Gabe Lin Sketchblog

So this is what I made...

2012-01-25T01:35:00.000-08:00

my teacher asked me to animate something with overlapping action during class.

I started off with ambitious dreams for my animation.

But then I realized I needed to finish before class ended.

I also realized I had no idea how to draw any of the things I wanted to animate.

Soon after I decided today wasn't the day for animation glory.

I then pooped this out.

- I'll try and bury this post with better posts soon

Shoo...

2012-01-22T13:51:00.000-08:00

you may not have my sandwich.

Tucker!

2012-01-14T16:53:00.000-08:00

Tucker from "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil"

Dale

2012-01-12T21:20:00.000-08:00

from "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil"

I liked that movie. very funny.

And the characters were very interesting to look at.

Maybe I'll draw some of the others!

Sherlock

2012-01-09T23:55:00.000-08:00

I started watching BBC's Sherlock on Netflix and I couldn't stop watching.

I recommend it if you haven't seen or heard of it.

They turn each case into a feature length episode!

BBC, keep it up.

exploring!

2011-12-29T17:48:00.000-08:00

So I was doing this doodle when I decided I wanted to change it.

But I had the image flattened and somehow I deleted the history?

poop... nothing I can do.

sure wish I knew what I did so I could remember to not do it again...

Merry Christmas Everyone :)

2011-12-25T16:43:00.000-08:00

2011-12-04T01:20:00.000-08:00

more layouts.

great effort was was put into these. not really.

I'm so far behind on work I'm actually amazed by it.

whump

2011-11-21T18:31:00.000-08:00

blegh

she's probably going to die

2011-11-21T00:00:00.000-08:00

2011-11-17T01:35:00.000-08:00

painted this while listening to The Blood of Cuchulain and watching a cool landscape video.

I've been listening to this song for the past week or so. It's very epic and inspiring.

Anyone have any other songs like it?

Music without lyrics can be very beautiful. Even songs in other languages, since I don't understand, the voices become more of an instrument.

Cactus Party!!

2011-11-14T02:55:00.000-08:00

a clip from a 48 hour film I did.

I can't find the whole thing for some reason.

doesn't matter. This is the only part I really enjoyed making.

dance my cactuses! DANCE!!!

PS: Leo Ogawa did the cactus rig. I just tweaked the colors and animated it to some japanese song haha.

reject mouse...

2011-11-13T22:56:00.001-08:00

another layout assignment.

based on my blog posts it would seem as if that was the only class I'm taking this year.

Funky old men

2011-11-10T18:09:00.001-08:00

Today I tried boarding my film... I'm still stuck on it.

Couldn't do anything good, ended up drawing some dancing old men.

I like colors.

I spent so long just doing variations of colors.

Here's one.

Now that I see it, I probably should have spent more time improving the poses.

But save that for later.
Time to continue struggling on my boards...

here's the original... I ended up staying with similar colors just because after a couple filters I ended up feeling like I cheated with the colors

:P

2011-11-07T02:07:00.000-08:00

From Halloween

2011-11-04T19:26:00.000-07:00

Tis' a simple story of a sad ghost and an apathetic witch.

Layout assignment. Silhouettes.

CG jump test

2011-10-25T14:19:00.000-07:00

a jump test I did for CG class. Figured I'd put it up since I don't have much to upload right now.

I'll load a couple pencil tests I did if I ever get the time to fix them up a bit

Do your laundry

2011-10-03T12:38:00.000-07:00

Another layout assignment. Changed it a bit from the one I turned in.

A bit rough and sketchy since I did this at the last minute.
Not a great layout but it was actually more fun to do because I didn't care and just drew it for fun.

I think I might try and do that more often

Happy Birthday Toniko!!!

2011-09-29T00:45:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Buddy!!!

Sorry it's late, I had to storyboard. Curse my procrastination.

You were there.

But here ya go. Hope you enjoyed the Danish!

2011-09-26T21:03:00.000-07:00

CG Foundation class. By far the hardest class for me to stay awake in.

I wish I was good at techie stuff.

Instead I messed around with photoshop and day dreaming I was doing something else.

I had a lot of fun using a brush made by Sophie Diao.

So much fun!!!

Sophie if you see this the brush you made is great!

It kept me awake and interested in staring at a screen.

2nd year begins!!!

2011-09-26T13:06:00.000-07:00

A picture for you.

This was what I did this week for layout class.

The actual drawing was just line work but just lines makes everything boring and confusing so I tried to block in some colors real quick before I uploaded it.

I'll put more stuff up soon maybe.

School has been going on and I'm just trying to do well.

I have yet to find free time to do all the things I want to do

trying to do well seems to kill my social life :/

Dice Tsutsumi, Gypsy Kings, and Toy Story 3 oh my!

2011-08-15T12:56:00.000-07:00

Recently I discovered the great artist that is Dice Tsutsumi.

I guess technically I already knew about him

I went to a lecture of his at CTN and my friend Eusong talked about him quite a bit

But I finally saw his work when I was browsing the art of toy story 3 at the soon to be extinct Borders

and I love it!!!

I'm pretty confident I'm not a vis dev guy

But seeing his stuff really made me want to draw more again

I wanted to try painting in a similar style for one

partially because I love his style

and also because I'm still bad with the tablet and I can't draw lines for my life

So I started thinking about what to draw

Then I remembered that I had just gotten tickets to see the Gypsy Kings!

Tying it all back together I decided that it would just be perfect to do a Toy Story piece!

So I drew this while listening to You've Got a Friend in Me (para el Buzz Español) over and over again

Hmmm.... this could possibly qualify as triple fanart or something...

Anyways, I'm sorry to say that this will probably be my last blog post for the summer.

I'm cleaning up, packing, and trying to sell my laptop!

knowing me I'll probably find a way to get on the internet without my computer

So to all my friends at CalArts, I'll see you in September!

Culinary Genius!

2011-08-14T15:59:00.000-07:00

Me and my brother decided to bake.... freestyle

So we grabbed all the baking ingredients we could think of

and threw in anything we thought would make it taste better.

We were determined to make the most amazing cookie bread cake chimera the world has ever seen

I'd post the ingredients but my brother thinks that's a bad idea.

thumbnails

2011-08-09T23:00:00.000-07:00

Stuck resting for a while..

doing quick thumbnails of whatever I see as well as ideas for films.

Here's a couple.

2011-08-08T16:31:00.000-07:00

trying to keep things simple

I give you a plant in window!

Idea

2011-08-04T13:46:00.000-07:00

A film idea.

and a sketch of it that got out of hand.

movie sketch

2011-07-30T04:27:00.000-07:00

A sketch done while watching The Adjustment Bureau. I actually watched this solely because I saw guys in suits... I like suits. A lot. And this movie has lots of suits.

monkey!

2011-07-11T05:46:00.000-07:00

Been a while. Here's a little idea I'm messing around with. Maybe you'll see me working on it next year.

I wish my sketches weren't so.... messy

also, a song I've been listening to all day

I'm done.... for now

2011-06-20T12:16:00.000-07:00

I won't be doing daily drawings for probably the rest of the month. :/

Have to focus on stuff that I've been putting off.

I leave you with a poorly drawn analogy that may or may not fit this situation.

This also may or may not have been an analogy I made after completing my film.

Happy Father's Day!

2011-06-19T16:52:00.000-07:00

story time

It's a tree ok? Get off my back

2011-06-17T14:39:00.000-07:00

Some people just can't draw trees. It's a condition.

Bap! Bap! Bap!

2011-06-16T21:23:00.000-07:00

Watched a movie, did a study.

I think I may have made the proportions a bit weird but no matter.

Moving on!

10 points if anyone can guess the movie from this quite chunky image

2011-06-15T20:20:00.000-07:00

Goodness, I'm very sorry but there won't be any drawing today : /

Agh! I actually feel really bad for some reason.

I hope I can do a really awesome drawing to make up for it.

TVP

2011-06-14T17:08:00.000-07:00

As of right now we're not getting along.

I storyboarded more but it turned violent.

Also, yay for a new-ish blog look!
It's a bit weird but it was a little late and I couldn't think of anything to draw.

If you don't like it tough!
You'll have to wait until I feel like doing another one lol.

Brazilian Steakhouse

2011-06-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

I went to a Brazilian Steakhouse with my family this last Friday.
The food was good.
But one of the servers had an awesome head shape.

One that I see in weird cartoons and animated movies.
So I tried to remember it as best as I could.
And then today I remembered to remember.

yes.... yes I would.

2011-06-12T13:34:00.000-07:00

I apologize ahead of time for this drawing. Got other things on my mind right now.

anyways, plan on doing some other things. Hopefully that won't but in the way of my daily drawing. If I don't post something each day I'll do my best to do a good job when I do. If it's any consolation, I'm not slacking off, just doing other things drawing-ish related.

I've fallen and I can't get down

2011-06-11T19:22:00.001-07:00

Stayin Alive

2011-06-10T19:54:00.000-07:00

"You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man.

No time to talk."

Tried drawing using shapes drawn with the lasso tool. Bit messy and I'm sad to say I got lazy after a while but it was fun trying something new.

enjoy this drawing of what I fondly call Disco Jesus.

aaaah...

2011-06-09T21:18:00.000-07:00

I almost forgot again. Summer must be getting to me.

hurry!!!!!

2011-06-08T22:01:00.000-07:00

1 minute too late... sorry lol. Got sidetracked too many times

why won't anyone play with me?

2011-06-07T11:39:00.000-07:00

I'm Back

2011-06-06T15:46:00.000-07:00

I'll make up yesterday's drawing. promise.

Augh!

2011-06-05T17:25:00.000-07:00

My computer crash! :(

Sorry that means no picture for today. Hopefully I can get it fixed soon. Promise I'll make up for all the days I missed. I'll do drawings on paper or something. I'm not quitting I swear!!!

2011-06-04T04:00:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch before I start my day

A quick doodle to end it :)

Let's see how long this lasts

2011-06-03T16:12:00.000-07:00

I've decided it's probably best to learn how to use the computer.

So I've decided to try and do a drawing a day.

good or bad it has to be done. And I'm trying not to spend a lot of time on them because I guess that's really not the point of me doing this.

Either way, let's see how long I can keep this up. By posting this, hopefully I'll be motivated to not look like a fool and actually do what I say I will.

first one!

Pascal Campion was an influence. For this piece and the idea of doing a drawing every day. He is awesome and if you don't know who he is look him up. He does a drawing every day too! everyone should do it!

Monkey climbing a tree

2011-05-16T03:32:00.000-07:00

a pencil test for my 2D Animation class. Had to animate a random scene that was given to us, mine was "monkey climbing a tree".

My film

2011-05-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

Here's my 1st year film.

1st Year/ Freshman Film

here's to doing better next time

Sucker Punch

2011-04-03T15:20:00.000-07:00

More Digital Studies

More Sunset Limited

2011-04-02T12:02:00.000-07:00

Another study. Spring break is officially over. Got lots of work done. Still got a lot more to do. But for now it's time to cram to finish a portfolio.

The Sunset Limited

2011-03-29T13:24:00.000-07:00

Took a break and did a quick paint practice with a film still. Now back to mah film.

What I do in class sometimes...

2011-03-23T21:30:00.000-07:00

Sometimes.... my mind just wanders. So I do perspective drawings that aren't actually in perspective since I didn't bother measuring, making an eye level, or making vanishing points.

but... it was fun.

never mind that sun in the sky btw.

sad ball of fur

2011-03-08T19:46:00.000-08:00

A doodle I did while bored in class. Pretty much sums up my film as of now.

zooooooooooo

2011-02-13T23:27:00.000-08:00

Here are some watercolor paintings I did at the LA Zoo with Deborah Ross and some friends this last Saturday. She's awesome and super nice and I wish the trip could have been longer since we only got to paint a couple animals. But at least we went to see the giraffes which were my favorite.

I need to practice painting more. I'll have to find time for that in my increasingly behind schedule semester.

Some old stuff

2011-01-19T20:51:00.000-08:00

Old Character designs I found on my hard drive, animation test I did during winterbreak, and photoshop painting practice.

Winterbreak test from Gabriel Lin on Vimeo.

flying donut?

2011-01-15T15:49:00.000-08:00

one of many possibly bad ideas for a film. I should sketch all my dumb ideas and upload them.

can't come up with a legit story that I'd like to work on for a whole semester just yet. But it'll happen

Airplanes go whoosh

2011-01-15T00:32:00.000-08:00

A quick doodle I did on the plane flying back to CalArts. Stewardesses were staring over my shoulder and were fascinated with my tablet. Made things pretty uncomfortable. So I stopped. Added a bit more when I got back.

Red Cat Green Backpack

2010-12-13T01:35:00.000-08:00

A small still done for Fran Krause's Digital Methods class.

Everyone had to make a still/layout of a film involving a red cat and green backpack. And we'll all animate it into 1 film next semester. Can't wait. I actually designed the layout and characters into something that I think would be fun to animate. Originally I had a totally different layout that was more of a painting and would have in my opinion annoying and not fun to animate.

Walk Cycle part deux

2010-12-12T13:28:00.000-08:00

Here's my second walk cycle. This time with arms.

Belligerent Bunnyman from Gabriel Lin on Vimeo.

It's supposed to be a man in a bunny costume but at a certain point I just had to leave it as is without cleanup because I've got so much more work that needs to get done. Hopefully it's ok If it bugs me too much I'll just clean it up and draw in the final lines for the ears. The rabbit ears were driving me crazy because I had 2 versions. One where the ears didn't move as much and this one where they acted more like waving flags. The waving flag ears bugged the hell out of me. Maybe Scott can fix them.

I have a duck

2010-12-05T20:08:00.000-08:00

A walk cycle without arms as demanded by Scott Wright. I made a duck.

Might tweak it later once I get character design out of the way. And maybe give him a business hat.

Haven't had time to scan or upload anything else. Will soon.

Fran Krause

2010-11-24T00:00:00.000-08:00

Just a quick flash animation I did in digital methods. First time using Flash and I gotta admit it was pretty fun. I animated Fran Krause punching out a cowboy.

Quick disclaimer, I wasn't really trying to do things right so don't bash me for the animation flaws. It was just a test lol.

Apparently... I'm known for my frown

2010-11-16T12:33:00.000-08:00

Color and Design work!

Self portraits.

It was fun to paint. Which was probably why I did that more than anything else. One of the few times where I had the opportunity to try painting so I jumped on it.

I really wish I had more time to teach myself painting because it really feels like I'd have a lot of fun doing this. Maybe I'll try and take a class in the summer or something.

So here it is. Me drawing Me.

On a side note, I actually had a hard time keeping a straight face while doing these... too serious for me.

But as the title says... everyone in class agreed I have a default frown face. I smile a lot, honest to God! But apparently people only remember me when i frown lol. I'm gonna need to work on that... maybe get better PR

I'll post some animations tests soon. It's gonna take a bit because apparently nobody does it in pencil and paper anymore

Calvin and Hobbes!

2010-11-15T22:10:00.000-08:00

Here's some more character design. :)
This week's assignment was to design some characters based off Calvin and Hobbes.

People say I ended up just drawing myself as a little kid.
Not as many drawings this week but it was still fun. Funny how the classes I struggle with seem to be the only ones that I post about here. *cough*characterdesign*cough*

I have no clever title

2010-11-01T22:02:00.000-07:00

This week's Character Design class assignment. Create characters in a Tim Burton-ish style.

I don't think Character Design is my calling haha

BIRD

2010-11-01T22:00:00.000-07:00

Last week's character design HW. Design characters that are kind of like ostriches and emus but not really since they're cartoons and realistic emus are kind of boring.

shhtuff.

2010-10-29T01:18:00.000-07:00

yep... just a bunch of stuff from life drawing. I gotta say I'm loving the models here.

life drawing here is nuts. The models are amazing and can pull off ridiculous poses that others I've had in Illinois could never do. And they've got costumes. We've usually got about 5-10 tops to capture the figure and while doing it we have to try and incorporate layout design, character design, and story. Honestly, it's almost too much for my tiny self taught head to absorb.

But here they are. I believe these are a couple of the better ones from the past 3 sessions. The quality may be a bit low and the images may be a bit distorted and curved because of how I took the pictures. Sorry.

crayons

a couple from the structural/anatomy part of class.

I got a bit bored. So I gave the lady an AK

Also, check out Toniko's blog if you haven't already. He's a friend of mine who's been to Sheridan as well and he's just uploaded a massive amount of work from class as well. He's got a very distinct style and he talks about the difference between Sheridan and CalArts in terms of figure drawing. It's an interesting point of view he's got that isn't very common I'd imagine and his stuff is most definitely worth taking a look at. I know I always feel like an amateur when I see his stuff during drawing breaks.

He's awesome for sure. Toniko's Blog

Treeeeeees

2010-10-12T13:11:00.000-07:00

Pretty much all my Color and Design projects have been trees. I can just picture my final semester portfolio. And the teacher's face when she realizes she's looking at perhaps dozens upon dozens of trees.

:/

2010-10-10T16:18:00.000-07:00

yes, so it's been a month or so at CalArts now! And all I gotta say is that there's a disgusting amount of talent here.

Lots of work and lots of procrastinating makes a very bad combo I must admit.

anyways, not having a laptop makes going online quite difficult. Which might actually be a good thing since I'd probably be even worse off if I had easy access to the internet. I've decided to try and post somewhat regularly here. Even if I don't like my work. Maybe showing it more will make me care about my assignments more haha. Sounds like a really dumb thing since people would apparently kill to be where I am but it's hard to care about some of these intro assignments.

but yesh, don't expect glorious art from me. Go to the other CA students haha. They're amazing. Makes me wonder how I'm here.

but enough self wallowing. Be back soon. I'll upload some stuff from last week or something.

Here to fill up some space is a little doodle of my CG Animation teacher Lee Gramling :)

taking up space on your dashboard

2010-08-27T18:05:00.000-07:00

mentally not even present anymore. off in lala land.

random nothingness is all that's in my head now. hardly epic but enough to distract me.

I wonder if this is a bad thing. I know it's happened before but can't recall when and what happened.

listening to some jams and just existing for now :/

can't wait for school to start! :D

CalArts schedule

2010-08-23T19:38:00.000-07:00

well.... I figured I should post this up since I got nothing better to do. I have a ton of classes :/

I only know the studio classes are set in stone, the other classes I registered for I'm not sure about yet. But right now... all I can say is holy cow, lots of class time lol.

Monday

9am-12pm
Digital Methods (Frank Krause) super excited!

1pm-4pm
2D Animation I (Scott Wright) super excited!

7pm-10pm
Character Design (Rik Maki) super excited!

Tuesday

9am-12pm
Color and Design I (Brooke Keesling) super excited!

1pm-4pm
CG Foundation I (Andrew Bac) super excited!

7pm-10pm
CG Character Animation (Lee Gramling) super excited!

Wednesday

10am-1pm
Intro to Postmodernism (Janet Sarbanes) meh... lol

1pm-4pm
What is Philosophy? (Adam Berg) dunno how I'll get to this one on time if I stick with it. But if I have to take another class, this is the one.

Thursday

7pm-10pm
Story I (David and Jennifer Skelly) super excited!

Friday

9am-4pm
Life Drawing I (Steven Brown) brutal... 7 hours of figure drawing lol

so... yep. I'm pretty much excited just to be going. even more excited for the studio classes. Not too thrilled about having to take critical studies. I got some transfer credit but only enough to cover about half of the units required for graduation. Not saying I plan on staying all 4 years *Cough*ifigetanawesomejob*cough*. What irritates me is that my calculus credits didn't transfer which means... i'm gonna have to take math. and that seriously pisses me off. I thought I got rid of that garbage in high school.

hmm... gravity seems to be especially weak today

2010-08-15T19:30:00.000-07:00

heh... he looks a bit confused.

hashing out rough ideas for a short. incorporating them into sketches without the pressure of being perfect. I figure I'll get the hang of things sooner or later with enough practice

Palate Cleanser

2010-07-28T16:31:00.000-07:00

Ahh... trying to learn photoshop and animate using flash. And failing at them both. But to be fair, it's not the programs' fault lol.

So while I pull my hair out and claw my eyeballs, here's a nice little video I'd like to share that I never get sick of :)

orfeu TRAILER_1 from nelson boles on Vimeo.

one of the many things that gives me an art boner

I hate photoshop

2010-07-28T13:41:00.000-07:00

Because I'm new and suck at it.

But one day I'll get better and we'll be best friends

Huzzah!

2010-07-25T12:41:00.000-07:00

I finally got off my lazy butt and decided to start a new blog! I'm gonna try draw a lot more so I can post stuff more often blah bblah blargh.

Tried making my own header thing like all the cool kids... not sure about it so it might change.