Brie Spielmann

A Girl I Once Fell For

2011-11-29T23:24:00.001-08:00

Beautiful Amber. :)

Passion Illustration

2011-11-11T22:43:00.000-08:00

Here ya go! The Passion assignment.

DJ Turn Tables

2011-11-03T16:39:00.000-07:00

Work in progress for class. So far four hours with various breaks due to work and other assignments. SO MUCH TO DO!!! Although, this is only the beginning and I'm learning a great deal.

Stapler Staging

2011-11-03T16:35:00.000-07:00

Assingment for my Illustration class. Took me 36hrs of rendering and now that I did this my other illustrations are going a lot faster! Woo!

Can't Hardly Wait

2011-10-12T02:04:00.000-07:00

Quick sketch of my favorite childhood crush; Seth Green!

The Doctor

2011-10-04T03:45:00.000-07:00

Today has been a productive day.. Pretty happy with all that was done today. Have a lot more to catch up on but I'm making great personal progress! :3 Even watched five episodes of Dr Who and re-watched the first season of Bored To Death.

The After Party

2011-10-02T19:31:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Katie Longua on her Isotope award last night for her mini comic "Rok"!

Did this little sketch of a couple with balloons at Isotope during a party. Realized I hadn't seen balloons in quite a long time.

Preliminary Work

2011-09-26T01:08:00.000-07:00

Here are some thumbnails for a comic I am working on from a script for class.

It's been a while..

2011-09-26T01:03:00.000-07:00

Here is some stuff to look at.

Layout for a painting that will be done soon. No idea for the medium yet, possibly oil. Feel free to shout ideas!

Playing around with a more angular style.. so far so good?

Guy at the Bar

2011-09-26T00:48:00.000-07:00

"One day my prince will come.. "

Quick Sketch

2011-09-26T00:46:00.000-07:00

Had Fun with this lady :)

RoomMate!

2011-08-30T21:22:00.000-07:00

That is all for now.

Another Self Portrait

2011-08-16T11:20:00.000-07:00

Because I'm always here..

Warm up sketch

2011-06-30T03:33:00.000-07:00

Beetles Don't Go to School, Or do they?

2011-06-20T19:15:00.000-07:00

Today was the first day of class and I spent class drawing a beetle instead of paying attention but I know what the assignment is so it's all good. Will post more stuffs later. I have a lot to show you all. :D

Also, I've been writing some short stories for the Anthology that my roommate, a friend, and I are producing this Fall for APE. I may post some sneak peeks if you're good. ;)

New Sketchbook, New Techniques

2011-06-16T14:03:00.000-07:00

Been rather busy and forgetful as of late, here is an update on some new skills I have learned and a new style I'm trying out.

I made a new sketchbook which is 100sheets of cardstock 100lb half white and half antique grey. I am very thrilled with this although I wish they had some darker cardstock than this light grey, but I can just throw some tone on it and mess with pulling lights and darks. The point is that it is cardstock and soaks up ink and watercolor. It's the sexiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

Til next time.. keep it classy San Francisco. :]

Floats Train

2011-03-27T15:40:00.000-07:00

Joined the concept art team of an animation group through a friend (Gene Yanza, director/producer) back in September or October of 2010. He asked me to do some character designs and then later a train design. here is the train.

Something To Look At

2011-03-11T01:59:00.000-08:00

So a few friends started a group called the Environmental Sketch Club of which meets three times a week. This past Saturday we went to the Wharf and I practiced my water colours and I think I'll practice a lot more often now.

Something from the workshop

10 minutes

2011-02-26T11:40:00.001-08:00

Little 10 min speed painting of a place back home by Cape Cod (I think)

Very loose but you get the idea.. might turn this into something more but for now just an image of home.

Comics

2011-02-23T11:13:00.000-08:00

This is only the beginning..

Strategy

2011-02-23T10:22:00.000-08:00

Girl in my class..

Study of a friend and his amazingly round ear

I have no scanner D:

2011-02-23T03:28:00.000-08:00

Some Quick Studies with my new markers :P

I think I may turn these poses into paintings ^

James

The Roommate Ash Fairless

Studies for a friends comic script (hopefully he lets me illustrate it!!)

Sister

RIP Abel

Yes, that is how I used to dress in high school.

Sketchbook dump from four months and now

2011-01-29T22:22:00.000-08:00

Canine

2010-12-12T11:36:00.000-08:00

These are all WIP

Will update with more uniform images when I get the chance.

Equine

2010-12-12T11:28:00.001-08:00

Intro to Animal Anatomy Assignment 1

My final render was charcoal on plum colored paper

Apologies for the poor quality photos, but you get the idea. If I get the chance I will update with actual scans.

Some Sketch Book

2010-12-12T11:20:00.000-08:00

Some brush pen fun

more to come..

So things are going well..

2010-10-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

Been working digital lately, my poor sketchbook feels neglected except for when Ashlie does something embarrassing and I feel the need to record it into the sketchbook.

So here's we are.. Midterms are.. over? I'm not sure if that is 100% true. At least not for me. More work ensues.. in addition to joining a wonderful and inspiring project of a short animation entitled Floats (more on that in a later post later), I have also been writing down my ideas for comics. Short and possibly lengthy stories about things I snicker at, observations I make, and my favourite topic- Murphys law.

All in all, stay tuned for comics, concept work, studies, and some school work that I am actually proud of.

MIDTERMS!!! and stuff

2010-10-18T00:38:00.000-07:00

Lots going on, but moving forward with confidence. :)

Bourbon makes this smooth

2010-10-15T00:35:00.000-07:00

Back from the zoo.. brush pen and photoshop for color

Horse WIP render for Animal Anatomy

Very fun class, if you get the chance to take it, do so.

More animal anatomy

Figure studies

This semester has started off and continued very well, so far very inspired and proactive.

Ticklish Camel

2010-09-16T10:21:00.000-07:00

This semester I am taking an Animal Anatomy class- so you'll be seeing a lot more animals.

Thanks for taking a look!

Homo sapiens and architecture

2010-09-05T21:00:00.001-07:00

I'll make an animal post later on, but for now this is some of what I have done this summer.

recently discovered water color crayons and brush ink pen

Ricky!!!

I saw ba'man!

Self portrait caricature! That was a fun day.

Sketchbook Dump

2010-07-14T17:42:00.000-07:00

Busy, busy with these two intense classes. Will post that work soon but for now here are some drawings from workshops and whatnot. :]

Child Drawing with Chuck Pyle (director of Illustration)

This here is Zoey, Thomas Gronbukts cute little girl! I didn't do her much justice.. sorry Thomas!

Embarcadero sketch

Gronbukt's Quick Study workshop

Enrique drawing a rainbow.

Cheers! Wish me luck on midterms!

Open ended for repercussion, practice

2010-07-02T22:46:00.000-07:00

Water color study in Gronbukts class, Spring '10

Water color study, quite pleased with it. :P

Bill Sanchez workshop

Airport study and misc.. :)

Study of dad in ink and water color

Sketchbook misc

Little girl water color study from today

Summer Indecency Extroverted TBC

2010-06-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

*Sniff* Mmmm I smell romantic beginnigns to a blog post. :P

I have been 'AFK' (away from computer, nerd language) for quite a while since last semester and will be back shortly. Just thought I'd pop in to share how much I am enjoying life and classes right now.. (mainly to make excuses as to why I have not posted anything) Narrative Story and Illustration 1 all in the rapidly short Summer semester. Like Gloria Gaynor, I will survive. Because as long as I know.. how to love.. I know I will stay alive.
I've got all my life to live.
And believe me, I've got all my love to give and I will survive.
/end scene >_>

Thus far, being a week of classes I have managed to miss one class by catching some kind of horendous cold the second day.. -_- but not all clouds have a silver lining. I learned some new things from going to the doctor and also had time to reflect and draw. My ukulele arrived in the mail, I have been playing that quite a bit. Mainly when no one is around to hear how bad it is until I actually figure out how to play. ;)
I actually like Narrative story, it's a lot of fun and very inspiring. As for Illustration 1 it is simple, for now.

I shall update with some short comics and whatnot later on this weekend. I want to get a post in before and after Pride Parade. WATERCOLOR AND PASTEL TIME!!! HOLLAH! :D

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer!

Spring Show o__o

2010-05-02T16:04:00.000-07:00

CFD1 submission

Sketchbook submissions.. Not sure if I should compile them or not.

Not really sure how I would compile all of these anyhow though. I need to finish uploading more pages.. I have some new stuff that might be worth submitting.

Your comments please!!!!

>_>

2010-04-24T20:40:00.000-07:00

I'm hoping I make it through finals...

Like I tell me mom.. don't wait up. (for new posts.. for a while.)

Good luck to all my fellow students in their finals! Produce EPIC work! or fail. :/

-brie

B double E double R U-N

2010-03-14T22:55:00.000-07:00

Study

2010-03-13T14:18:00.000-08:00

Recent mini-study.

Oil on black matte board about 5x7

Some Good Head >_>

2010-02-12T23:48:00.000-08:00

Sketchbook paraphernalia.

Old drawing from Clothed Figure 1, I forgot to post it, but am rather proud of this.

Latest Head studies in pen.

Trying to be as skilled as Z.

gute nacht ;)

Episode 1 : I used a Swiffer

2010-02-08T02:13:00.000-08:00

Spring semester has started and I am pleased to announce that I am now more awesome than ever! I was taken while in a deep sleep, ripped from my packaging and placed upon a lego battle field of which I was left to fend for myself and slaughter those in my way to reach that delicious cream filled donut called Ultimate Happiness on the other side. With my pen as my sword, I couldn't quite erase my foes.. so I drew mustaches on them like in that one episode where Bugs Bunny goes around and defiles the portraits of movie stars...er, you get my point. When you can't beat them, make them look funny. :P

HERE'S A MAN!

His name is Sedrickson..

He is part lizard.

Enjoy.

Oh, right, by the way.. My trip to North Carolina was a lot of fun and I baked a cookie that looked like a rocket ship!

Fin.

all things in moderation

2010-01-10T13:18:00.000-08:00

These past three days have been a great predecessor for the days to come in North Carolina. Adventures with various friends took me to new places among San Francisco. I took the Minolta out with the lovely Mandi Sanchez to Beuna Vista Park and Corona Heights where we climbed amongst the rocks and met a cute puppy German Shepard named Juanita. o.O

LOOK! It's the prong thing! O_O

The day started off a little overcast and soon became very grey and dismal, not to mention COLD! It was a great adventure nonetheless, as the adventure ended with burritos and I saw Ovo later that night with my sister and Chris. ^.^

An adventure with Abel on Friday led to some roof top cityscape drawing and hot chocolates in little Italy. On Saturday Grant, Sadie and I managed to hit up every candy store on the way through the Embarcadero center and to the Ferry Building where Grant took out his laptop and proceeded to play an 8-bit game while Sadie and I hung out in a book store reading The World According to Twitter and looking at the Fail Blog Chronicles.

Later that night the three of us ended up inebriated and playing video games. I broke out the pastels and did a feature study..

I tend to overwhelm myself with the big picture, so I never end up finishing what it is that I started out to do in the first place. I think if I do more little studies and calm myself down I'll be able to be more comfortable in situations where I do have to get the whole figure all nice and pretty.

To all those iphone and ipod touch users out there, download Words With Friends and start a game with me. (It's scrabble.. but wireless with EVERYONE!) ((someone needs to make a star wars version))

peace

Open to ideas

2009-12-11T21:38:00.000-08:00

In class fun.. I think I finally got that torso down.. >_< Added in some paper planes, they need cast shadows.. :P

So here is my work in progress for my final! A friend of mine told me that he likes the open space at the top.. should I leave it open or add in the gummy worms?

What you gonna do when the guns are drawn?

2009-12-07T11:44:00.000-08:00

I have a pretty good view of the city from where I am at and every morning I wake up to a different mood in the sky.

I may start doing more of these as morning exercises.. But this was my first quick study in photoshop of what I see when I wake up. The clouds looked awesome, but as of right now the light and clouds moved because I decided to eat something. I know, I know.. shame on me.

Anyway, there you go!

rawr! Took me like thirty minutes to throw together the sketch, clouds and sky..

Damn quick select made my sky look weird. Well, actually it's my fault. I learned today that quick select should be used with 100% opacity rather than 40%.. it caused some variation in the opacity within the sky and that's why the weird pattern is in the sky. I am quite proud of my clouds though.. ^.^

I have never done a city scape before.. it's rather overwhelming. O_O

Hope all is well, I must get back to actual work for finals now. :P

Dream thief?

2009-12-04T16:10:00.000-08:00

Somehow today it just clicked for me. I am still very far behind in most of my classes and this weekend will be a doozy because of it.

Anyhow, I wanted to share my excitement with you of my first sketching enjoyment within photoshop. The weird icky cheating feeling is gone! Same with painting in oil, I am much more confident now. ^_^

Starting with flour sacks seems to help haha

Cheers

I keep her in the basement..

2009-12-01T22:11:00.000-08:00

When I press my eyes into the back of my skull I can see these amoeba looking things.

This kind of love..

2009-11-06T11:00:00.001-08:00

Inspired during class by this image. :]

My Giggling Technique

2009-11-05T22:02:00.000-08:00

This week has been a rough ride.. I'll post more later but tonight these little guys begged me to let them out onto paper. So I weilded(sp?) my 'penis mightier' and now I deliver them un to you.

I haven't slept or eaten much this week... really haven't done much of anything. I slumped much like an uninviting wet hammock Wednesday. Didn't feel worth anything, didn't have any of my work done. Ended up falling asleep when I had intended to go to class.. woke up an hour before class was over and decided to utilize the rest of my day to reflect on absolutely nothing and read. Hoping that I would pull myself out of the big empty space inside my skull, but to much of my avail I failed miserably until I attended my still life class today. Today showed me that you really shouldn't fall short of living your life just because you would rather be elsewhere.

I'll finish the paintings and show you later.. but I am feeling like more of an illustrator each and every day.

Like a friend said on his facebook status.. nut up or shut up. He's right.

Pick a little, Talk a little, CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP!

2009-10-24T13:56:00.001-07:00

You like that Music Man quote there? Yeah, I like it too.

There is an assailant amongst us, his name is Midterm Mo. I must say he has assaulted me more than I can handle this week.

What I am most concerned about is something that I put no concern or effort into at all, my Art History exam. I feel confident that I did fairly well on the true/false and the multiple choice.. but that was only 20 points worth on the test. Out of the two options for compare and contrast essays.. I knew the images, had reviewed them before I left to go take the test, and then blanked when I had to write the essay. I only remembered details from one of the images, a page and a half, in very large handwriting, was describing the one image (The Fall of Man by Albrecht Durer) and my take on it. The rest was about Betty Page for some reason. o.O

I entered the exam with confidence as I drew the back of a girls head in front of me on my test, then bombed the 80 point essay. Awesome -_-

Good news is.. I now have more of an understanding of how a plaid pattern is created. You take checkers.. give them some tequila.. there you go. Drunk checkers.

I just want to sleep.. I am too lazy to upload photos today. I'll take pictures and show you the watercolor of my sister I did today, tomorrow.

Here's the unfinished drawing for my zombie zoo keeper. I like it for the most part, Charles Lister showed me how to place tears in clothing which was very helpful. So here ya go, I suppose I will post the progress of this.

She's carrying a half eaten penguin. :]

Wet Day Dreams.. and drawrings o.O

2009-10-21T19:34:00.000-07:00

Mid terms are killing me this week.. I fear for my well being this Friday as I am scheduled to take my art history exam and I am the worst at taking written exams. Hopefully with much studying I will do decently.

Craig Marshall showed me the idiot proof way to draw eyes properly today and it made me so happy. ^_^

During one of the breaks in Heads and Hands I started to day dream about meeting a really pretty and talented girl that would catch my eye. Inevitably I was thinking about how I met my ex, but this time I was in a workshop, five years older than I was then. I would compliment her drawing and we would share sketchbooks.. She would extend her delicate hand and would give mine a firm shake while introducing herself with a glow about her. I, practically falling to my knees at the very sight of her sweet smile, would just giggle to myself and go hide in a corner rocking back and forth, giddy as fuck, swearing that I had just touched the hand of an angel.

Seems my hopeless romantic side is making it's way back into my life. I have a feeling that I day dreamed about that as a metaphor for Craig showing me how to draw the eyes.. I just sank back into my clan of information, which had manifested themselves to be individuals of which I would go home and make love to for hours.

Well, here are some drawings. :D

From the Saturday Fashion Costume workshop.

Hands from today.. I'll finish later.

Various from various.

Oh, and I met a kid today that referred to quick studies as those timed shape matching games. It made me smile inside.. then almost projectile vomit because I was still very nauseous from drawing on the bus. -_-

Don't you eat!

2009-10-18T02:15:00.000-07:00

After having coffee and french toast with my sister at Blue Bottle, I ventured over to Alternative Press Expo with my usual key associates. Having been LeeAnn and I's first time attending, we were overwhelmed by the collection of free stuff we had accumulated within only the first five minutes of being there. Needless to say, we plan on bringing tote bags, *cough* a suitcase next time.

I have to say, anime really is not my cup of tea.. and neither is super cartoony comic book characters, but there were some artists that stood out to me. One of them I had been drawing with in the same room and had no idea of what he was capable of. If you haven't already, check out his work.. Ben Jelter and here is his blog, for those of you who wish to stalk his brilliance.

I digress, the expo was fantastic and all of the artists were too. I collected many stickers to litter my sketchbook with and perhaps too much memorabilia. All in all, much fun.

Afterwards I headed over to the Federal building to work on my Still Life Painting assignment..

The assignment basis is to paint a still life consisting of four objects.. one of which is glass and another one must be a reflective metal. After much failed attempt at creating my dream piece due to not being able to find a napkin dispenser for free or cheep and then finding out that aluminum foil is not reflective like I thought it would be.. (dun laff.. you would of done it too ) I ended up with this.

(The red marks are my correction and thought process marks via photoshop. )

So far, I'm liking it. I may rot the food a bit like the great Caravaggio.

Thanks to Brandon showing us that documentary by BBC, I can't stop loving how sick Caravaggio was. I'm like a kid that just discovered Spiderman and keeps wearing the costume for weeks on end! ^.^

Here is another smaller painting I am working on of our salt and pepper shakers. They have magnetic feet and stick to this wire, they grew up as pole dancing sluts. HAHAHA, I had to. Click it, you know you want to. <.< ... >.> ... o.o Quick, while everyone is watching you..

Eh.. I'm thinking of making the platform it is on.. polka dots. Yes? Triangles? (I'm thinking the graphic for the TV show Saved by the Bell with those crazy shapes.)

..and the grand finale! This is my set up. I will wake up, go to the gym, ingest great amounts of coffee, and get back to work around 10am.

G'night

[EDIT: I found out Sunday afternoon that I need to change the composition. Thus I am doing so now, but I am going to continue this one as a practice.]

Kisses! ^_^

2009-10-16T02:17:00.000-07:00

Oh golly gee.. I really love music. I was avoiding homework by going through some old videos on my computer and ran across some old music videos and home videos from high school. I use to video tape everything! Nostalgia has settled and I have been listening to Smashing Pumpkins, old Greenday songs.. man. The good ole days when we would all just chill out in someone's garage or back yard, and one of us always had a guitar or good conversation.

Anywho, here's some flour sacks!

This was a thumbnail for the flour sack assignment.. I'll post the assignment sometime.

For now.. KISSES!

Sketchbook Dump

2009-10-08T23:19:00.000-07:00

I bought myself a fancy 9x12 Moleskine a few weeks ago..

Here..

We has a model that resembles Ole Saint Nic

I'm practicing in ballpoint pen for Z's class ^_^

Thumbnails for an assignment and my odd fixation with this orange chair in my residence lobby. Might turn that into something, who knows. *shrug*

These were for an arm and leg study in Clothed Figure, I forced my friends to pose for me. :]

So that's about it for now.

Muddy Mug

2009-10-03T00:26:00.000-07:00

Here is a self portrait that I just did within about an hour's time.. Done in water color and black prisma pencil for line, I was on the phone but wanted to do a portrait without the phone. Then figured what the heck, roll with it. So this is the end result.. I put my one eye farther away, my bad. But all in al I have stopped trying to modify myself to what I perceive versus reality.. It seems to be working.

Cheers and goodnight :]

A Few Naked Men

2009-10-02T21:13:00.000-07:00

Three nude men.. Done with ink wash.

Greek God Hermes

2008-12-11T14:18:00.001-08:00

Assignment was to create an illustration of a greek god. I did a character design at last minute. My attempt at dragons in my first idea was a little silly looking to say the least.

A Muse is Re-born! ka-blammmy!

2008-11-18T23:01:00.000-08:00

Iain McCaig was nice enough to take time out of his busy schedule to come visit us illustration students and talk about getting out into the industry and how to keep our muse flowing and our imaginations going. He was very enthusiastic and inspiring, which I feel is just what we students needed considering we are burnt out and at a loss for ideas- well most of us at least. I met up with this kid I have been seeing around lately and we awkwardly made our introductions and rode the bus home together. Discussing monsters and silly creatures. When I arrived home I flipped through some old sketch books. Something he said tonight just kind of struck me, "the parts in your sketchbook that are the most embarrassing are the real parts of you and you should show the world!" Or something like that. So I thumbed through some old sketches.. mainly funny strips of people blowing up or sexual frustrations.. balls n' wieners.. the whole sha'bam. Then the sketches of pieces I had wanted to do that had a clever sort of story/puzzle to them. The type of art that you don't get bored staring at. Then I noticed I had written some short stories and poems. As I read on I thought.. I should really write more sometime.

Either way.. one more reason for me to not feel ridiculous when talking to myself in public and laughing at random.

One more reason for me to keep going and to expose my talent to the best of it's ability.

Cheerio

Family Portrait

2008-11-14T08:48:00.000-08:00

This is my most recent project for Photoshop class. The assignment was to create a family portrait. I had many rough drafts of different ideas, but when my instructor and I got into the ideas I became more and more excited about this one. The two little boys are ghosts, this was my first time working with transparent figures; even in photoshop. Not to mention I only started fiddling with photoshop this semester (Sept 08). The setting and boys were done separately, after both were finished I imported the boys in an overlay layer and changed the opacity to about 60%, which in return made them transparent enough to be ghostly.

Now I am just worried about how it will print out.

Brie Spielmann

A Girl I Once Fell For

Passion Illustration

DJ Turn Tables

Stapler Staging

Can't Hardly Wait

The Doctor

The After Party

Preliminary Work

It's been a while..

Guy at the Bar

Quick Sketch

RoomMate!

Another Self Portrait

Warm up sketch

Beetles Don't Go to School, Or do they?

New Sketchbook, New Techniques

Floats Train

Something To Look At

10 minutes

Comics

Strategy

I have no scanner D:

Sketchbook dump from four months and now

Canine

Equine

Some Sketch Book

So things are going well..

MIDTERMS!!! and stuff

Bourbon makes this smooth

Ticklish Camel

Homo sapiens and architecture

Sketchbook Dump

Open ended for repercussion, practice

Summer Indecency Extroverted TBC

Spring Show o__o

>_>

B double E double R U-N

Study

Some Good Head >_>

Episode 1 : I used a Swiffer

all things in moderation

Open to ideas

What you gonna do when the guns are drawn?

Dream thief?

I keep her in the basement..

This kind of love..

My Giggling Technique

Pick a little, Talk a little, CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP!

Wet Day Dreams.. and drawrings o.O

Don't you eat!

Kisses! ^_^

Sketchbook Dump

Muddy Mug

A Few Naked Men

Greek God Hermes

A Muse is Re-born! *ka-blammmy!*

Family Portrait

A Muse is Re-born! ka-blammmy!