Hi all.

I have a new website up with new stuff on it.

http://stacylesser.weebly.com/

On it, i have stills and a video of my 3d forest environment. I've also got stills from things I've done on the Cars 2 video game.

pencil portrait

I've been doing some stylized characters of late and I started to miss doing realism, so here's a pencil sketch done from a photo taken in the 1920's. I think I can learn a lot by doing a few more of these and I quite enjoyed the change.

Bear Mailer Finish

If anyone wants a home theater installed I would highly recommend this company, Long December Home Theater, my employer for this mailer was super easy to work with, always happy and just plain awesome. He even gave me some gift cards to the movies as an added thank you bonus when I was done. I'm going to use them to see "How to Train your Dragon", yay!

The top image is a mailer for the company. On the back will be printed the super good prices, along with other company info.

The second image, the bears without a background, is going to be the back side of a business card, with personal information printed on the front.

Bear Mailer Comp

So here's the latest. I've been hired to design a mailer for a home theater installment company called Long December Home Theater. This is the drawing chosen, however, I will be making some adjustments to it which the boss has suggested; it will also have a background when done and painted like an animation cell.

Lucky: The Bushbuck

So, according to Wikipedia, the Bushbuck is the most widespread antelope in Sub-Saharan Africa. And apparently, according to Wikipedia, "the bushbuck ram is regarded by sports hunters as the most dangerous medium-size antelope, as it will hide in the bush after being wounded and charge the hunter when he comes looking for it, impaling the hunter with its sharp horns."

When nature strikes back, Dun, Dun, Dun....

I feel bad for the unsuspecting hunters but to think that the bushbuck would instinctually do that is pretty neat. What a smart little animal.

Sketchbook - modern clothes

New York Show

I, along with three other students and one professor, did a art reception which hung in the HFAC at BYU. This is one of the pieces I did from the show. I focused on the young adult children's book market.

Here's our Artist's statement for the show which will tell you more,

New York City Mentoring Project:

New York City is a complexity of visual and intellectual inspiration making it one of the cultural centers of the world. Along with the city’s vast galleries, museums, and immense concentration of illustrators, photographers, designers, painters and publishers, there is the excellent architecture, both humble and heroic, the pulsating life that ensues the city, the diversity of the human condition and the melting pot of culture to add to the stimulation and information that this great city offers. It is for these reasons and more that several illustration students and one crazy professor took off to see the Big Apple.

For six weeks we sampled what New York had to offer. We visited professional illustrators such as Sam Weber, Bill Thomson and Brett Helquist where we learned about their creative process as well as their perspective on conducting the business side of illustration. Each student also interned with a professional artist in their desired market focus for three days of each week. We sampled the food; we saw the sights; we were inspired and motivated by the exquisite talent exhibited in museum paintings; we sketched and we collected reference of the people, buildings and anything and everything in between to refer to in our own personal projects.

New York City has become the stage for our illustrated stories and each participant’s artwork is focused on their particular professional market interest.

We are grateful to the kind and talented professional illustrators whom we interned with, our project mentor, Professor Hull, who made sure we didn’t get lost, and the Orca and Oscarson Discovery Grant programs which allowed us this great experience and opportunity.

I found to make my illustrations look fairly the same in blogger as in photoshop I had to increase the saturation by fifteen or twenty points and play with levels, especially the darks. Hopefully the color looks alright on everybody else's computer.