Bahama Mama

 

These are some sketches from my sketch book.
I drew them while I was on vacation in the Bahamas a few months ago.
While I was sitting down on the beach, I just started sketching what I saw in front of me (the palm trees, the clear water, my little brother playing in the sand etc.)

[pencil and black marker]

"FAR BENEATH THE SNOW, LIES THE SEED THAT WITH THE SUN'S LOVE, IN THE SPRING BECOMES THE ROSE..."

"Far beneath the snow, lies the seed that with sun's love, in the spring, becomes the Rose" are the last lyrics of "the Rose" by Bette Midler.

I wanted everything to be dark except the flower. The public's attention should be drawn to the bright colors. The picture might be  bit darker than it really is: the scanner gave this effect...

DARK TREE

This is my latest work. It was more of an experiment that turned out to be a finished artwork. 

Most of my work is very colorful and joyous, but I decided to try something new with no colors... I used charcoal and pencil for this artwork! 

[Pencil and charcoal]

THE DANCER

I rarely work with watercolors, in fact this is the first time I use watercolors for a finished piece...

I wanted to create movement with the dancer's body and position. I stayed mostly in the warm colors except for the scarf that's in purple... 

[Watercolors]

"SHE LOOOOVES ME"

This is a comic strip based on a story about my little sister and our cat when we were young. 

I tried to make it very cartoon-ish and with not much details, keep it simple and clear. I didn't use much words, I wanted to try telling a story only with the illustration. I did it on my own time with my own inspiration so I only enjoyed this work!
















[Pencil and black marker]

RAIN ON MY PARADE (ANIMATION)

This is my final animation project that I called "Rain on my Parade"...

(It's maybe better to keep it this size because when it's enlarged, the image isn't very clear...)

FINAL ANIMATION PROJECT

Our final project was anything we felt like doing!!
I wanted to create a short animation with a cute story behind it... It was a lot of work and we didn't have much time at all. At some times it was very frustrating but in the end it was the best experience!


I started by drawing a very basic storyboard:

                        

These are some snapshots of the animation video:

And these are other snapshots of the video that I had printed out in posters: