All the Art Stuff

2011-07-05T07:21:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-10T14:40:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-25T09:19:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-10T08:48:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-27T09:42:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-03T15:06:00.000-08:00

New York Show

2009-12-10T14:26:00.000-08:00

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.

Shadow Lake

2009-12-10T14:14:00.000-08:00

Novel Cover idea: The story idea behind the illustration is that the protagonist, the boy, has somehow inadvertently, through his own character flaw, not done something he should have, which has resulted in a future post apocalyptic New York. The only way to right the timeline is to follow the daunting draped figure’s gesture into the dark door where he will face the antagonist head on.

Born Super

2009-12-10T14:08:00.001-08:00

Being in NY, the inspiration for many a superhero’s place of residence, I thought I’d attempt a hero theme book cover illustration.

New York Show

2009-12-10T13:59:00.000-08:00

This piece above, which I've titled Skyline, was actually going to be done in color. I got it about half way done with it when I realized I didn't have enough time and just decided to make it a black and white drawing instead, and I'm glad I did because the awesome chief editor, Brent Rowland, of Inscape, BYU's Journal of Literature and Art, likes it and it's going to be publish in the next issue of Inscape.

The idea for the illustration below stemmed from walking around the lakes at Central Park. I thought it would be cool to see the view from the other side: the viewer (i.e.. you) seeing what the object is, the mystery behind it and the curious, yet unsuspecting couple that just happened to look down, resulting in the story one can make up from there.

Lake

2009-09-27T13:43:00.000-07:00

...next to be painted

window

2009-09-16T19:39:00.000-07:00

A book cover I will be adding color too soon...

smoke

2009-09-16T19:34:00.000-07:00

A book cover I will be adding color too soon...

Skyline

2009-08-23T20:46:00.000-07:00

A book cover for a young adult novel...to be painted soon

Inking

2009-08-23T20:41:00.000-07:00

Though I don't intend on working professionally in black and white, it is faster. I thought I would just try a few.

Character Post

2009-06-24T16:23:00.000-07:00

so, I did this character and character study a while ago but never got around to posting it...but here it is.

Video Game Environment

2009-05-27T15:49:00.001-07:00

The piece is intended as concept for gaming. There's the warm distant sandy area where the character is safe, a pathway for a character to follow into the spooky tree area and a blueish light glowing on the trees to try to entice the character to come through and find out what is making the blueish glowing light.

Commercial Boards

2009-04-29T17:25:00.000-07:00

These are dummy commercial boards for the Suburban Auto Group's trunk monkey campaign. Do a google search for "trunk monkey commercial" and you will see some commercials that were done for the campaign. The idea is that each car is tailored to the needs of its occupants.

The Pitch: An evil villain has Chuck Norris tied up and is laughing maniacally.

Chuck, however, has the Suburban Sidekick edition of this car. He pushes his car key trunk button to release the trunk monkey.

The trunk monkey frees Chuck, much to the dismay of the villain.

And end with the hero shot: a freeze shot jump kick, knowing the villain is about to get his comeuppance. Followed by the campaign slogan "The trunk monkey: sidekick edition. A revolutionary idea you'll only find at Suburban Auto Group."

The first two panels are greenish and cool to represent the villain being in control, but as the hero gets free, the cools recede, to be replaced by warms, as Chuck gains the upper hand :)

Batman Test Storyboards

2009-04-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

Robot Beatboard

2009-04-28T16:30:00.000-07:00

The Story takes place in the not to distant future. Everyone has a personalized robot, now, in this society, but one little robot wakes up in Grand Central alone and with no memory of his human. I wanted to show the robot's isolation as the robot realizes he is suppose to have a human too. I used warm colors surrounding the robot to show the liveliness and warmth of the place and people around him but used a cool light source over him to show his isolation and draw the eye to that point.

Enviroments

2009-04-23T14:03:00.000-07:00

Gestures

2008-12-27T22:43:00.000-08:00

More Gestures

2008-12-27T22:36:00.000-08:00

From Gesture Drawing Class

2008-12-27T22:09:00.000-08:00

Sketchbook pages

2008-12-27T21:50:00.000-08:00

Monsters Day Out - Children's book

2008-11-13T21:12:00.000-08:00

An updated version of this piece.

environment

2008-11-13T14:50:00.000-08:00

Pirate King - character for children's book

2008-11-13T14:49:00.001-08:00

Pirate King Studies

2008-11-13T09:17:00.000-08:00

Studies that lead to the final Pirate King illustration.

Business Card

2008-10-09T10:15:00.001-07:00

For my professional practice class we have to make a business card for ourselves. This is the front and I'm still debating on what to do for the back.

Joe's Monster - Line work by Joe Olsen

2008-09-16T15:05:00.001-07:00

This has so many things on it that still need to be fixed....O' fizzle sticks :(

Head Paintings

2008-09-05T11:14:00.000-07:00

At Whitaker's I've been doing some studies of heads in the effort to learn brush technique among other things. Bill has several old black and white daguerreotypes, some real and some copies, which are early photographs produced on a silver or a silver-covered copper plate, which I've been painting from. People had the most interesting hair in those days, extremely long sideburns and beards shaved to only grow under the chin.

girl charcoal study

2008-08-24T16:19:00.000-07:00

A study done from Sumiao Jufa Jiaoxue's work.

Sketch2

2008-08-05T20:13:00.000-07:00

The tree is done by following a tutorial in Don Seegmiller's book

Girl

2008-07-16T12:44:00.000-07:00

Just a little corel painter sketch

Sketch

2008-07-12T13:04:00.000-07:00

Just a few sketches from the sketch book

Story 1

2008-07-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

Two illustrations for a children's book I may just write some day. At least this time I had the story summery down before doing the illustration.

Oil paintings

2008-07-10T22:01:00.001-07:00

Projects I'm thinking about finishing...to be determined

FirstAid

2008-07-09T17:09:00.000-07:00

An illustration of a scene for children's book I'm thinking about writing. That's right. I did the illustration even before I penned the story, or story summery for that matter. Fall semester I bought cereal with the paperback Spiderwick books in it and saw what a fun style Tony Diterlizzi has and what a neat look watercolor and pen can get, so I thought I would give it a try. I ended up buying three different types of cereal to get all three books.

Barque Drawings

2008-07-09T16:44:00.000-07:00

Charles Barque copies done in Bill Whitaker's studio. The point of making the copy is to train the eye to see accurately.

A drawing of my sister lindsey. It took quite a while.

Gestures

2008-07-09T16:28:00.001-07:00

Alice Illustrations

2008-07-09T16:24:00.000-07:00

These are three illustrations I did for a children's book assignment. I'm hoping to color them someday.