Danger girl, lover girl

[secondlina]

Art for my good buddy torreadora of her character Jenny and two of her beaus, Jude and Eli. I could not decide what version of her character to draw, so I ended up drawing her in two different phases of her life, and inking the crap out of them.



I'm actually really glad I met torreadora  and her sister kit_a_licious because they are turning into indirect drawing teachers. I spend a lot of time looking at the art these two produce, and it's teaching me some new stuff about textures and lines. So thanks guys! :D

Another something beautiful to look at : threeeyesworm  linked me yesterday to a video made by "L'école des Gobelins", a French animation school, possibly the best animation school in the world (graduates get hired by Disney a lot). I simply adore this video. It's the story of this seamstress in a doll world waiting for her husband.to come back from the war. He comes home... different. The seamstress tries to fix the world around her, but it's not so simple. This is like a mix of Howl's moving Castle, Disney's Fantasia and French war stories. And it's GORGEOUS. Please take the time to watch this and other things on the Gobelin's youtube channel. Well worth your time.



Seeing things like this reminds me of why I adore animation. It's simple, powerful and communicates with pretty much any viewer.

Some times, I wish I would have gone into animation, but i'm really more of a comic artist at heart. I don't think I would have been that good at it.

Tomorrow, i've got a day off! Link is heading to Ottawa to see some friends for New Year's. I'll be sticking around here (I don't know the people and I already lost a whole week of drawing.. I really can't afford to slack off for another 2 days). So i'll be around home, eating, inking and being buried in my fluffy new pajamas.

- Isa

Comments

[mangaka-chan.livejournal.com]

At first I didn't understand what Howl's Moving Castle had to do with it, but after seeing the video I think Raven!Mytho would also make a fitting analogy. I'm not familiar with French animation (the only other French animated film I've heard of is The Triplets of Belleville, and that's because it was in the running for an Oscar the same year LotR won Best Picture >>;;) but the style of the animation does feel nostalgic to me.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I forgot about Mytho! It's kinda like his transformation too. ;_;

Dude, totally check out the movie called "Secret of Kells" if you haven't already. It's a delicious European film.

[mangaka-chan.livejournal.com]

I've heard about that movie before. I'll see if I can rent it one of these days off of iTunes.