Ruud Request

A few weeks ago I held a visitor contest on my deviantart, offering up 1 free drawing for the person who nabbed my 50,000th pageview. I had two winners in the end, the talented composer/sound designer James Dalby and one of my art-peer idols, Ruud Hendricks.

The latter's request is the one I chose to do first and just finished today. He requested a romantic picture of him and his girlfriend (or their avatars, at least). It was an honor for me because I really idolize both his and his girlfriend's work as designers and artists. You can learn about their self-run studio here.

Also, on a related tangent, On October 2nd I received a Daily Deviation (a special feature) on devianart.com with my Veil Taffeta test animation. I am so grateful, as this is not only my second DD but The Taffeta's second DD as well (the first one belonging to The Birth of Something Beautiful). With over 1,000 favorites, 30+ likes to The Taffetas facebook, and 300 new watchers to my deviantart I couldn't be more thrilled. I'm always so taken aback by how much support the Taffetas work receives, which makes me excited for more great work to come.

Finally, Drawing for Fun!

Baby Veil

Veil was a pretty quiet but sensitive kid. Growing up, he would seem almost too well-behaved, sitting up straight in a chair, out of the way and quiet, and always remembering his "please" and "Thank yous". In moments where he thought no one was watching he might sometimes take comfort in softer things like plushies or blankets, or engage in more childish behavior like swinging his feet around from where he sat.

Rafe and AlexArt Trade with Megan Miller of her wonderful characters Rafe and Alex. Essentially, Rafe is an assassin robot gone rogue who relies on a young, human mechanic, Alex,to see that he is always functional and operating. The two form a close bond together after many thrilling and action-packed adventures together and begin to like, you know, worry about each other and stuff. She drew me Veil and Gemini in return!

Taffetas Poster Work

Well, today was the last day to vote for the online reader's poll of the Animation Magazine contest! Jess and I won't know how we did with the competition until mid-July so we'll just have to wait and see. I'm so thankful for each and every person who helped out and voted and spread the word. As I have said, this contest is not Yesenia's and my only opportunity, but it is a fairly good one and we are excited to be participating.

In the meantime, here's some behind-the-scenes stuff of the poster we did.




After many concepts, thumbnails, and a few rough sketches, we narrowed our choices down to one poster.... which then later split into two posters because we freaked out near the end and our first poster wasn't good enough auuugh, so we tried to see if we could fix it (shown above), quickly grew frustrated with lack of sleep and a disappearing sense of self-worth, and went with a slightly altered version of our original poster.

Lace Taffeta

This is Lace Taffeta, my character Veil's mother.

His father remembers her as a saint.