Merry Christmas ! Two new fan art =D

Merry Christmas everyone =D
and a Happy new year of course.

I've done two more pieces of fan art =D
I hope you guys like them.

They will probably be the last for this year. But 2015 will bring a whole new load of art =D so look forward to it =P


The Cheshire cat :

and, Harley Quinn, the more traditional Version =D

Until Next time =D

~ Ariane 

Fan Art & New animation =)

Hey guys =)

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while,
i've been to Japan and back.

But I'm now back in action =P

I've started a short animation for my younger brother, he makes music and is currently studying music engineering.
You can find some of his works here : Vigour & Vibe

And i'm just doing a quick 12 second animation to put to his 'sample package'. So that people get an idea of his style of music =)

This is the storyboard,

and of course some character designing,

It took us a while to get colours right, but this is the character we ultimately decided on: 

 

These are some of the heads designs we came up with for the character: 

And just a few of the hundreds of colour sheets i did until we finally decided on one hahah

And now for the fan art : 

Howl from Howl's moving castle

Marceline from Adventure Time

Quick Post

I'm trying to cut down the time i take to do a piece of art ~

I thought i'd start by checking what my capabilities are in one day's worth of work.
This is what i got ~
It's not the best thing i've ever done, but considering how much time i usually take to do a piece ~ i'm proud =)

Until next time ~
Ariane

my website : www.apicsstudio.com
my deviantart: http://arianetorelli.deviantart.com

Trying out a new style  ~
It's a lot quick and easier then what i normally do ~ and seems to be quite effective for character designing =)

My webpage: www.apicsstudio.com
My deviantart: http://arianetorelli.deviantart.com

Until next time ^^

New valuable art sites and a finished piece.

Hey everyone,

I finally finished this drawing :

It was inspired by this photo : http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BezlNYICIAEldfG.jpg:large
I've decided to call it "Untitled - 01" because no matter how much I looked at it, I couldn't decide what to call it.
I've also got a time - lapse of it :

So i was drawing this drawing, and I got frustrated at my own lack of skill and ability,
So i started a hunt through the depths of the internet to find some more information as well as steps i can take to future advance my skills (without it costing me my entire life saving)
and this is what i found :

An online school called CGMA.
It looks pretty good, although I personally have not tried any of the classes.

http://2d.cgmasteracademy.com/programs/

But then I went and found this blog :

http://conceptartdrive.blogspot.com.au

He has done some of those classes, and he also shares some really good advice and experience.  I would definitely recommend this blog.


I also found this page:
http://www.digitalartistdaily.com/blog/2012/11/how-to-create-a-skin-colour-palette/
that gives an awesome suggestions as to how to find your skin-tone pallet.

Also, on Facebook I stumbled across this link :
http://www.digitalartistdaily.com/blog/category/tips-tutorials/
It has some good tutorials =P

So have a look at some of these links, i think they are worth the time =)

Until next time ,
~ Ariane

Back in Action

Hey everyone,
sorry for such a long break, my computer's hard drive died on me (the day after i did a backup - THANK GOD.)

anyway, I haven't been doing nothing ~ i've done a few live drawing sketches and studied a bit of anatomy and ways of drawing ~ so i'll only leave a few sketches.

Because i've literally only just had my computer for 7 min now ~ so I'm gonna go draw =D
yay photoshop ~!!

Until next time ~
Ariane

New Drawing

Hey Everyone 


Sorry for the "inactive-ness" ~ 
my brother is doing a remix of Lily Allen's song "Sheezus" for a competition ~

So i did a piece of cover art for him 

It's the first i've been able to do in a while ~ and i've only been able to do it cause i'm home sick with a swollen throat 

Im quite happy with it ~ although i know i've still got a fairs way to go before I'm as good as i'd like to be 
but i think this drawing turned out well for me ^^ 

Took me 2 days all up (spread over a week) 

My website : www.apicsstudio.com
My deviantart: www.arianetorelli.deviantart.com
My youtube: youtube.com/user/ApicsStudio