Happy Holidays!!!

Witch

This year for the very first time in my life I dressed up for Halloween. I didn't have much time to go anywhere to buy a costume or materials to make one so I dressed in black and borrowed a cape and witche's hat. That inspired me to draw this drawing. I've also not had a lot of time to color the drawings that I have drawn to post. Hopefully with the holiday breaks coming along I will be able to post more. :)

Baby Girl & Boy

These are designs that I quickly did for a relatives Baby shower card. Didn't know if she was having a boy or girl so one side had the baby girl and the other the baby boy. I just had 30 min to make this card.

Manga Man

Well this image that I have posted took me a bit out of my comfort zone. I normally do not draw something with this sort of content. I drew this as a design for one of my friends birthday card. She loves to read manga and some of those happen to be romance or also known as SHOJO. So as a gag I drew this and showed her a rough of the drawing just to make sure that she would be alright with this type of card. I also showed it to other people and got mixed reactions. All good, I think, but anyways besides the content of the image I like how it came out and it did make people laugh or at least giggle. :) I hope that you all enjoy my current piece since I haven't posted anything for a few months now.

Today's Sketch

Well I have been keeping busy this past weeks and I haven't gotten much sleep. I drew this at work to pass time and not fall asleep. I might go back and fix somethings on it if I have time to.

Swirls

Small Hand Bags

Phew.... About a month ago or so, I was asked if I can make five bags within a month. The answer to that is NO!!!! But with in a month and a half yes!! At first it was just going to be three bags, which that might of been plausible, but than the request increase to FIVE bags. I was in a panic as the end of the month came around, but than I was told that I had until the 29th of this month. Now I am done and here are the finished products. Sorry about the quality of the pictures. I need to get a better camera.
I have problem with making the shoulder strap so my mom helps me by crocheting the straps on all of my bags. I am still learning and improving the method that I use to make them.

I don't use a sewing machine, so sewing the linings to the bags takes longer.

Green Scarf Part Two

Well I finished the green scarf about two weeks ago. I am happy to say that it has also found a new home. From what I was told, the person that it was given to was very happy to have it. It was a really soft scarf that took me about a month and a half to knit, since it was my first thing that I ever knitted I was very please of how it came out. LOL!!! In the same time I will miss it.

Green Scarf

Woohooo! My first knitted scarf. I still have to finish it, but it is getting there. In February I learn how to knit. I have been wanting to learn for a while. I was talking to one of my co-workers that knits and crochet. I was watching her knit one day and I said I want to learn how to knit and she said well why don't you, so I have. Hopefully I will learn to knit different styles and other things than just scarfs. LOL

Pink Bag

I started crocheting bags about three years or more ago and they have always been the same style, but this time around I decided to do a different style. I'll post some of my other bags later. This bag has white and pink yarn, and a very strong pink lining . I hand sowed the lining to the bag. I can't use a sowing machine for the life of me. My bobbing always gets tangled, my string breaks and so do my needles. :( So I stick to hand sowing my stuff.

Easter

Xochitl-Flower

I just flat shaded this model. I will later texture it, but it is the Aztec symbol for flower called Xochitl.

Teotihuacan Mask

Mask #1

Here is another mask that I worked on this weekend. I am realizing that I will have a lot of texturing to do once I get to it. It is quite daunting thinking of all the UV mapping that I will have to do.

Aztec Death and Rebirth Mask

This piece took me about a day and a half to model. A family member asked me if I could model this for them. It might become a pendant(jewelry). :D.
This is some information that I found about it. It says that it is Mayan, but I think that it is actually Aztec. I'm not a 100% sure.
Tikal, Mexico. 900 AD, Maya This Maya mask shows the different stages of life as part of a never ending cicle of human evolution through life and the afterlife as it was understood by the mayas. The mask has three layered faces, each representing one particular stage of life. The inner face represents the beginning of life at birth. The middle face is the most important one since it represents the adult stage when the person comes into his full potential and most of his life experiences happened. The outer or third face represents the end of earthly life. This sacred time was viewed by the Maya as the end of one cycle and the beginning of another one. Death was followed by lavish preparations for the next life.

Unfinished Toltec Worrier

I started this model in mid-December and I still have to finish it. It is taking longer than what I thought because of all the details that I am putting into it. After I am done I will texture it and composite it into a scene.

Late Holiday Post

UH_OH, how time flies. I know the holidays are over but I still wanted to post it. Enjoy!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

Well I was working on a Christmas Card, but things got a little hack tick and I didn't have time to finish it. Well Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. I'll still post it before the year ends. :D

Naturalization

Well it has been a long waiting process, but I finally did it. Today around one I officially became a US citizen. I first came here when I was three with my family, at the time of five and now seven, as a permanent resident. Ever since than there was talk about becoming a citizen. First it was my older sister, a couple of years ago, than my brother earlier this year, and than out of the blue my mom said, that's it we are all becoming citizens. Since this summer, we turned in our applications and it has been a waiting game since than. First you turn in your application with the added documents that they need. Second step, you get finger printed. Third step, "THE TEST/INTERVIEW!!!!!" Not hard if you study well, but the nerve wracking part of it is the waiting and not knowing which questions they will ask. When you are successful with all three step, comes the Naturalization Oath. My mom has done it and so have I, the only and last person that we are waiting for is my father. With this I can now vote!!!

PS-Next thing on the list is learning how to drive (@.@)

Happy Thanksgiving

Trash Can

This is a trash can that I modeled a while back. I am going to re-do it, because there are some stuff on it that I want to fix. I modeled, textured, light, and rendered it in 3DS MAX. I will be re-doing it in Maya.



The pictures that I used as reference and textures where provided by some good friends. This is their trash can. LOL

REDS

Here's Looking At You..........

I have a habit of drawing eyes just by themselves so this past week I drew eyes with odd bodies on them.

Lady Fighter

Metamorphosis

Today I was doing some cleaning and you know how you tend to find things that you have totally forgotten about or never could remember where you put. Well today I found one of my first assignments from Animation I class. Presenting "The Metamorphosis" project. LOL

Ferugs's Ball Roll

This is one of the other animations that I have been working on. I still have to fix some things on it and than I will do the clean up and post the final one too. Oh yeah, his name is Fergus Firdus.

Animals

These are sketches that I had in my sketch book.
This first one is a Polar Bear from the Lincoln Park Zoo, on a weekend when I went to a sketch crawl with a group of fellow animators.

This one is a sun bear.

Both bears seem to of been posing that day, actually it seemed like all the animals were posing or they probably sensed that winter was getting closer so they were reserving their energy for hibernation. Any who, they where fun to draw.

These other two drawings are just sketches that I did on the train as I headed into town for work.

Lunch Menu Images

At the begging of last week I had a family member ask me if I could do some images for their lunch menus at their job. They are very simple designs. At first I did the BBQ wings in photoshop, but once I was done, they looked too real!! So I scratched that out and stuck with simple designs.

The Making of Glass

Yesterday I was on my computer almost all day since I woke up. I was working on multiple things, and one of them was figuring out how to make glass in Maya. I had difficulties with the setting but I finally got it at the end and I am still seeing what the glass texture can do.
This first image is my first test, as you can see it was too dark.

The following are more test trials later on that day after figuring out the settings.

Complimentary

Here is one of my previous post now colored.