Batman

Here is a painting I did of Batman in Painter.

The Brave Little Nutcracker

Here is one of the concept paintings I did for The Nutcracker. I'm trying to keep it really loose and gestural.

The Nutcracker Designs
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The Nutcracker

Still on the road in creating my art of book. Here is my new baby...The Nutcracker. I redesigned the characters. There is another page of this but I'm not sure I'm going to upload it yet. For now enjoy.

The Nutcracker Designs
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Ruby Animation Layout

This is some keyframes I'm going to put bordering my concept art pages for Ruby and the Magic Carpet.

Ruby and the Magic Carpet_Character Roughs

Ruby is a curious little girl who dreams of adventure. One day she meets an unusual friend who happens to be a magic carpet...


This is one of my concepts for my Art of Book I'm working on. Its called "Ruby and the Magic Carpet". These are the rough sketches of the character in various poses. Its a look into how I sketch my characters from the starting point. After this comes refining and detail. I decided to make the style a bit rolie polie with a bit more smoothness to it.

I will upload a page of a couple of the characters when its final. You will get to see about half and the other half will only be viewable in the book.

The final will consist of a bunch of illustrations, a small comic, and character designs of the concept.

Ruby and the Magic Carpet
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More Centaurs and Random Sketches

Here is the second lot of Centaur Sketches that have been sitting in my sketchbook unfinished. These are a bit more rough and gestural and I hurried to color it. And some random sketches from my sketchbook that went nowhere...

Anastasia Redesigned

This is my redesign of Don Bluth's Anastasia. It is the winner from my last poll. As a extracurricular project that will be my fun time apart from working on my projects I will be doing polls every week for different things you'd like me to draw. Each poll will start on the weekend and the winning selection will get sketched and uploaded by the end of the week. The poll is on my page on deviantart.com. If you want to vote just follow the link provided below. Remember a new poll goes up every weekend. Usually by Wednesday there's a clear winner.

http://jbsdesigns.deviantart.com/

Isabella Character Sheet

This is my character sheet for Isabella. The secret is slowly coming out. I'm working on a comic. This is one of the main characters in it. It will be available online sometime in the future. I've been working on it now. I can't really get into what its about yet. There's still some secrecy going on.

Anatomy of a Character

I decided to show my sketching steps. When I draw characters I start with simple shapes. I tend to like sharp lines as opposed to round lines. So the first step deals primarily with shapes. At this stage I'll try to be as gestural as possible although I did clean up the rough a bit. Then the next step is detail. This is where I add pretty much everything that makes the character who they are. The last step is painting of course. I'm not a fan of painting. I love the sketching process more. But color always looks nice.

Meet Isabella...she is my new character for a pet project I've been working on. Only time will tell if it works out though...

Centaur Sketches

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. I've been really busy. I hope this makes up for it. I got to thinking what was the first thing I remember drawing. I realized it was horses. So I combined my love for drawing people with horses. There will be another page of this coming up as well. Enjoy!!!

Pencil sketch, colored in Photoshop CS2
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Iron Giant

I found out about the Iron Giant Project a little late in the game and only had a couple days to do a piece for the project. This is the outcome. I wish I had more time to spend on it but unfortunately I had to go with this. Please check out mine and the other pieces for this movie on The Iron Giant Project Blog here: http://irongiantproject.blogspot.com/

Pencil sketch, colored in Photoshop CS2
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Characters

Here's some character sketches I did last weekend.

Pencil Sketch
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Pumpkin Carving Contest

Happy Halloween Everyone!

So I am now working as a Cloth/Hair TD at Sony Pictures Imageworks. So far I really love it there. Great atmosphere and great people. We are having a pumpkin carving contest tomorrow with none other than Tim Burton judging it. I just had to enter a pumpkin in. This is my first time carving a pumpkin. I did the sketch on the pumpkin Wednesday after work then Thursday after work I carved it. Its so hard to incorporate your sketch onto an actual pumpkin. A hint to what movie I'm working on is right here ladies and gentleman. If you can guess what these characters are based off of then congrats. This is so far the coolest movie I've worked on thus far.

Here's pictures of the progress of the pumpkin. Even my cat Bella got in on the action as usual. She's such a curious little thing.

Wish me luck for the contest. I hope I hope....

DrawerGeeks_Frankenstein

This is my drawing for this weeks DrawerGeeks topic Frankenstein.

Pencil sketch
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Glee

Early morning post. I'm posting this before I leave for work this morning. I sketched this out yesterday on some down time. I'm a fan of the new show Glee. Great satirical humor mixed in with cheesy songs.

Pencil sketch
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Time Warp

This is a little drawing exercise that originated on deviant art by a person by the name of thundercake. Its called "Time Warp" and it basically deals with you drawing yourself at crucial ages in your life and remembering odd little quarks or little known facts.

It was a fun little side project. It was quite a trip down memory lane remembering how I was in the past. I guess it would be considered quite normal when a kid goes through the whole not fitting in faze to wanting to fit in to finally being happy with themselves and doing their own thing.

link to exercise: http://thundercake.deviantart.com/art/Do-The-Time-Warp-92488964

In other news we have finally hit overtime major at work for the movie. I've mentioned this before but I never expected it to be this drastic. So it leaves no time for me to upload artwork as much as I did before. Please please please be patient my lovelies. This won't last long and I will try (but not making any promises) to upload when I can. So for the next couple of months I will be really busy. Thanks so much for your support and patience.

Pencil sketch
© Jessa Sininger

Some Old Landscape Backgrounds

So I came across some old art that I've done back when I went to college. As you know I'm not a big fan of drawing backgrounds. These were done for a class that was all about digital background painting so it forced me to do it. I decided to post these. They were done in 05 I believe.

Expect some new art going up this weekend. One will be my Drawergeek topic. I have been watching tutorials on painter and am ready to try my hand in it hopefully this weekend. Since shark week went by not too long ago I thought I'd do my spin on it. I am a huge fan of sharks and love shark week when it premiers. Also I drew up a nice portrait as well to paint in painter. I don't know when I'll be posting those though since it will be my first time using the program and it may take a bit to experiment in what with all the brushes and I think I'm going to be at work this Saturday so that will cut into my painting time.

Pencil sketches, colored in Photoshop CS
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Beauty and the Beast Sketch

This is some reference study sketches I'm working on to gear up for my Beauty and the Beast project. This is the Beast both as a human prince and a monster. I wanted to go for a Jekyll/Hyde look to this sketch.

I am using my sisters scanner right now till I get my own.

Pencil sketch
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Preview

This is a preview of what I'm working on. I'm drawing all the sisters that was in the movie The Little Mermaid. This one is Arista.

Pencil sketch
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Surprise Kiss Colored

Here are some of my old and new illustrations colored.

Pencil sketches, colored in Photoshop CS2
© Jessa Sininger

Starbucks Sketches

Here's some sketches I did yesterday while at Starbucks. It just isn't a good drawing day unless you spill coffee on your pants.

Pencil Sketch
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Rapunzel Rapunzel

I finally finished coloring this piece. Its the colored version of one of my illustrations based on the Grimm's Fairy tales. Its my take on the story Rapunzel.

Pencil sketch, colored in Photoshop CS2
© Jessa Sininger

Hold that pose...

So I managed to sketch this up today. I'm on overtime for the movie till the end of this week. A lot of late nights. By the time I make it home I basically pass out, but tonight I'm straining to keep awake to post this.

I also have to finish the topic for drawergeeks by the end of this week. That will be posted Friday on the website and possibly this weekend on my blog. For the topic I decided to test out some different colors in the painting. Hopefully I get it done on time and don't slack on what needs finishing. Why is hair so much fun to draw but when you have to paint it its a tad difficult?

On a great note. Guess who gets next week off. That's right all that list I posted previously is going to get done. Be prepared for many sketches coming your way next week. Starbucks won't be able to get rid of me. Hold tight my lovelies more to come.

Pencil Sketch
© Jessa Sininger

Ramen Girl

Just sketched this today on my down time.

Movement Sketches

Just messing around with movement and gesture.

Little Mermaid Sketches

So I was just sketching a bit today and thought I'd try my hand at Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid. Plus Little Mermaid is my other sisters favorite fairytale. I know its Hans Christian Anderson and not Grimm's but I couldn't resist. Plus I very much admire Glen Keane who was supervising animator for Ariel on the movie.

Pencil sketches, colored in Photoshop CS2
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Starbucks Sketchings

Here's some sketches I did while at Starbucks today.

Pencil Sketch
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GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES_Rapunzel

Here is yet another for my series of Grimm's Fairy Tales Illustrations.

Pencil Sketch
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My Hey Arnold Shoes Signed By The Creator Craig Bartlett

So I had the wonderful opportunity of finding that Craig Bartlett the creator of the Nickelodeon show Hey Arnold worked at The Henson Studio while I was working on Sid the Science Kid. I draw on shoes and I had made a Hey Arnold pair just because I love the show. I wore them to work and the producer saw my shoes and went and got Craig to sign them for me. He was a great guy and now I have my shoes signed by the creator of one of my favorite shows. Even better is it happened on my birthday so it was a great gift. Just thought I'd share with you guys what they look like and the story behind it.

Attack of the Portraits

Here's some of my favorite portraits I've done over the years.

The highlight of my social-life was my dorms salad-bar

This is a portrait that I finished recently. Its of Jennifer Garner. I've always been a fan of Alias, so I very much enjoyed working on this.

And... here… we... go!

So I find myself sketching a whole lot lately so I've decided to jump on the band wagon for sketch blogs. I'm hoping to really keep up with this and update often so please bear with me if I'm MIA for a while. I will be posting in between work and my personal down time. This blog is going to be for my sketches, paintings, 3d renders, ramblings, etc. You can also find more of my portfolio on my actual website:

www.jbs-designs.com

So without further adieu....And... here… we... go!

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