Happy Valentines Day! I haven't drawn much personal art for myself in a bit, so it felt fitting to draw some cute Valentine's themed art with my OCs. 🥰 I was inspired by the pastel rainbow colours of Valentines heart candies for the colour palette, I wanted to do something different than my 1st instinct of making everything ultra red/pink, which I'm glad I did! I was also inspired by that one Georgie Porgie rhyme where the kid kisses others while smeared in jam, which is totally something Marty would do to Nicky LOL 🤪 I really enjoy making cute art, it always lightens up my day~ 💘👨🏾❤️💋👨🏽🍫
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[Image Description: A color pencil drawing of my original characters, Nicky & Marty, as kids, with Marty (on the right) kissing Nicky (at the left) on the cheek as Nicky eats a chocolate bar. Above them is text that says "As Sweet as Chocolate". Both have chocolate smears on their faces and hands; Marty is smushing Nicky's face in his kiss, making Nicky blush. Both are wearing pastel colour clothes, Marty wearing warm tones while Nicky wears cool tones. Hearts the same pastel rainbow colours as Valentine's Day heart candies float around them.]
Happy New Years Eve! 🎉 2022 was a difficult year for me. My personal life had been upended and quite frankly, ripped apart by several tragedies during 2022 and 2021: I got covid in January, which wrecked my health and gave me fatiguing complications that I'm still dealing with 1 year later; I cut off some friendships that I believed would've lasted a lifetime, but unfortunately turned out to be deeply destructive and toxic for me, forcing me to let go; and of course getting heartbroken by all off the world's constant downspiral into reactionary violence and oppression. I went through some things that I thought would've been the worst things to ever happen to me, and they were. But I survived them all. I can't believe that I went from being terrified of dying painfully in January to speedrun accomplishing so many goals I've had for years (make a zine, learn animation, personal life milestones, etc.) by December...on top of running my very first school club!!! I'm exhausted, but I am so fulfilled from all that I've completed. It's hard for me to slow down and appreciate the work I've finished instead of rushing to the next big project, so I'm trying to get better at that and cool down. While I definitely have more ambitions to accomplish in 2023, I think the best thing I can do for myself is to chill out this new year. Thank you all for the support, and a special thank you to my new peers at school I've met! 💖
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[Image Descriptions: 9 artworks arranged in a 3 by 3 grid. From left to right, top to bottom: Utena Tenjou from "Revolutionary Girl Utena" stylized as an American cartoon; background art of a sci-fi alien moon city with a neon blue city skyline; background art of misty mountains backlit by a setting sun, with a blue feather, red ball and white and yellow ribbon shuttlecock on the ground; a gay fish; thumbnails for Keaton St. James' poem "july in appalachia"; my original character Naoko in pink and rainbow fashion; a gijinka of Sasha from "Animal Crossing: New Horizons; and the cover of my zine titled "Flowers for my Loved Ones".]
Background art and some frames I like the most from my moon rabbit animation! I've been leaning into a more impressionistic style for background art lately, to help myself into actually getting them done 😅 I was going for a midnight skyline, like Shanghai and Tokyo, that would glow in the distance brighter than the actual stars in the sky. I definitely want to do more background and environment art in the future as I have a lot of ideas for the setting of my moon rabbit world. 🐰🌙✨
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[1: A digital painting of a sci-fi moon with a neon blue city skyline in the distance, with starry outer space and the earth above. The skyline buildings have Asian style pagoda roofs and ringed antennae at their tops. The moon ground is dusty with craters, and boulders in the foreground of the art. The stars are scattered around the earth.]
[2: A frame of the moon rabbit catching the feather in a mid-air leap.]
[3: A frame of the moon rabbit kneeling on the ground, a sparkling rock in their left hand, opening their mouth so wide that their head splits in half and their eyes are bulging and rolled back.]
[4: A frame of the rabbit standing on their right leg in the final pose of them throwing the bitten rock to the earth. The earth shines from the speed of the flying rock towards it.]
At long last, my final Lunarian animation project finished!!! I worked so incredibly hard this semester on my biggest animation project yet. It’s amazing how much I learned in the span of a few months, from not knowing anything about Toonboom or basic animation skills to finishing this entire production. I had a lot of help from my teachers and encouragement from my peers, I am greatful for their support throughout this wild journey to get here! :3
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My 1st and final storyboard animatics for my Lunarian final animation! I did MANY storyboard drafts over the months, with it evolving so drastically from my 1st to final versions. Seeing them side by side wows me at how much time I’ve spent on this project. :3
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Dialogue mouth movement animation drafts I did for the base of my final Lunarian animation! I had no idea what I was doing (as with the rest of this project lol) but I did get gradually better at understanding mouth movements with the help of my teacher. Music credit goes to ZUN: “White Flag of Usa Shrine”.
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Treadmill walk cycle I made as a base for my final Lunarian animation! This was the most challenging draft animation I had to do, I spent SO much time correcting it ;^; It turned out great though so the work paid off!
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Character turnaround and model sheets for my final animation of this semester, starring my Lunarian creature! This character design changed so much in just the span of a few months, as you can see in these pics. You’ll see more changes as I release more art of this project in the following week!
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[1: A digitally coloured traditional pencil drawing of a turnaround sheet of a Lunarian in 8 angles. From angles #1 - #5, the body starts from a front view gradually turning to the left to a back view, and angles #6 - #9 move to a quarter right view. The Lunarian is a white rabbit cyborg alien standing 4 heads tall. It's black large eyes with blue irises are bordered by black "eyeliner" and take up most of the space of its face, with 3 blue orb antennae on its head. The ears are waist length with grey inner lining. It's hands and feet are the largest body parts apart from the head, it's torso relatively thin compared to them. Grey elbows, knee joints, and paw padding accent the body. Spirals are on the joints of the upper arm and thighs.]
[2: A pencil drawing of 6 Lunarian action poses. From the top row to bottom row, left to right: a Lunarian doing a back flip with their hands out front and legs reaching the top of their head; a Lunarian walking to the right in a profile view; a Lunarian side profile posed in low gravity pointing at a star in front of their face; a Lunarian side profile leaping to the right upwards; a Lunarian sitting on the ground and gazing to the sky with legs crossed over each other; and a Lunarian on all fours walking towards the left.]
[3: A pencil drawing of 6 Lunarian facial expressions. From the top row to bottom row, left to right: a starstruck expression with paws at the cheeks and stars in the eyes; a creepy face angled upwards in shadow and no irises showing; an angry expression with eyes furrowed and ears scrunched up; a sad expression with lidded eyes and head in a downwards angle, with a paw holding their arm; an eating scene of the face opened wide open with eyes bulging out to reveal sharp chisel teeth; and a curious expression with the face looking straight ahead, cocked to the left with a paw supporting that side.]
Art assets and the background I drew for my gay fish puppet rig animation! While I liked rigging my puppet, admitedly I had zero idea what I was doing trying to animate it...😭 This project was a trial run on learning rigs for my final project and though I don't totally like how my fish animation came out it was a great learning moment for me. My biggest motivation to finish this was to make everything ✨slay✨ And yes...it is exactly what you think is in the sand HAHA 😈🍆🌈
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[1: A rainbow ocean themed digital art of a gay fish, seaweed, poppers, and a pearl clam. The fish is hot pink with large red lips, blue eye shadowed eyes, sharp red acrylic nails, big breasts and long flowing rainbow fins. The seaweed has 3 branches growing from the same root. The poppers bottle says "Rush" with a lightning bolt through the logo. The pearl clam's red lipstick mouth is wide open, with a shiny pearl necklace sitting on their tongue and in front of its uvula. The background is hot pink with a water pattern overlay, and blue and dark pink borders.]
[2: A digital painting of an ocean floor covered in various gay paraphernalia. On the left, is two pink hands with red acrylic nails and pearls dangling from them enclose a disco ball shining light throughout the scene. On the right, is a rainbow pearl clam with red lips and a pearl necklace resting on its tongue. Rainbow seaweed sits in the foreground and background. All objects are on yellow sand that glitters rainbow and has scattered poppers, "rubbers", and a strap covered by it. The watery background has a water pattern overlay.]
My final storyboard project starring my creek angel character design! Since the story is based off of Keaton St. James' poem "july in appalachia", the storyboards tell the story. I wanted to capture a sort of macabre yet warm feeling in my boards, something that first intimidates you but once you get to know that feeling, it turns into familiarity. Ink painting is always calming for me to do~ 👼🐠🐸🩸
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[1: A black and white with red accents mixed media storyboard with 2 panels vertically placed. The mediums are pencil, ink, and china markers. The 1st panel depicts a girl sitting near the water on the right side, clutching her left leg in pain as her cut foot bleeds into the water, beside a bloody jagged rock. Her blood drifts in the water towards the bottom right.]
[2: The 2nd panel depicts the girl's back, her expression in awe at seeing the angel Saul's shining head peer out from the water. Blood pools around Saul, matching his red eyes and his tongue slithers up lapping the blood.]
[3: A black and white with red accents mixed media storyboard with 2 panels vertically placed, continuing from the last page. The mediums are pencil, ink, and china markers. The 3rd panel depicts the girl on the left leaning towards Saul on the right to speak with him, pointing her finger up to the sky towards Heaven. Saul is smiling wide, face shining as he points towards the girl.]
[4: The 4th last panel depicts Saul smiling even wider, his hands joyfully gestured around him. Bluegill fish leap from the air and peek their heads towards Saul. He is shining the brightest ever in the scene.]
[5: Pencil thumbnails of the 1st 3 story beats of "july in appalachia". Each beat has 3 thumbnails in horizontal rovws. From top to bottom: 1st panel of the girl bleeding into the water, the 2nd panel of Saul emerging from the water, and the 3rd panel of the girl and Saul talking to each other.]
[6: Pencil thumbnails of the last 4th story beat, china marker and ink wash sketches. The bottom depicts the 4th panel of Saul smiling to the viewer. Red, yellow, green, blue and black china markers are textured above, alongside ink washes.]
Making a separate post about the details of my printed zine and what it looks like! BIG shout out to the Digitial Outprint Centre and the Communication Design Studio for helping me make this zine real and so polished!!! It was a HUGE learning curve making this zine and I spent most of my spare time working on it this past semester. It's surreal how my zine actually physically exists now, I've really wanted to make one and I finally did it 😭💖 I have limited copies of this zine availible, so get one quick at Emily Carr's Student Art Sale on Nov. 25th - 27th! 🎁
Check out my art prints here!
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1: [Zine front cover with the title "Flowers for my Loved Ones - a zine by Lenny Yang" in cursive handwriting. The title is bordered by rainbow gradient line and flower borders.]
2: [Zine introduction page detailing my experiences and feelings about the zine with my cursive signature at the bottom.]
3: [Zine table of contents page with the flowers, names and pronouns each character in the zine has.]
4: [Zine back cover with my handwritten artist handle "Mudanart" and my social media contact info.]
Some exciting news: I'm selling prints and zines at my school's Student Art Sale, happening Nov. 25th - 27th!!! This is my first ever time not only participating in Emily Carr's SAS, but selling my own artwork! This past semester has gone by in a flash, I've worked harder than I ever have and now I can finally share about this accomplishment with everyone! 💖
Check out the zine photoset here!
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1: [A photo of my three types of art prints: "Flower Fem", "Vampire Raver Queen", and "Moon Rabbit".]
2: [A close up on my "Vampire Raver Queen" print. The print size is 12 x 18 inches.]
3: [A close up on my "Flower Fem" and "Moon Rabbit" prints. Their print sizes are 11 x 14 inches.]
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