Jessimage and Palidannie

I drew these a few days ago following a conversation Jessica and I had. I was talking about how it'd be fun to live in the world of Harry Potter, but that I wouldn't like that all of my magic use would depend on the use of a wand- and how easily I would lose this wand and be unable to use any magic.

Jessica suggested mages, instead of wizards. I thought it was a great idea, except I'd make a terrible mage. Jessica suggested I'd make a good paladin, with a hammer and a sheild.

I decided I had to draw these things, so I did.

Took me a while, but tadaaa! As usual, just design elements for a background, because I haven't the patience to build a layout for most of my doodles.

Also I built a new portfolio. Please check it out at AnnieMation!

Annie

6:50

Some more derps

 I've been busy with my thesis lately so I haven't really been creating anything. Here's a collection of drawings I've done over the past few months or so- some commissions, some fan art fridays, and some fun.

Annie

10:43

A Bunch of Derps

 I never know how to format when I put up a bunch of drawings at once... Anyways, here's a bunch of things I've drawn over the past little while, mostly putting them up on my Tumblr, since they were super fast and super care free drawings I put together.

Some of them are little diary entries, others are fan art I'm working on, and at least one of them was a special request for a friend. I've been informed these super fast people with poor anatomy are very expressive, and have a lot of personality, and my friends really like to see them; so here they are.

Every Friday I'm drawing a new piece of fan art (FanArt Friday, get it?) so that when Fan Expo rolls around next year, I'll have lots of cute five dollar postcards to sell.

Go me.

Skateboard Fall

My sisters current favourite story about me.

Cottage Shenanigans

Exaggerated re-tellings of the weekend before last, where I had an absolute blast hanging out at my friend's cottage.

Annie

9:00

SKETCHES.

I am entirely unsure how to arrange this nicely, so I'm just going to leave them in this order. I haven't had any time lately to finish any artwork, but I've had enough time to sketch things. So here's all the sketches I've come up with lately, and all the things I mean to finish but haven't yet.

I lied, I'm a champion and reorganized all of my drawings nicely. GO ME.

It's a party!!

Okay so... Suka in her winter clothes, a trade for an old friend, a character design I had to get off my chest, me stepping on a subway grate in a dress in TO, baby version of my character Kara, Phineas in swimming trunks because Jessica gave me "beach" as an environment, a northern water nymp that tried to drown Ain once long ago, Ainmire, dressed up in his Northern gear, since he hails from the north, and Yuffie, part of my FFVII redesigns that I am not yet finished because I hate her stupid one arm armour.

Annie

11:57

Happy Birthday!

A birthday card I took the time to make for a very dear friend of mine.

It's her birthday today!

I insisted she let me draw her something for her birthday, and she insisted she get nothing and to let me focus on my school work, but seeing as I'm waiting to do the job I was assigned and all other jobs were delegated elsewhere, I found myself with some time to spare, and begged her to give me some thing to draw for her birthday.

Well, Corrin is the best this way, and gave me a large list of things to draw from. On that large list was "A picture of us" and "sailor scouts" and I decided to mash them together.

Picking a single colour for my outfit was incredibly hard. I had to make Jessica do it for me.

Anyways, a gift for a friend I never get to see, but who is moving back before too long, so hopefully I will be able to see her more!

Annie

11:33

Sketches Everywhere

I have been SCANNING ALL EVENING.

Okay so, I tried to break this up into two chunks so hopefully it'll upload okay- to the left I have every sketch or drawing I've done related directly to Pirates- and also Alan's parents because oops.

Well Alan wasn't in my other sketch dump at all, so I figured it would be best to include his parents with him, where they belong.

Okay so, we have... couples, couples, couples, couples, portraits, couples, couples, and more couples.

I draw a lot of couples.

Yes I draw other things.

AND THEN, everything else I draw! Because yes, I draw more than just pirates, as much as I love them.  I have couples, couples, couples, and more couples.

I'm sensing a trend.

A lot of Ninja's in this second batch- she's been the focus of my attention lately, because I think she's awesome. We have some Piqa, Sherry, Eli, Kara, and Ainmire in there as well. Oh and me, with a couple pieces from my style meme before I chop my hair off tomorrow and have to figure everything out anew.

Awesome, all of my drawings from what has to be the last four months or so.

Annie

12:40

Rude Awakening

Some mornings just start all wrong.

12:45

Annie

Another Year

I'm posting this because I promised myself I wouldn't draw any new pictures until I was done my frame quota for the day.

It's killing me.

Anyways, another year, you can find previous years linked through here.

Once again I didn't necessarily choose "the best of" each month, but went instead with ones where I felt like I learned something.

January was a month where anyone looking at my sketchbook would assume I am a very lonely individual, as I was practicing drawing kisses, and by jove, I think I've got it!

February is when I finally got a cut out style down that was super fast, easy, and looked nice. It was faster than my previous method, and didn't require an inked linework to start with, or hours and hours of clicking around with the pen tool.

March is a layout I did, to add to my demo reel. I like it, actually, quite a lot. It was one of the first times I tried a more drawn out layout to tell a story, and after this success, I think I'd try again.

April! I drew Rin. I was pretty happy with the way she came out, and everything about her body and pose worked for me, and I felt like Rin was saying what I wanted her to say. It was also the first time I played with some custom brushes to build my own star field instead of using a stock image from google.

May, the re-invention of an old friend that turned out far better than I could have expected. Go Yukio!

June, where I was doing a series of Avatar TLA portraits for my friends, and I wanted to try a different kind of lineless with gradients. I really liked it.

July, when I went to Imaginism studios and spent three days painting apples. That's right, I rendered that apple all by myself! Not only that, the original tonal was done in half an hour with some colours added underneath.

August, the rendering continues, this time in a project we got to pick for ourselves. I went with an eel instead of a snake, to make my life that much easier.

September, I revisited an old picture I hadn't looked at since 2007. I could remember my original intentions for the drawing, and could incorporate it into the new sketch.

October, back to the rendering I learned while away at my workshop. I had to stop painting this piece, because she was starting to scare me.

November, the first fully rendered piece I finished since parting ways with the friends I made at Imaginism Studios. I miss that place of education with all my heart, but I am glad for what I brought away with me.

December, a drawing I once again revisited, though this time entirely by accident. I found a character, and also noticed how much my work has grown over two years.

Onward, with life and art!

Annie

12:58

Rough Day?

So I haven't been here in a while!

I was caught up at my workshop that I attended for a month. I learned so much while I was there and I made wonderful friends. I'm sad to have left, as it was a wonderful, wonderful experience, but I did miss my home a lot.

Especially my cat and two best friends!

However, I came back and immediately jumped back into work with full time hours plus overtime. It was a stressful jump, and I still haven't gotten back into the swing of it. It's hard to wake up in the morning, and I spend a good half hour trying to psych myself up for the eleven hour shift ahead. I wake up, and tell myself, "Dude. Today is going to be the best day ever, I'm going to make sure of it."

Well I hit a road block today that knocked me square on my face, and I lost it a little.

I came back home to be with my room mate and my cat, and we're having an evening of television. Here's an artistic interpretation of my day.

Also me utilizing absolutely nothing of what I learned at Imaginism.

It's been a really stressful couple weeks since coming back. I've screwed up a number of things that were going good for me, and I've been working lots of long hours and having a hard time keeping my hold on everything. I broke a bit, but I'm putting it all back together, haha.

Figured it's been a while since I made fun of myself.

It's so close, it's so very close, I can see the light.

Thanks for bearing with me, everyone. It'll be over soon!

Annie

7:45

Tron Lives

Spent a couple hours today doing something for myself.

I had a lot of fun! Thinking about everything I've learned so far while I worked, and just playing and having fun.

I'm really glad I came to this workshop. It's an experience I'm going to remember forever.

Annie

6:04

Mother Bear

The other night I went out to watch Brave with some of my friends.

It's a really sweet film, and very heartwarming and tells the story of a daughter and her relationship with her mother.

It made me miss my mum.

So my mum's favourite bears are polar bears- I currently owe her a drawing of a polar bear that I made at the zoo.

After watching Brave I wanted to draw my mum some polar bears, and so I did. This is the first of two, where I took a more stylized, graphic approach.

Love you mum.

P.S. The polar bear is you.

Love you much

Annie

9:15

Cut Short

I wasn't quite done this, but I accidentally saved and closed my file after scaling down, so now I am finished!

What started as a mission to draw for all of us to draw ourselves as our favourite element from Avatar, is shaping up into a much more ambitious, and much more awesome project.

Also, even though I didn't ask for it, I was told I am the Avatar, because, because, and only because- avatars get to GLOW when they go into the Avatar state. Especially if you're an air bender, and you get glow in the dark tattoos.

So here I am! Being an awesome air bender. That can fly.

Right now it's a huge joke about what a ridiculous air bender I would actually make.

Hey. I'd be an awesome air bender. Don't judge.

Annie

8:16

My Foot is Asleep.

Also I am hungry.

Also Tron.

I love Tron. Tron is awesome.

I've been playing a lot of Tron lately.

Art was to follow.

Me as a player on the Grid- actually included glasses this time. Also tried a new way for drawing eyes to better mimic the way my eyes are actually shaped. I like it!

I'm gonna put this up on my DA later, but right now I need to get some food and stuff.

I'm the coolest player on the grid.

Aw yeah.

Also infected. Go me.

Annie

9:24

2011 Art Summary!

Oh look, I finished this! I just never posted it.

You can see 2010 and 2009's here!

Alright. I'm super sleepy and really want to go to bed, but I'll see if I can summarize all this.

While I was working, I didn't take my best of my best. There were other pieces I thought could have stood for the spot of "Best of the Month" but instead I decided to take the drawings that really showed I got something. Something clicked with those particular drawings, and I was able to recognize it and pin point it.

I'll start back in January, where going through my files the only thing I actually produced was a lot a lot of TRON artwork. I love Tron, just so everyone knows. I know it's badly acted and written and the story is incredibly vague, but I love TRON a LOT. Anywho, I drew a lot of Tron art in January, and this one was the first. It's not entirely a milestone, but the month didn't really have any show stoppers.

February, a month where all I developed a new lineless method of colouring, where I'd put pieces together with flat blocks of colour and add some patterns to make them look like cut out paper. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed using it, and continued to use it for many pieces and still like to use it on occasion.

March, one of those milestones. March was the month I started to make a habit of drawing animals, despite the fact that I didn't like drawing them very much. I've learned a lot, starting from that single crocodile.

April was a month where something in anatomy just clicked. I'm not entirely sure what it was, but months later that picture of myself tackling TRON is still one of my favourites. There was something naturalistic and not stiff about it that I really liked, and still do.

May was when I started to get better at giving my characters unique face shapes, and it all started with a girl in the cafeteria who looked exactly like I always pictured Kara to look.

June was a month of a lot of sketches, and this Thor drawing was one that even though I drew it in thirty seconds, it came out incredibly loose and free, yet the idea still came across, which made me really proud.

July: More sketches, but I was still beating back that stiffness in my work. I was really proud of this sketch, which couldn't have been larger than three inches. I'm still really happy with it, because it was dynamic and interesting, which is what I usually struggle with in my art.

August: For a few months I drew nothing but pirates, inspired by RPs and... well mostly RPs. I drummed out a lot of impressive sketches, but I wasn't really finishing any of them. This is another one I was proud of because of how believable it felt, but also because of the fact that I was getting better at making my characters intelligible from each other.

September: My output of work immediately slowed down as soon as school started, and I couldn't keep up with my pages and pages of sketches along with doing all my homework. It was a sad time, but expected. In the first weeks of school, I drew this picture of Suka, and I was really proud of it because I succeeded in having a thin frame, and a curvy frame, in the same drawing. I struggle with thin characters, a lot.

October: I made a successful design leap for Tinette. Originally I'd given her very pointed features to try and enhance the entire 'bitch face' look, but for me it wasn't really getting the severity of her personality across. I later got it after reconsidering how to draw her high cheekbones, inspired by several different actresses. Tinette is a very handsome lady, if she'd just stop being so miserable all the time, and I think I finally got it.

November: I tried drawing children! And the best part, I actually succeeded. Excuse me while I do a victory dance right now.

December: I took a shot again at drawing my heavier character, Kara. I've drawn more, since finishing this chart, but I do think Kara still represents my best for the month of December. Round, happy, and satisfied with herself and her life. I'm very proud of her.

And that, would be this years work, and I'm pretty okay with it. I don't see the same jump I saw last year, or the year before, but I see subtle differences that are leading to a better me.

Annie

11:07

I Survived Week Twelve!

I am so thrilled right now.

I survived week twelve.

Granted, on Saturday, the hell of week thirteen kicks in, but for the time being, I have tonight to relax.

Why? Because I finished fifty storyboards, my six page workbook, my nine page essay and-- Aaaah, isn't this beautiful?

So I spent my English class drawing pictures and reading a book.

It was beautiful.


You know what else is lovely?

Gettin' a chance to draw Kara. I've been having myself a good time working on Kara's build, and she's lovely.

I drew this earlier but got her arms all wrong, so I had to fix them up in photoshop, because I made them far too tiny for her build.

Aaaaah, this is just wonderful.

I could dance.

I'm not looking forward to the weekend, but right now? It is my day to shine.

*Does a dance*

*Does a dance*

*Does a dance*

Aaaaah. I'm going to just sit around and read a book and relax.

Aaaah.

Aaaaah.

Annie

11:27

These are my Friends.

This happens on a very frequent basis. And when it's not relocating me because I'm conveniently situated on wheels, it's chasing me down the hallway screaming "I'M GONNA KILL YOU" because I threw a pencil at them.

Aw yeah.

Also, bad moods are contagious.

I like these little comics. They're a very fun way to get ideas down and out.

Annie

12:16

Scant Collection

I haven't has as much time to draw lately as I wish I did, haha. Too much school, too much homework. I'm still writing though, so I'm keeping my creative brain busy.

Here's a drawing of Sherlock I made for Chelsea a few weeks ago while she was having a rough day. I gave him a little bit of a chin. He looks eighteen now.

Instead of sixteen.

Chelsea was happy.

That day, I'd decided I wanted to draw Sherry and Ninja, because I love them so much. So, in the afternoon class, I started to draw the couple of them.

It took me a while to find the time, but I eventually finished!

See? I'm not unfair to all of my characters. Just most of them.

So here, some Sherry and Ninja, havin' a moment.


For halloween this year, I dressed up as the doctor, from doctor who, and Leah was my companion.

We traveled all of space and time together and returned the same day we left! It is the advantage of having a TARDIS.

Later that night, I did up my makeup so I looked like a sugar skull for Day of the Dead.

It was a pretty kickin' halloween.

And a doodle of Alan and Rebel, just from my sketchbook.

I realized that even though Alan is Spanish, the goat I based his satyr appearance off of happens to be native to North America.

Oh well, it's a fantasy story.

And FINALLY working on getting some refined designs for the metal prosthetic one of my OC's has essentially drilled into her arm.

I gotta say, I'm having a ball coming up with all these designs and drawings.

Working out the mechanics is killing me though, haha! I'm sure there's a metal skeleton in there somewhere that holds it all together.

And hooray! All the work I have done lately.

I know, it isn't very much, I'm sad too.

Annie

6:37

Farewell, Old Friend.

The other day, my dear friend Corrin came up to see me in Oakville! I don't get to see Crin a lot, but I've seen her twice this month, and what must be three times this entire year. Whoof, who could believe it?

After watching Doctor Who for a couple hours, we decided to go to the mall, because the mall was within walking distance, and the mall had a Davids Tea. While we were there, we decided to go into H&M, on my request. I was looking for a ridiculously baggy sweater, but instead Crin pointed out a black coat that could be a good replacement for the one I was wearing.

I love my coat so much, I've had it for almost a decade and it's gone through a lot. I had the zipper replaced, one of the snaps replaced, one of the buckles snapped in two, the pocket was half torn off, I put my hand through the lining that morning, the elbows were threadbare, the wind tore right through it, and the cuff was getting steadily shorter as it frayed to nothing and I repaired it with billions of stitches of black thread.

But I loved my coat. I'd had it for years and I got it from my dad as a birthday present when I was fourteen, along with a Blink 182 album with a parental advisory. I looked at the new black coat, and I looked at the price, and it wasn't bad- but did it really matter? This coat had serviced me well since I was a child. Then I saw a red coat. And I rushed over to the red coat and pulled it on. And then I saw a longer, teal coat. I abandoned the red coat in favour of the teal one. I looked at the price. It was fifty percent off.

I caved.

I bought the teal coat.

Leaving the store, I was still carrying my worn, beaten, loyal coat.

I wanted to donate it, but Crin pointed out there was a trash can I could put it in.

I have never found it so difficult to part with something I own.

My poor coat is now gone, but I have a beautiful teal coat to replace it.

R.I.P. Coat. You gave me years and years of loyal service.

Annie

2:39