Sculpture: captain

Made with Sculpey clay over a wire/tin foil armature, painted with acrylics and decorated with beads and chain. I'll be modeling this character in Maya in the upcoming terms.


Watch out for that big furry monster

Concept Art: Dune

Concepts for Frank Herbert's Dune, done in watercolor, gouache and finished in Photoshop

Leto II from God Emperor of Dune

Alia's Temple interior and exterior

3D: Term 2 environment final

Assignment: snow scene, 30000 tris, 3 camera angles, not enough time :)

Sculpture: Jafar

Sculpey clay and acrylic paint

Concept art: The Beast of London

From Neil Gaiman's book Neverwhere

Concept art: Western Robin Hood

The project involved taking a character from a classic story and putting them into a different era

Concept art: Character design - hero

Watercolor, pastel and pen on very wrinkled paper

Drawing: Final project for term 1 life drawing

Studies of emotions, drawn from photos in coloured pencil

3D: Term 1 low poly character

The assignment was to model a comic book character with a budget of 1100 polys

3D: Term 1 environment final

Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco
(modeled in Maya, rendered with mental ray)

It's missing a few things I want to add later, but for now, it's finally done!

Sketchbook: Page of hands

Sketchbook: Colour!

Sketchbook: Coloured pens

Pen, watercolour and gouache

Art: Life drawing

Some pages from Feb - March

3D: Common object render

First completed, textured model for our common objects school assignment.

Sketchbook: Random portraits

Drawn from my head.

Sketchbook: Sculptures

Pen, watercolour and gouache

Sketchbook: Orchid watercolour and Chai

Photos: Gastown and the library, b&w

Sketchbook: Blind contour - my desk

(that would be a drawing made without looking at the page or lifting your pen)

Art: Self Portrait

For life drawing class. Self portrait in pen, marker, charcoal, and some white coloured pencil. No cheating with photos, just using a mirror, so it was as awkward to draw as you can imagine.

Sewing: Navy cropped jacket - Vogue 8299

For my first jacket, I chose a simple unlined one, Vogue 8299. (After finishing all those edges with seam binding, lining doesn't sound so bad after all). I made view B because I loved the asymmetrical look, and used a navy blue cotton twill.

Pattern Alterations

Unfortunately the pattern only came in sizes S, M and L. The size small was way too big so I had to take it in a lot. I think the sleeves are still too baggy. I added some details not in the pattern like the epaulets, cuffs, bound buttonholes, and that thing on the back... I'm sure it has a real name, but I don't know what it is. The buttons were cheap, tacky looking shiny brass, but brushing them with steel wool gave them a nice finish like some expensive buttons I nearly bought.



I'm especially happy with the bound buttonholes! They took a bit longer to do, but were still way less frustrating than trying to do the regular kind on my machine.

Sewing: Embroidered turquoise corduroy jacket

I'd had this jacket for a while, but never wore it because it didn't really fit right. To fix the fit, I took it in at the waist and added the eyelets and lacing on the back. Then I removed one pocket and embroidered the ship in that space, and added some decorative bits to the other pocket (hanging from one half of a metal clasp). Since I took these pictures I swapped the buttons for silver ones with anchors on them to fit with the nautical theme (still looking for a home for those pretty tree buttons).

Sewing: Zipper bottom pants

I bought these pinstriped pants (on sale! cheap!) that were way too long and wide, but they fit in the waist and hips, so I thought I could make something of them. I forgot to take a before picture, but this is how much I removed from the width, making them fairly fitted all the way down but not super tight around the ankle.

I've seen a few zipper bottom jeans in stores lately, so I thought that would make an interesting detail and help them fit over my boots (I found out later, they also fit over figure skates). On this kind of pants, it doesn't look too 80's...

I added a triangle of fabric behind the zipper, because those metal zippers are pretty rough and would probably scratch up boots, socks, skin... I just made up the design, using what I'd learned from the zipper pocket.

Sewing: Denim purse with embroidery

I based this bag on the Burda 8305 pattern (view E), but shortened it, reduced the curve of the zipper, and did the strap a different way. And added lots of pockets! The turquoise pinstripes were sewed on, not part of the fabric. It's a bit wrinkled in these photos because I had to run it through the washer and dryer, but it survived that pretty well considering.


Awesome whale tail zipper pull, a gift from friends.


Inner pockets. The zipper pockets (inner and outer) were based on this great tutorial.


At the last minute I decided to add a cell phone pocket (sewed on by hand)


I found the inspiration for the embroidery pattern in a google image search for "arabesque"