got an A in my studio art class

Here are some of the pieces I used for my portfolio. 

The Cellar in Winter

The Haunting

Warm Neutral Cool

Briar

The Bone

Never Die When I'm Dead

Not to Be

If You Wait

All Soul's Night

 Breast

Leaving Earth

There are more pieces I was proud of, but I didn't get around to taking pictures of all of them. Anyway, it was a good class in that I turned out a lot of solid pieces, though I didn't really learn too much that I didn't already know. Which is fair, since it was supposed to be a foundations course.

I have so much more art to post! If I don't just sleep straight through the rest of this break, I'll do it.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "We'll use the Force!" "That's not how the Force works!"

animation projects

This class alternates between being super chill and super intense and it's sort of giving me creative whiplash a little bit. Several weeks ago, we did a five-to-seven second rotoscope in which we were supposed to change something to make it more fantastical. I did a home video of Brennie and I beating on each other with foam swords but turned us into Jedi.

The project took about 45 hours over the course of two weeks and was absolutely crazy. I actually made myself sick working on it for seven hours at a stretch multiple days in a row, but that said, I think it turned out pretty sweet.

younglings from Kasha Prinzing on Vimeo.

Then we did a week or two of derpy in-class assignments meant to teach us the basic principles of freehand animation, like staging:

arcs:

and character modelling:

These assignments were meant to only take an hour or two apiece and be super simple. I think I only spent a few hours in the digital lab outside of class that week. It was sooooo chill. But now there's this new hardcore project where we're in groups of three producing ten seconds of film apiece that focus on a common theme. We have, you guessed it, two weeks. 

I really liked that blue-haired girl I drew, who also showed up in one of our first projects, the thaumatrope. See, there she is.

Actually, both of these chicks have showed up in my notes before.

So I decided to use them for this assignment.

I'm definitely learning a lot about Flash with this project. That whole set is one very large very complex symbol, and I have a whole nother one to make for the close-up shots.

So that's where this class is going. It's a great time, and I don't even hate spending that much time drawing - in fact, I love it - but I do wish we had slightly more room in the syllabus for, y'know, sleeping.

Commander Kip
"I roll to wrangle the bantha."
Normal is overrated!

scribbles: a variety pack

 First, MSG. Things are finally happening in the Asylum again, now that Anna and Alex are both posting with some regularity (although I am substantially worried about Angarhad, stop it Anna). I drew this picture of Suvoi and Ceridwen running and brandishing their respective weapons a while ago, but I just now realized Ceridwen should actually be wearing one of Suvoi's skirts because her own clothes burned off in the Nalucai fiasco. Oops. Continuity, who needs it.

Also, Mass Effect. I need more of it. This is my Shepard - brisk, no-nonsense, intensely loyal to her friends, with a strong sense of right and wrong. I am accidentally playing Holly Short. It's a good time. (Darn, I forgot her freckles.) And by the way, I have such a huge ladyboner for Garrus, it's not even okay. Have I mentioned GARRUS?

And here is everyone's favorite angstbunny, Nico di Angelo from the Percy Jackson series. My god, he just gets better and better and his life gets worse and worse. Poor baby.

Now, have some random doodles. 

Kay. Gotta go finish my abroad application now. Bye guys.

Commander Kip
Anna: "If we were Sherlock characters, I'd be Sherlock, you'd be Watson, and Matt would be Mary." Me: "Yeah, I can see it."
Normal is overrated!

Release the flood!

... of arts, which I have been saving for you. Uploaded from my mom's computer, as promised.

Firstly, some D&D things. I colored that picture of Valandra for funsies, because I felt like coloring and that was what came to hand. Didn't mean for her dress to turn out quite so minty, but anyway.

And Ileana got another sketch, because I still love her even though she exploded.

And some older steam mess doodles. Sergeant India Ravelin and Captain Benathy Greene of the good ship Cordelia, as well as Ivy Dale, Lizby and Hickory's insane Conduit mother.

Super old Hunger Games minidoodles I forgot about. Pretty self-explanatory.

So, Matt gave me The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene to read, and it slew me. It's a good thing he was sitting there next to me for the last thirty pages or so, because I was a sobby, snotty mess and needed to be held. Anyway, here's Gus and Hazel being cute.

And there they are again, along with the lyrics to the Amanda Palmer song "Astronaut." Go look it up on YouTube. Fits their relationship pretty well. (Also, I can't seem to ever draw Augustus's face the same way twice, rrr.)

Now, Mistborn things. I gave Matt the first one to read, and then he discovered that his brother had the whole trilogy at home. The other day, he Skype-chatted me something along the lines of "Sazed and Tindwyl are way too cute" and I was like OH NO. THE ENDING WILL DESTROY HIM. I should really draw those two sometime; they are in fact the sweetest couple ever. But in the meantime, have some Vin looking badass. (I rescanned this image; should be better now.)

And then have some Elend looking badass with her. Finished this one up because I love how small she looks, standing next to him.

Right, back to Birthright. I finally drew a picture (albeit a crappily composed one) of the whole gang! From left to right: Matteo, Fidelio, Andra, Nath, and Luca. They've been with me for lots of years, and they've changed some, and a few of them go by different names now, but they're my babies. D'aww.

Kay, I feel better with all that out of my system. Back to previously scheduled OYAN freakout.

Commander Kip
"Wait, Beast Boy had a brain?" "Hahahahaa - hey!"
Normal is overrated!

interlude

I'm falling behind on Disney World posts, so until I can get more pictures on my computer, have a drawring.

Because clearly, I needed more floating characters. Well, Severine's not floating exactly. At least, not by herself. I stuck her in the House of Arcane Treasures because someone needed to man the place and she seemed like a good fit. Also, I suspect she and Jack Adrian the treasure hunter would be good friends. Oh dear. Shenanigans will probably ensue. 

I'm still bad at drawing borders. I should probably stop trying. Whatever.

Back to regularly scheduled Disney posts!

Commander Kip

LasahBlastah!

Normal is overrated!

Captain Ripley's Portable Steam-Powered Communicator

Made this little beauty for class. The assignment was to make a product that would fit in one of those environmentally unfriendly plastic packages and create packaging to advertise that product. With my usual tendency towards over-complication and shenanigans, I made up an entire kid's tv show about steampunk aerial antics called Ripley's Dirigible Adventure and created a "prop" from the show. You know how they sell Thor's hammer and Hawkeye's bow in stores as kid toys? This is like that. Also, I made it out of found objects and Apoxy, because that's how I roll.  

So that was a fun assignment. Now, to practice. My jury's tomorrow. *freaking out*

Also, I'm just a ball of bruises from sledding. I have bruises on top of my bruises. It's spectacular.

Commander Kip
*garbled attempt at speech* "Yes, I English well." *mimes stabbing self* "Augh, right in the grammar!"
Normal is overrated!

late and remiss

Sorry I died for the last part of October. College stuff jumped out and smacked me in the face, and I had to deal with it or get buried. I'm still hideously buried, by the way, so don't expect to see much of me for a while. Except maybe the tip of my nose poking out of a huge stack of application papers or something, I dunno. I am seriously stressing, guys. I don't think I've stressed this bad since the AP History test last year. Gah. I don't handle stress well. I'm gonna make myself sick or something.

Happy late Halloween and things. Here, have some silly. You're welcome. I took pics of almost all my costumes this year - oh, the cleverness etc. - but I have no idea when I'll get around to posting them. We'll see. You might still be seeing Halloween posts until like mid-December this year. Be ye warnéd and all that. Yeah, I learned the accent marks, finally. Thank you AP Español 6.

Some newsy bits and bobs: I decided, very very last minute, to do the Young Artist piano competition this year, just for kicks and perhaps cash, eheheh, something. And as it turned out, I ended up winning the blasted thing. Along with like SEVEN FREAKING HUNDRED DOLLARS WUT. So that was cool. Now I haz spending money for my firstest year of college, yay, and so on.

Also, very important, I watched Ghostbusters with my dad the other night, and it was freaking hilarious. The CGI, oh, I must have cracked a rib with my hysterical laughter. SO funny. Quite possibly the worst low-budget CGI effects I have ever seen. SO FUNNY.

Off to do productive crap now. Later, peeps.

Commander Kip
"So, Macbeth witches: you don't mess with those chicks. They will mess you UP."
Normal is overrated!

blue hair

I drew this in class the other day, and then today I looked at the calendar and went "ZOMG SQUEE, Laini Taylor's new book came out today!" I therefore felt that the blue-hair thing was appropriate. That is a very messy contour self-portrait, by the way. Why is it that every time I draw a self-portrait, it comes out looking like a mug shot? Eh, whatever. And as for why my hair is in pigtails, I'm exercising the right to remain silent on that one.

Now I must sally forth and procure a copy of the long-awaited Daughter of
Smoke and Bone, because I've been reading all of Ms. Taylor's delicious blog posts about it and getting all drooly and excited. It's been far too long since I had something truly delicious to read. We're doing Jane Eyre in school, but that's mostly long stretches of "life-is-so-friggen-unfair" with only fleeting moments of deliciousness.

Oh, I did get to watch Dead Poets' Society with my parents the other night while I was busily skipping Homecoming. I think we all cried. I know I did, especially at the end. With the CHAIRS already! Gah. And the other thing I've been watching with my parents is a current (gawrsp) tv show called Castle, which is about a murder mystery novel writer who just happens to be played by the incorrigible Nathan Fillian. Oh, how I love that man. And I love the Firefly references in the show, subtle and un-subtle both. We've decided the writers must all be Browncoats. Or maybe just Whedon fans. In one episode there were extremely un-subtle references from both Firefly and Buffy, and we lol'd pretty hard. Anyway.

Commander Kip
"What are you supposed to be?" "Space cowboy." "Okay, A, there are no cows in space, and B... didn't you wear that like five years ago?" "Yeah, so?" "Don't you think you should move on?" "But I like it!"
Normal is overrated!

Fable says argh

See?

I did a page of sketches from the Showdown, but only about half of them didn't suck. There's poor blinded Nath.

Found this in my mathbook from the beginning of the year. Nath looking nothing like himself.

And there he is again, from when I was frustrated with my history homework and felt the need to take it out on someone.

And I'd conveniently forgotten about this - drawn on the back of a handout in class, I think - because there are some horrendous problems with it, but anyway, it's the blacksmith from Erimon Hill, who wil hopefully show up more often in the rewrite. Cuz he's pretty dang cool, and stuff. I mean, lookit that scar!

And here is a nice portrait of Russel Evony and Thomas Derringer in their shiny new army gear with their hair all lopped off. Actually, Thomas was the only one who got his hair lopped off; Russel's was like that already. Hmm, what's that you say about historical accuracy? Oh, there isn't any here? Why that's right, there isn't. I absolutely did not bother to look up American army uniforms during the Vietnam War. (As an aside, Thomas looks weird. I need his hair to grow back immediately.)

Um, this is kind of random. It was a thumbnail sketch for that bee project I showed you back at Thanksgiving, and it got buried in a pile somewhere, and then I dug it up.

And I can't remember whether I showed you this or not. Eye practice.

Sometime during the school year, I went through a phase where everything I drew had an improbable ski-slope of a nose.

Also, I only draw profiles from one side.

Psh, I dunno.

Ohai, remember this? I sorta colored it a little. I could do more with it, but I prolly won't. Gah, I hate my color pencil work.

Speaking of, here's another I'm attempting to color. Guess I have a thing for crazy sunsets. Remember Tajadeo, you guys?

Look, there he is again, only he appears to be bleeding this time, and his legs are terribly deformed because Kipin wasn't trying very hard.

Here's a slightly older Hickory Fain, because he's crazy and I love him.

And we'll end with some kissing, because I say so. Despite that heinous mess of a hand. It's Proffessor Biddle, remember him? And his pretty young wife who doesn't have a name yet. And I drew it in PEN. Gawsp!

That's it for the time being - I have a few little things to scan. Just little ones.

BUT, I do have a few pictures from the City Museum in St. Lois, and it might be fun to do a post on that. I had pics from Chicago, and then I brilliantly deleted them all because I repel technology. *raaaage*

Oh, also, I'm watching Firefly right now. All the episodes. In order. AND IT IS SO SO EPIC I DON'T EVEN GAAAH. So epic. Also, I can kill you with my brain.

And I'm drawing some more Mistborn fanart, but whether I can actually finish it remains to be seen.

Later, y'all.

Commander Kip

"Now wait a minute, preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?" "Yes, very specific. It's quite a bit fuzzier on the subject of... kneecaps."

Normal is overrated!