brittBoss

update!

2011-09-25T19:58:00.001-07:00

Ya....it has been a while.

Bush Post!

2011-07-09T20:37:00.000-07:00

The only decent scanner here won't scan to my computer, so you'll have to deal with my crappy photos of sketches. The fat planter was for an idea that I had for a Summit Reforestation t-shirt (that nobody would vote for, but oh well!) I was going to do another drawing of him a lot slimmer...planting IS the best fat camp!

I've also been trying to draw an octopus for a while. While this one is not that great, it is my best attempt so far. I kept drawing them after realizing how hard they were for me to draw!

Another tree, another...10 cents?

2011-04-03T19:35:00.000-07:00

As I head into my 7th season in the tree planting world (this time as a cook and NOT a planter), I am getting quite anxious. Before the season starts, there are always mixed feelings of excitement and dread. You're always excited to see old friends and meet new ones (although by this time, all of my 'cool' friends from the beginning are gone and are now replaced by fairly immature 19 year olds who insist on wearing makeup on days off and blow drying their hair in the mess tent), and you are always remembering all of the reasons why you swore you would never come back for another season. so. Here I am. Going out for the last time. Seriously. This was a little something that I put together for our big big boss. I call it "A Planter's Season in 3 parts".

in the country

2011-04-03T13:54:00.000-07:00

Sooooo Backgrounds and buildings are not my strong suit! I decided to try something simple to break the ice from what I have been doing lately... I've been daydreaming about barns and country houses for a while. I am really excited to get our chicken coop and garden started next year! If we get a pig or two, I'd really like to make a small, red barn. There are a lot of really neat ones up here!

In Progress...

2011-02-27T10:46:00.000-08:00

It blows my mind how dull my scanner can make things look at times. Oh well! I am dangerously close to replacing my entire scanning/printing unit to something that really works!

This is just a little something I am working on. A few places in town have asked me to sell some stuff at their stores, so I am just trying to be a bit diverse!

so you're getting older...

2011-01-22T09:04:00.001-08:00

That doesn't mean you should wear a bikini...

UGLY MERMAIDS

2011-01-10T17:56:00.000-08:00

I'm doing this personal project on ugly mermaids. I swear I am not doing this mermaid thing on purpose! I've never really drawn them until the last few years.

"Agatha doesn't have very much hair..."

"Dorris kind of looks like an elephant seal..."

"Cynthia wants to fall in love..."

"Maybelle has a terrible voice..."

I made a short poem of around 28 lines about these ugly mermaids. Mermaids are supposed to be beautiful, and these ones are not!

Happy New Year!

2011-01-06T13:12:00.000-08:00

Here are some things I have been working on (a little bit). I was feeling in a bit of a creative rut for a while so I quit this book thing and started doing some watercolour images for another book idea. I haven't scanned them in yet but MAN!! Watercolour is so much fun.

Hope everyone had some great holidays!

Mermaid in the sand

2010-10-14T00:42:00.000-07:00

This is an idea for an illustration from my new book. I've been having a lot of trouble with the colours on my cintiq vs. the colours on my laptop. The colours on my cintiq are fabulous, but my laptop is dark and quite dull. If there is a way to fix this, please let me know! Otherwise, I am putting the navigator on my laptop and using that for colour reference.

A "UNIK" experience

2010-09-25T21:05:00.000-07:00

Today I had one of the days since I moved up north! I have an artist friend who does a lot of screenprinting in Smithers and she was running one of her awesome how-to workshops. Here, we learned how to prep a screen, about different inks and materials, how to print your design, and we all got to make a t-shirt and print on anything else that we brought along with us. I made 5 cards, printed on veneer, and made 3 t-shirts! Her studio is absolutely fabulous (as is she) and the class was so much fun! I got to use my octopus that I posted the other day and I learned A LOT. I really didn't know that there was so much involved in screenprinting! Visit Sophie Joubarne's blog and also her website Unik Printshop. She also sells things on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/unikprintshop. She's an amazing artist who I think needs more recognition!!

DOUBLE WHAMMIE

2010-09-23T19:38:00.000-07:00

Just when you thought I wouldn't post for another 4 months...I hit you again TWICE IN ONE DAY

I'm late! I'm late!

2010-09-23T19:35:00.000-07:00

Yes, yes...it has been a while. But I HAVE been doing things! Here is proof.

Back from the bush and into real life

2010-07-25T12:06:00.000-07:00

My first post in over 3 months! I am well overdue. (Sorry some of the pictures are not upright and also that they are taken with a camera...my scanner is not with me at the moment).

I just got back from my 6th season planting. To spare you all of the dirty details, I'll just say this: it's over. We started in Williams Lake, moved on to Fox Creek, Alberta, and finished in Fort Nelson.

I had a LONG summer and didn't spend NEARLY enough time drawing as I would have liked. But when I got the itch I made myself sit down and work something out. Sometimes it really sucked. When you don't draw everyday you definitely notice how rusty you are getting, but I managed to squeeze out a few that I didn't hate too much. We also didn't have internet at times, so when I felt stuck it was hard to get inspired. But I ended up drawing a few planting related things and that seemed to help.

Anyway, I am going to try and update when I can. I'm going to have a busy month with visiting friends and parents and getting married. September should be a good nose-to-the-grindstone month.

Our trailer. A little too simple.

Fort Nelson bears will f$%@ you up. no joke.

Our Neighbor's trailer (not too exaggerated)

Appologies!

2010-06-15T10:12:00.000-07:00

I will start updating in about a month. It's really hard when you don't have a scanner or a cintiq to work on in the bush.
I've been doing some sketchbook doodling, so I'll put them up when I can!

Grad Portfolio

2010-05-08T09:00:00.000-07:00

my paper portfolio for grad. Life drawing, Zoo sketches, designs, and random illustrations. enjoy!!

Broccoli Makes You Run Faster

2010-04-30T15:25:00.000-07:00

For my self-directed final project, I wrote and illustrated a children's book. After finishing, I realized that this really is something that I want to pursue. I also realized that planning, writing, editing, thumbnailing, sketching, finalizing, doing the line work, colouring, collaborating with a friend to lay it out, and printing it are all tasks that together generally should be planned over the span of a year and not four months. Nonetheless, It is finished and I bound the cover by hand!
The whole ordeal was stressful at times, but generally it was a huge experience that I will definitely be starting again this winter!

I'm going to fix it up and then start selling it on Amazon, so I'll let you know when it is available.

more mermaids

2010-04-10T18:30:00.000-07:00

I promised myself that I would wait until gradshow to bust out the mermaids. I'm going a bit crazy.

Life drawing

2010-03-27T17:01:00.000-07:00

Some recent life drawing!

science geek

2010-03-25T15:33:00.000-07:00

I did this sketch of my friend Josina who is going to school for sciences. She is VERY smart and nerdy like myself...but in a completely different way

I didn't do it!

2010-03-24T16:48:00.001-07:00

Mermaid with missing shells

2010-03-08T15:55:00.000-08:00

final project stuff again. I made this into a button

ARRRRR matey

2010-03-08T15:30:00.000-08:00

final project stuff. This is part of a lineup of pirates and mermaids for gradshow

More stuff; more things

2010-03-02T07:52:00.000-08:00

okay so i am a bit behind... but here are a couple sketches for my children's book and also a random character named "Garth". I had all these grand plans to do all this work over the break. Then i got ENGAGED so that threw a wrench into my plans. oh well! time to put my nose to the grindstone!

Some sketches

2010-02-01T19:41:00.000-08:00

So, I just finished writing my kid's book! I posted a possible layout on the previous post...
I'm really excited about it. I'm roughing out all of the drawings right now and hopefully I will get it done just after the olympic break!!!
I have other projects on the go as well for that same class, but I just want to finish this book so that I have time to print it, so it is top priority.

the turtles below are ideas for a fun assignment for my animation class.
I also drew him as a sumo wrestler for one of those fun assignments

3 characters for book

2010-01-22T08:49:00.000-08:00

Designs and colour keys for the kids book I am writing for my final project. I don't like all the keys, but I was just playing around!

it's not too late to be on the naughty list

2010-01-06T08:35:00.000-08:00

This was my christmas card this year. it comes with blue hearted and pink hearted underwear. I originally had a present in the corner that was ripped open, but I could not draw torn paper... I got a few laughs out of it and a few gross faces (which is what I wanted muahahah) so I guess it was a success.

hope everyone had a great holiday! I did. it was the best EVER!

the semester is OVER

2009-12-18T20:49:00.000-08:00

wow...so the semester is over. I feel...strange. I wish that this program were 3 years long...I really dont feel like I am where I would like to be just yet! But I guess we can ALWAYS get better. Anyway, here I am on friday night drinking wine and...DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN: DRAWING! (for myself). What can I say?

Myself as a mermaid

2009-12-07T14:11:00.000-08:00

this is me as a mermaid to go with "mikemaid". my shells match his hair

Bunny Hug

2009-11-30T07:19:00.001-08:00

I don't know why people call hoodies "bunny hugs".

if my boyfriend were a merman...

2009-11-27T14:41:00.000-08:00

so I promised myself I wouldn't draw too many mermaids in this program, but there has been a lot of talk about mermen around class lately.
I thought it would be funny to draw my boyfriend as a merman. what a hunk!

hehe

2009-11-25T11:53:00.000-08:00

'stache sketch

2009-11-07T22:29:00.001-08:00

a friend of mine shaved this moustache onto his face. I thought it was pretty sweet and fitting with my moustache obsession.

Lady

2009-11-05T23:36:00.000-08:00

I've been drawing a lot of middle aged men lately, so I decided to attempt a woman. I've added women and girls on my list of things to keep working on!

"The Scholar"

2009-11-05T00:16:00.001-08:00

I'd like to recolour this, but I do like his nose.

^Date

2009-10-25T22:51:00.000-07:00

sketches.

I've been drawing moustaches lately. apprpriate because movember is coming up. haven't heard of it? look it up!

Goofy slip

2009-10-19T16:10:00.000-07:00

Ok, so this is my rough of my rough animation that is due tomorrow!

Dear Alice...

2009-10-06T14:06:00.000-07:00

So this is my Alice animation. We have some time later in the semester to clean up some of our animations and I think I want to try and fix and finish this up. The lip sync is a bit off, but it is definitely better than my last animation!

this was just a quick pose test for a slip and fall. We are going to be doing a slip and fall for our next animation assignment. hopefully my real animation will come out a little less stiff, but I guess this only took a couple hours (with breaks haha).

Weekly illustrations

2009-09-21T22:56:00.001-07:00

These were two weekly illustrations for the illustration blog.

The top one is me...I usually announce this when I bring boiled eggs to class. They smell sooooooo good!

Final animation rough

2009-04-09T13:37:00.000-07:00

This is my final animation for my first year at Cap. Our assignment was to animate stitch being chased and zapped/poked/shot at, etc. It was a lot of fun and I am happy with the way it turned out.

The song is "wildcat" by Ratatat

Brett

2009-03-29T16:26:00.000-07:00

This is also on the weekly illustration blog. but this would be me as a man.

Who is Molotov?

2009-02-03T11:33:00.000-08:00

This is an assignment for Special effects. We got to pick what we wanted for the final one so I picked a molotov cocktail. It goes pretty fast, but oh well! I would have liked to add more but fire is actually harder than I thought.

Have YOU seen it??

2008-12-15T21:29:00.000-08:00

Have you seen "the pickle"? from britt white on Vimeo.

Ok...it has taken me hours and hours...but here it is! my final first semester project in all of its glory. I am satisfied with it.

Also, I think the very end is cut off so it is missing a second or two. I tried to fix it to no avail.

Merquette

2008-10-30T23:49:00.001-07:00

We had to design a character for design class and make a maquette from our designs. It really helps you to imagine your character in 3d space and forces you to work out the kinks until you can build it with your hands. It was really interesting and I think I would really like to try it again.