Sketch Topic #1

We started a sketch group at my studio. The topic was "Dark Disney Princess." Now I know what your thinking...no I did not suggest this topic. Another person did but I was very happy to go with it. Who doesn't love to draw Disney! I chose to draw Jasmine since Aladdin is my favorite movie. I'll post the other topics as they get announced at work. Stay tuned!

Lamp Shade Painting

Since I haven't uploaded any new art recently this is the best I can do for now. I'm painting on a lamp shade for my room. I just recently moved to a new apartment. Life has been pretty busy as of right now. I barely get time to pick up a pencil but I hope that will change soon enough...

This is just acrylic on a typical normal lamp shade I bought from a store.

Beauty and the Beast_Two Worlds

This is an illustration based on the Fairy Tale "Beauty and the Beast" in my vision.

It's my take on the original story to Beauty and the Beast. I wanted it to show two separate worlds. Beauty's bright happy village by the sea with calm and peaceful happy workers. Then on the opposite side you have the Beast's world which is always night and the waves are rough against the castle's edge. Both roads lead to the other if you have the ability to break through the barrier of good and evil that separates it. I went with a design unlike any beast's I've seen out there. I thought to go with a more deer type look with a more heroic attire. Opposite of that is Beauty. I gave her a more normal attire of young ladies at court. The headpiece is a foreshadowing of an angel's halo to signify the good of her being in conjunction to the horror of a beast.

This was a huge undertaking for an illustration. It went through many iterations until finally I believe I'm happy with it...for now.

The Little Mermaid

This is an Illustration based on the Fairy Tale "The Little Mermaid" in my vision.

As with all the other illustrations in this collection I'm doing my influence on the original story. Here I wanted to make the mermaid of a different species than what the typical do. Her hair refused to be any color other than blue so I had to oblige. I wanted to make the "Sea Witch" a fish because their are so many in the sea and they seem somewhat docile creatures. So to say they would seem trustworthy...

I kept this color pallet harshly restricted to blues and greens. It was one of the hardest things to do to be confined to not add in foreign colors to an established color key. The goal from the start with this piece was to Keep it very simple and not over detail anything. I hope it gives it the storybook illustration feel. I always hate when I have to loose my sketch lines in my paintings so it stayed for this one.

This story in particular has always held a soft spot in my heart because I was exposed to the cartoon based on the original story as a child. I believe it was done in Japan. It affected how I viewed fairy tales in conjunction to the real stories and "Disney" so to say. Anyways on to the next!

Painter
6 hours
© Jessa Sininger

Peter Pan

This is an illustration based on the Fairy Tale "Peter Pan" in my vision.

I went with a dark to light technique with this piece. I wanted the "Color Light" to come directly from Peter Pan himself signifying the joy and fun of being a child (which is what he represents). I kept the surrounding colors subdued with a desaturated pleasant-ville look. Peter Pan is a wonderful story if you ever get the chance to read the real novel by J. M. Barrie.

I'm slowly but surely going down the list of my Fairy Tale Illustrations and painting them. Fifteen Illustrations total! Up next is The Little Mermaid.

Painter
20 hours
© Jessa Sininger

Disney Centaurs

Here is the result of my livestream I did today. The topic was Disney Princess Centaurs.

Midnight's Spell

This is an illustration based on the Fairy Tale "Cinderella".

It's one of those pieces I never want to let go of. However, the time came for Mamma to let her chick fly. This has become one of my favorites of my Fairy Tale series. In each Fairy Tale I try and go about doing it with a different style than the rest. This one was on the more time consuming side, but I am happy with the result. Going over my list it seems I've favored the Cinderella tale quite a bit with a total of 3 illustrations. This piece has gone through many iterations over time. Thank god for audio books to keep me at the desk painting.

Painter/Photoshop
30 hours
© Jessa Sininger

The Glass Slipper

This is one of my illustrations from the Fairy Tale "Cinderella". I wanted to go for a more cartoonish style. I messed a bit with coloring and texture for this.

I Love Your Face

Finally I got to do some art for Megamind. This movie is so funny I just love it to death.

HTTYD Hiccup with the Ladies

Hiccup isn't very good with the ladies...

Here is a sketch I did for How to Train Your Dragon. I know its been a while since I posted last. The comic is seeming to monopolize all my art time. I will try and update more. Enjoy!

Harry Potter

A while ago I did a poll for which I should sketch Avatar Air Bender or Harry Potter. Potter won so here is the set I did for it.

Mermaids_Page 2

More Mermaids...

Scavengers

Here's another sheet that's going into my portfolio. I took my old designs I drew a year ago and did some more concept art for it.

Mermaids_Page 1

Here is one of the pages for my Artbook as well as my portfolio.

I Need Feedback For My Comic Please

I thought this day would never come!

Alright folks I need your help in choosing what style of painting my comic should be done in. The choices are 1, 2, or 3. If you happen to like certain things about some please do let me know.

I gotta say if your wondering this is was the hardest most boring thing to do is paint 1 page dozens of times. I came up with about 6 different painting styles on this and have narrowed the selection to 3 to choose from (the ones not included are not part of the group for the reason either it took too long to render or it looked horrible). Also a quick note don't judge whether the paintings look done or not. Look at what it could be. A good rule of thumb is to look at the top two panels to judge. The bottom panels were done fast.

Here's the details:
Painting 1-Color scheme is more stylized and contrasty. Isn't based on natural tones that go together. Background more rough painted. Characters are bright and colorful with defining strokes. Influence is a little bit of Loish with the blob of color look then I went my own way from there.

Painting 2- Background rooted in neutral subdued tones found in real life rendered close to reality with a bit of messy strokes. Influence is Carlos Meglia. The characters are rendered a bit more vibrantly.

Painting 3- This painting has a traditional painting style to it. Influence was my Rapunzel and Snow White painting style piece. Tones in the piece are muddy.

Starbucks Sketches2

I went to Starbucks today and did some quick people sketches to warm up for the day : )

Looney Idea

If you know me I come up with the craziest ideas most times. This is one of them. I just couldn't get this idea out of my head so I had to put it on paper. I love watching Looney Tunes (although the cartoons with the road runner and Wiley were not my favorite ones at all). I wanted to mimic the old cel style with a little traditional flair.

Artwork © Jessa Sininger

Comic Preview

Here is a preview of one of my pages of my Comic Book I've been busy working on. I am now 25% finished. Which means 24 pages. There will be 100 pages for book 1. The series will consist of 3 volumes total and one origin story on one of the characters. It will be free online as a web comic. However the origin story will cost a little since I have to figure out a way to make a little bit of money off this. I will print it out on books that will be sold online and at conventions when I finally launch (hopefully next year).

I took it to get scanned and it turned out looking horrible. I'm going to have to find a way around this since my scanner isn't big enough. Anyone have any suggestions with scanner options?

I can't give anything away about the characters or the plot till it gets copyrighted. Sorry guys. Its worth the wait though I promise.

Artwork ©Jessa Sininger

The Princess and the Frog Art

This was a speed painting of my idea for the Princess and the Frog. My hand is so going to fall off right now. It took around maybe 3-4 hours to finish. I'm the odd artist where when I get an idea to draw/paint something I can't just log it away for later I have to paint it right away no matter what I'm doing. I get that way with movies and shows as well. I have to watch what I put in since I'm susceptible to being influenced into doing art for it. I'm trying to practice in different forms of art. This would be concept art. After seeing this movie I was so excited. The last time I was excited about a Disney movie was either Mulan or Tarzan whichever came last. So I finally did some fanart for this lovely movie. Its a long time coming. It was tough keeping it loose and gestural. I didn't use any sketches or reference for this piece. I free hand painted the whole piece. Hope you enjoy!

Can you spot all the main characters from the movie in this piece?

Oh and my favorite character from this movie has to be Dr. Facilier. Not only is Keith David a wonderful voice actor (Goliath from Gargoyles-yay) but his design, personality, and animation were show stopping. The part where he's singing and he jumps in the air in slow mo gotta say I kept replaying that part about 50 times. I think I have a thing with villains for some reason. They're always my favorite!

Colored in Painter
Artwork ©Jessa Sininger

Star Wars Kids

Here's one of my side projects. I had the idea to sketch my favorite Star Wars characters as children. Yes I know there is no way Padme, Anakin, and Han Solo can be about the same age. Simmer down ubber fans. This is my take on some of the characters in the universe. I loved the idea of teaming up a fun loving cheerful girl with a smart alec prankster as well as a devoted quiet but angry child. The result is some of the shenanigans they get themselves in.

Star Wars ©George Lucas
Artwork ©Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

Characters

Here's some character sketches I did last weekend.

Pencil Sketch
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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
© Jessa Sininger

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.