Life Drawings

    I go to weekend life drawing sessions at school as often as I can.  It's really wonderful that the school offers this opportunity.  And I've finally got around to arranging a few of my favorite drawings on nice pages.
    On several occasions, I've brought my laptop and tablet to get in some speed color practice. There are usually no desks in the room (everyone else uses easels), so it's a pretty awkward-looking setup.  Sometimes I wish I had a larger tablet, but life drawing class is never one of those times.  

         

October Illustrations

Some FireCracker Weekly work for the October issue.  Illustrating articles about the importance of keeping track of earnings in a notebook,  pet visits to senior homes, and the history of vampires.

  

GALATEA: Character Portraits

  Lately I've been seriously developing this story as an online graphic novel.  As a part of character creation, I drew out a bunch of these portrait busts to make sure each cast member has his/her own unique look and distinctive features.
    The main character is Corin (the girl with the orange headband), and main/supporting cast is all mixed together here.
    1st set= Corin and her family
    2nd set= Crew of the Lady Epiphania
    3rd set= from the city

     I also used these to make family trees.  Deciding which features to share between parents/children/siblings is a fun challenge.

Character Study: Adine

I've been trying to visualize this lady for a while.  She's the main antagonist of a graphic novel I'm currently planning.  It's always great exploring the personalities of smart, manipulative characters!

Kaiyo and Syril Posters

  My two favorite brothers!  I wanted to try something more like cover art--sort of half graphic and half scene.  They ended up looking good as printed posters, so I'm printing 'em out and sticking them on my wall somewhere.  Painting all the material details was great practice.  Pencil and Photoshop. 

More FireCracker Illustrations

An assortment of illustrations I did for FireCracker (http://firecrackerweekly.com/), accompanying various articles and fiction stories. 

Dye

     I did this illustration for an art showcase at my school.  

The woman is a character of mine, in a story moment.  I won't go into the full tale, but for this I wanted to show that her dyeing her hair represents a tragic loss of identity.

Commission: Armor Designs

The commissioner asked for two soldiers in armor, from same country--but different time periods.
  They're from a fantasy setting, but he had influences in mind:  The left one is drawn mainly from 10th century Europe, and the right a mix of 16th-century Europe and feudal Japanese.  Dragons were to be an overlying motif.

His writings on this country are over here at his Deviantart account: http://vassal-of-bahamut.deviantart.com/

Portfolio

I made a separate blog for my work that is more organized and easier to navigate.
I'll still update on this blog, but for my portfolio, please go here:  http://jennybachportfolio.blogspot.com/





-Jenny

Olympics Short Film Designs

I'm currently working with a team from school on a short film about a little girl and her imaginary Olympics.  Here's my design for the character and some colorscript panels.   

 

Expression Sheets

I did these to help flesh out the personalities of some of the characters in the previous post.    

                                

 

                                

 

Character Lineup

These are characters from an epic fantasy story I've been working on.  Over the years, I've strived to make each of their personalities and cultures unique and credible.  

Little Hans

 A painting I did for Firecracker newspaper.  It accompanies a short fiction story, "Little Hans," by B. Magnolia.  The story is written in an old fairy tale style, and tells of a young boy named Hans during a war.  He cuts a circle of metal out of a sheet in his grandfather's shed, and the light from the window shining through the hole releases something magical. 

Working for a newspaper is so far really great for pushing my speed (tight deadline and all).  Great fun! 

Animatic

This is my final animatic that I turned in for Pre Production class.  It features a team of criminals searching for a fabled treasure, put to the test by the dangers guarding it.
The track I used is "Swords Crossed," by Klaus Badelt.

 

Pre Production Drawings

These are some character and environment drawings I did in Pre Production class, in preparation for my animatic.    

 


 

Robot Before and After

  I had to design a female android for my concept art class last year.  My initial idea is the greyscale drawing, and the second image is what I turned in after the art director's reviews. 

             

School Assignments

 A collection of school assignments from various classes.