Sketchblog Edition 92: Secure

So.
Here they are.
The products of your patience and 2 months.

I'm sorry for the extreme delay in posting this,
but I hope it was worth it!

It was an especially busy quarter for me this time around.
It was the last quarter I will ever have to take classes
(unless they ever make a phD in Sequential Art....),
and now all I have left to do is work on my thesis!
I'm so excited! :3

But, I'm sure you're all anxious to see what I've produced for you these past two months.
Here you go!
Enjoy!


There was this whole meme thing going on a while back where you turn yourself into a Pokémon.
This was my first attempt.
I always saw myself as some sort of weird amalgamation between a bird and a cat.
Owls seem to be a perfect combination of both. :P

One of the visiting artists this quarter to SCAD was Eric Canete,
whom, if you haven't seen his artwork or heard of him,
is AWESOME.
We were looking at a bunch of his illustrations in one of my classes in preparation for his visit, and I was so inspired I HAD to draw.
After I sketched something out real quick though, I found it very closely resembled Zero Suit Samus (which Eric Canete has indeed drawn before).
Le sigh.



I don't know. A praying mantis-inspired woman?



Facial expression sketching in the Character Design class I TA'd for!
Best. Exercise. Ever.







(All from live models.)


I got a free pass to the Savannah Film Festival this year,
for being so awesome
(or possibly for answering a trivia question which nobody else knew).
During the Film Festival, it's not uncommon to see celebrities roaming downtown.
When Tyler and I were grabbing a bite to eat at Leopold's,
I passed right by someone.
It wasn't until I sat down at my table and started eating that I looked up and saw who it was...
We would later run into James Cromwell at least half a dozen more times during the week of the Festival.
Also, Liam Neeson.
Also, Ian McKellen.
I love my life.



Here, have a Derpshark.
(More of these to come.)
Also have a babby.
Ew.


I tried sketching some lambs for my sister,
but found that I simply cannot remember how they look.
I can see a lamb in my head.
But for some reason when I try to draw it,
it just comes out all wrong.
I'll have to fix this....


I sketched this real quick between giving tours around the Sequential Department one day.
I felt important.
Also, well-fed as compensation.


In our Constructive Animal Anatomy class,
we got to play with lots of animals and observe skulls and skeletons up close.
It inspired me to get back into the Plague Doctors project I had been working on last quarter.
Here's a random character design... possibly a villain.



And then, for no apparent reason,
a Yeti Farm.


See if any other nerds get the reference in this one....


More Pokémon designs.
This is designed around my creature, the Derpshark:

And this is a more human-looking Pokémon version of me:


I love my new roommate.
I don't think I've made that clear to the world just enough.
We've only known each other about a year,
but we click so well it feels like we've been friends our entire lives.
So eventually, of course, she's going to make an appearance in TAoCKF.
Here's her initial character design:

But she went to Japan, and now I'm lonely and sad. :'(

Not really.
I have lots of friends I can still talk to around Savannah.
And Lauren will be back from Japan soon,
hopefully with tons of swag like I had last year. :3


Anyway!
Now the sketch requests!


For IcyBootWoot, a Banshee:


For Dan, me as an incarnation of Hercules with a lion hood and a club:


For Vawn-O-The-Dawn, a Goblin:

For And-Also-Dinosaurs, Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?:

For Val, Lestat from Interview With A Vampire:

For Elaine, Aku from Samurai Jack:

For Vanawen, the Phantom of the Opera:

For CobraGFX, Sagat from Street Fighter:

For Vawn-O-The-Dawn, the Ice King from Adventure Time:

For Chris Martinetti, uh...... this thing:

For Hillary, Werewolverine:

For Reed, Magneto:

For The-Brade, Terminator (Arnold version):

For dead2, Jason from Friday The 13th:

For my loverly sister Liz, a sasquatch in the styling of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends:


That's all!
I will update tomorrow with either my artwork from Constructive Animal Anatomy class,
or my favorite photos from our animal visits!

The sketch requests are open yet again for the month of December,
and the theme is Portraits!
Simply send in your request and shoot me an email at ejscreationsart@gmail.com with a photo of yourself (or someone you know whom you want me to draw) and I'll sketch you as if you were a character in TAoCKF!

So!
Leave a comment on my deviantART journal, or below, or just send me an email requesting your free December portrait sketch!



Thanks for your patience and for your continued reading!
Love you all,
and goodnight!

<3,
Emily J. Sampson

Not-Sketchblog 10: What Have You Done To My Son?!

So yes,
epic fail on my part.

I promised you more sketches today and I dropped the ball.

But I have literally been on my feet all day,
and have not taken a single break, except to eat delicious foodstuffs.

I woke up,
went to the Art Materials and Trade Show,
went to the Civic Center for a Thrift Sale
(bought a turntable for $7.50!),
went to Norris for the 24-Hour-Comic,
left the 24-Hour-Comic way early to go to a friend's birthday party,
and got home just a little bit ago.

So here I am,
sketchless,
and ashamed.

Forgive me?

I'll have good stuff for you soon. ;)

Love you all,
and thanks for reading
(and your patience)!

<3,
Emily J Sampson

Sketchblog Edition 91: Feathers, Bones, and Corpses

Sooooo yes.
It's been a while.
A month, now?
Jeez.
I failed epically, didn't I?
Actually, I have a good excuse.
I was traveling and whatnot and school started up again and so I was trying to get back into gear with everything.

Okay, that was a lame excuse, but that's all I got.

Anyway,
I've got some good stuff for you here.
Hope it was worth the wait.

First up, sketches for Paul Hudson's Constructive Animal Anatomy class.
He requires that we create a creature of our own from the ground up,
but since I'm a grad student in an undergrad class,
I'm designing two.
The Pooter,
and the Derpshark.
Most of the following sketches are Derpsharks.


(The little sketch at the bottom of that page is Tyler's.)


Pooters and a Derpshark thrown in for scale.
Also, have a cat skull.


The two most common states of a Derpshark.


Various kinds of Derpsharks, based on region.


Here's just a random bird creature skeleton or whatever.


Male (left) and female (right) Pooters, and an alligator head (bottom).


A short paragraph on the predator-prey relationship between Pooters and Derpsharks, with a sketch to illustrate.
The large angry creature behind them is an Osotaur (Bull Bear).

Below is a sketch of an Osotaur head and paw,
and a paragraph about the dentition of a Derpshark.


Size comparison of a Derpshark to a Pooter.
Average Pooters are about 5 heads tall,
while an average Derpshark is only 2.5.


We got to photograph and sketch and even handle a Gopher Tortoise and a Box Turtle in class one day.
Here are my sketches!


Random sketches,
turtle alien thing,
Contemporary Animation Society logo conceptuals.


The next week an alligator was brought in!
Its name was Flotsam.
It was adorable.


Now for a some sketches from a workshop with Tommy Castillo.
I'm not really a fan of the guy, but I can respect his opinions and his advice.
He had us do some sketch exercises involving fairytales.
Here are my results.

Little Miss Muffet and her guns, Curds and Whey.


Little Red Riding Hood, a crazy witch-like reaper with a giant mutant wolf.


This quarter I'm also TAing for Brian Ralph's Character Design and Storyboarding for Animation class,
and one of their assignments was to design a character for Rock Band/Guitar Hero.
I designed a homeless rocker for the heck of it.
He's so dedicated to rock, that he needs nothing else.
A lot of his design is inspired by Brother Sharp.


Here's just a quick doodle of Emma and Stephan from my webcomic,
which you may have forgotten about because it's on hiatuuuuuuuuuus boo.
I'll try to fix that soon though. ;)


And now,
for the free sketches I left you hanging on at the end of August.

For Sara,
our beloved Reepicheep from Chronicles of Narnia.


For Lilly,
a unicorn, in the style of The Last Unicorn. :3


For Rebecca,
a Tengu eating a banana.



Well, that's all I got for you.
I know I didn't get the last three requests from August uploaded,
nor did I upload the first request from October,
but I promise I will tomorrow.
PROMISE.

Anyway,
there's another sketch I've got laying around but I'm hesitant to upload it just yet because it's for a super-secret project a friend is working on.
Hopefully soon I can show you though. :)

That's it!

Thanks all for your patience,
for your dedication and encouragement,
for pushing me to update this sketchblog,
and,
as always,
for reading.

Love you all,
and goodnight!

<3,
Emily J Sampson


p.s.
I have opened up the sketch requests for October,
so go check it out and request one here:
http://tsubasa-mine.deviantart.com/journal/35324195/.
The theme (as appropriate for October) is Horror.
Request away!

Not-Sketchblog 9: What Is It?

Good food,
good friends,
and unconditional love,
are the keys to true
undying
limitless
happiness.




Sorry for the absence of sketches.
I just got back down to Savannah and finished unpacking,
and I've still got some stuff to get straightened out here,
so it may be a few more days till I can get something uploaded.
I apologize.
I'll start up sketch requests for September soon.
I hope you can forgive the lateness.

Thanks for your understanding, and thanks for reading!

Love you all,
and goodnight!

<3,
Emily J Sampson