figure drawing

i love chickens

I think chickens are beautiful. I recently bought a book called "Extraordinary Chickens" it is so good. I feel inspired to draw lots of chickens....






(thanks for reminding me to post this one lydecker :) ) Me with a Jamie DeRuyter chicken from our prepro camping trip...good times

doodling

sketchcrawl

Saturday was the 24th worldwide sketchcrawl. Went to north beach area in SF and drew at an Italian festival and at Washington square park.

Afterward we watched cloudy with a chance of meatballs, which was incredible... so go see it if you haven't

HD

I recently found out that my thesis film made it into siggraph asia, yay. So I was getting together my HD version for that. Now I have a full huge HD and so I'm putting a larger HD version of the film on youtube and vimeo. It's still not as big as the version I have, but it's a lot clearer than the first video I uploaded.
youtube


and vimeo

Anchored HD from lindsey olivares on Vimeo.

more sketchboo adventures

quick sketch from a quick adventure in new york

sitting in a starbucks, drawing out the window in Venice beach

Waiting outside my sister's work

Watching the sunglass kiosk girl and the cell phone kiosk boy...kiosk love

and a bunch of people in the food court

airport

more jury duty

jury duty

A couple months ago I was called for jury duty. We had a long time to wait in the beginning so I drew a bunch of people. Fulfilling my civic duty wasn't so bad and it was great for people watching. Especially because I was called to be a potential juror, so during jury selection I got to hear some really interesting backstories to the people I had been watching and drawing.

Sketchcrawl San Francisco

I just moved up to the bay area last week to start work at Dreamworks PDI. One week down and it's been pretty awesome so far. This weekend I went to my first sketchcrawl in San Francisco. It was a lot of fun. Here are some of the skecthes I did:

and goro

another page

Hold me, like the river Jordan

I spent most of yesterday watching MTV's marathon of Michael Jackson's videos through the years. I like drawing from the TV so I did these doodles of him as I watched him dance...man can he move. The Olivares family are big MJ fans, My mom raised us on MJ. I think we must have his every TV appearance archived in our VHS collection. I have a Michael Jackson playlist that I listened to a ton this year when I was working on my film and wanted to get into the groove. There's no one like Michael. His music is untouchable. He was such a innovative, inspiring, and passionate artist.

childrens book progress and processsss

So it's my summer vacay right now. I'm spending most my time being a blob and relaxing. I'm getting kinda bored now so I think I'll spend a little time with this color book project I started at school. Here's some of the process thumbsnails.

livingroom

here a little drawing I did back home at the livingroom cafe.

B O

this is my big sister
brooke

figure painting class

here are some paintings I did this semester in my figure painting class.

&

the lovely miriam nagi

Thesis Film, Anchored

here it is, my thesis film...I've been working on this for the past year and a half and now it's finished and I'm graduating tomorrow.

Luke 15:3

Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

When I was first trying to come up with an idea I had the parable of the lost sheep in the back of my head. I really wanted to have a story that was founded with some message or parable. I had a hard time coming up with an idea based of this, and then I just started working on this idea of a man and origami cranes based off a digital painting I had done. The idea sorta fluidly came together after than point and I think that original message kinda worked its way back in. I just really wanted to create a feel good story that I could share with people that might have some emotional value. And I wanted to show how in people's roughest times if you don't focus on the negative God can show you, and use people to show you, an overwhelming hope and faith.

I found these early early sketches

anchor of doubt



and rope of hope:



hope you enjoy!

character design interview

The character design blog asked me for an interview! Here's the link: