N. Hall

Get ready for some love

2012-02-10T13:42:00.003-05:00

Cause it's coming at your face full throttle.

I'm going to make sure this month everyone, whether you're with someone or not, feels the love.

Because we forget, Valentine's should not be just for the people with partners, it's for all of us, a day to show your friends & family too that you love them and are happy to have them in your life!

...Also I've been listening to a lot of Disney/Pixar movie soundtracks.... that may attribute to this good feeling thing I've stumbled upon ;)

Ninja Bat

2012-02-09T12:34:00.000-05:00

Afternoon Tea

2012-02-08T11:20:00.000-05:00

Just so.

Iron Kitty

2012-02-08T09:05:00.000-05:00

"I take the precaution of a good coat and a short friend.."

2012-02-03T11:41:00.001-05:00

Gossip over a hot cuppa

2012-02-03T11:19:00.001-05:00

Rocketeer

2012-02-02T14:07:00.002-05:00

a mess of ink

2012-01-31T12:34:00.004-05:00

My job primarily requires me to work digitally, so when I'm not working I enjoy using ink...I'm thinking of making a bumper sticker that says 'I'd rather be Inking' to be honest ;)

xin nian kuai le :)

2012-01-23T13:48:00.002-05:00

A little sketch I did for Wei for the new year. I hope it will be a prosperous one for those who need it most :)

The Trio

2012-01-17T00:51:00.002-05:00

Sandy, Pigsy, and Monkey.

I'm using characters from Journey to the West to update my portfolio. Just felt like inking these for the time being.

I dunno.

2011-12-27T17:07:00.001-05:00

Hope everyone had a nice holiday time.

2011-12-13T18:52:00.002-05:00

Circus Doodles

2011-11-12T17:53:00.003-05:00

I haven't been to a circus in years, just wanted to doodle some characters. I liked it.

The Asian Bear Cat

2011-11-11T02:19:00.004-05:00

holy oversaturation batman.

This is a binturong or Asian bear cat, I've fallen in love with it's whiskers. It's a pretty adorable creature.

Just testing out some brushes, I don't know how I feel about this style, I'm still experimenting.

In other news I'll be at CTN-X this year. So...yeah, hope I run into some of you lovely chaps/'chapettes' if you're going.

yikes!

2011-11-02T17:46:00.002-04:00

It's been so long! I've been busy busy on a project I've barely drawn anything just for the heck of it but heres some stuff I did last night and this morning....

Not so Sketch a Day October the Fourteenth

2011-10-14T04:20:00.002-04:00

Experimenting with color, textures and new brushes. woo.

Sketch-A-Day October the Twelfth

2011-10-12T00:01:00.002-04:00

Missed yesterday and no poem today, my work is catching up to me so it's taken priority :) A good priority though! Wish I could show you all what I've been working on!

Sketch-A-Day October the Ninth

2011-10-10T09:27:00.002-04:00

There’s nothing at all funny

about a disgruntled and dusty mummy.

short and bad poem but tired yesterday, posted on tumblr but forgot to post on here :P

Sketch-A-Day October the Eighth

2011-10-08T18:31:00.002-04:00

The creation of Dr. Frankenstein

Wasn’t actually very mean

Unfortunately was forced to live a life remote

When he found the little girl did not float

So I realized after posting the poem that I have been pronouncing it Franken'steen' in my head, Young Frankenstein really stuck with me when I was young lol.

IT'S FRAHNK-EN-STEEN.

Sketch-A-Day October the Seventh

2011-10-07T18:59:00.004-04:00

The black cat of which strikes fear

Many a witch has called a dear

Though cute and fuzzy they may be

Please don’t doubt their ferocity

So I tried to go a bit Tim Burton-y on these but I don't really like how they came out, I think I'll have to practice some more :P

Sketch-A-Day October the Sixth

2011-10-07T01:19:00.000-04:00

The tale of Elizabeth Bathory

Can be quite a bloody memory

Admittedly, she had a bit too much fun

While she bathed in the blood of the innocent young

Sketch-A-Day October the Fifth

2011-10-05T21:46:00.001-04:00

Frankenstein’s Monster’s Bride to be

May greet you in a fashion unnecessary,

It may be in a shriek or hiss

But please try not to act so remiss

Sketch-A-Day October the Fourth

2011-10-05T14:59:00.002-04:00

Forgot to post this yesterday!

The word ‘Vamp’ was not a term of slang

When referring to Ms. Buveur DeSang

Sketch-A-Day October the Third

2011-10-03T19:32:00.002-04:00

So I've just now decided I will do a sketch a day for this month, since I love drawing halloween themed pieces, expect 2 more hopefully tonight.

Here we have Monsieur leLoup, my boyfriend helped me create this small poem to accompany him.

If you were to find a bite upon your lady’s croup

It could be the handiwork of Monsieur Tombeur leLoup

Now if you ask as to where your lady went

Monsieur will protest, he’s only the most dapper gent

September Sketches

2011-09-29T13:55:00.001-04:00

Elephant and bebe

2011-09-27T13:43:00.004-04:00

This started out as just a warm up yesterday of the mama's head, but I enjoyed myself so much I felt I should finish it, my goodness a "finished" piece. Lighting is wonky but lets just imagine theres a hole in the canopy ;)

This is a boring update

2011-09-12T23:02:00.006-04:00

Fair warning, yeah? I've basically started doing gestures and studies again, it's been awhile and I'm looking pretty rusty. these are from watching Will and his little brother + friends play tennis the other day, I'll have to join them more often. Also sorry about crappy cell phone images but I'm utterly tired of scanning...I really...really..loathe the act. (and I didn't feel they were even worth scanning anyway)

oh and a drawing of me :| told you it was boring.

September Sketchbook!

2011-09-05T23:57:00.003-04:00

Sketchbook

2011-08-22T01:12:00.003-04:00

just a few things from my sketchbook while I stayed with my best friends this last week. Had a nice visit to Gainesville and had a relaxing weekend ^_^

few more scribbles

2011-08-19T02:32:00.002-04:00

....that selkie arm is fud up :P

scribbles

2011-08-18T15:55:00.001-04:00

found!

2011-08-12T23:20:00.001-04:00

Found those elephants ^_^

When all else fails...animals..

2011-08-12T19:06:00.005-04:00

I am upset I can't find the page of elephants i did...ugh. Thats what I get for using printing paper, they always escape me.

I joined in the shark week sketch jam as well, but I'm quite lazy with scanning my sketchbook lately...

Rubbish

2011-08-01T16:42:00.003-04:00

Digital Practice

2011-07-14T12:52:00.003-04:00

just stuff. The leopard was for a tiny story, the line is from someone else I just illustrated it.

What I wore today...

2011-07-07T18:09:00.004-04:00

So I jumped on the bandwagon. As a warm up today I drew what I wore...and I decided to draw myself in my most natural state...confused.

Probably wondering how I'm able to dress myself after 22 years of existence.

PS I can't remember who it was who started What I wore today, I enjoy Tiffany Ford's renditions.

I just wanna say I'm proud I remember so many artist's blogs by their names I forget so much o_o;

P.p.s.

Yes i happen to have 5 fingers on one hand thanks Erin for pointing that out XD

More Watercolors & Gouache

2011-07-03T20:10:00.001-04:00

I'm very excited for Brave :P

Watercolor Practice

2011-06-26T14:38:00.002-04:00

I need to do a loooot more, I did these in the last 3 days. I also use some gouache in areas.
back to practice.

Train Station Doodles

2011-06-22T09:08:00.002-04:00

I forgot about these. The one good thing about cell phones is how little people move while staring aimlessly at them for long periods of time ;P

I'm baaaaaaaack

2011-06-21T19:51:00.008-04:00

From holiday! And I return with sketchbook pages of...well, meh. I'm a bit melancholic about my work lately but here it is. I recently visited London, Paris and Rome and my what a journey it was, a bit lonely as I was all on my own but an amazing experience! (I will be posting images of my trip to a flickr account hopefully soon...all sixteen..hundred of them....)

My works feeling a bit stagnant, I'm going to push myself to use my watercolors more, I was a bit while in Europe and it made me realize how much I haven't used them :\ ah well back to work work work

edit:
Holy COW I passed 300 followers?! Oh man oh man I can not believe that at all!! Thanks everyone I'm in complete awe right now :O

ipad 2 drawin

2011-06-08T03:20:00.003-04:00

Soooo I got to try sketchbook pro on the ipad for the first time, gotta say great program but I'm not very good at drawing digitally. Anywhere here's my fingerpainting from today :P

If you haven't noticed I keep drawing apes, and it's mostly from my excitement for the new 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. it just looks SO GOOD ;D

Inks

2011-05-27T21:54:00.001-04:00

May sketchdump

2011-05-27T21:35:00.005-04:00

uh...woah.

stuff

2011-05-18T02:21:00.001-04:00

Character Sheets

2011-05-01T16:17:00.003-04:00

Senior Thesis

2011-05-01T12:15:00.006-04:00

These are the pieces posted for my Senior Thesis Show. I have a lot more work done on the characters and will post those next. Congrats Everyone.

edit: Blogspot desaturates the life out of images...

Easter Bunneh

2011-04-28T15:29:00.001-04:00

Austin Madison had a small challenge on his blog to design the easter bunny, mine came out a little....evil :\

Sketches 4.22

2011-04-22T19:01:00.002-04:00

The lineup

2011-04-21T20:58:00.002-04:00

yay...

2..I mean 3 Thesis Characters

2011-04-10T04:00:00.006-04:00

Edit:

I will explain my thesis here in this post since Logan asked and I guess I haven't explained that yet so here goes...

I've created a story that is still not complete however acts as a homage to the story of Sun Wukong the monkey king. A popular tale from China.

A boy Ix (short for Ixtlahua meaning 'to restore') decides to find the Jaguar God, Tlatoani. Tlatoani is using his minions (consisting of crocodiles, ocelots, monkeys and his apprentice Xochi, a girl) to ravage villages and take over central america. Why? I don't really know...

Anyway Ix asks his father Hue Hue (oldman) how he might be able to defeat Tlatoani. His father doesn't know but has heard rumors of a great fighter to the north. So he sets off to find the fighter, asking monkeys and other animals to point him in the right direction. Some get him lost and he winds up in the Mojave desert. He passes out after awhile when a Peccary named Pitzotl (pig) finds him. The pig helps Ix find who he's looking for, unfortunately its just a Coyote named Nahualli (I typed the wrong name on the character sheet D:) Nahualli means sorcerer. Soooo after tricking the greatest trickster into coming along to help on the mission they head south. they brave minions and set backs I havent created but thats BASICALLY the story :\

SO, my thesis is visual development for this story, in total I'll have 6 illustrations done and 6-7 character sheets done to hang, then I'll have a book FULL of my process work, which is really the fun part in my opinion...

Trying to cut back...

2011-04-09T14:55:00.005-04:00

Trying to cut back on posting, I was feeling a bit self conscious about the amount of times I was updating, I felt I was getting a bit annoying. Perhaps I should just be more selective about my work. Anyhow these are from the last 2 or so days, I felt I needed to brush up on designing inanimate objects. The people and ocelots are for my thesis, ocelots are one of the minions the jaguar god (Tlatoani) controls. They're like little ninjas who have smoke bombs on their little vine belts :3.

Thaaaanks <3

Gah

2011-04-02T21:41:00.006-04:00

this is my submission for this over at the Not Your Father's Pin Up Blerg. I may have over rendered it :/ but yeah I may need to change the bg color as well its up for speculation, but I need to work on something else now I've been staring at it for too long.

EDIT:

Changed the bg and gave him whiskers I can't believe i forgot that. Also gave him an eye now at the risk of looking kinda cliche ;P

Weekend Dump

2011-03-21T15:12:00.002-04:00

Just a bunch of nonsense.

Last night

2011-03-17T09:37:00.004-04:00

stuff from last night.

I haven't been sleeping well :\

the bulls and unicorns are for my Advanced digital illustration class, we have to make some mock up labels for...anything? I chose to do red and white wine, Boiled Bulls Blood and Unicorn Tears. See if you can guess the inspiration >_>

:S

2011-03-16T17:02:00.005-04:00

uhhhhh....so yeahhh maybe i should have split this into 2 different posts, this is what happens when I don't scan as I go though :\

Some of this stuff is for my thesis, the NYFPU blog , the Alphabeastiary Blog, and just models I draw for fun from the Sartorialist.

I really need to work on my backgrounds, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to treat them like characters D:

thanks for looking :)

Thesis Malarkey

2011-03-01T13:00:00.003-05:00

I've been looking for a reason to use the word malarkey, my thesis gives good reason.

I'm not much on holding back my process for thesis, lots of seniors do but I just haven't given a hoot. I'll be trying to work on backgrounds and item sheets next then storyboards, spring break will be sleepless so help me...

Some Creatures

2011-02-25T16:37:00.002-05:00

Some dark fauns and a hell hound

meh day

2011-02-21T14:46:00.005-05:00

edit: Managed to finish this spread for development of a minor character in my thesis, Senor Roadrunner =_=;

not on the ball today, I'm not sure what's goin on but I'm definitely not feeling it. Ah well.

To switch it up a bit

2011-02-19T11:36:00.003-05:00

Can you guess who's sketchbook I've been looking at this week?

aside from that I wanted to practice more on humans..even though I turned them all into mythical creatures....

Weekend Sketches

2011-02-14T09:16:00.007-05:00

Well it's that day, Happy Valentines ;P, I've been sketching a lot but not getting much done otherwise. We had our very amazing friends Chez Gomez and Keyla Valerio and a few others come visit us this weekend. Also my roommates Vanesa & Drew are very fantastically sneaky people :D

A few of these 'fashionable' type people come from the blog The Sartorialist to which I was referred to by the lovely Miss Betsy Bauer ! I'm trying to draw more people and I adore a lot of the outfits on that blog.

Some hyenas, a sketch for an assignment based on the word embrace, dogs, annnnd a naked chick on an elephant. Hope you all have an enjoyable day!

also CONGRATS to everyone who got into SOI!!! :DD

Pokemon Redesign

2011-02-12T14:46:00.002-05:00

Redesigned the gameboy game covers...

edit: They look more official now.

Process Process Process

2011-02-11T18:24:00.002-05:00

Stuff for thesis and random doodles.

Some Pokemon

2011-02-07T09:30:00.002-05:00

Happy Lunar New Year

2011-02-05T23:07:00.001-05:00

(that warthog came out too pumbaa-y ;P)

New year New Sketchbook ;)

Megacon Comic

2011-02-03T10:35:00.002-05:00

Bottom of the barrel

2011-02-01T16:46:00.003-05:00

Sooooo busy with a 2 page comic for the group of students going to Megacon this year, my sketchbook has been suffering. Here are some things I managed to scrape together from the past few months. I've finished the comic for the most part just need to add text, that should be posted sooooooon

it's me again

2011-01-29T23:07:00.000-05:00

literally. I seriously never do anything else....

Duh-ump

2011-01-20T11:28:00.002-05:00

Digital Portrait

2011-01-19T19:37:00.003-05:00

I'm taking an advanced digital illustration class this year, and our first assignment was a self portrait.

I'm not too keen on self portraits in general so instead of having to draw my face again I made myself as an owl....now I feel awkward.

Warm ups 1/15

2011-01-15T13:16:00.002-05:00

some quick bears.

a wild blog post appeared...

2011-01-13T10:31:00.002-05:00

2011-01-07T19:44:00.001-05:00

Some concept stuff for a short comic, many legged tiger, totoros, and a monkey cowboy...with mutton chops...

2011-01-06T18:18:00.004-05:00

more randomness I suppose. The first two pertain to projects, a self portrait and a character in a short comic I've just finished the linework for. Some bunnies for the year of the rabbit :) and some fauns and centaurs. Hope everyones having a happy new year!

Randomitus

2011-01-03T09:24:00.002-05:00

A gift for two of my favorite people.

Just some stuff from the sketchbook.

Happy Holiday post :)

2010-12-25T16:04:00.002-05:00

Happy Holidays everyone, I hope you're all enjoying whatever it is you happen to be doing these last few weeks. I made both of my parents their own little paintings, the Cheshire cat went to my Ma and the Calvin & Hobbes went to my Pop :)

Tea Time!

2010-11-28T20:05:00.001-05:00

2/2 for my fashion illustration. Isn't he so pretty.

some color!

2010-11-21T21:21:00.003-05:00

experiments and assignments :)

munstros

2010-11-20T17:53:00.003-05:00

some stuff I've been working on for class. Some of these will be colored and posted :3

November Sketchpages

2010-11-20T17:27:00.002-05:00

this last one is for http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/164155.html choose a cat draw a girl :) Unfortunately I don't have much time to pretty these up with color, I'll hopefully get to do that soon. Some sheep, monkeys and dinosaurs in crayon :P

Thanks for stoppin' by.

-Nat

Etsy Shop is Up

2010-11-13T18:47:00.004-05:00

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Natasaurus

I'll be adding more pieces to my shop this week so make sure to check in every now and then :)

edit:

wow apparently that didn't link through. Anyhow, it's fixed :S

Caturday

2010-11-06T22:47:00.001-04:00

Its been one of those days.

Sketchbook fun

2010-11-05T17:45:00.001-04:00

Hope you enjoy :)

Finished Elefanta

2010-11-02T16:51:00.003-04:00

All I can say is I have an intense love/hate relationship with digital media.

Rough Elefanta

2010-10-29T17:47:00.001-04:00

this piece will be done the same way the tigresas piece was done because my professor wanted me to complete another for our open assignment.

Sketchbook Sept. pages

2010-10-25T17:04:00.002-04:00

Just some stuff from my sketchbook I never got to scan/post till now :P
...
I want to draw more pokemon...

Halloween!

2010-10-25T11:33:00.004-04:00

It's that awesome time of the year again!

with a page of friends & classmates to end it :P

Illest of Ill Results

2010-10-24T14:13:00.006-04:00

Soooo this years Illest was pretty awesome. We had guest artist Josh Cochran judge the show, picking out about 45-50 pieces to be hung in the Exhibition Hall of our school. I was lucky enough to get my sketchbook and my Space Monkey piece into the show!

Here's Josh, takin' a few pics of all the submissions laid out.

More of the submissions!

Congrats to all who got in!

I'm loving my school quite a bit this year, later the next week Andrew Jones made an unofficial visit to our Portfolio class. He gave us a very uplifting talk about being an artist. It was a nice start to the day :)

Tata Gala Submission

2010-10-19T10:17:00.003-04:00

Here is my piece for the Tata Gala this year :) A great annual gallery supporting Breast Cancer Awareness. Good luck to all who submitted!

La Musica Redux

2010-10-12T02:53:00.004-04:00

With blur

without blur

This is for a local music festival, I had the same assignment last year however this years came out better. Theres a 300$ prize for the poster they choose, and 150$ for the runner-up.
We'll see what happens but there are some really amazing entries from my fellow classmates!!

mini post - birdies

2010-10-11T17:34:00.002-04:00

Just a quick test with some brushes on CS5 hehehe

Stickers!

2010-10-06T19:44:00.002-04:00

These are A. a test run and 2. for a friend :P
The second batch is bigger and going to the friend, you might see the smaller first batch stuck around school :P I'm gunna be looking at different paper and
looking into making an Etsy to sell Prints and these badboys.

Experiment-ay

2010-10-03T01:04:00.003-04:00

Experimenting with Corel X :P

Color!

2010-10-02T15:10:00.002-04:00

A buddeh of mine Tyler Schatz helped me with the colors for these guys :D
I'm going to be experimenting with some digital coloring on these guys too along with some traditional.

Caribou!

2010-10-02T01:26:00.001-04:00

Beavers!

2010-10-01T11:24:00.003-04:00

B is for Beavahs (beavers) ¬.¬
Ironically watching Angry Beavers in the labs.

Armadillos!

2010-10-01T04:56:00.003-04:00

A is for Armadillos :3
I'm having too much fun with my animal alphabet

Tata Preview

2010-09-29T01:32:00.003-04:00

Birds, Bears and Kitties! oh my

2010-09-27T22:22:00.002-04:00

expect more of these but in alphabetical order ha. I did the birds for an assignment
but the dogs, cats, reptiles, and bears were for fun.
I think I'll be starting with Armadillos next.

2010-09-27T16:16:00.000-04:00

some previews of sketchbook pages. ho hummm

Illest of Ill

2010-09-26T15:52:00.002-04:00