Doodles.

In the interest of trying to stay loose, I am going to post more of my doodles.
Here's a bird I did in a meeting.

 -Lizzie

Just a cardinal, chillin'.

Some New Artworks!

Apparently I lied about not doing kitties for awhile.



 

A Kitty about to tackle a plate of sushi.

 

Fantasy Woods

A riverbank house inspired by A Wind in the Willows

Another lighting study. Last kitty one for awhile. Maybe.

A little lighting study.

More VisDev paintings from my class at CDA.

A painting I did in my VisDev class this spring at CDA.

New painting!

Hey everyone,

Head over to http://www.lizzie-nichols.com/environments.html to check out my new painting!

Ok, fine, just look at it here.

Many thanks to Paul Lasaine for his extremely helpful suggestions.

City Boy

The book City Boy by Herman Wouk is a little-known and extremely funny book about a boy in 20s (or 30s) Brooklyn. It's hilariously written, and would make a fantastic animated film. I designed some characters and environments for it, a few of which are ready to show. (Of course, you can also see them on my main site).



Herbie is our main character--earnest, somewhat shy, too smart for his own good, and owes his physique to his addiction to frappes from the local malt shoppe.




Lucille is his love interest, or, more accurately, object of worship.



Herbie lives in a quiet neighborhood in Brooklyn. Despite his, um, heft, he does enjoy racing around with his friends and bounding home from school (freedom!).

Oregon Lottery Spot

I worked on an ad for the Oregon State Lottery that aired last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyAN7Nusst0

Though apparently "SPGAmerica" disapproves, I still like it.

Revisiting Old Work

One consistent critique I get on my pieces is that they don't always show enough texture, so I am out to remedy that. To that end, I revised two pieces from the past (one is from at least two years ago, one is from last year). I like going back and revisiting old pieces, because I no longer have the emotional attachment to them that I once did, and am willing to take more risks to improve the piece.

The first one is relatively recent: it's the postapocalyptic world from a few posts ago, but with some texture and refinement added:

Before:

After:

Not drastic, but I definitely think it looks better.

The second one is from spring 2009, if I remember correctly. I did it before I really knew what I was doing painting-wise, but I thought it had potential. I was frustrated with it, though, and once I turned it in for class I didn't think about it again. Until recently, when I opened it up and thought, "this could be way better with a little love."

It's from a class assignment: to create a piece in the style of an existing property. In this case, Lothlorien in The Lord of the Rings.

Before:

After:

Both of these new pieces can be seen at my new site.

New sketches up!

Head over to www.lizzie-nichols.com and check out Life Drawing for some new sketches, done at The Drawing Club.

Enjoy!

Spiffy New Site!

Hello loyal followers (both of you):
I've been incredibly busy, hence the 11 months of silence, but I have exciting news: I have a new site for my artwork!
From now on, please check out my site at http://www.lizzie-nichols.com. This blog will stay up, and I'll update it when I make changes to the main site.

Thanks for following, and I'll see you over at www.lizzie-nichols.com!

Best,
Lizzie

Radio Silence ended!

Hello everyone! Sorry for the long quiet period. I graduated from Art Center and have been doing some freelance work, which means I can't show you anything I've been working on.

Except some stuff from one client's film which may or may not ever get made. Posted with permission. Subject to sudden disappearance from my blog if the project ever goes anywhere.

The Main Character:

Design Evolution:




Pose/Action Explorations:




Costume variations:



Final Character Painting:



The City:

Thumbnail Sketches:

Color Keys:





Final Painting (still a loose sketch--would like to refine it more eventually):

Digitopolis Mine

This is the Numbers Mine in Digitopolis.

Look for the "3" I've hidden in the composition.

Digitopolis

City of Numbers from The Phantom Tollbooth

Running From the Demons

Our three main characters escaping the demons in the Mountains of Ignorance, trying desperately to reach the Castle in the Air.

Dictionopolis

The City of Words from The Phantom Tollbooth

Dictionopolis Dungeon

Milo and Tock are sentenced to six million years in the prison in Dictionopolis.

The Doldrums

A gloomy place from The Phantom Tollbooth

The Tin Woodsman's Forest

From an independent study I did at Art Center: a Steampunk Wizard of Oz

Digitopolis and Castle in the Air Sketches

The Banshee

She made the back of my business card. Congratulations, Banshee!

Arctic Crevasse

Figure drawings

I will always love drawing people.
Here is this rockstar character from The Drawing Club.
Update 6/03/2010: same drawings, easier format.

The Humbug

Edit 3/29/10: Updated Humbug design.

The Humbug is the third main character from The Phantom Tollbooth. He is disagreeable and grouchy, but also loyal and dependable.

Milo

The main character from The Phantom Tollbooth

Tock the Watchdog

Tock is the second main character from The Phantom Tollbooth. He becomes a true friend to Milo.

He's called Tock even though he goes "tick-tick-tick," but he's very sensitive about it so don't ask.