some new after a long silence.

2010-11-03T05:21:00.000-07:00

Don't update here for a long time. October was a bit difficult because of exams, but now I'm a little more free to create some personal work and to learn some things.
I think it's time to start practicing a traditional art, especially in oil painting. I did it last year, but I stopped due to some reasons, so I need to start it again. Finally, I'm going to paint a portrait of my grandfather this weekend, he asked me about it for so long.
Here, a small watercolor. I did it last week, it must be something like a poster for my next animated film (start to do it only next summer I think), I tried to catch the atmosphere of this. I usually work from dark to light, so the watercolor is hard but interesting :)

The picture below is a concept character for my student's work, they had to be converted into 3D. But this time I have a completely different idea for a student's work.

And yes, I study the Maya, I think most of the basics already learned. Absolutely love this program. Btw I will do one of these characters in Maya, for the study.

Image below is a very spontaneous thing. I wanted to draw something on Halloween, but I have no good ideas yet. So here 2 portraits (again). The picture on the left was unsuccessful, too big eyes that would be seen a pumpkin in the eye. Portrait on the right I like more, but it has no idea. I recorded the process of this drawing, will put it soon on YouTube.

And the last is also a spontaneous drawing I'm working on. Finished in a few days =).

ooh don't like spontaneous things. I need to finish what is planned at first, but I can not control it sometimes -.-

My sister said that all my characters are visited only one hairdresser lol, It's right.
sorry for so many words, I hope you have good days =)

Final Fantasy time

2010-09-28T09:25:00.000-07:00

Just copying shots from CG movies and cut scenes for study. A lot of fun doing it.
There is no 100% similarity and some proportions are taken incorrectly... need more practice, more! The next time I'll try to work with shots from films.

The process for one of these here (photoshop CS3, intuos4 and a standard round brush with 100% opacity and 100% flow):

I also started to do 2 fanart, but I really do not know when I finish them. There is no time even for the original drawings((( so some extremely rough here for to keep in mind and do not forget to finish it.

test

2010-09-14T16:19:00.001-07:00

just tested a new system on DA in basic mod without pen pressure http://muro.deviantart.com/
yeah, not easy -.-

painting without pain, such things happen?

2010-09-10T10:20:00.001-07:00

I bought intuos4 last week, wow, I feel that I killed my hand all these years with my very old tablet. Now I just can not tear myself away from a new tablet and I really could paint all day and not feel pain, is happiness!
I played a little with the program Corel Painter Sketch PAD and finished one of the sketches.

I'm trying to find other ways to create animations on the computer because I have always used the Tvpaint animation but it lacks some very important tools (or I just do not know about them). So here a little and very rough test. I'm trying to combine PaintTool SAI and Photoshop, still not perfect and it is very difficult to calculate the timing (. Maybe I need to think about some other program hmmm...

sketches

2010-09-07T03:56:00.000-07:00

I use PaintTool SAI the first time. It's somewhere between Photoshop and Painter. Absolutely love this program for the wonderful colors and convenient interface. ^^

New wip

2010-07-31T10:51:00.000-07:00

something on the summer theme =)

sketches

2010-07-31T09:59:00.000-07:00

just try some styles of face.
pencil on paper.

2010-07-31T02:36:00.000-07:00

This is something from old. I did this as a test task for my work a few months ago. Another style, and other painting technique. I think not too bad if I post it here =)

Photoshop CS3 and wacom volito2 as usual =)

Traditional

2010-07-23T13:58:00.000-07:00

Practice with nature, not really so new, I did it a few months ago, acrylic on paper A2. I feel so bad with acrylic painting. It is much harder than painting in oil, paint dries quickly and is difficult to mix. I think acrylic hates me .. need more practice =)

Each portrait of about 3 hours

Sketches from the sea

2010-07-21T14:26:00.000-07:00

people don't like to pose =)

Goodbye Sea

2010-07-14T13:38:00.000-07:00

I'm finally at home). Vacation was amazing!
Here are some photos from places where we lived. A small village called Novomikhailovka on the Black Sea coast is the best place to rest, here is beautiful, quiet and not crowded, so do not need to think about what would get up at 5 am to take a seat on the beach he-he =)
Incredible sunsets here! My camera was unable to pass the end of all colors, but it looks very close to that reality.

Update coming soon! :P

2010-05-27T10:18:00.000-07:00

My busy days dragged on far longer than I expected. And the spring session of caught me off guard. So here a little sketch to relax.

...and a screenshot of my student's work that I do with my friends. It's about a little monster:

I fully back in July, with very many new things, I promise!

Dreamworks

2010-03-24T16:10:00.000-07:00

Just looked today animated film "How To Train Your Dragon" and oh, it was just amazing! Such a cute and very touching ... One of the best animated film. I was pleased by the fact that the ending is not the standard Happy end, but still happy =) Just great!

Busy days...

2010-03-20T17:15:00.000-07:00

Работа, работа, работа... но это прекрасная работа и я целыми днями рисую что-то очень милое. Обязательно выложу здесь что-нибудь интересное из рабочих рисунков, когда закончу =).
Очень надеюсь, что смогу купить новый планшет в ближайшие несколько недель и надеюсь, что это будет Wacom Intuos4 Wireless, он кажется многообещающим и функция Bluetooth была бы очень кстати. Ох-ох, я же обещала закончить "Боба" в ближайшие 2 недели, но ему придётся подождать, пока закончиться моя работа...
...и видео, которое внизу, я увидела его только сегодня... ммм это что-то очень особенное ^^

ENG/Job, job, job ... but this time it is amazing job and I draw something very lovely. I'll post here something interesting out of my working drawings when finished =)
I hope that I can buy a new tablet in the next few weeks and hope that it will be Wacom Intuos4 Wireless, it seems promising and Bluetooth technology would be very handy. Oh-oh, I promised to complete the "Bob" in the next 2 weeks, but he will have to wait until the end of my work ...
.. and the video below, I saw it only today ... umm, this is something very special ^ ^

Descendants from Goro Fujita on Vimeo.

...from http://chapter-56.blogspot.com/

finally...

2010-03-09T12:43:00.000-08:00

Наконец-то, я полностью закончила работать над видео, включая даже титры;) осталось добавить звук... Понятия не имею каким он будет, но надеюсь закончить всё в ближайшую неделю... ну максимум две. А пока можно посмотреть первые 12 секунд =)

ENG/ Finally, I finished work on the video, including even the titles;) remained add sound... I have no idea what it would be but I hope to finish everything in the next one or two weeks... While you can see the first 12 seconds =)

Video-wips and scetches

2010-02-21T12:52:00.000-08:00

аааа... я должна прекратить рисовать и закончить "Боба", но я не могу остановиться! А ещё мне очень-очень нравится записывать видео с процессом, так что вот, тут много всякого =)
... и Emancipator пишет шикарную музыку, очень вдохновляет последнее время. ^^

ENG/ aaaa ... I should stop drawing and finish "Bob", but I can not stop! And I really, really like to record video with the process, so that there's a lot of things =)
... Emancipator has amazing music, very inspired lately. ^^

Маленький рисуночек, просто под хорошее настроение/ I just was in a good mood and I drew this picture.

Маленький скетчик портрета. Хотелось попробовать некоторые текстурные кисти, но попытка была неудачной./A small sketch of a portrait. I wanted to try some texture brushes but the attempt was unsuccessful.

+ ещё некоторые наброски и некоторые странные наброски (не спрашивай что делает розовый заяц с морковкой в джунглях, я этого не знаю ><)/ + some more sketches and some strange sketches (do not ask me what makes a pink rabbit with a carrot in the jungle, I do not know ><

Уф, теперь я должна пойти и закончить "Боба"!/ Phew, now I must go and finish the "Bob"!

Alma

2010-01-29T08:56:00.000-08:00

So great!

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Bob - wip

2010-01-28T16:47:00.000-08:00

Я должна была закончить эту анимацию ещё в декабре, но было очень много дел и все как-то затянулось =(. Это будет коротенький мультик (около 30 секунд) о странном зверьке, который очень любит яблоки. Работа кипит и надеюсь скоро закончится, осталось совсем чуть-чуть...

ENG/ I had to finish this animation in December but had problems and I still have not finished =(. This is a very short animation (about 30 seconds) about the strange creature and he very much likes apples. I will finish this animation soon, need to finish quite a bit...

Happy New Year!

2010-01-04T14:03:00.001-08:00

Я рада что 2009 год закончился, он был каким-то совсем сложным, хотя довольно продуктивным. В новом году хочется совсем избавиться от лени и, наконец, начать изучать Майю. У меня просто гигантское количество планов на 2010 год, надо всё успеть...
С Новым Годом! Надеюсь вы были счастливы в эти выходные... я была ;)

ENG/ I am glad that 2009 has ended, it was very difficult, though very productive. In the new year I want to get rid of laziness and start learning Maya. I have huge plans for 2010, I must catch all.
Happy New Year! I hope you were happy in these holidays ... I was;)