Christina's Sketchbook

Bet you can't tell what I watched this week.

2011-09-21T23:38:00.001-04:00

I just realized that Rapunzel and Fiona have pretty much identical expressions going on.

OH WELL.

More Dragon Age Tomfoolery

2011-07-17T22:19:00.000-04:00

I've been watching the FIFA WWC at the gym for the last week (go USA!), and it really puts me in the mood for team graphics. I made a bunch of Dragon Age-related logo sketches a while ago, and I guess I never stuck them here.

You know what these need? A cleanup and some forced-perspective text.

Guys, I really like Homestuck.

2011-07-17T22:06:00.000-04:00

If you want to read a comic that combines drawing, music, animation, and interactive elements...MSPA comic "Homestuck" is for you. Before you can even say, "naw man, it's long and confusing" you will already be 2,000 pages into it and reasoning with yourself that you can read just ten more pages before bed...well, maybe ten more...another ten can't hurt...dear lord it is three AM.

If you already subscribe to this delightful series, you may extra-enjoy these Terezi Pyrope fanarts:

Poule Rouge

2011-05-19T01:35:00.003-04:00

I have the best housemate ever. True story. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

Grey Wardens and Tevinter Fugitives

2011-05-19T01:14:00.004-04:00

Finally finished playing Dragon Age II. Even after well over a year since playing the first installment, I still cannot get enough of this franchise. DAII is beautiful, and somehow has even more replay appeal to me than Origins. On to the flailing fanart.

Grey Wardens! Sherra and Rowain, the Wardens my roomie and I created in Dragon Age: Origins.

DAII: Fenris

TTGL

2011-05-19T01:01:00.003-04:00

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Do I love it? You bet I do.

More Bad Cat

2010-10-03T00:31:00.003-04:00

More images from "Bad Cat".

You might not think so, but simplifying takes a long time.

2010-09-04T02:11:00.005-04:00

I recently did a drawing to be used as a watermark for my stepdad's retirement party invitation. Now, I use the word "drawing" loosely, since I relied heavily on a photo to produce this image quickly and accurately; I outright traced over large areas, then went back in to pull out highlights and add detail. The result:

Hello there, USS Harry S. Truman. A Nimitz-class carrier was chosen because my stepdad has worked on every Nimitz-class carrier to be built by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company.

Stupid Profile Pictures

2010-09-04T02:04:00.001-04:00

One for Jordan, and one for me.

Pai Sho Flower Tiles

2010-07-14T20:16:00.000-04:00

One of the kids in the programming course here is making a Pai Sho game for his project. One of the other instructors and I got coerced into making his tiles, so here are the flowers. Left to right: white jade, jasmine, rose, rhododendron, and chrysanthemum.

I wish I had named it "Oh Snap."

2010-07-14T15:06:00.000-04:00

Please enjoy my hobby photo blog, ceevee photo. It's a lot of old stuff right now, but it's pretty much going to be an album.

Saturday is a good day for cute desktops.

2010-07-10T20:02:00.000-04:00

Making cute vector art is very therapeutic. This image was created to show as a demo for my graphic design class two weeks ago. Teaching thirteen-year-olds how to use Illustrator is challenging. It's kind of, "Yeah, brush tool!" and "Pen tool is too hard!" I was a tyrant and banned them from using their tablets for an entire morning, and I was rewarded with many groans of frustration.

Logo time, again.

2010-06-01T22:00:00.000-04:00

This one'll serve as part of a sample project for camp training this weekend. The "business" is a fashion photography studio. As usual, I began complicated (35mm film) and ended simply (red&black).

It reproduces well small, which makes me a happy camper.

Bad Cat image sampler.

2010-05-25T10:05:00.000-04:00

I'm building a video game - a side-scrolling action RPG, specifically. I have been introduced to the amazing software developed by Clickteam and the Multimedia Fusion Developer has been consuming my free time. These little icons were put together in Adobe Illustrator. Map samples are next.

Just some Dragon Age shenanigans.

2010-05-22T00:00:00.001-04:00

I got my scanner out of storage! I have a lot of sketchbook pages to scan, and a photo essay to edit from my trip to Rome. Until then, enjoy my awful sense of humor regarding party banter in Dragon Age.

One week.

2010-03-07T21:31:00.001-05:00

Dragon Age: Origins keeps me well-occupied while I await the release of Pokémon Soul Silver.

I'm a little excited.

2010-03-03T22:08:00.001-05:00

High Volumes is finished!

2010-02-10T21:44:00.000-05:00

Final work for High Volumes. My favorite part was definitely drawing the caricatures for the host's info page.

More High Volumes

2010-01-28T12:42:00.000-05:00

A revised set of logos for "High Volumes".

It's supposed to snow this weekend, so I'm excited about the prospect of making snowmen! Last time it snowed in Yorktown, rain came chasing right after the flurries and melted everything. I just want some snow before it becomes spring.

Oh logos.

2010-01-22T15:36:00.000-05:00

A friend of mine just commissioned me to design a logo for her radio show in Boston, and I went kind of nuts on the prelim sheet.

The show is mainly about printed poetry, so she wanted a stack of books wearing headphones. I think I like #16 the best due to simplicity and symmetry.

Adorable Urchins

2010-01-08T23:19:00.000-05:00

For some reason, the only things I can seem to draw are endearingly cute guttersnipes.

I imagine that they spend their free time (which is all the time since they are certainly truant) improving their slingshots and inventing new ways to annoy the big dog in the corner yard. Deep down, though, they have hearts of gold and do things like feed stray cats and help old ladies across the street (though none will admit to such acts).

It's finally 2010

2010-01-06T00:19:00.000-05:00

Happy 2010. Please enjoy this seemingly carnivorous newt. My wishes for the new year include getting more blog followers and seeing more diverse blog updates. Also, a job would be cool.

It's "SA"...not "Essay".

2009-12-17T22:38:00.000-05:00

My friend Lauren and I spent some time making stamps earlier this week. By "stamps" I really mean "a huge mess". We received a request to design a simple logo and create a stamp for the winter soiree held by Thomas Nelson Community College's Student Association. Naturally, we had to make some mistakes before getting it right; we made a stamp for "Essay" instead of "SA", so we ended up having to redo the whole thing...at least we got some practice in, right?
Really, though, we had a lot of fun. There are only photos of Lauren testing the stamps, but I promise that I did some work, too!

Website newness.

2009-11-27T17:26:00.000-05:00

Please enjoy the freshly revamped ceeveeillustration.com, now with less elegance and more me. You might want to wear sunglasses.

Cats.

2009-10-10T11:35:00.000-04:00

A friend of mine is holding a "Grand Cheshire Ball" for Halloween, and invited other illustrators to invent their own cats inspired by Carroll's Cheshire. Being the geek that I am, I made one.

Grimm & Grimm

2009-10-06T21:36:00.000-04:00

For a while during the summer I was doing a lot of drawing for a fairy-tale spinoff story featuring the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The challenge was to do one drawing a day for one, two, or three months. Here's some of the stuff from the month I did.

Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm and Jakob in Gretel's kitchen.

Gretel's house cutaway

Gretel's house concept.

Gretel's house. It's actually on the spot where the witch's house once stood. Gretel gave up sweets and spent her adolescence learning how to grow fruits and vegetables. She also used the witch's books and notes to learn magic. Her brother, Hansel, travels most of the time in search of seeds and saplings to expand the variety of his sister's garden.

Gretel's house concept

Gretel costume color combos. I like G best.

The brothers and one of their note books. They have a pile of books just like it, all filled with notes on folklore and myths.

Thick blood.

2009-09-27T21:55:00.000-04:00

You know when you sit still for a long time and you can almost feel your blood getting thick? I feel like that.

Anyway, while all of you are having group sketch times, I'm down here with a cat, an old lady, and an Intuos3 for company. I make ridiculous vector graphics and continually throw myself at the t-shirt printing industry to avoid a vegetative state.

Various degrees of vector smush, mostly in the form of birthday cards for friends.

This image is in the running (well, maybe bringing up the tail end of the running) at Shirt.woot's weekly contest. You can even vote for it if you've bought a shirt from the site before.

This cricket bat shirt would very much like to go to print, and could do so with your kind votes.

I'm looking forward to harassing the Richmond population in November.

Up, Left, Right

2009-09-02T16:00:00.000-04:00

Sometimes I get working on a serious illustration, but then I get distracted by some scrap paper and this kind of thing happens.

I finished a drawing for myself. I really did.

2009-08-27T23:34:00.000-04:00

I hardly ever finish anything drawn for myself, but I did it this time! Haydee from Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. Haydee, you make everything all right in the end.

I should do a sketch post, too. In the mean time, here's some fun doodles. I'm (not really) sorry, but they are all Legend of Zelda related. I'm so impatient for Spirit Tracks (the new toon-styled LoZ game for DS) to be released that I'm replaying every other game in the franchise until December. Except for Four Swords, since I have no one with whom I can play. Very sad, I know. I'm currently playing through Ocarina of Time. Guys, the Shadow Temple is a lot scarier than I remember it being.

I need to practice coloring glass.

I am the laziest sketchbook updater on the Internet.

2009-07-13T17:58:00.000-04:00

I can't believe I haven't posted since before graduation. Here, from newest to oldest, is a little bit of what was in my "to be scanned" pile:

In other news:
I moved down to Florida without too much difficulty, and am enjoying extreme humidity and clockwork precipitation to the utmost. My cat is stoked that a flock of ibis likes to hang out in the back yard.

Fairy Tales and Drama Doodles

2009-05-10T23:53:00.000-04:00

Last three illustrations for Senior Project. They're for "The Metal Pig" (Hans Christian Andersen) and "The Bremen Town Musicians" (Grimm's). The black and white is a tiny spot illustration to go with "Bremen".

Doodling while watching Korean drama "Coffee Prince". Yoon Eun Hye is so awesome.

Some Aged Plein Aires in Oil

2009-04-24T17:52:00.001-04:00

2009-03-31T17:34:00.001-04:00

2009-01-15T20:29:00.000-05:00

2008-12-01T10:24:00.000-05:00