Ricker Draws!

Popular!

2010-05-20T10:18:00.001-07:00

So, I saw "Wicked" for the second time a couple of weeks ago, and it's a cute show. Since I enjoyed it so much, I decided to do a little fan art for it! "Popular" is a song too easily stuck in your head. And a lot of songs from this musical are like that! I'm humming them all day!

Endless Doodlez!

2010-02-01T09:14:00.000-08:00

Kathy and I are authoring a blog together! We will be doing a drawing per week based on different topics/words/ideas/and so on. See it here!

Portfolio Things

2009-05-03T14:22:00.000-07:00

Just a taste of it, really. Now that school is drawing near to its close, I should hopefully update more often. ^_^

The ubiquitous Space Girl! and...

These are character designs from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale: Perdita and Florizel. I'll have these and more characters done soon, so look out for that.

Maya Again!

2008-05-23T17:33:00.000-07:00

Here's my Maya character turnaround. I'm really happy with how it turned out, even though I didn't make as many wrinkles in her clothing bump map as I probably should have. I had a hard time making the few wrinkles that I had show up, though. Ah well, another thing in need of revision.

I think I'm going to try making another character in Maya over summer. We'll see, but I think it would be fun to make her male counterpart and pose them in something so retro-actiony cool.

Anyway, I'll post some still images of this same character soon! And maybe some of my vis-dev work... if you're lucky. =P

Photoshop!

2008-04-20T13:50:00.001-07:00

The other day, a few of us met to practice Photoshop painting. Here's what I came out with:

I was looking at an unfinished portrait by Bouguereau which I had found on artrenewal.org. *laugh* It doesn't look like her too much, but I was trying to mimic the painting... ^_^

Maya!

2008-04-17T15:49:00.000-07:00

So, I thought I'd update with a couple renders of my Maya model, which is still a work in progress, obviously. Hey, there's still a bit of time left in the semester, so there!

Stupid Cupid

2008-02-14T21:53:00.000-08:00

Just a quick sketch based on "Shooting Blanks" -- a short film that we watched in 117 and can be found here.

Character Design

2008-02-04T17:32:00.000-08:00

But not the one that I mentioned in the last post.

No, this is my 129A concept design. Here are some preliminary poses:

And then here is my final:

She is a captain of her own steam-powered airship -- obviously she's steampunk-inspired. She is somewhat of a pirate and even masquerades under a more infamous pirate's name, using his reputation to her advantage... ^_^

A Year Later! Hooray!

2008-01-06T13:10:00.000-08:00

Yeah. *clears throat nervously and shamefully*

I'm not going to make excuses.... Sooooo.... I'll just post my Art 115 final and call it good, okay?

I'm working on some character design at the moment, and hopefully, I'll have those to post as well... But later, of course.

Let's just hope it isn't a whole year later.

A New Post... Wow.

2007-01-28T11:26:00.000-08:00

But not new work, unfortunately. I haven't been too diligent about updating here... But I will try harder!

I still haven't really scanned any sketches, but here are character designs from Art 112B last semester.

Just Getting the Hang of Things...

2006-12-21T11:20:00.000-08:00

Hey there,

I'm Kelly. I was just admitted to the BFA program at SJSU. I'm not sure what to say here other than "Hi" and "Hello" and, for those of you that prefer more formal greetings, "Good Morrow."

I'll post some of my art here now. These pieces are from last year, but I want to get a hang of this posting thing. Don't worry... this is only a test.

Self-Portrait from 112A:

Color Rendering from 113A: