Well, considering you asked so nicely and even knelt down…
2009
Suave Toad
When I got dragged along to Home Depot the other day, I happened across this suave and smug looking toad. I’m not too big of a fan with garden statues, but I’ll say this one took the cake! Very charismatic if anything.
Car Selfie – 2009
While I was on the fallout from all the friends I had, I had become strong in myself during the summer. That goes in varying degrees, but I took this photo one day while coming in after having gone for a run, snapping the photo. With me regarding Orion as a fighter/starship, I felt like a pilot pretty much. And the confidence showed; everyone both on dA and Facebook said I looked cool and collected. I wish the people I knew had the same thing to say; but hey, they’re not there, right?
I Can Haz Magic!
This was a silly comic I doodled on my physics teacher’s markerboard in his office. As I’m getting ready for my group Tales of Symphonia cosplay at Animazement this year, our Raine from our group tends to be a little silly at times.
Here, I make fun of her casting Photon on a random passerby who doesn’t believe that “she has magic.” She would often talk in the “cheezeburger” speak, hence the “I can haz” type of language that’s going on.
WSCC – Basic Design 1 – Midterm 2 – Shesha Naga
Didn’t have a WIP of this when I was working on it, but this was my other midterm work that I did while in Basic Design 1. We had to then create something from scratch with imagination, but use “building blocks” to create the work from real life references. In that, it couldn’t be completely conjured up in your mind.
The theme we were given was legendary/mythical creatures.
Definitely had to do a lot of research on cobras to make this piece, and had this collage of photos that I worked with until the end of the project. The teacher was super-strict on using real-life references, so it had to be around at all times.
This was a B-grade for me, if I recall correctly.
Originally done October 27, 2008.
WSCC – Basic Design 1 – Charcoal Studies
While I’m on the streak for getting photos from Basic Design 1, let me toss this into the ring.
Back in 2008 I took a quick snap of this while working in class; now you get the see the whole thing in proper glory, in addition to another page that the first photo didn’t show!
Nothing too much to be said about this; we had to use charcoal so we were discouraged to erase, and also add shading in addition to how we interpreted shapes.
I don’t remember the grade I got on this, but I believe I did pretty good and met the assignment’s expectations.
Original done September 29, 2008. The first snap can be seen here.
WSCC – Basic Design 1 – Midterm 1 Finished
I was behind with quite a few things. This includes actually updating you when this piece got done and what happened with it.
First, the piece I was trying to reinterpret. It’s called Ancestors of Tehamana by Paul Gaugin. I remember I wanted to go with a multitude of other pieces, but I was told to “stick with a Western style, and pick something with a prominent face.” So no animals, scenery, that sort of thing.
Alright then, that’s what I did.
Honestly I wasn’t too happy with the face, but I did the background pretty well at least. I was told to do a lot more definitive shading and learn how to copy realistic body features with my art technique. Both very valid things to work with, especially when working with traditional media like this.
I honestly was a bit spooked with the island motifs in the back; give me an Alien game any day over that. The eyes on the primary clay figure reminded me of the atypical aliens that’d show up in most UFO encounters.
I got a B on this, mainly for the points above.
This piece was completed September 2, 2008.
You can view a WIP here.
I Call it Pwnage – Gift Art
A little while back, someone I knew on deviantART was having hardware problems. They were getting quite behind on requests and even their personal work, and it was coming to a complete standstill. All because a mouse on their PC wasn’t working.
Since my parents had come back from their store, they had a ton of computer stuff sitting around, including obsolete desktops. I took a spare PS/2 mouse lying around at the time, mailing it across the country to them. Long story short, they were extremely grateful and were able to resume work once again.
In return, they drew Princess Kida, together with Raine Sage and Twilight Princess Zelda. The joke is that Kida lost some sort of bet, and such she has to take on a “kawaii” persona, outfit included. They drummed up the last part but I really enjoyed it.
This is the first time I got thank-you art for anything I had done online, so it was quite thrilling to know I was able to help someone out! You can check out the artist here.
Jennifer Art Trade – Zipposhade
This was a great art trade I did with a guy called Zipposhade. I drew one of my monster characters, and in return he drew me Jennifer . It has a strange almost caricature to it, which makes it even more interesting to look at. Thanks a bunch, buddy.
Who Am I?
My name's Janeil.
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Moonlight game dev, creative writer, sharing my personal experiences.