Pan background assignment

by Diane Pascual on May 16, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Posted In: Academy of Art, Illustration, Thesis, Visual Development

This semester has been rough! I had such a busy schedule this spring, from my 9-5 here in New York and two online classes. On top of that I was taking a 6 week novel writing workshop which ends this week as well! But I’m glad I pulled through and now I can look forward to finishing my writing and my Cali trip next week! Yay! Here is a background I did for a panning assignment. Its from an Animation Layout Design class that I had this spring. This is still in its rough version, but you get the idea, my character is running down the hill trying to chase the cable car. This is part of my thesis project which I’m still unbelievably working on in my spare time. Its supposed to pan from left to right and I haven’t yet drawn where the character is positioned at in 3 different pan shots. Maybe I will repost again when I finish.

Spread Love it’s the Brooklyn Way

by Diane Pascual on May 4, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Posted In: Graphic Design, New York, randoms, Society 6 Prints

Blowin up my Society 6 profile with new work! Populating on the the daily with new and old work! Keep checking, I’ll have new stuff available on the daily! This artwork below I created tonight available as prints of all sizes, hoodies, tees, and iPhone cases! Go buy stuff! This is from Biggie’s song “Juicy”

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Joker

by Diane Pascual on May 2, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Posted In: Characters, Comics, Doodles, Illustration, Society 6 Prints

I finally got around to coloring my Joker sketch! The original pen sketch got so many likes on my instagram that I decided to color it and offer it as a print, iPhone case, and t-shirt on my Society 6 Profile. To check it out you can go to www.society6.com/dianepascual to check out the various products its offered in.

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Brooklyn Babe

by Diane Pascual on April 28, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Posted In: Doodles, Fashion, Fashion Illustration, Illustration, Inspiration

Lately I’ve been getting inspired by what some women have been wearing on the trains in NYC. I love the eclectic mix of styles, from business suits to trendy styles, I really am starting to appreciate the diversity of people and cultures in New York and Brooklyn. I love that each and every person I see randomly has a way of inspiring me in even the smallest ways. I hope to post more of these drawings soon!

Lately I’ve been more focused on writing and going to my Novel Writing Class in Brooklyn, I’m learning so much! And the writing exercises we do in class has really been helping me with my writing. I’ve been learning how to think on the spot and come up with random ideas based on topics. Some of the fun ones we recently did in class was do Character Sketches in which we would imagine what kind of shoes our character would wear and you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes! And also reading other short excerpts and chapters from different novels to get a sense of learning to write in a certain way. My mind is so open right now, I feel like a sponge! I’m soaking everything up right now!

This drawing I did was inspired by a girl I saw randomly on the train and she had this really cute haircut. Although I couldn’t figure out what her style was, somewhere between a futurist and someone dressing for the cold weather. I don’t know, but she looked really comfy and cute at the same time that I just had to draw her!

 

Emerald City Comicon Recap

by Diane Pascual on April 5, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Posted In: Comic-cons

My last 4-5 weeks have been spent preparing for Seattle, now that its over I can finally breathe! There were a bunch of things that I had to do as far as putting together this new 2nd Edition. I had to look for all of my material that I wanted to include and so I ended up doing a lot of scanning, both drawings and dream writings and formatting them into the right file size for print. Many people at Emerald City Comicon asked whether I do all my own layouts, the answer is yes I do all of the editing as far as the book layout, placing all the files in InDesign and getting all the files ready for printing and proofing. I am a one-WOMAN show! It also helps that I studied Graphic Design and have worked in the field for a couple of years now. It was a lot of work to put this together, a lot of late nights, and a lot of love! This 2nd Edition was really revealing for me, I discuss a lot of personal things I went through and a lot of writing on personal dreams, etc. I hope you find it insightful!

Emerald City Comicon was amazing! I met a lot of talented artists and creative professionals and really got a chance to talk to them about their process. I’m usually alone at these Comic-cons and Friday was hard to walk around without leaving my table too long so sadly I didn’t get to meet all of the artists I wanted to talk to. Luckily, my friend Anthony came out and met me in Seattle and helped me man my table on Saturday! So Saturday I got to walk around and buy a few things from different artists. Some new people I met were Sarah Straub, Melanie of Crab Tank Small Press, David Mack, Erin Humiston, Georges Jeanty, the peeps at the Archaia booth and many more. I’m really happy to meet everyone who came to my table and showed interest in my work, it really means a lot to see other people excited about the work that I do! I am always open to talking to anyone about my work and my process. I really do love doing the smaller shows and Comicons, it’s so much easier to talk to people and it’s not always as crowded as San Diego International Comic-con.

Sadly, I won’t be making it out to San Diego Comic-con this year, its way too much for me and I’ve done it the last two years. I am however planning on going to the Chicago Con in August and quite possibly APE San Francisco in October. I will definitely keep you guys posted on another round of Dreamwalker prints. As of right now I won’t be doing anymore printing, please sign up for my mailing list for more details on the next round of orders. I completely sold out at Emerald City Comicon! Seattle was an extremely lovely city to visit, its nice that it isn’t as crowded as New York!

Thanks again to everyone for showing me a lot of love and support in my work, I truly appreciate that people enjoy it!

Now back to writing and finishing my novel version of Dreamwalker in the next 2 months!

To view photos from Emerald City Comicon, please visit my FB FanPage here.

xoxo

Diane