Elf Studies

The gnomes drank too much

and the trolls weren't toilet trained

Winter Break

School's out for winter break!  AAW YEAH!  Let's start things off with some tree studies shall we

Starclan_ebooks

Hello friends!  I just thought i'd share some fun with all of you.  I don't know how many of you have read the Warriors series by Erin Hunter when you were younger, or if you are reading them now, etc. etc. but my friend and I are collaborating to bring you.. 

Starclan_ebooks!  It's a twitter where she finds funny quotes or just general hilarious out of context things to post from the warrior books, and i illustrate them!  I am still in the process of figuring out if i should create a twitter for the illustrations or make a tumblr blog for them or what.  When i figure that out i'll post a link to wherever it may lead to.

For now here are some illustrations i have made over the weekend:

If you want to see more go follow starclan_ebooks on twitter!

ALSO it's finals week at school!  I am so excited for winter break.  I'll have time to draw a whole bunch again.  Hope everyone's having a wonderful week!

Carlooos

sketchbook pages!

Waltz of the Flashlight

It's done!  This took a long time wow.

A boy and his flashlight - Work in progress

This is something for my english project, im doing a powerpoint about animation and a lot of people told me i should do some animations for the project!  So here is a work in progress of one of them.

P.S. here is my Portfolio

http://ariellesbestart.blogspot.com/

It doesn't have every single figure drawing i've done in it, but you get the gist of it.  There were a few more things in the supplemental section too which are not shown here either but they aren't important.

But here it is!  Tried my best with what i have available to me!

Lots of Updates

Hello friends!  I am here!  Happy December to you all, it's finally time to break out those holiday decorations and play holiday music!  

November 12th was a very special day for me.  It was the day i became a legal adult.  That's right!  I am now a 5'1 18 year old.  It's very interesting, i don't feel like an adult.  No one believes me that i'm 18, i still look like i'm 12.  Oh well it's chill.  

Everything was sent out to Calarts!  I am officially done with my portfolio and college apps for all the other colleges i applied to as well.  I was already accepted into ASU!  Which i do not care for because they do not offer a good art program, or an animation program for that matter.  It's just a back up.  Besides, i want out of this state asap.  It's too hot and i am pretty much done living here.  But yes, now begins the long wait and anticipation for an answer from Calarts.  I'm so nervous, i don't know what to expect.  The odds are probably not in my favor but you know, i had to go for it.

AND NOW FOR YOUR  VIEWING PLEASURE I BRING YOU SOME SKETCHBOOK PAGES FROM THE SKETCHBOOK I SENT TO CALARTS:

I am going to be very busy this month, with school since finals are in 2 weeks or so.  And lets just say my grades are a little less than perfect in a certain Econ class. Maybe one day i will get a chance to actually finish a drawing.

Hope everyone is doing well, see you all soon!

A landscape + instagram

This is a landscape drawing i did for my portfolio but it didn't quite work out.  I'm thinking i might just send this with my sketchbooks.

I have an instagram!  I post mostly food.. my dog.. and my art!  Art art art.  

This is my online profile for instagram if any of you are interested

http://instagram.com/ariellekaplan

It'd be cool to see some of your instagrams too!  Happy Saturday everyone!

Blind Contour

Did this a while ago while practicing blind contours.  Out of all the blind contours i did i thought this was the most visually appealing!

However, my scanner does not enjoy the color yellow so much.

The Violinist

The Littlest Wolf

Character Model sheets:

Little Red

The Littlest Wolf

Chub (student 1)

Darla (student 2)

Stretch (Student 3)

The Coach

Scanners are my worst enemy.  But here are the character model sheets for a project i'm working on called The Littlest Wolf!  These are going in my portfolio, along with a storyboard i made for this story.

Nearly done!  I'm going to try to get my portfolio and sketchbooks sent by Friday.  Finally

Happy November everyone!

Happy Halloween!

Hey friends and strangers, Happy Halloween!  I hope everyone got lots of candy and had a fun time today!

I decided to hand out candy this year and dress up at the same time.  So i dressed up as Dipper Pines just because it was easy and I didn't feel like getting overly dressed for about 3 trick-or-treaters.

See me be Dipper:

So the kids came and went and no one said anything about who i was.  I was losing hope.  Maybe these kids don't watch tv and watch Gravity Falls.  But then this one little girl came in a group of other girl halloweenies and her eyes went wide and shouted, 

"Oh my GOD, YOU'RE THAT- YOU ARE- YOU'RE DIPPER!! I LOVE THAT SHOW OH MY GOD YOU ARE A GREAT PERSON!  WOW DIPPER!  THAT'S AWESOOOME!"

FAITH RESTORED.  Her friends told her not to be weird but i just thanked her for knowing who i was.  And they were off.  Then a little Merida came by and was a total cutie pie.  Little kids are so cute sometimes i swear.

So in all we got about.. 15 trick-or-treaters.  They were too polite, i told them they could take as much as they want and this one kid just took ONE piece.  I was like come back kiddo you need to take moooore.  Ah but it was cute.  Good night of Halloween.

BUT NOW ONTO MORE IMPORTANT HOLIDAYS: 

THANKSGIVING AND HANUKKAH AND CHRISTMAS

Also my birthday is in 12 days!  Aaah 18 i'm going to be a legal adult.  How crazy is that?

October 25th: The Big Bad Roof Rat

It's not unusual that we get roof rats.

they usually appear once every few months, always above my room.  They mostly make noise when i'm trying to sleep.

today while i was drawing i heard a roof rat hulk smash its way into my attic.

it stayed in one corner for the longest time just walking around and making the worst scratching noises.  But it sounded different than other roof rats i usually get.

It suddenly started to get more aggressive, like it was trying to get to me. 

I am currently housing Ratzilla.

Please don't hurt me

I also forgot to put the e on the word scrape why