Blog 6: "references to character design"

If you study film, visual arts, animation, fashion design, illustration, or stage design (like me) you will probably love this page, surely you have asked about every drawing are made for your favorite animated film. Today I speak of "references to character design", it is a "website dedicated to the sequential, illustrative and conceptual art of animation, games and comics".

https://characterdesignreferences.com/

They different sections as artwork, interviews, shop, cd challenge, and visual library. The visual library consists of various portfolios of character design, creature design, anatomy studies, environment design, object design, and tutorials.

I visit this page when I have free time, I love to look the design about my favorite movies, especially of Walt Disney, this page helps me improve my drawing technique and learn about the film process, I leave you five beautiful images of concept art here.

I like this page because it is varied, although I name concept art about Walt Disney, here we can also see art from DreamWorks, Pixar, Studio Ghibli, or from new and small studios or artists that they help spread. So, I recommended that you visit this page if you like art, design, or animation.

POST 5: A PHOTO AND ITS STORY

Well, today I am going to write about a photograph that I like and its history. My favorite picture is this one, where my sister and I are when we were little.

The oldest is me and the smallest is my sister. It is the capture of a day in my school where they asked the parents to buy us a period costume; I was in kindergarten  (my sister was infiltrated in the photo).

I don't remember this day very well, but I do remember my mother very happy,  and also I was using these costumes for more years to disguise myself and they made me very happy.

I don't really like the photographs where they show me, and less to expose those photos in my house, but, in this photograph I see  very happy, and I was small, without problems and without stress, I like having this frame in my house.

Why am I interested? As I said, in the photograph I look very happy, but above all I adore this photograph because I am with the best person in this world, I am talking about my sister, I love her, and we were happy and innocent. Also, we look great in a sepia photograph in vintage costumes, we have to do it again another day, but we're actually shy, embarrassing, and boring, in a good way.

Post 4: Noodles with sauce

Since I was little, my favorite food has been noodles with red sauce. When I was little I loved it with red sauce and minced meat, but when my mother became a vegetarian (or something like that) in my house, minced meat was replaced by textured soy, and I still loved it, in fact, I did not notice the change

Now, admit that since I'm an adult, I don't adore noodles like I did when I was little, but first and foremost it's still my favorite food, and my favorite style of noodles (although I do like various styles).

It is very delicious, it has a strong flavor, we cook the noodles with bay leaves, that we take them from our own patio. Textured soy is the one we add the most seasonings to; oregano, or more bay leaf, or sofrito, and always we add the red sauce (obviously)

I like it because I associate it with a "fat moment", I remember Fridays or Saturdays when we did not have time and we need to cook something faster. At those times I put a lot of sauce on it, we ate with the TV on, and we didn't worry about life

Currently I do not eat them in those instances of "fat moment", if not that we make it as typical healthy menu, without TV, without so much sauce, and with a lot of salad, so my health should not be very impacted. Soy is a good vegetable protein source, that's why it comes in handy, since I'm vegan, but soy is not overly recommended in execess.

And this was the blog about my favorite food. 

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MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

It is very difficult to define my favorite piece of technology, because there are some tools that I always use, but I'm not sure they give me happiness, and on the other hand, there are technological objects that I use often, but I do not notice that my mood changes.

I choose the mobile phone, because it is the mixture of "objects most used by me" and "pieces that give me happiness." The mobile phone is an object with many functions, I could not say all, but with it you can make calls, send messages, play games, view images, take photos, "visit the internet", etc.

Why do I occupy it so much? Surely it is not so necessary for my university work, because all the programs remain on my computer, but the mobile phone used to warn me of absolutely everything; if there was a message from U curses, email, whatsapp.

Also, although I don't do my work on my mobile phone, I always have to take or photograph around here (although my mobile camera is not very good)

And why does it make me happy? well, it makes me feel like I have control over my stability, because it tells me when to wake up or sleep, when to walk with the dog, when to eat (it's a problem for me), it tells me the steps I take in a day (also in the week or month). As I walk, cook, or paint for myself or for college, I can put on my favorite music and my favorite podcast. The music relaxes me, and the podcast always teaches me about the history of fashion, veganism and animation, I tried listening to some podcasts in English to learn, but I have done it very few times. Sometimes I look for inspiration in some intagram accounts, about theatrical design, art or lifestyle.

Although it is likely that everyone who reads this blog has a mobile phone, I recommend this object because it is a tool that can accompany us from morning to night, I know it is very addictive, but, if we use it well, it will serve our work and for our lifestyle; We probably found a corner with stability, control, and positive emotions for me.

¿How i chose my career university?

 How I chose my career university? Hi, I present me again, My name is Gabriela and I study theater design. 

When I was little, I wanted to be an artist, I do not remember much, but my parents said that I drew, painted, and sculpted a lot, because of this, my mom search artistic schools for me.

The true is, I did not draw well, when I was 8 years old, and I was studying in artistic school, my classmates told me that I drew ugly, maybe for this I lost my emotion, and it was like that until my 14 years. In that moment, I started to enter more in a world that I loved (and I love); the Animated movies, Especially Walt Disney and stop motion movies. The videos I watched the most were about dubbing, songs and design. At that time, I liked the drawing again, and I stopped caring about the opinion of others. 

Just that years, in my artistic school, I started have painting subject, where I was studying for two year, and, I loved it, I only wanted to get better with the oil. Outside of my classes, I drew personal illustrations.

In the last two years of school, I had to enter inside the basic cycle of art in the Universidad de Chile, in my school was required, because is part of this faculty. I learned a lot but, was going to school in the morning and to university in late, was exhausting, i did not happy, and I was only existing, again.

I did not think a lot and entered for study Visual art in undergraduate in the same faculty (faculty of art in the Universidad de Chile), but I no longer liked the idea of ​​being a visual artis. In class "history of art" joined all careers of arts, and, my friend meet a student of theater design, and show me her works, I loved it, and asked for contact. This person answered all my questions, one day I went to see their exams, and I could not stop thinking about this career. In 2019 I had a sabbatical year, but I did not doubt about my new dream, study Theater design.

This is my second year studying theater design, and, I am happy, I have learned design, to make plans, to draw room. I am learning makeup, sewing, a little about illumination. Lower my enthusiasm only when my designs are not approved, or when I am very collapsed, but I would say that in this year I absolutely like all the classes and I enjoy every drawing and design.

My Autobiography

Hi, my name is Gabriela Herrera. I am twenty years old, and this is my autobiography.

I was born on June six, two thousand, in Santiago, Chile. I was living with my dad, my mom, and my sister until two thousand thirteen, when my parents got divorced. Actually, I live with my mom, and my cat, but somes weeks also we live with my little sister (and her dog).

My first commune was Quilicura, and my first school was "Palmarés". I have a good regard about Quilicura; there was animal like horses or cows, and we lived in a beautiful house.  But I didn´t like the school because I remember it like was a dark school.

My second commune was Lo Prado, I change in two thousand eight. My second school was "liceo experimental artístico", two years later (two thousand ten) there was an earthquake, and my mom decided change me to the school to "Frings college", where I was only one year, because the general education did not good. 

After, in twenty thousand eleven, I was study in a other artistic school (first was "liceo experimental artístico"), and it name is "ISUCH" (belongs to "University of Chile"), That is my last school (finally), I have not opinion about that school. In this school I learned many things, and I thought I wanted to be painter.

In two thousand thirteen, when my parents got divorced; me, my sister, and my mom went to live in Maipu (third commune).

When I was fifteen years old, I had postulated and entered the "basic cycle" of visual art, in the "University of Chile", I was studying for two years here, while I was still in my school.

In twenty thousand eighteen, after basic cycle, I studied visual art at the same faculty and university, but in pre grade for one year, but freeze my studies just in the exam finish, because I was boring of this type of art, and i met the theater design.

In twenty thousand nineteen, we went to live in a beautiful house in Providencia. I didn´t study in university this year, only for PSU (a little). Same, this year, a person paid me for walking two dogs, I was incredibly happy. 

Well, the last year my mom wanted change to house (again), we did not can search for another house because for the pandemic, and for that, we came back to Quilicura, sometimes I keep seeing a horses and cows.

The last year I entered again in the faculty of art at the "University of Chile", but for study theater design, I am studying the second year, and I feel happier.

About my hobbies, singing de-stress me. I love draw things outside of university. I walk a lot (now inside of my house) because de-stress. Also, since I became vegan, I had learned to cook, and I have improved a lot.

This was my autobiography.