Sophie Tran

Animation and Illustration are bound within a hand and a soul.

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Fake septum thanks to @elishafrancis. What do you reckon? Does it suit me? 😁 #septum #fake #don'thavetheballs

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Sosuke wearing his #innocentsmoothiehat 😀❣ #hamster #petstagram #winter

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This is my hamster, I love him...he’s my baby.

We’ve named him Sosuke. :)

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This is the first proper thing I draw on my shiny new Wacom. I probably should have drawn something magical...Oh well. My next illustration will be better and happy.

I probably should have been more creative too...

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The day has finally come. Happy new year to meeeee!

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I haven't used my Wacom in some time during this festive retail season. Noticed on Twitter that today's sketch dailies is Hellraiser. I instantly thought of Cacti. The guide obviously worked....

P.S someone please buy me a Wacom Cintiq 13HD.

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Hipster Calligraphy animation practice with help from Mt. Mograph. 

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I'm in a bad mood right now, so I drew it.

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I was set a design brief from Matt Wilson and The House London to create a 30 second explainer video. This was a brief set as a part of the Animator and Film Intern opportunity that is available in Bristol, the opportunity was only released for a week so I'm happy I made this within deadline.

More details are attached on the actual Vimeo site.

What's your best method to make the bed? :) 

(Wish me luck folks.)

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Busy busy bee

So I haven't been able to draw much in the past couple of weeks, been mega busy with DOk Leipzig as well as general job requirements. Today has been my first full day off in a long time, so I've been cleaning....no one likes limescale!

But I felt that I should draw something, so there's me as a busy bee ^_^.

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Every now and then people ask me about my process, how I colour things in or achieve certain textures. I always mean to answer these questions, but it’s kind of complicated and it would be a bit time consuming. So here instead are some pictures to do that job. A caveat here is that I rarely work the same way twice and every job is generally an experiment in figuring out new ways to work. But lately quite often my process is something like this.

Step one is to start on paper with ink or gouache. I scan that in and through some photoshop magic (selecting black and white channels and copying to layers) turn every piece into layers. These are actually all things I still happened to have on file. For my last book I made a little data base of rocks, trees and branches to use wherever I needed something. Think of it as a form of collage.

I very quickly put these things together for this demo. Then put every layer on a transparency lock (it’s in the layer window). The next step is basically just messing around with colours. I have a pretty large collection of custom brushes made from various ink and paint washes and splashes. You can basically just use those as rubber stamps to add colours and textures to your layers. This is where the transparency lock comes in handy, as you don’t need to select anything. Finally I mess around with some adjustment layers to see if something interesting will happen to the colours I hadn’t planned on. And that’s basically it.

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I got some questions about my colouring process lately, so I thought I’d reblog this. It’s a bit old, but I still work pretty much the same way for a lot of projects. Sometimes I draw directly in photoshop and use those custom brushes to layer colours and textures on shapes, or I make something predominantly with pencils. In which case I either use a transparency lock on the linework and colour it in that way. Or it barely needs any work. Which frankly, seems like a better and better idea the longer I’m working on my current mess of bits of scanned in gouache and ink washes.

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Little personal project/experiment. And… excuse to draw more glowing things, you know. 

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Beautiful work!

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Looking through Lookbook.nu for inspiration.

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One down, Four to go. Saying that I'll probably do some more tweaks once I have the other band members done. 

Such a great band, only discovered them last year but a great inspiration. 

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The latest Tweets from Sophie Tran (@SophieTranUK). Animator, Illustrator and Designer. Bristol

Get on it folks! ;) I promise I'll post semi-awesome tweets. 

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Incredible.

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Thought I'd give it a go with trying a landscape with snow, I'm feeling pretty happy about it actually. Some of it was happy accidents but I'm learning every time I move the Wacom pen.

The top version was my initial attempt. But it was rubbish, so I did another version keeping the sky as that was the part that I liked. There is still something missing, but I don't know what.