week 1 day 6

Capturing facial expressions is hard. Here's me trying to decide whether or not some shirt I haven't worn for three years sparks joy

week 1 day 5

I've been really lackluster this week and I feel bad about it but I'd rather post something bad than post nothing at all

week 1 day 4

No time to draw today here are some doodles  of Dane's head instead

week 1 day 3

Inexplicably exhausted tonight here's some really bad Harry potter doodles

week 1 day 2

weehee! Got the Tablet to work so I was able to draw in photoshop tonight! Having a tablet that's about the same size as the screen is a first for my personal setup and it's really nice ngl. Here's a sketch I did just to test out mostly, might come back and work on it some more

week 1 day 1

Frustration!!

Dane has this old intuos 3 that is really big and supposedly still works but if you think I can get drivers to function.. No.

week 0 day 7

Some church doods

week 0 day 6

Back in the comfort zone

Sorry if blurry I had to run away from some teenagers

week 0 day 5

Materials include the red colerase and the handy app and instagram for references

week 0 day 4

Faces will always be my comfort, not sure if that's a good or bad thing or whether I want to change it

 also handsome squidward is here

Materials used ballpoint pen and colerase red

week 0 day 3

As is traditional we are starting this year off with a self portrait

I wanted to challenge myself a little bit so I did a weird angle which may or may not be especially flattering ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Materials used include normal ballpoint pen, two dying highlighters and my desire to have real blue hair and not just the lacroix version. Here are some other takes I did:

 might crop later idk

It's that time again!!

Somehow I have managed to survive the current administration last four years since I attempted this project in 2016, woohoo! That means I am back at it again since 2020 is another leap year. Unsurprisingly I want to change things up again to suit my present artistic needs. Maybe a little background on where I'm at in my life.

I originally started this project in 2012 as a way to push myself artistically and get into a habit of daily drawing (oops still haven't accomplished that lol). Part of that was because I wanted to study animation at BYU. I managed to complete the 366 part of this project (I gave up on writing a short story a week in like February) and by the end of that year I'd been accepted to study at BYU. I went to BYU, did poorly, didn't get accepted into the program and then went on a mission. By the time 2016 had rolled around I worked my butt off, applied to and was accepted into the animation program (yay!). That year however I was totally slammed with school (first semester in the program is rough though tbh....... all of it was pretty grueling) so I had a hard time with this project and wasn't really able to complete it. In between then and now I did a lot of school (seriously... did anything happed in my life in 2017 or 2018? I guess I went to Jerusalem), graduated with my BFA, got married, and am now working in the industry!! I did an internship at Pixar this summer as a character model/rig TD and am now working at Blur as a character rigger. I honestly didn't think I would get this far in my career aspirations but I definitely think this project helped me get where I am today, even if it was just in a small way.

Since my last go at this project I have gotten really into sculpting. I think I'd like to set some kind of goal to do a monthly sculpt, preferrably taken to a level where it's retopologized and can be uploaded to sketchfab. I would like to also explore storyboarding more, since that was something I really enjoyed doing when I was in school. I think to keep with the 366 part of the project I'll try to post daily to this blog (and when I have something more finished like a sculpt or a storyboard/animatic I will share those on social media). On days I don't have progress for a longer project I will post daily drawings of something I've worked on (hopefully something more than a doodle but we'll do what we can).

In a fun twist, this year my husband has decided to also join in by doing a short story a month! I will share links to his stuff when they are available but he will primarily be posting them on his website danewhitaker.com so feel free to check it out there as well.

I'm also discovering the limits of the mobile app (such as no hyperlink capabilities????) so hopefully that doesn't interefere too much with posting throughout the year but we will see :00000

BLAH BLAH BLAH HERE'S SOME ART OK

here's what I did today at church!

under the cut for a bunch of other art stuff I've done this summer woop wop!

Week Twenty Five, Day Six

wow posting two days in a row that aren't on a monday or tuesday???? miraculous. anyway here are some doodles

pretty much did these while waiting to connect to TF2 servers lol

also here's some progress on that little person I'm modelling rn

Week Twenty Five, Day five

here are a bunch of things I worked on in maya today!!!
this candle!:

 this other candle not as cool:

a couple days ago I started modelling a person even though I don't know anything about what I'm doing lol and this was where I started today:

 so didn't do a whole lot of work on it but here's where it's at now:

here are a bunch of arts from this week!!!

Seriously sorry I suck at this blog so much I really don't know what my problem is send help

at DnD

lots of gesture experiments with brush pens

somehow I always end up drawing Hermann

possible banner thing I was making

Week Twenty Three, days Six-Seven

here are a few nens I doodled out last night and this morning experimenting with a new brush pen I got in the mail yesterday!

Week twenty one, day five

I'm here in oak city! Here's a thing I did whole I was waiting for us to leave. The ink didn't dry in time for me to scan it. Kind of a little experiment in less representational art

Week Twenty One, Day Three

I drew a tiny not very anatomically correct Nen

it's been a weirdly stressful day idk

Week Twenty One, Day Two

finished this thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 yeay

Week Twenty One, Day One

bah bah bah I'm the worst at posting here's a thing I'm working on for someone from my mission

probably going to redo the drawing on the right BUT THAt'S A TASK FOR ANOTHER DAY

Week Twenty, Day Five

yo ok look these eyes are DEEEEFINITELY not in the same direction but liek.......... I'm working on some concept stuff ok. Also we had a freak blackout last night so I wasn't able to see in the dark to draw sorry fam.

a princess

Week Twenty, Day Three

Ok normally for this site I want to do a drawing during the day and complete it etc whatever. Well today's what something I started last winter break and never got around to finishing until today. I've been really feeling like I need to make some actual finished illustrations so I figured now would be as a good a time as any!!!

Anyway this is a redo of an old drawing/painting from 2011 because why not (actually I think at the time I was kind of feeling down on my art or something so I decided to redo an old piece to show myself that I have improved or something like that). I think the one from 2011 is not the worst piece ever (there are still a lot of things about it I like quite a bit!) by any means, but I can tell I've improved a LOT since then. so yay!

Week Twenty, Day Two

a couple of dumb sketches

Week Nineteen, Day Four

my fave fortune telling cowboy!

someday I'll do this before everyone goes to bed and I'll be able to use the scanner

Week 19 Day Three

sorry it's been a rough couple days for my family but here's a quick sketch

Week 19, Day 1

FINALLY I'M BACK. this is all thanks to Haley for giving me just the extra push I needed to get back into updating and actually doing this for real again. so here I am. Also ps I got into my program. anyway I was watching Return of the Jedi tonight so here's a fabulous Leia. idk if I'll do star wars all week or what but here you go

BONUS
this

wow sorry

seriously I need to get back into the habit of doing this. It's been a crazy year.  Anyway even though I haven't been posting, I have been drawing! not as much since I turned in my application to the program, but it's ok because I got in! Anyway some of my friends and I are doing a book club thing and here's something from that I did yesterday and today:

from (mostly) yesterday

drew this tonight!

sorry for the quality also the snapchat. no regrets. also I eternally have this freaking song stuck in my head because of drawing this (sorry I would just embed but none of the videos will let me whatever)

Week Ten, Day One

this is all I drew today in my sketchbook

pages per day:4.35 things are not looking up :///// but at least my flour sack is getting in the done-ish zone and I finished modelling my lego! (....finally)

Week Nine, Day Seven

heh heh hehhhhhhhhh. At church I've been drawing with my left hand the last few weeks because I try to give my right hand/wrist a break on sunday and this ridiculous undertale fanart happened:

pages per day: 4
I realised that because I don't draw for anything school related on sunday I can't count those days toward my overall page goal so that's why it went up quite a bit. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow to get lots of sketchbook drawing done!!

Week Nine, Day Four

finally actually posted on a day four lol. didn't get much chance to draw in my sketchbook today (luckily I was at least using my time wisely and working on other parts of my portfolio) but here's what I did do:

pages per day: 3.07 ahhhh gotta get on it!!! hopefully tomorrow I can get a lot of pages

Week Nine, Day Three

today I've been working on SPACE VIKING stuff for my 3D lego assignment for Intro to 3D Graphics so here's a dragon

Viking ship Dragon! #art #drawing #vikings #viking #sketch #ship #Dragon #artistsofinstagram #propdesign #visdev #Instaart #sketchbook #52366

A photo posted by Shannon Lyman (@shymri) on Mar 2, 2016 at 9:06pm PST

pages per day: an even 3. I really need to get on this!!!! hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to catch up. I don't have work so that will help.

Week Nine, Day Two

Ok still strugging on getting all these pages but we just gotta do the best we can ok

Shoes! #art #drawing #sketch #52366 #shoes #shoe #doodle #sketchbook #artistsofinstagram #Instaart

A photo posted by Shannon Lyman (@shymri) on Mar 1, 2016 at 9:57pm PST

pages per day: 2.97

Week Nine (MONTH III), Day One

hi sorry to be so inconsistent but I'm going to try to be better. So tomorrow the day of marching, march will start and with that I'll have a month to get my animation portfolio together. It is going to be some CRAZY TIMES YALL. so my goal is just to have this new sketchbook filled up. Having done the math, that's an average of THREE PAGES A DAY. as evidenced by... literally every other time I've tried to pace myself on anything EVER, I will probably not succeed at doing actually three pages in my sketchbook every day, but I'm going to try. even though it's not technically march yet, I'm going to start today. so the theme for the month is just whatever it takes to get three quality sketchbook pages. wHERE DOIN THIS MAN WHERE MAKIN IT HAPEN. here's something from today:

Some lightbulbs that I sketched at work today #art #drawing #sketch #doodle #lights #light #lightbulb #lightbulbs these hashtags are kind if stretching it haha #artistsofinstagram #artist #Instaart

A photo posted by Shannon Lyman (@shymri) on Feb 29, 2016 at 7:30pm PST

pages per day left atm:  2.935

Week Eight, Day Three

the true carbage. My poor roommate Mariah had her back windshield bashed yesterday, so in honor of that terrible event, I drew it. As you do.

Week eight, Day Two

I used a perspective grid this time so this one is less horrible. Toooooo bad I still know nothing about cars lol

Car for #carbage week #52366 #art #drawing #car #sketch #doodle #vehicle #artistsofinstagram #Instaart

A photo posted by Shannon Lyman (@shymri) on Feb 23, 2016 at 10:43pm PST

Week Eight, Day One

ok look, I am not very good at perspective and I've never really drawn cars before so this week is going to be a struggle but I seriously am goign to try so hard to post every day. Like last week I drew probably every day or so but just never got around to posting. I'm sorry. I'm busy.
Here's my terrible attempt of my favourite car on my misison, the 2014 Jeep Compass