the art of kymm

four months and counting

2011-04-25T13:04:00.000-07:00

EDIT:

a drawing for a friend who gave me a very very amusing prompt. tis a child. with a gun. drinking booze. yum.

we now return you to your regularly scheduled blog. beeeeeeeeeeeep

hey all! been here in cali for about four or five months now and i must say i dont miss the desert AT ALL. i do miss friends and such, but alas, we all must move on at some point :P anyways, here are a few drawings i have done over the last few months to keep my brain from doing the crazy dance. sorry again for quality. computer is still busted so these are brought to you by kymms phone :)

its arcanine! (bought pokemon white a few months back )

one of my co workers had said something about monkeys being used to keep the ninjas from our store, and this drawing was born :D

someone requested i draw a demon dude. i liked how he turned out but know there are a lot of things that could stand to be fixed on him.

and finally, these guys. working on drawing people. they arent great but i like having pics like this posted as a ref point for when i get further down the road. i can look back at these and have an actual point i can compare myself to rather than only thinking im getting better.

well, thats my update for now. normally id have alot more to post, but its such pain in the butt to get the pics posted....next time i promise there will be more.

<3
kymmface

update

2011-02-14T11:15:00.000-08:00

hello all who care

been in cali for a month now and am loving living here. cant really think of anything truly bad about this place yet :P been super busy for the last year or so, hence the real lack of updating on here. many apologies. anyways, here is a quick summary of some of the drawings i have done over the last month or two...or three or four. as always, critiques are welcome and encouraged

alice in wonderland inspired caterpillar fella

2010-02-26T20:25:00.000-08:00

hey world. havent posted on here in a long while, but the post i have for you is one im a tad more proud of than i normally am of my work :P its the closest ive come to successfully executing what i mentally want my concept to look like.

its not amazing, but mentally this is a huge step for me. anyways, its cliche, but i wanted to do a dark piece for the alice in wonderland story. i loves it so :) let me know what you think world :)

--kymm

not dead yet home slice!

2010-01-29T18:07:00.000-08:00

ive been really busy trying to make my work look purty and better, but havent felt anything was really worth posting. now i know the only way to get help and to fix the other poo ive made is to post it for review, but ive just been really not liking what ive been makin. now, i have a drawing i really enjoy. i put alot into it, used it as kind of a release of some negative energy ive had building up. let me know what ya think :D

THIS IS a weak attempt at a joke...

2009-12-08T21:43:00.000-08:00

watched the 300 riff track tonight and felt i needed to be productive during the show so i drew a funny little spartan shouting. and spitting. and wearing man leather panties :P hope ya like him :)

i know hes not that great, but i was just trying to stay in practice lol. any suggestions?

--kymm

ALMOST FORGOT MY FAV!

2009-11-19T00:55:00.001-08:00

this little guy is probably my favorite drawing EVER and i dont really know why :P

futuristic jungle tribesman guy thing!!!

2009-11-19T00:11:00.000-08:00

hey all

sorry i havent updated in a loooooooong time. just got my scanner back up and running and have been busy with work and stuff. ANYWAYS, excuses only get this post so far. now for what youve come here for, my art. ill post what ive worked on over the last few months for ya :)

first, the rabbit i drew for a friend. hes cute, in an odd, punk sort of way :P

next, a tattoo design im working on for a coworker. its not quite done, but you can get the main point of the design. another more punk esque character :P

now, a more realistic take on two dragon designs i did a while back. the anatomy is off, mostly because they started as sketches and i got a tad carried away :P

this one is a bird from the future, sent to destroy a powerful machine with his baguette. dont know what im talking about? it was in the news :P (the best part is im not kidding. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-bird-shuts-down-lhc )

finally, this guy i drew tonight after a friend gave me the prompt of "futuristic jungle tribe"

hope that was a long enough update for you :P i promise from here on in to keep my blog updated and fresh :)

<3
kymmface

ps almost forgot about this one :) drawn for a coworker. the girl on the book cart is her, the others in the background are all of the other workers looking on in horror :P

2009-09-07T13:18:00.000-07:00

hey all

havent been on in a while. been working alot. had a huge labor day weekend sale and thank god today is the last day of it. though when sales are going the customers are crazy nice to everyone at the store. its kinda nice...

ANYWAYS i have a new drawing i did that is adorable. he is going to be resting on my website banner, so thats why his tail is drooping the way it is.

peace
kymmface

cartoony cthulhu

2009-08-07T09:57:00.003-07:00

got bored before work and whipped this up. had alot of fun drawing it :)

im not dead! but my comp is

2009-08-06T10:21:00.000-07:00

my comp died a few days ago...actually, it was one week ago today. anyways, not the point. i was working on some drawings over the last week and have wanted to post them but couldnt because of the lack of a computer. my generous roommate is letting me use his comp, so i can show you what ive been doing :)

alot of it is very generic and stuff, but its a giant step in the direction i want my art to go. now, for introductions to the pieces:

this one is ra. i loved the anubis drawing so much i felt like i needed to draw another god of the region. his head is a bit off, but i still love him all the same :P

this one is my zombie guy. i wanted to try my hand at a more comic style one rather than the cartoony one i had done a month or two ago. i love the way his face came out, but my roommates girlfriend said she noticed when i do drawings the face and upper body look cool but then i just kind of taper off at the feet. ...i found it funny i didnt finish this drawing. the feet are still incomplete :P

this final drawing is probably my favorite. he is the first beast, as described in the book of revelations. he is described as having seven heads, ten horns and ten crowns, the body of a leapard, the mouth of a lion, and the feet of a bear. he will walk forth from the oceans and spew blasphemes of the lord. so, if you look, each head serves a sinister purpose. the one down on the right bottom has a twisted horn and forked tongue because he spreads the lies, the creepy as hell one above him is the one that scares people into following the first beast, the one above him serves as the false idol, the one in the middle is the silent controller of the heads, the one to his left is the all seeing and tells the people of their pitiful futures if they choose not to follow the beast, the one to his left is....uh....scary, and the final one serves as the lookout, always watching the heavens.

stupid, yes. but at least there was more substance behind it than my normal drawings :P

oh, and here is a random life drawing. for shits and kicks i guess :P

<3
km

Anubis, god of awesome

2009-07-19T12:03:00.000-07:00

hey all

just got everything unpacked and enjoyed the first free night i have had in a long time. it was awesome. i also realized this is the first time in my life i have had a desk of my own to draw on. crazy, huh? to break in the new desk, i drew anubis.

i know about the legs not matching the body and the hand being at a really sharp angle, but i still like the way he came out. he looks angry :P

and jw, if you wanna email me critiques that would rock pretty hard core. id say you could call, but my phone has been uber craptacular as of late and i cant figure out why...

anynoodle, ill see yall round!

--kymmface

moving!

2009-07-11T12:26:00.000-07:00

hey guy(s)

getting ready to move. as of this weekend i will finally have my own room. as stated previously, its been a long while since ive had this luxery. but it will be a welcome one :) things have been going pretty well recently. looking forward to seeing where the next road takes me :D

also, this is the guy i posted the other day. i know its not amazing, but i laid some base colors down. any suggestions? ive already lightened him up a bit from the original colors, but am willing to do so even more if it makes him look purty

--kymmface

2009-07-09T23:29:00.000-07:00

hey all

a few new updates to...update.

first: i am proud of myself. someone got on youtube and tried to be rude about the animation i had posted. but i managed to respond in a professional and non aggressive way. weeeeee for being professional!

two: i am moving this weekend into a house where i will have my own room. yay for having my own space to live in and occupy!

three: as of the twentieth of this month i will be working at half price books as a book sales person. yup, i finally got a job. only took me eight months :P best part (other than the awesome staff i will be working with) is there is no real dress code. im allowed to go to work with all of my piercings and tattoos showing. :)

and finally: i have been working all week on freelance that involves absolutely no creativity whatsoever, so i did a quick drawing tonight while watching family guy. no, its not anatomically correct or anything, but it was a nice release. got all of my ideas out at once, and you can kinda tell by the way the guy looks :P but i like him. ill probably redraw him later on...only better lol

guess that wraps this update up. see ya next week :D

--kymmface

2009-06-29T15:10:00.000-07:00

alright, ive been practicing coloring in ps, and given ive had to step back to using 7, its taken some getting used to. but i shall prevail! maybe...

anyways, this is a drawing i did of myself zombie fied and colored in photoshop. i borrowed a few techniques ive seen other artists use, but i am still obviously learning, so any pointers would be loverly.

thanks

kymmface

EDIT:
just finished adding a background. let me know what you think :D its super simple, but its better than it was before with nothing.

first post in a while and...

2009-06-27T21:29:00.000-07:00

and its nothing special. i mean it is to me because its obviously something i created, but it was done for fun to try and flex my mighty drawing muscles. and by mighty i mean tiny. anyways, the drawings here are ones i did at the request of some friends of mine. the first was done for a friend who wanted me to draw him in the style of team fortress. the other is of my friend as a little sister on bioshock. which, by the way, is the most amazing game ever. ANYWAYS they arent amazing but its a good example of what im trying to do to get better. i know i completely screwed up the little sister one, but the girl is super nice and it was really hard to get her to look as ridiculously creepy as those things are. i was also buzzing hardcore on red bull so my hands were shaky and the lines ended up being all squigly, but i think it still is recognizable as that style, so i kind of accomplished what i set out to do. ...ill practice more.

also, for those that care and have the initials of jw, i got a job interview with half price books so you should let the others know my days of being a drifter are close to coming to an end hopefully maybe :)

--kymmface

2009-05-06T18:40:00.001-07:00

just doodlin round the house. drew myself as a tarzan character. yay! ...so bored. :)

old man jenkins

2009-04-23T15:10:00.000-07:00

i felt inspired yesterday, but not to draw my usual. i felt like i was finally comfortable enough to step outside of my comfort zone and draw a person with no extra arms or super bulky. just a person. and this is what i made.

hes a super ultra tough cowboy who doesnt take crap from no one. hes a rancher, so when i draw his full body, his hands are gonna be rough looking. i plan on doing as much as i can with this character to try and use it as a guide to improve my art and my abilities. i hope to be well outside of my comfort zone by the end of this project.

hatian demon

2009-04-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

hey all. i havent been on here in forever and ever. BUT im back. ish. i have been hunting for a job (regular, not in the field) and feeling rather down about the lack of interest from everyone ive applied to. whats worse is i stopped drawing for a bit. thought that it might make me feel worse if i started drawing something and couldnt get the idea out the way i wanted. then i realized that it just feels good to draw, regardless of how good or bad the image is. ...which brings me to the first piece ive posted on here in nearly three...four...months...?

this fellow was inspired by an image of a haitian dressed to celebrate mardi gras. i tried to draw him as the demon i imagined he was dressed to portray. even if i got no where near what he was trying to be, it was still alot of fun to draw. ive also been working on my line work and hope to soon have photoshop so i can color this bad boy. also, if anything needs to be fixed let me know and ill hop right on it. i wanna re work this into a bad ass concept for my portfolio.

thanks
kymmface

2009-02-16T15:48:00.000-08:00

downloaded a trial version of photoshop so i could at least color some of my drawings before the thing goes out. i miss my photoshop :( stupid computer had to go and die on me and erase everything....

anyways, heres the one of the things ive been working on. let me know what ya think. if anyones out there...

oh, and the background texture was obtained from a stock thing on another site. located here:
http://hibbary.deviantart.com/

anynoodle, ta for now.
<3
kymm

its been awhile

2009-02-04T09:30:00.000-08:00

so i finally have internet on my desktop again. which means i can finally post again! but i dont have much im ready to show yet. most of it is wip and hard to tell whats up. but ill have it done within the next week or so. and i promise from here on in to post at least once a month. :D

anyways, im gonna post two drawings, both of which are from this silly idea i got for an anthro swat team. i was watching a tv show with my dad and came up with the idea. i tried writing some for it and then remembered i suck at writing.

so the most youll ever get from the story is that these guys are two of the characters. the tiger is the head of the swat, JR Reeves. yeah, i named him. deal. :P the other guy, the antelope looking guy, is a bad guy named Bruno. fun stuff. let me know what you think. :)

also, lost alot of my programs, so i wont have anything posted thats colored for a while. rip photoshop :(

for now, heres my new logo type thing i made. drew it in pen the colored it in flash. just gonna post the pen doodle for now.

and one more drawing, just for giggles. its my penguin. hes cute :3

<3
kymmface

a rough concept

2008-10-26T20:47:00.000-07:00

so i was bored and searching around on line and got this really neat (semi original) idea. i made a motorcycle tiger creature. its...a work in progress. but i wanted to show what the first idea looked like so that later when i present the fully colored render you could be like "wow...this came a long way " :D

hey mom

2008-10-24T21:39:00.000-07:00

so heres what i did with that spiffy new tablet you got me. i really appreciate what you did and hope that your days get better. :3

for my fan base :P

2008-10-22T13:14:00.000-07:00

for the people/person out there waiting on the edge of their seat for something new from me, BEHOLD!! the glory of nothing to do but draw!!! i would have colored them...but my tablet broke. im getting a new one tonight so all will be well soon enough :D in the mean time, enjoy the art that is tiger guy and cheetah...thing!!!

happy holloween!!!

2008-10-09T11:49:00.000-07:00

okay, so its not Halloween yet but hey, i dont know how often ill be able to update on here. :D anyways, i have graduated and am now living with a family friend while i put my portfolio together. lots of free time. i did that so i wouldnt be tied down by an apt lease so if anyone offered me a job i could take it. :P anyways, the cool thing about being here is the girls i get to share a room with. they have great imaginations, so they keep giving me grand ideas for sketches. the one i did last night was their doing. i asked them what i should draw and they said a chocolate eating monster who was a musketeer. so...here he is.

UPDATE!!!

made some changes to the guys. let me know if you like these or the old ones better :D

2008-09-01T01:58:00.000-07:00

so i know the show was dumb, and the card game was addictive but childish, i still enjoyed pokemon. so i figured id give it a shot and draw them in my style. i figured it would be a fun way to unwind for the day. and it was. i enjoyed drawin the little boogers. my fav is probably bulbasaur. hes sad because he smooshed the flower. thats like he killed his cousin or something...

so...

2008-08-27T00:16:00.000-07:00

graduation is close. real close. im trying to tighten up my style, but ive only got three weeks. or four...something like that. anywho, heres a drawing i recently did. like...tonight :D i was just lookin to practice my line weights. studying up on it via a graphic novel i just bought. great stuff :)

SIGGRAPH 2008

2008-08-15T23:36:00.000-07:00

so siggraph was pretty much amazing. there were so many cool booths up to look at. i mean wow. the art institute booth had a really cool competition going called art wars. they had up the really cool wacom tablets that you could see your drawings on (the cintiqu i think...) for us to use during the competition. so the contest consisted of drawing for twenty minutes based around the topic presented. when i competed the theme was technology nightmare. i ended up winning the first heat, but the next time around in the final heat i lost. bad. but it was cool. the others i competed with were all really cool. they turned to eachother and complimented eachothers work. it was super cool. they were all really nice people. i ended up walking away with the adobe creative suite 3 design premium package, which was awesome.

on a side note, astroboy is going to be an amazing movie! it was so pretty! they only had one clip they were showing though, so dont hold me to it. as of now it looks great. it was really well animated.

anynoodle, i think im gonna head to bed. i just figured it was about time i updated my blog. ill add a drawing of some sort in here...ah! ill add the newest tiger guy design i did. good stuff! (kind of)

new coloring method

2008-05-05T23:09:00.000-07:00

toying with a new type of coloring method. let me know what you think. that is if ANYONE still reads this stupid thing...:P
also, super excited about fatcat coming to my school thursday. even if i dont get a chance to talk to edison one on one, i cant wait to hear the lecture he has prepared for us. :3

2008-04-28T17:59:00.000-07:00

hey all

just got some new drawings scanned in. hoping to get them colored at some point real soon. until then, here is one of them. its a dragon tiger thing. dont ask questions. i was experiencing artist block and it was a trade i did with a friend.

love it!
<3
kymm

hey watch this! is done!

2008-03-25T16:12:00.001-07:00

my group and i are finally finished! :) so, enjoy!

ps thanks jason for helping me figure this thing out. :)

2008-02-27T09:58:00.001-08:00

alright, i figured it was time for a flood of awesome (and by that i mean a flood of my old and new art : } ) any tips, hints and such are, as always, greatly appreciated.

well poo....

2008-01-30T20:17:00.000-08:00

feeling a bit under the weather lately. just not feeling chipper like i normally do....

anyways, heres some more art for the occasional passer by to enjoy. its a group of animals playing poker. i had more, but i cant find the sketchbook i had them in. when i do, ill post em.

first post

2008-01-26T17:01:00.000-08:00

well, ive finally gotten around to starting a blog up. here youll get to see my progression as i try and better myself as an artist. hopefully youll like what you see and youll be able to help me along my way. :)

for the first drawing im gonna post, its my lion guy ive been working on. its not as good as i had hoped it would be, but in comparison its alot closer to what kind of style im going for.

thoughts?

--kymm