BrinnyArt

Comics and comics and comics

2012-01-05T23:44:00.000-08:00

I just realized I've made a bunch of comics and forgot to post anything about them here. WHOOPS.

A few months back I started making some comics about certain experiences I had back when I went to community college. The run quickly became hijacked by run-ins I had had with a specific classmate.

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I went to community college about 6 years ago, so my experiences from then were pretty well shoved into the back of my mind. But drawing the above comic was like opening a floodgate of creepy, weird memories. Memories I made into cartoony, colourly comics obviously.

Warning for the third one if you don't like cursing.

I remember after that going home and telling my parents, who told the department head who got campus security involved and things got a lot better after that. Though honestly, it didn't really effect me that much. It wasn't really until years after when I would talk to friends about the "weird guy I went to college with" that it clicked that it was super not okay that he was watching me eat my lunch everyday from a window for however many weeks/months on end. Oh to be a naive 18 year old girl. Still, turning a creepy experience into an over the top, cartoony comic so people on the internet can laugh at it is surprisingly therapeutic and I would totally recommend it.

Animals and Ladies in Dresses

2011-10-25T00:01:00.000-07:00

Wow, It's been a while since I updated this...

This was more of a quick sketch than anything, but people seemed to like it. They're based on our animals. I love them. You can buy prints of this here or here if you want!

This was inspired by St. Vincent's music video for Cruel.

And this is my design for this year's xmas/winter party time card. Snow foxes are pretty cool!

I'm actually trying to find a good POD site with decent shipping times so I could sell some of my cards more than just locally. If you know of any please let me know!

Creep

2011-08-20T19:02:00.000-07:00

I haven't painted in forever but I decided to try painting a sketch that was sitting in my sketchbook.
It's my interpretation of Minecraft, which if you haven't played it you should try it out cuz it's pretty fun!

Apartment Adventures

2011-08-03T20:27:00.000-07:00

So I made a comic about my shitty apartment renting experiences in Vancouver. If you have trouble reading it here's a bigger version.

Vernon Life Drawing Part 2

2011-06-08T19:59:00.000-07:00

These range from about 5-20 minutes.

Vernon Life Drawing Part 1

2011-05-18T11:12:00.000-07:00

I signed up for a month long, once a week life drawing drop in here in Vernon. The model in the two classes I've had so far has been in a bathing suit which is kind of weird. Small towns and their sensibilities I guess. These are all around 15-20 minutes.

A bunch of whatever I did

2011-03-19T19:00:00.000-07:00

I've tried a couple of times to do a self portrait, and I tend to hate the outcome each time. Except this time! Yay!

And then I drew a cat.

And then I drew my second piece of Okamiden fanart. Dang!

And then I drew this, which was a combination of a bunch of different experiments. The lighting makes no sense unfortunately.

WoW Commission

2011-02-20T20:58:00.000-08:00

A commission I did for my friend's WoW guild forum. I kind of miss WoW sometimes, then I remember that it's an evil time suck.

DotC Concepts

2011-02-19T12:52:00.000-08:00

I've done quite a bit since updating last. I think I'll space things up so I don't flood you guys with updates.

So here's something I've been working on lately, concepts for a comic I'm working on. I was more trying to get a feel for their facial appearance and personalities, so their current clothing is a stand in. All done in Sai, which I'm kind of in love with right now.

This is the one I'm most happy with, the armour is about what I want.

Click for bigger:

Cat Farrell Bots

2011-01-15T20:52:00.000-08:00

I want to start doing dumb little minicomics somewhat regularly. I want to eventually do some sort of self contained short one shot comic, but I'm a bit out of practise right now. So, here are my cats.

My younger brother just turned 20, so I drew him Will Farrell's giant head.

I've recently become somewhat obsessed with Daft Punk.

Bears and Crying Dads

2010-12-20T19:00:00.000-08:00

I started on this year's xmas card way in advance. I got the majority of it done during the summer and finished it up in November, much less stress that way. Anyway, I've sold a lot of these cards and a large print is going to be displayed in a local cafe which is pretty cool!

This was done for Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?'s request for fanart for their season 2 DVD.

Crates

2010-09-29T09:41:00.000-07:00

Scifi Throne Design

2010-09-29T09:39:00.000-07:00

Thumbnails.

Character concept for the owner of said throne.

Final design.

Some Hands

2010-09-13T18:47:00.000-07:00

Week one of Digital is over, and I have this to show for it. We modeled a basemesh in Maya, then took it over to ZBrush and made it more hand looking.

Summer Fanart

2010-08-08T13:51:00.000-07:00

Apparently I'm on a fanart kick right now. As well as a lineless kick.

Moss from The IT Crowd, one of my favourite shows right now.

Chibiterasu from the upcoming Okamiden. I really dig games that try to do something different visually, and I'd recommend playing Okami if you haven't already.

MITCH

2010-07-07T17:02:00.000-07:00

I did a quick animation of my cat Mitch yesterday after I finally got Flash on my computer again.

Mitch is fat, neurotic and prone to violent outbursts. I love him sho.

Pug & Cat

2010-06-07T17:38:00.000-07:00

My pitch was one of six picked to be entered in Animation Magazine's 2010 Pitch Party! All the pitches will be in the August issue so pick it up!

Edit: You can vote for me here!

Pug 'n Cat

2010-05-07T00:28:00.001-07:00

Pug 'n Cat from Brinny Langlois on Vimeo.

2010 Portfolio

2010-05-01T19:47:00.000-07:00

2010 Portfolio

2010 Demo Reel

2010-04-30T19:15:00.000-07:00

2010 Demo Reel from Brinny Langlois on Vimeo.

Pug & Cat teaser

2010-04-30T19:14:00.000-07:00

Alice & Daffy

2010-04-30T17:41:00.000-07:00

I fixed and cleaned up some old animations for my demo reel.

Gradpage

2010-04-17T01:00:00.001-07:00

Busy in preparation for Gradshow. Speaking of which, drop by on May 8th if you can! Details here.

Granny

2010-04-07T12:38:00.000-07:00

Derby Grrl

2010-03-24T22:19:00.000-07:00

An illustration I did last week for my gradpage and portfolio.

Sunrise on Thessaloniki

2010-02-22T14:20:00.000-08:00

I got some great critiques back, so I changed the shadows quite a bit. I think it looks much better.

Storm's a'brewin'

2010-02-04T18:25:00.000-08:00

Speed painting for Digital Painting class.

Some people I drew

2010-02-02T19:19:00.000-08:00

Character designs for Digital Painting. I inked them in Illustrator, which was new for me. I'm not sure if I'm loving the result of it though. I think it's almost too clean looking now.

I think next time I'll try out SketchBook Pro.

Miguel and Tulio, Tulio and Miguel

2010-01-26T11:36:00.000-08:00

Overall happy with it, except I mixed up the frames between the 3 and 4 second mark while doing the mouths and didn't notice it until I was done shooting. It's a pretty easy fix, but ugh.

Boss Stubbs

2010-01-14T15:57:00.000-08:00

If Solid Snake were a cat...

2010-01-14T14:22:00.000-08:00

...not really.

Three different colour options done for Digital Painting. It's also a concept sketch of the main villain for my short film idea. I ended up going with the left one.

Websiting

2009-12-30T17:26:00.000-08:00

BrinnyArt.com

Done! (For now.) It's nothing fancy but it'll get the job done, hopefully.

General Stuffness

2009-12-22T21:48:00.000-08:00

Some life drawings I did in class the week before class ended.

And some weekly sketches for animation class. I think I actually only showed one in class. Oops.

The two bottom cats weren't a part of the assignment. I just really like drawing cats. And Katamari Damacy.

Bumper Sketches

2009-12-22T21:33:00.000-08:00

I had a bunch of sketches that I didn't get a chance to scan during the semester, so I'm going to make a few posts to make up for time.

Here are some brain storming sketches for the little girl in my bumper:

And the monster, which I had a much harder time with. I was trying to get away from the typical furry monster thing. So of course, after much brain storming (and Skeletor apparently), that's exactly what I went with.

Bumper

2009-12-18T10:02:00.000-08:00

Done. Finally! I rushed the clean up, and it shows. But I don't think it's too bad. There's actually a camera move between the shot of the girl and the monster. It pans over, then up. It shows up in Flash but not in the mov. I guess you'll have to use your imagination.

Alice 2.0

2009-12-18T09:59:00.000-08:00

I fixed a few things. Unfortunately I missed a a bit of a jump when she leans back. I'll have to work on that after Christmas break.

Train Station of Tones

2009-12-15T22:54:00.000-08:00

Final Storyboard: Dante's Infern-O's

2009-12-14T23:36:00.000-08:00

Daffy Balance

2009-12-10T07:46:00.001-08:00

Train Station of Tears

2009-12-09T23:38:00.000-08:00

Last layout of the semester. It has it's faults but I can't really afford to fix them right now. In closing, goddamn whatever made me decide that drawing that roof was a good idea.

(My Daffy animation is on the way, I'm having trouble with both Vimeo and blogger's video posting thing.)

October - November Life Drawing

2009-11-28T18:10:00.000-08:00

In somewhat chronological order!

For some reason during these last months I've had some really good sessions and some pretty bad ones. Apparently I had the most trouble with the guy models, cuz, uh... Oh wait, there's one.

Thessalonikiesque

2009-11-18T20:25:00.000-08:00

My latest layout assignment. Based on crowded apartment buildings in Thessaloniki.

Lilo Acting

2009-11-11T21:01:00.000-08:00

Quite a few flaws with it, but I felt obligated to post it.
Hopefully it'll be better next time.

Wolfman Walkcycle

2009-10-30T17:59:00.000-07:00

It's like the previous post, only with awesome walking action!

Wolfman Build

2009-10-29T15:53:00.001-07:00

Made a wolfman character build in Flash for Digital. With snazzy shorts, of course.

Gotta look good for the wolfladies.

Amsterdam Layout

2009-10-27T13:17:00.001-07:00

I'm much happier with this layout than I was with my previous one. I really tried to push myself a lot more this time.

Fun Fact!: While doing this assignment I learned that Amsterdam is ridiculously beautiful!

Goofy Slip

2009-10-20T23:05:00.000-07:00

Decidedly meh.

Restaurant Storyboard

2009-10-19T20:19:00.000-07:00

Doing this took a lot longer than I thought it would, even on the computer. Have to try for some more dynamic shots than "med close up" next time...

Fun Times with Multiplane Cameras

2009-10-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

This took longer than I anticipated. It might have shaved some time off if my first bird attempt didn't look like an epileptic cardboard cutout and I didn't have to redo it. Keyframer is not my friend.

At the end of the day I'm pretty pleased with the results, even though I wanted to tear my face off quite a few times while making it.

Life Drawing Dump

2009-10-09T16:52:00.000-07:00

A few life drawings from September and early October.

First Layout

2009-10-07T08:55:00.001-07:00

My first actual layout of layout class. A learning experience...

Alice Dialog

2009-10-07T00:45:00.000-07:00

Our first dialog animation of the year.

Alien Walk

2009-10-02T11:52:00.000-07:00

A walk cycle on ones made in TVPaint.

September Dump

2009-10-01T19:19:00.000-07:00

And the last one's for the Weekly Illustration Blog that I had been ignoring. The topic was "It burns!" In this case, it burns like HYGIENE!

Pink Panther Teeter Totter

2009-09-22T17:30:00.000-07:00

The first animation assignment of the new year.

Tugboat

2009-09-11T14:15:00.000-07:00

Made in TVPaint.

BLARF

2009-09-03T00:16:00.001-07:00

Monsters of Webcomics

2009-08-07T02:04:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I found out today that Alienated is going to be a part of the Cartoon Art Museum’s Monsters of Webcomics Virtual Gallery, which will highlight over 100 webcomics from all over the world. You can get more information and list of the featured webcomic creators here.

If any of you guys are in San Fransisco (for some reason) between August 8th and December 6th be sure to check it out!

Summer Project: Alienated

2009-06-30T20:07:00.001-07:00

I've been keeping myself pretty busy this Summer working on a project my boyfriend and I have had in the works for a while.

From the About page:

Alienated is the story of what happens after the world grows tired of the first alien, and his first attempt to try and go out into the world. It’s a story about first love in your thirties, growing up, and maniacal morons who couldn’t plot their way out of their own skulls.

You can check us out here: AlienatedComic.com

There isn't a whole lot up yet, but I have a backlog of two weeks so far, so it's coming.

Edit: Alienated is now defunct, but the completely pages can be found on my website.

Summer

2009-06-08T18:53:00.000-07:00

So I'm flying down to Vernon tomorrow to stay with my parents for an, as of yet, unknown amount of time. Yeah, I said I'd be staying in Vancouver for the summer, but that was before I was given the decision of either desperately trying to find a job in retail or spending time with my family and having meals made for me. Hmm, tough decision.

Oh, and for those of you who weren't in the Pitch Party blog, here are mine.

I'm pretty happy with them, even though they didn't make the cut.

Anatomy and Life Drawing Finals

2009-04-23T16:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the crinklyness.

See you guys at Grad Show!

Design and Layout Final Projects

2009-04-17T01:29:00.001-07:00

Uploading this stuff so I can link it to John...

Design

LayoutBehind the game stalls.

Inside the shack beside the ferris wheel.

Stitch & Mr. Whiskers

2009-04-16T18:57:00.000-07:00

Last animation project of the year.

First Year Final from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Short film for Directing.

Mr. Whiskers from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Design Characters (so far)

2009-04-14T02:03:00.000-07:00

I'm not too sure about the cat's face. It's pretty different from the style of the other two characters... Any crits you guys have would be great!

Abandoned Amusement Park Coloured

2009-03-27T15:04:00.001-07:00

Weee, I'm being proactive. Kind of.
Edit: Fixed some stuff after John critiqued it.

Abandoned Amusement Park Pan

2009-03-25T18:22:00.000-07:00

Scanned then added onto in Photoshop because I made it too small. Weeee!

Pug 'n Cat

2009-03-19T16:27:00.000-07:00

Pug & Cat from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Futuristic Characters + Clean Up

2009-03-13T12:59:00.000-07:00

I had some extra time so I cleaned them up.
Line art in Flash, coloured in PS.

These characters go along with the Swamp City layout in this post.

Edit: I had to upload these without an explanation because of a fire drill. So, on with that!

In this future world, due to global warming, some higher power, fire ants or what have you, the average temperature of the planet has increased significantly. This has affected different species is different ways, some more dramatically than others. Quite a few have become extinct, while others have flourished. And other still have become insane, murderous kung fu masters and moved to the big city (or what's left of it)! Of the latter are the lovable koala bears.

Koalas have taken the title of "Species That Punches Other Species in the Face Most" away from Humanity, and has protected that title with an iron claw. Though one solitary koala (we'll call him Luke Skywalker) has chosen to allign himself with humanity, especially one little girl (Han Solo) to try to achieve peace in a broken (and very wet) world.

Life Drawing & Anatomy

2009-03-03T03:22:00.000-08:00

Fish Tank 'n Swamp City of the Future

2009-02-27T17:22:00.001-08:00

My first two point perspective layout.

My futuristic city. When humanity falls... everything will become really humid! Muahaha!

And with overlays. The mid-ground one features an absurdly tiny building.

Meeps

2009-02-21T17:48:00.000-08:00

Some people (you know who you are) told me to put something up on my blog besides my animations. So I'm giving in to your relentless harassment.

I chose a random sketch and decided to colour it. This was actually my first time colouring something completely in Flash, and it was somewhat difficult. I really don't like her right hand, but I spent about 1 billion years trying to make it not suck to not avail.

Bambi

2009-02-18T21:51:00.001-08:00

Quadruped Final from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Special Effects

2009-02-02T20:35:00.000-08:00

Wine Glass from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Water Splash from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Volume Characters

2009-01-31T12:11:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the quality, I lost my scanner's power chord so I had to use my camera.

Edit: Cleaned up

DIY, race politics and pretty ladies

2009-01-24T11:01:00.000-08:00

So this is pretty much a quick info dump before I go see The Dark Knight on IMAX (Hells yes).

I took these a few days back, but I'm lazy so here they are now: DIY Light Table I've since gotten an actual animation disc, but it did the job.

Comic artist and illustrator Derek Kirk Kim wrote a post about the now infamous casting decision for the live action Avatar movie.

I got in contact with an old friend from high school via facebook recently. She has a gallery online (NSFW) and I felt obligated to share it after being blown away.

Space Girl and Alien Dude

2008-12-10T17:04:00.000-08:00

Part of the Fall semester final project for Design.

Fall Term Final (Tulio)

2008-12-10T00:34:00.000-08:00

Fall Term Final from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Hey, man. That's just like, your opinion.

2008-11-18T23:41:00.000-08:00

Hey, Man from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Sarcastic Bunny

2008-11-09T20:53:00.000-08:00

Funny Little Man from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Run 'n Slip

2008-10-28T21:22:00.001-07:00

Run 'n Slip from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Serpentine Walk

2008-10-27T11:39:00.000-07:00

Perspective Serpentine Walk from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Walk Animations

2008-10-22T20:10:00.000-07:00

A to B Walk from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Walk Cycle from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

And the last one, I'm not too proud of...

Perspective Walk from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Presidential Showdown

2008-10-11T03:02:00.001-07:00

Stitch Jumps

2008-10-10T18:24:00.001-07:00

Whoops! Forgot to post this here sooner.

Stitch Jumps from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Rocking Horse

2008-09-30T13:05:00.001-07:00

Rocking Horse from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Ball Jump with Tail

2008-09-21T12:59:00.000-07:00

Ball Jump with Tail from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Animation Dump

2008-09-17T19:23:00.000-07:00

Converted all of my videos that weren't working to avis, which seemed to solve the problem. Here they are...

Simple Box Animation from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Flour Sack Jump from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Rough Ball Jumping from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Pretty Cliché

2008-09-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

I found this sketch half coloured sitting on my hard drive, so I finished it. Woo!

Ball Bounce

2008-09-13T20:21:00.000-07:00

I've finished the first three assigned animations, unfortunately I can only show you one of them because the other two have been unable to be converted by Vimeo, YouTube or a video converter I have on my computer. So hopefully that's resolved soon.

Ball Bounce from Brittany Langlois on Vimeo.

Last Month's Work

2008-09-02T21:10:00.000-07:00

I was very lazy last month, but I have a feeling I'll make up for it over the next two years.
Anyways, here's some stuff I did, but forgot to upload here.

I did this one for a contest.

Nosebleeds are always fun.

And I finally decided to jump on the batwagon and do Joker fanart. Only this is a bit of a mashup between Heath's version and Batman the Animated Series' Joker.

Oh, yeah.

2008-07-29T02:19:00.000-07:00

I forgot to update about the laptop situation. My Vaio suffered too much damage to be viable to repair, so I got a refurbished Dell (shuddap) at a good price to replace it.

Unfortunately most of my software is either packed away or lost in some parallel dimension. All I've been able to scrounge up for drawing digitally is PhotoShop Elements, which works, but PS C2 was pretty much an extension of my brain, so dealing with the different "simplicified" interface tends to throw me off my drawing groove.

I really hope C2 shows up when I'm unpacking or I might kind of freak out. Anyways, BED.

Claw Girl

2008-07-29T02:11:00.000-07:00

I felt the need to draw something, unfortunately, due to exhaustion and lack of time this was the best I could do right now. There are so many things wrong with it I kind of just want to burn it. If it were possible to burn a pdf that is.

The claw was just slapped on during a fit of good ol' fashioned not-being-able-to-draw-a-fucking-hand, which is always fun. Oh god I need sleep.

Sad, puddin'.

2008-07-17T00:45:00.000-07:00

I know, I know. I totally suck. I'm going to try to have another go at the one sketch a day thing once August rolls around. This month has been kind of a loss. A big crazy, messy, loss. I would elaborate, but that shit's for LJ.

Anyways, I drew a depressed looking Harley Quinn. Check it.

Laptop Update

2008-06-25T00:20:00.000-07:00

I plan on dropping off my laptop at a local computer repair shop tomorrow. So I don't know how long it will take them to fix the damage, if they can.

I'll update when I either get it back and upload my backlog, or if I discover that there's no hope for my poor Vaio. I hope it's the former.

My laptop is a piece of crap.

2008-06-23T20:26:00.000-07:00

So here's the deal: My DC jack broke a few days ago. The little thinger that keeps the power cord's plug in place snapped off, and so now it's very difficult to charge my laptop's battery. Couple this issue with the fact that my battery is more or less dead, and we have an annoying situation.

As if that weren't enough, for some reason my broken DC jack is causing the actual plug-in on my power cord to get so magma hot that not only have I burned my arm on it more times than I can count, but the glue holding the metal plug-in in place is actually melting.

Now I'm no computer expert, but I do have a small fragment of common sense. So, if there are any interruptions in my uploading schedule, it's because I'm giving my laptop a rest. I'm planning on sketching in my notebook, scanning them and uploading the sketches, and hopefully that will give my laptop enough down time so that it doesn't explode until I find a place to get it repaired or order the part myself.

ETA: Yeah, no uploads for tonight. I did draw things, which I will upload when I get the chance. But I've decided to use the last of my battery life to back up important files. I'll be back when I'm back.

Eye Study

2008-06-22T18:31:00.000-07:00

Trying to make my digital paintings look more like paintings.

Today was not a good drawing day.

2008-06-22T01:18:00.000-07:00

This picture makes my eyes scream with horror but I'm posting it here anywhere as evidence that I tried. I TRIED.
Somewhat better, but the shame still clings.

Bear Study

2008-06-21T00:21:00.001-07:00

A couple of different bear breeds. Pictures referenced from here.

Horse Lady

2008-06-20T22:31:00.000-07:00

Hopefully this will eventually be a part of a much bigger digital painting. Yeah, that's a fancy way of saying "W.I.P."

Sketch Dumpings

2008-06-20T00:02:00.000-07:00

From a few days back. The day that I missed actually, but I was too lazy to scan and upload it then.
Trying to find a face I like for a character I'm working on.
And of course, a dominatrixy looking lady with a giant explosion behind her. The perfect end to any day.