Sketches

Our hairy baby!

My husband and I adopted our first hairy baby a few weeks ago from the Seattle Humane Society, and we are in love. Our dog, Newton, is a Basenji/Terrier mix and is such a sweetheart. He loves snuggling and meeting new people and dogs. He’s the best.

I had Friday off and thought it’d be a good time to practice some watercolor techniques I’m reading about in ā€œUrban Watercolor Sketchingā€œ. Since Newton likes to nap a lot, he’s the perfect model.

Sketches

NYC Gesture drawings

NYC is a people watcher’s paradise! I took this for granted when I used to visit the city as a kid. I found that sitting at a cafe with a window that faces a crosswalk is the best: you get a little more time observing AND new ā€œmodelsā€ stream in every few minutes with the crosswalk light changing.

The bottom page was watching siblings doodle in their own notebooks while sitting on the window ledge above the chairs in the waiting area outside our airport gate. It was fun watching them sit somewhere people wouldn’t normally sit; but that’s what’s fun about kids. They see things differently than adults.

Animation

Coffeeeeeeeee…

My studio had their annual ā€œIdea Jamā€ this past week. It’s where employees can work on any project that they feel will better themselves as a person. At the end of one week, everyone gives a presentation on what they learned. All I can say that it was really inspiring to see what my co-workers presented: from dance choreography to mastering coding skills to sculpture, painting, and game projects…I am lucky to be working with such talented people, and to work for a studio that invests in such people!

My ā€œIdea Jamā€ project was to teach myself how to use TVPaint and to create a 2d animation in it via my Surface Pro 2. I’ve always wanted to figure out how to create animation on the go, and this week was the perfect opportunity.