This is What I Call Victory.

Didn't sleep well last night, forgive my death face.

My second painting for painting class. I don't normally post my homework but I feel like I actually accomplished something here.

Yay!

Maureen is going to kill me when I don't show up tomorrow.

Tutor, yay!

Annie

6:40

Rose

And this artwork is a little off the beaten path for me.

I've complained multiple times about my abilities to draw people I know, right?

Well this is Rose, and she's my tea angel. Every few weeks she brings me a tin of Tazo chamomile tea, which I have every night to help me get me set for bed.

Rose is also one of the most wonderful people I've ever met; warm, sweet and kind, there's nothing I look forward to more than meeting up and having a good heart to heart with this girl.

So a picture for a special friend, Rosanna Trinh; A girl comfortable with herself in every way and happens to be one of my favourite kinds of people to draw.

I got a little carried away, she doesn't weigh three hundred pounds- but she has a lovely curvy figure, none the less.

Annie

11:44

Hi Mom

This is the rough line art for my proportion/scale assignment for layout class.

It's mostly for my own pleasure though.

It's Sherry and his mother! Isn't she a charmer?

I was thinking about the story behind this for a while, and it was fun because I had to run back to the storyline I'd given up on for him, very heavily based in Greek Mythology.

Sherlock used to be named Nikodemus, but when I realized he was the baby I'd always wanted to create and name after Sherlock Holmes, I switched Nikodemus to his middle name and named him after Sherlock. He's very dear to me.

Sherry's father was a human, while his mother was a gorgon. I'm going to take liberties and say his mother can change her physical appearance, else the biology would have never worked. Anyways, Sherry, was, along with his siblings, hatched, as snakes are. Having taken very much after his father in shape, his sisters drove him from the nest, and Sherry was introduced into the world.

Just by being born part god (liberties. I take them.), he was taking part in a tournament that had been carrying on for years- and the winner was granted permission to return to olympus. Despite being ashamed of his ability to turn people to stone, Sherlock thought if he could win, he could return home to his mother and his sisters.

Unfortunately, being well, Sherlock, he was quickly beaten down, and if it wasn't for Ainmire he wouldn't have survived. Though he probably would have stayed with Kara, for this assignment I toyed with the idea that he tried to return home anyways.

He wasn't greeted favourably. Sadface.

Ignore the plot hole that both of these guys would have turned each other to stone the second they made eye contact, hm?

Although that's another interesting illustration I could follow up with...

This is my newest painting for painting class.

Gotta say, I really hate gouache-- but this stuff wasn't too bad. It worked almost like water colour and I wasn't just shoving colours around and picking up under colours and creating mud, which is nice.

I've been requested to attend extra painting classes on Mondays- which is a huge bummer, but I'm honestly scared of what will happen if I don't go. My teacher thinks I'm a bit thick in the head, on top of talentless. Don't worry, I got rid of that distracting white square in the back there.

I'm pretty happy with this painting, I got the gloomy look I was looking for. I left out a lot of wires and busy stuff from my first design including all the smog and dirt I was going to sponge in. I look at this and I don't think "What a piece of s#*t", I think, "Huh, that kinda looks like where I think Rebel raised Ninja. No, I'm not an amazing painter, but I still like it.

That makes me happy!

Annie

10:02

I Quit

I have given up on this.

Hahaaaa, I wanted to just play with digital painting, but my bad anatomy was bothering me too much, and after having it pointed out I threw my arms up and was like "You know what Annie, go to bed."

Drew this a few days ago, during Chris Walsh's class. If anyone knows me very well, they'll know a few things. I'm loud and don't realize it, I'm impressionable, I scare easily, I love Sherlock Holmes, Tron, and Sarah recently got me obsessed with Star Trek and I love Data.

We watched first contact last week and I loved it very much.

Drew this while thinking about the movie; I wanted to play with things while colouring, but I have no idea what I'm doing so I stopped.

I'm so bad at drawing real people- On the other side of this sheet of paper I have a few doodles trying to map out Brent Spiners features. Like his massive nose, puffy eyes, huge forehead and defined chin. Plus I'm awful at drawing Data's particular haircut in any view but profile.

What a horrible week, I just want it to be over.

One more day, and then I'm plunged into my homework weekend of hell.

Annie

11:49

Sherlock's Abound!

Today was a day of fanart! Honestly, I hate Chris Walsh's class. It's interesting, don't get me wrong, but I have to get up early to go to school for three hours of sitting and listening and watching animations, and then I have to wait around school for a further three hours until layout.

It's such a bummer.

Anyways, today, among other things, I drew Sherlock Holmes! One of my all time favourite fictional characters, who I love all to bits and pieces. I'm quite sure he'd hate me in real life and hurt my feelings all the time, but he's amazing.

Along the lines of Sherlock-

I did an impromptu art trade with my classmate Neilizza! She asked me to draw her princess character with small boobs and no hips, and I gave her my ipod to pick whichever character she wanted. She picked Sherlock!

I showed this to my friend Chelsea and she gave me a dirty look. I PROMISE, THIS IS A MOTHERLY KIND OF EMBRACE. Sherry just doesn't know how to deal around pretty girls.

I drew more fanart today, but I want to finish painting it before I show it off. Hooray!

A day of drawing lots and lots of Sherlock, Sherry's and his mother.

6:43

Annie

Sheridan Trading Cards

Happy early Birthday to my bestest buddy evar. I bet you can't guess who that is. Basically bust up shots of Sarah, Chelsea and myself, played off like it's some sort of awesome Sheridan trading card game.

Fake Japanese symbol is fake.

They were a lot of fun to do.

The full busts, as I cropped out quite a bit when I fit them to the cards.

I don't normally draw people I know because I'm really bad at characterizing, and I don't like to run the risk of offending anyone.

My room mate is really pretty, so I tried hard to make sure I kept the integrity of her features, not hide her eyes- and of course, got the eye colour all wrong.

ME I'm damn good at drawing, because I draw me all the time, with the fat cheeks and big nose.

Chelsea gave me a bit of problem- I drew her with a derp look on her face, and I was like, "Aw damn, I'm totally skipping all of her nice features and making her look retarded." I hope she can forgive me for that. She's much prettier IRL, I promise.

HOWEVER, her spirit is there!! Chelsea's patronus would be that of a seal.

I drew Sarah's birthday out over a matter of days, haha. Cupcakes thursday, hat on saturday, trading cards today- and now I have nothing to give her on her actual birthday tomorrow.

I'm so lame.

Annie

7:32

AND Face Smash!

I haven't drawn anything in a few days, so I thought I'd scan and upload something.

I got this in my head a couple of days ago. Friday night, really, but I had something else I wanted to work on, so I put it on the back burner.

It's Tinette, obviously, and her not very amazing ex boyfriend, Lucas. He apparently caught up with her. Unwilling to get shot, she took the initiative, and beats his face in with a broken broom. Possibly. Or she gets shot. WHO KNOWS?!

I won't tell.

Tinette's got her own collection of battle scars; flintlock rifles (Ha, you can't even tell he's holding one) leave a nasty mark, if you can survive in the first place. Tinette's nothing if she isn't stubborn. And vain. And angry. I blame Lucas for turning her into the people hating machine she is.

Woo, this sketch took me all bloody day, because I wouldn't sit down and actually work on it and kept adding a line every ten minutes or so while I was listening to music, watching Star Trek or RPin'.

I wanted to draw something EPIC like.

Annie

9:23

Monday's Hurt

This is a two way art piece...

My layout teacher recently lost his mother to cancer. His latest assignment was a request to draw a picture that demonstrated what "Mother" was, seriously, to each of us.

Also, Sarah and I just lost our pet cat today to FIP- and it was the most painful thing I've experienced in years.

Everything seems so trivial now...

This image has gone through a few stages- Originally it was supposed to be me, crouched on the ground in the rain, and mom was supposed to be standing over me with an umbrella. It was building off a past memory of when I lost my job, and mom took me shopping to make me feel better about failing in my endeavors.

It then changed to me crouching in the rain, sobbing, with mom behind me holding a blanket over my head, playing on "Mom is my blanket", still relating back to that one memory of mom taking the pain away when I'd lost my job.

After the events of this morning, my idea changed again. Sarah's mom came with us to take Elmer for his final vet visit. I cried, and I cried, and I came home and I clutched my pig tightly and I lay in bed, not wanting to do anything. I wanted my mom, and I wanted my dad. Last time I lost a pet, they were both there for me- and it's so funny that in a room full of people, I've never felt so alone.

This is an homage to both my mom, my dad, and a little kitten, who I will never, ever forget.

2:27

Annie

Love is...

I should have saved this idea for Valentines day.

So... Ah ha, Uhm...

The girls are my characters, and the dude is Sarah's character. The first lady is Kara, while the second lady is Tinette. Sarah and I have these characters interacting in different stories.

In one, we're trying very hard to get the character's together, but it never really works because he's an idiot who ruins everything.

In the second, we decided to skip that painful phase and just make then an already established couple.

I don't understand why the bottom two are getting along fine, yet we're having a hell of a time figuring out the top two. Tinette hates everybody, you see, so how this even came about- I have no idea.

Oh well, haha- I should have saved this for Valentines.

So far this has been a very productive art month for me.

Annie

6:44

Annie-Fluence

Because I LOVE plays on my name, har haaar.

Oh yay, now I get to explain all this...

Alright, jumping the board a bit late, but I always wanted to fill out one of these, so I got bored and did.

1. =SADCAT My biggest influence because she's my best friend and the first person I met when I came to Sheridan three years ago. She taught me how to ink, offers her advice on anything I ask for, keeps my anatomy in check, helped me gain confidence in what I drew, and still helps me to this day, every day. She also helps me stay sane.

2. `budgie The person responsible for me coming to Sheridan. Always there to offer a kick in the pants when I'm lost, offer advice when I'm stuck, and help me iron out problems when I need them. I envy her gorgeous paintings and strive for such beauty in my own work.

3. *dustsplat My friend for years, one of the first real artists I knew. I'm constantly blown away by his idea's, his world's and the depth and detail in his work. He used to help me puzzle out poses and would draw things to explain them for me; a huge influence in trying to get out of the anime style.

4. *patrickbrown I adore this artists expression work, and how dynamic everything he draws is. I want such dynamism in my own work, and nothing is more helpful or inspiring than his gallery.

5. *Blithegirl (I'm usually influenced by people on DA) The liveliness and emotion in her figures gets me every time. I hope one day my drawings will be as fluid.

6. Disney! Specifically 'Princess and the Frog' because after watching this movie my art took a turn in the direction of "Oh, I get it!"

7. The books I read and the worlds within. Garth Nix is one of my favourite authors, and his world in 'Sabriel', 'The Seventh Tower', and the 'Mister Monday' series are so vividly THERE I can see it in my mind like a movie.

8. Classical sculpture, specifically Bernini and Rodin. The life and the dimensionality is something I strive for in my 2D work.

9. My friends and the people in my life who inspire characters and character designs.

10. Chris Sanders, but this image really just represents "Curvy people". I'm a huge fan of curvy women who are proud of their appearance and don't try to hide under baggy clothing.

11. Spiderman! No artist in particular, just the character. The way he moves and twists and acts pops up whenever I'm thinking about characters and action poses.

12. Greek Mythology; this image represents any mythology I've ever read. I love Celtic mythology, Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Native mythology- big fan of stories, is what I'm saying.

13. The music I'm listening to. No genre in specific, just whatever I'm listening to. I close my eyes and see pictures when I listen to music, and I can come up with some pretty awesome idea's when I'm not fully conscious.

14. Yes, I'm one of the fifty million people who are influenced by Alphonse Mucha. His design work makes me happy, and his portrayal of female figures in flowing drapery make me happy. I'm also going to link this to 'Fashion' because I mentioned flowing drapery.

15. Movies and TV show's I watch. Not specifically TRON, but that's been the latest inspiration. I'm also influenced by Xena, and Star Trek, ah ha!

16. Light. Love light and I try my best to have dynamic lighting in my paintings. I admit I fail hardcore at this, but hey, I try.

17. I didn't really want to give this one a number, but otherwise no one would be able to find it... Sheridan, my school and second home. Inside I have dozens of friends who's slightest idea's and suggestions push me to try and to experiment and to grow as an artist. I'm also enrolled in Animation, and my teachers push me to go further and try harder.

There are other influences in my life that I didn't include on the map; another major one being *Chib-bee, and deviants *Sahara-chan and *Saria-Sama who helped me get serious about drawing in the first place. Thanks guys!

Sorry the maps kind of all over the place, I filled it in and then realized they didn't totally go in the order I filled them in, ah ha!

Annie-Fluence, yaaaay.

More... 2:34

TRON Sue

And, I think I'm finished.

Eleven different characters drawn and painted in TRON glory, haha. Two of the characters weren't mine, and my twelfth drawing I never finished.

This character is Sue, and she doesn't belong to me, but to my buddy Sarah. I love Sue because she's funky and doesn't let anyone stand in her way. The way she dress reminds me of me, so I love her even more. She's also my weight and my height, so yippee!

I had to think about Sue's light suit; I wasn't sure how I wanted to design it. In the end I tried to make it incredibly asymmetrical, and I almost added a skirt. Actually, I was dead set on adding a skirt, and then I inked it and felt silly because I totally forgot the skirt.

OH WELL. Sue rocks my socks. I'm a little sad because despite my TRON binge I only drew one civilian/muse style program, and all of the others (including myself) were Gladiators. If I get bored again I might draw Suka, but she strikes me more of an Iso type than a program.

Think it's time to move forward and draw some more personal work.

11:13

Annie

An Edited Thank You

After my last gift to Chelsea I realized I'd completely ignored everything I wanted to incorporate into a drawing of Sherlock- so I decided to redo it a little.

This is the helmet I wanted to design because I miss my blind Sherry. I know it sort of looks like something cyclops would wear, but I was thinking more along the lines of what Geordie wears in Star Trek. Plus I included the clear face protection, though protecting just the nose and jaw is kind of silly.

Well, Sherry breaks his nose a lot, so perhaps it's.. for the best, ah ha-

Kit is Chelsea's character, and is currently Sherlock's best friend on the planet. However, neither one of them are very brave, or strong, or powerful. Sherry can be when he's angry and feels he has to protect someone, but for the most part, this is... about it, haha.

Two dorks destined for de-resolution.

Again, because Chelsea is being such a rock in my life right now.

7:09

Annie

A Thank You

A special bit of art for my friend Chelsea. She doesn't really care about TRON, but she loves Sherlock a lot, so I promised I'd finish this one for her.

Our cat is very sick, and unfortunately there isn't anything we can really do to help him. I've been a wreck since last night, and Chelsea's been trying her best to keep her spirits up for me and my roommate. I know Chelsea loves Elmer to bits too, and I'm very proud of her for being so awesome when she's probably just as upset as we are. She bought us candies, did the dishes, and has been.. Amazing. I only wish I could be so amazing when my friends were in need.

Thank you Chelsea, thank you so much.

11:51

Annie

Screw the Discs, Just run!

Yes, I'm still on the TRON funk.

Let a girl be.

This is a portrait of my friend Stephie, TRONified. She was enjoying my TRON postings, and so was I, so I gave it a whirl. Love this girl, she's a major inspiration in my design of Tinette- because I love drawing ladies with hips.

Also, both Tinette and Stephanie would not take anyone's shit laying down. Hellz no.

Steph recently attempted to dye her hair black, and I took the liberty of giving it a muse inspired design, again.

Now, where Steph would make an amazing Gladiator who could probably successfully defend herself, we turn around and immediately run into:

Me!

Who would not survive ten minutes on the grid without someone to save me.

Created this one as a new deviant ID on deviantart, and had fun with it. Used my personal favourite font, "Space Toaster" for my name, and the TRON font for everything else.

The TRON font has some pretty crazy bad numbers. Tried out something new on this one, trying to see how quickly I could pull this painting off; and it didn't take me very long. I scanned it, removed the white, coloured the lines, bucketed in the colours, added some highlights and shadows and grabbed a quick background from something I'd already painted.

It took a little over an hour to throw together, which pleased me greatly. I got progressively faster as I worked my way through these TRON portraits, and I think I may have actually learned something to apply to future attempts in painting, haha... ha.. ha..

Today wasn't the best. I had a great morning class, I met up with my friend Rose for lunch and we exchanged stories and she gave me tea, I drew some new pictures, I settled in for animation, I left early to meet my room mate at the vet--

I got there first, and my room mate caught up later with the actual patient. I'll just say the news wasn't very good, and I'm incredibly anxious for tomorrow and I'm afraid to fall asleep. I may not be going into class tomorrow, depending on how the baby is doing. Heads been hurting all day, but has really kicked up the past few hours; I can't think straight and I'm trying my damnest to do anything but think about it, which is why I'm afraid to fall asleep.

Pray for the kitty?

12:35

Annie

De-Resolution Pending

I don't draw fanart.

It's this thing I have with shame where I'm ashamed of the fanart I draw, haha, so I don't want to draw it or finish it or show anyone, in case they're all like, "Oh well, you did this wrong and this wrong and this wrong-"

And you know what, what EVER. Here, I present my fanart of TRON Legacy; and guess what? THE COSTUMES ARE SO NOT ACCURATE, LOLOLOL.

I also don't care, because I was having the time of my life.

I freaking love these new light suits; and I even managed to track down a TRON font available online. Light suits were completely my own design, I couldn't find a decent enough reference to figure out how Rinzler's body armour was put together, so I made it all up. The most accurate parts are the lights, but I'm missing a number of those too.

This definitely would have been an epic happenstance, and I could see it very clearly in my head. CLU gave me some complications, but I managed to tweak them into submission using photoshop. Some mist, some light, something to resemble the computerized Grid; and my personal favourite Gladiator.

Best line in the movie, haha, "I fight for the users".

Has anyone else realized TRON is a prophet and a religious martyr? I just clicked to that.

I promise, eventually I'll stop being obsessed with a crappy movie, but I really, really loved it that much. What can I say? Going to buy it when it comes out on DVD.

9:20

Annie

TRONgemon

I swear, this is the last TRON related thing of the night, ah ha!

Can't help it, I was having the time of my life with these light suits.

Drew this one based on the little TRON dude my buddy Age gave me earlier today. I haven't seen a spiky helmet like this on the Grid, but I'll assume it exists!

Recycled background from my earlier posting of Tinette, but stretched a little to better suit the drawing.

Aaaaaw yeah.

11:31

Annie

Just Because

You can never have too much TRON.

Feeling in the dumps tonight for some reason, so I figured I'd chase away the blues by painting them out. You can see them there on the left, all smeared about like clouds. Yippee!

Love Tinette; she's just amazing.

When I originally invented her, her primary colour was orange. It has changed more or less to red, but I dress her in a lot of purples and blue's too.

I would guess Tinette wouldn't handle well on the Grid; A rogue program, if you will.

De-Resolution pending. If they can catch her.

9:24

Annie

TRONified

My latest bit of inspiration.

Disney should TOTALLY drop all their things and hire me as a layout painter.

Suffice to say I love TRON Legacy way more than is healthy.

Big fan of the new light suit designs, they seem so much more believable and real than the original ones. Probably because this time around all the costumes actually lit up; instead of having the lights digitally added like they were for the first film.

I got this idea while listening to the Daft Punk soundtrack for the new movie. Rebel was just made for the grid, I didn't have a problem designing him at all, haha. He's fun to draw. And he's developed a bit of a nasty streak since I've started to RP with him.

Rebels design was based off every character I've seen on the grid; no cotton, just supah spandex. Played with the lines some to make it stand out; black lines on a black character equal disaster.

Ninja's design was a little more difficult, because I didn't see her on the grid. She's too young to partake in the games, but I picture her being a bloody nightmare off the grid anyways. I based her colours mostly off Jem and Castor, Castor being the biggest influence. All the white was a little more difficult to light up- but I think I did okay by changing the colour of my lines.

I've GOT to get myself a copy of 'Betrayal'.

Also, so long as I'm on my TRON funk, I introduce:

TRON Sherlock; Helmet free.

Yes, I freaking love the new light suit designs. There's so much room for customization, I can have so much fun!

This drawing was a huge mess, haha, I had limbs all over the place and no idea what I was trying to do. His face is still all wrong, haha, but oh well, here's skinny skinny Sherry, and his light disk.

I picture him with more of a green blue, I think. Probably partaking in the disc battles. Poor guy, I don't think he'd last very long. This is obviously not half-gorgon Sherlock, just Sherlock, a regular, perfectly normal kid.

What bit of TRON fanart would be complete without my addition of Tinette? None, that's how many. I picture her in red, and probably previously part of the Black Guard who operates on her own agenda. Tinette doesn't take well to order and hates being told what to do.

This one was a lot of fun to draw, ah ha! I based her hair off the muses from the new movie- and the visor was one of my own design, mostly inspired by Jarvis. Hooks around the back of the head and sits just about the ears while the visor protects the eyes. Her hair looks much shorter, only because it's half tied up.

I also drew Ainmire, and he had a TRONified cape, but I wasn't happy with the final picture, so I'll have to try again.

Hooray TRON!

5:53

Annie

Let's Paint!

I gave up on this when I ran out of juice, haha. Also, I can't paint gold and I don't have the patience for all this insane amount of soft shading. It was really just me looking for an excuse to play with some new brushes, anyways.

Kara's one of my OC's that I don't know very well. I know she's a sweet person who cares a lot about other people and she rarely let's herself get upset. She loves Ainmire dearly and would do anything for him

I decided a long time ago when I made Kara that she'd be East Indian. Specifically, Hindu, but when I got this idea for a picture, I realized I didn't know anything about East Indian culture, despite growing up with it all around me.

I plan to change this, haha, but it was interesting. I did some research for this uhm.. not very successful painting, and I realized that the nose ring signifies a promise to Parvathi, the goddess of marriage and a girl is typically pierced when she turns sixteen, of marriageable age. The ring is often never removed after marriage, so it's sort of like our traditional wedding rings.

Well, at least that's the way it used to be, haha. Now days a lot of women wear them just for fashion, and not to signify and bond of marriage, or a religious tribute or anything like that.

Here's a preview of another picture I'm working on, but I ran out of painting mojo today. It's Suka, of course! Looking very loverly, if I do say so myself.

Don't worry, I won't break my arm as I pat myself on the back. Just playing with some new brushes, seeing what I can do when I experiment. What it's going to look like at the end, is that the part of Suka that is surrounded by blue is going to be painted up all soft and nice. However, the rest of her, trailing outside the blue, is going to blend into simpler shading. From detailed to vague. Inside the blue circle I'm going to paint some kind of landscape, just so I can do a little bit of painting.

Another experiment, just to see how things are going.

Annie

5:24

Wah Happen?

It has been about ten thousand years since I last drew something, so I figured I'd scan it!

I also wanted very badly to ink this at home, but there were a lot of fine details I was worried I'd screw up, so I took the safe route and scanned a nice high resolution copy I can ink digitally if I screw up royally on paper.

Suka and Eli aren't very cool- but I haven't had a chance to draw anything dynamic in a while, and I really wanted to.

I also really failed. If you look, I somehow unconsciously built this drawing in the shape of a perfect rectangle. My static imagery shocked me into silence.

Oh well! This is why I'm in school; to play and discover and learn.

I just gave myself a reiteration of the fisher price commercial.

What have you!

Some Suka, some Eli, some struggle. When I paint it Suka will have her appropriate illness, but in the sketch I didn't bother to colour it in. Hooray something to do!

8:00

Annie