Here are some of my personal figure drawings from this semester:
Some of these are physical, some are done in Procreate on the iPad. I will update this page with more of my work, but I do not have access to my class sketchbook at the moment, as I am out of town as of writing this.
Nature is something I have always
admired, something that always helped keep my work rooted. My role as an artist
is to capture the nature of the world, the ebbs and flows of living creatures,
and present it in an animated format. Animation is my medium of choice, since
it allows me to entangle myself in nature, teaching myself how to make birds
fly and wolves howl. Being an animator gives me the tools and tricks I need to
help recreate our incredible world on a 1920 x 1080p screen.
My primary role as an animator is
to capture the magic and mysticism of our world, showing modern audiences just
how incredible it really is. I want viewers to feel the chill of a windy day or
the slick wet of monsoon season when they step into my animated worlds.
While a lot of modern art and
animation focuses on human elements, I enjoy focusing on the inhuman. There is
magic in making something move, especially if that something is not usually
portrayed in modern work. This is why I tend to focus on animal fantasy and
natural elements in my work, as I want my audience to be captivated by the
nature I am portraying.
Ultimately, I don't know what my
audience is going to come away from my work thinking-- and that's the beauty of
it! Like nature, I hope my work is able to impact people around the world,
regardless of background or creed. I want the animations I create to bring
people the child-like joy I experience when finding a waterfall at the end of a
mountain trail or a never-before-seen mountain vista. My greatest joy would be
to reconnect someone with the natural world through my animated work, providing
them with the tools they need to answer their own call of the wild.
