Ellowyne Wilde as Belle from Once Upon A Time
Belle is originally an Ellowyne Essential Five, Blonde. She was re-wigged, re-painted and re-dressed to look like Belle. She stands 16inches tall.
I also handmade her book, necklace and rose. I need to take better photos of her with the rose (ex fiancé).
I’m also thinking of doing a Bed of Thorns inspired photoshoot. Bring on the ribbons!
Enjoy Dearies!
Excellent advice from AnthonyHolden.deviantART.com on how to pursue a career in animation.
What are studios looking for? How can I get into a good animation school? What should I be studying?
I get a lot of these types of questions now and again, and I never know how to answer them. I can’t be sure of what studios are looking for, I don’t control admissions policies to schools, and I have little idea what makes for a current and relevant curriculum. There are a lot of variables in your bid for a career in animation, and it’s kind of impossible to control most of them. You must be crazy to want this job!
I find it helpful to focus on the things I can control. Among those things are your study habits and how you spend your personal time. It’s good to work hard and have goals—without them we would get nowhere. Study hard and make decisive strides towards achieving your art goals. But in the heat of that pursuit, don’t forget to go out and live your life!
If you spend any amount of time looking at artists online, you’ve probably figured out by now that there are about a million dudes and dudettes in internetville who draw better than you (I relive this realization daily). Once your have done your best to rise to their level, the only tool you have to compete with these crazy talents is your background, your personal character—is you!
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.
I know this advice is not particularly animation-specific, but maybe that’s for the best. At any rate, it is something I feel strongly about. Animation is great, and there are few things that I enjoy doing more than drawing and storytelling. But in order to have stories to tell, first you have to live them.
Be good, and see you soon!
PS, if you were looking for advice on draftsmanship you should probably be reading this.
Pipe-Cleaner Critters by Lauren Ryan
One time I made a fork (or maybe it was a trident, though I never killed anyone with it) out of pipe-cleaners and I never shut up about it for years. Lauren puts most pitiful homemade creations to shame with her lifelike pipe-cleaner creatures, who despite their artificial nature, possess that game-changing fuzziness that makes them so realistic and pettable. I still like my fork, but I actually feel like her animals may attempt to eat me at any moment.
Artist: Deviantart / Blog
Queen of Magic by *Sarqq
Thanks, Jim.
Jayanti - Now on eBay - 290918931925
Dragon tattoos for Frankie!
Ah! My Goddess (has nothing to do with the anime.)
SoulDoll Shiva Grey Skin 4 Arms
