30 Day Drawing Challenge Begins...NOW

What's up everybody how's it going(I"M SO DAMN TIRED)!? I'm proud to say that of March 1st till March 30th I'll be taking part in the 30 Day Drawing Challenge!!!What's that you ask well little billie( seriously I'm losing my mind more than usual cause of the lack of sleep I've had this week so bare with me and the attempt to be funny) well the whole idea of the challenge is to draw something everyday whether is unbelievable detailed or extremely simple just DRAW.
                    
       I'm really happy to do this because I learned about this thing  maybe two years ago and I really wanted to do it but for some reason I never did it. Just because the challenge says draw everyday it doesn't mean draw randomly everyday(which isn't a bad thing) it means that everyday there will be a new subject to draw about per day and to start it off its draw "Yourself"

Let me just say this does not truely represent how I look(Second time I ever tried to draw myself).

I'll post the Day2-9 drawing next week until then

Hope You Enjoy

Day 1 COMPLETE

Cinema2012

I love movies. Movies have had such an enormous influence on my life  and with  the Oscars about to air I thought it was appropriate to post this little number; a list of all movies(old or new) I saw in the year 2012 that I consider great cinematic master pieces.

• Sylvia
• The Guard
•  007:Skyfall
• The Tree of Life
• The Avengers
• Prometheus
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Everything Is Illuminated
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Fargo
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Ted
• Drive
• Paranorman
• Carnage
• House of Flying Daggers
• 2046
• Crazy Stupid Love
• The Campaign
• Dare
• Cinderella Man
• Alfie
• Rango
• The King's Speech
• Lawless
• We Have too talk about Kevin
• Menace 2 Society
• The Experiment
• Hesher
• All the King's Men
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed
• Monster
• Never Let Me Go
• Midnight in Paris
• Cyrus
• American History X
• Hanna
• Raising Arizona
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• The Majestic
• Forrest Gump
• Black Dynamite
• Quiz Show
•  Django Unchained
• The Fugitive
• Inglorious Bastards
• Driving Lessions
• Game Change
• The Good Doctor
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Frida

                             Yeah lots of Movies.
                               Hope You Enjoy!

And Heres some more pics from the secret project I'M STILL working on

"Devil Inside" In Progress

 The first portfolio piece I'm working on based on the song of the same name on the Exodus album is "Devil Inside".

 Here's the initial idea I have for the piece, the female character(whose name will be "Ada")  in the grasp of this demonic creature.

Here's a sketch of how I want the demon to look like. I used Chaos(character from Dissidia Final Fantasy) as the base for the design and to the left are a few sketches of Ada(I'll get to the name later:) ).  

This one is a more refined version of how I want Ada to look in the final piece.

And here's some development work on Ada that I'm doing for this project and for a "Secret Project" that I'm still working on:   

Hope You Enjoy.

Artsy Stuff

I really haven't posted much concerning my art class( to much drama to take from that teacher) in the last few months so I've decided to start posting more from the class and to start it off here're some pieces I did last semester.

Inspired by “Conspiracy of Silence” By Agnes Cecile. I wanted her crying while looking borderline broken in the rain.

Heavily inspired by a piece called “Against Odds”. I really loved the whimsical aspect of it and it's an element I wanted to have in my piece, but with more bright & colorful.

  I approached this piece with something cinematic; to get the idea across I colored the top and bottom black to give it a widescreen appearance. Heavily inspired by the idea of grace from the movie “The Tree of Life”. I wanted the hand to look graceful because the mother(Jessica Chastain better win a damn Oscar) in the movie embodies grace.

         Influenced by a photo of actress, Golshifteh Farahani(HIGHLY attractive woman). Her expression was calm and poised and yet sad; what I wanted to do was capture that same essence of beauty and sadness.   

Also this semester in Art me and my other classmate are starting to work on the section of our portfolio called a Concentration(12 pieces focused on a certain theme) and I've taken the liberty to tackle visual interpretations of the album "Exodus" by Utada Hikaru(you must know by now how much I love this woman). It's going to be a very amusing project so I'll be posting all the work in progress drawings as the project progresses(Lets hope they come out great).

Hope You Enjoy

Influence Some Spark

How's it been everybody and welcome back to Highly Animated 2013( YAY!!!), and to start off the FIRST POST of the Year(Excluding the last two) I wanted to talk about INFLUENCES. For I awhile now I've had this overwhelming feeling that I've lost "MY STUFF". The stuff that inspired me to draw things that I wanted to draw not things that my pretentious art teacher wants me to draw or including pieces that colleges want to see in my portfolio; it feels like I'm drawing for everyone except the person I want to draw for( Can you guess who that is?). Just a couple of weeks ago I couldn't even remember how to draw something that I've drawn so many times; I swear my skills are just regressing.

     A way I thought could help me reconnect with all things inspirational to me was doing this little number called an "Influence Map"   

If you have a Deviant Art account than you already know what this is but for the little lads&lassies who don't this is a meme created by fox-orian and it's a great exercise to enlighten yourself about..well you. There are plenty of things that inspire me, but this is just a fraction of influences; so lets start down the list(in no particular order):

1.) Tetsuya Nomura

2.) Brett Booth

3.) Loish Van Baarle

4.) Chris Sanders

5.) Andrew Hem

6.) Utada Hikaru

7.) Ben Caldwell

8.) Dustin Nguyen

9.) Glen Keane

10.) Film Directors

11.) Kenneth Rocafort 

Because there are many reasons why I love each of these people I'm going to do some posts completely dedicated to each artist and why I love them ( be expecting that soon).

Check out their art, tell me what you think and last but not least

Hope You Enjoy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLUE!!

                Today is my crazy lovable dog,Blue's Birthday!!!

 

Ironically It's also my Grandfathers Birthday too

Happy Birthday

(1/13/1933-4/08/08)

Enjoy 

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BYE BYE TO 2012 AND HEELLLLOOOO TO 2013!!!!!!
                 Hope You Enjoy Highly Animated 2013!!!