Spring 2015 Demo Reel

Meryl Davis x Vera Bradley

July 2014-January 2015

Simple Poly exercises

Sketchbook

Business card prototype

Anne Bonny, featured by Sketch Dailies

Sketching

Sign design for 1D Orlando- got the Harry Styles Thumbs Up of Approval

Character design sheets from fall semester- Traditional Animation and Concept

Tank Girl, Batgirl and Wonder Woman- featured by Sketch Dailies

Christmas ornaments- acrylic

Mermaid doodles

Turnarounds for Children's Book Illustration

Costume design

OTRA tour art

Sit/Stand concepts

Sketchbook

It's been a wonderful summer so far!

Sketching at Rachel's lacrosse games...

... and banquet.

Girls at the 98.7 AMP Live concert

Rachel's re-election campaign poster

It was Mulan's 16th birthday a few days ago!

One Direction doodles for my online store! (They're the only thing that sells haha)

Finally, a the beginnings of a fashion illustration i'm hoping to paint soon!

What time is it? SUMMER TIME

It's hard to believe my first year at Ringling is already over! 

 My favorite class this semester was Figure Drawing for Computer Animation. Katy Betz is an amazing professor, you can check out her artwork here!

Our animal unit included field trips to the Sarasota Jungle Gardens and Big Cat Habitat! It was great getting to sketch from observation, especially with big animals like lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!). 

Our last assignment was to take an animal we had observed on location and turn it into a character. The flamingo I followed around at the Jungle Gardens was very easily frazzled!

Just for fun, here's a development page from that drawing. 

Two more simple illustrations- this time focused on drapery and line economy. 

Sketches from life. The models had some really fun costumes!

Another sketch from life painted digitally. 

Drawing 2... we had to design a room for a known character. Guess who?

Studying 3 point perspective

3D Design was definitely my toughest class, but one i'll never forget! Our final project was a character sculpt (above) and matching environment (below). 

Onwards to personal work!

Sketches of some of the CA seniors. We'll miss you!

For whatever reason, Into the Woods is always the soundtrack to finals week... i'd love to do a full set of these someday!