Pixelkiss: Artblog of Diana Montoya

Lemon!

diana — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:13:17 +0000

Since I don’t have any art I feel like posting, here are some pics of my new baby cockatiel =) I got her on 6/17. She’s 9 weeks old and just recently weaned. I luff her! <3 I got her from a local breeder, so she is already extremely tame and friendly ^_____^

I named her Lemon because her cheek patches are yellow and because I’ve been watching copious amounts of 30 Rock (shhh).

Lemon (with my boyfriend)

Random sketches time!

diana — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:30:15 +0000

It’s starting to warm up outside I guess. Is it safe for me to come out of hibernation? Hahaha. I haven’t updated at all this year yet, oops.

I actually have been doodling here and there, but nothing worthy of being uploaded. I figured though it’s been awhile, and my co-worker has been nagging me about posting something, so I figured why not.

So! Enjoy the random sketches =)

Strawberry girl

diana — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:20:27 +0000

Just something spontaneous I decided to draw. I’m in another random period of having difficulty drawing. I’m trying to break through it T_T Hooray for cute strawberry girls, though! She needs a name :3

PSO art

diana — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:18:44 +0000

This is actually an older pic that I never really finished – I had other characters I was going to draw in there, but gave up after drawing my own. I know, I’m terrible. Actually you’ll recognize this from the current banner – but i haven’t posted the full pic before, so here it is.

Takoyaki~!

diana — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:45:33 +0000

The takoyaki tray with the different faces is Jessica’s idea =) Hooray for Yumberry!

Yumberry~

diana — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:40:19 +0000

So Jessica and I are working on starting our own little company that makes shirts, trinkets and other design stuff. It’s really fun and it gives me a chance to use Illustrator which I would otherwise never use =D

Yumberry comes from yumpoptart + acleverberry, our nicks online. I think it’s cute, but it’s already taken as a domain name, so we’re thinking something like ‘yumberrydesigns’ or something to that effect.

Below are some of the design ideas. The photo of the takoyaki sketch is by Jessica, she took it into illustrator and inked it and then I colored it =)

CafePress store!

diana — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:00:48 +0000

So last weekend I visited my best friend Jessica in Las Vegas =) I had fun, and I got to hang out with her adorable son Dylan and cute puppy Panda~ While I was there we tried our hand making shirts with the Yudu screen printer. It was lots of fun! I have some crappy camera pics that I took, I should upload those. I want to get one of them too, but they’re like $200 and I’m a little poor right now, so for now I’ve settled on cafepress! Ta-da~

And here’s a close-up of the cute Yume head:

Yume Walking Cycle

diana — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:55:25 +0000

Flash is driving me totally nuts. Having never dabbled in animation before, I decided to try some more rotary tricks. Rotary as in Photoshop. Hahaha. Anyway I tried to do a basic walking cycle but I only did 5 frames. Which took me like 4 hours. Even though it’s just some sketches! Argh. I didn’t even draw her hand! Animation takes forever I need to find some korean animation studio and give them money to do the inbetweening for me because i suck.

Click the picture to see my rudimentary animated gif!

WIP stuff

diana — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:35:55 +0000

So, I’ve been trying to teach myself flash lately… *coughs*. I’m so terrible at it right now.

Rika from PSIV. I think I got a little ahead of myself by trying to convince myself that anime had to be really easy to animate since they use all kinds of cheap tricks which I figured I could employ. But boy it’s still hard. Maybe I shouldn’t be using Flash for trying to make an anime short..

Here’s the pic I was working on before I got absorbed into Flash-land 5 days ago (may it rest in peace):

Kairin sketch

diana — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:37:27 +0000

My boyfriend is once again nagging me about the mascot art for animesuki.com – telling me that it’s getting cold and that a bikini just doesn’t cut it anymore. I feel kind of bad though, it’s like I’m taking on a monopoly of Kairin. o_o; Oops..

That’s supposed to be an asian paper lantern with a jack-o-lantern face painted on. Sorry my sketches are so rough XD;