Kartika Mediani's blog

Grated Finger - Cuter in Bunny Ears

2012-01-19T23:50:00.000-08:00

I sketched this last week and Ryan posted it on Cuter in Bunny Ears today. I got my index finger bled for 1.5 hour on the previous day. Grating carrots could be that bloody.

I drew couple doodles today but not gonna share them, although I laughed so much while drawing 'em.

Time Flies...

2012-01-18T23:20:00.000-08:00

Couple from today's classes scribbles.

Sometime yesterday at MIA

2012-01-15T13:12:00.000-08:00

My very good friend was at Miami Int'l Airport yesterday. Sadly he still missed his flight after many troubles and running with the speed of light. Glad he's alive and safe at his home now!

Pam

2012-01-14T02:40:00.000-08:00

Pamela is one of my good friends since the 10th grade when we were classmates that year. She's been very supportive to what I do in life and recently she found a sketch of mine posted on Cuter in Bunny Ears a year ago. Then she asked me to do a sketch of her riding a bike with bunny ears. She doesn't need any pair of bunny ears with the fact she's already cute, unique and super cool. Even though I'm unsatisfied with how it turned out, but still had fun. Thanks, Pam!

Grey

2012-01-09T00:30:00.000-08:00

Saw a girl with this outfit exactly a week ago.

Hey Pineapple

2012-01-06T22:31:00.000-08:00

My submission for the Food theme for Squash 'n Sketch collaborative blog.

New Year's long weekend sketchbook pages, some.

2012-01-05T11:18:00.000-08:00

Hiking at Barton Creek Greenbelt on the first day of this year, a tree at Mt Bonnell, and people at LAX, Capital Metro Buses in Austin, and SFO.

Some Sketches from this past week

2011-12-28T13:48:00.000-08:00

A café, Big Sur, Fisherman's Wharf, Presidio, CalTrain, Muni Bus.

Happy Holidays

2011-12-24T23:38:00.000-08:00

Wish everyone a Happy & Joyful Holidays!!!

The Scorpion

2011-12-11T02:27:00.001-08:00

Attempt to do Mike Mignola's style (failed).
Subject is surely derived from the notorious satin jacket from a recent released crime movie. Like my other recent posts except the one prior to this.

Smoking in the Shade

2011-12-10T17:05:00.001-08:00

Inspired by the PST and the photography exhibit at the Getty Center. Checked out the exhibit with an intelligent friend who's an awesome cinematographer. also photographer.

You keep me under your spell

2011-12-10T01:51:00.001-08:00

Referenced from a shot of a clip I found on YouTube.

Toothpick

2011-11-29T02:12:00.001-08:00

Hammer

2011-11-28T02:35:00.001-08:00

Under Your Spell

2011-11-26T23:43:00.001-08:00

You keep me under your spell.

Tea Time with R2

2011-11-22T13:48:00.001-08:00

Ok, enough with the depressing drawings I've been posting lately.. (I realized lately they've been quite depressing, some kind of emo feeling, and/or a tiny bit bloody).

I drew this as my response to an awfully nice blog post by a super awesome & kind gentleman. I was completely speechless when I saw that blog post. Wish my drawing was wayyy much better to do the justice of the kindness! (Work & practice harder!! >___< )

Below are the brainstorming sketches. A teapot ride doesn't seem to be a specifically enjoyable ride? Having tea is nicer, no?

Thank you, Jason.

One of those kind of dreams

2011-11-20T21:11:00.001-08:00

So glad I woke up from my nap when I was in the middle of struggling with this weird zombie who was, of course, trying to kill me. He must be a zombie since he's still alive even after the back of his head was being shot couple times. I woke up in that weird position. My best guess I dreamed that zombie because before I decided to take a nap, I watched this bloody excellent work by Gobelins students, My Bloody Lad - Dead Walter.

Some of this week's sketches

2011-11-18T20:54:00.001-08:00

Class, bus, theater.

Dead Animals on the Street..

2011-11-17T05:37:00.001-08:00

Recently, I saw dead animals on the street while I'm on my way to school.

While I was walking to school earlier today (or.. yesterday afternoon to be precise) I saw this scene above a block from my apartment. Poor squirrel! Being hit & run and eaten by the crows :( There were three crows while I walked passing by.

It was just exactly last week, that I saw a dead cat laid down on the grass, within the same block where I saw the gory scene of the squirrel. This cat had his/her eyes opened, and the throat was slit and there were a couple blood lines on it. The cat was pretty big too. It quite really shocked me, seriously made me wonder what actually happened to this poor cat.

And it was only a month ago that I found this cute small bird.. dead, on the sidewalk on campus. I moved it to the grass area behind the big pine tree, the so no one would step on it since the pavement of the sidewalk was also gray in color :( I didn't know how could I bury it without trespassing others properties. I took a picture of it with my not-so-good phone camera. Made me sad.

Bleh

2011-11-16T00:11:00.001-08:00

This is when I'm drawing weirdddd stuff :/

Those Voices

2011-10-18T23:15:00.001-07:00

Ink wasting meditation

2011-10-13T21:32:00.000-07:00

One of those ink wasting pages I've made while in class or on bus, on a recycled small notepad and using a recycled ballpoint pen I got from an industry event earlier this year.

Spin!

2011-10-13T20:50:00.000-07:00

This was my brother more than 10 years ago. Almost every evening, he would sit on the floor for such a long time and spin the basketball on its Y axis without moving anywhere else. While the basketball kept spinning and spinning really fast, he'd stare at it intensely. I had no idea how he pulled it off - I tried to spin it like he did --> instant failure! And sometimes he did it with out frying pan too! He was a weird baby, like his sister I guess.

Ummmm...

2011-10-12T18:22:00.001-07:00

Terminus - character & shot sketches

2011-10-11T07:11:00.000-07:00

Did this over the weekend for an independent drama short called "Terminus". The storyboard was done very quick just based on the shot list I was given. More info about the film can be viewed here and here's the Kickstarter link!

Cheers!

2011-10-10T00:11:00.000-07:00

When you enjoy good gelato with your friends, "Cheers!"

One of Those Dreams

2011-10-09T11:02:00.000-07:00

I had this dream one morning this past week. Jumping around on top of ruined buildings, and suddenly big cats appear chasing me. Scary, but seriously felt pretty cool. There's bigger story and world within the dream, maybe I'll sketch another one later.

Few Scribbles from today

2011-09-30T18:05:00.001-07:00

The class went to Page Museum at LaBrea Tar Pits today.

2011-09-25T02:23:00.000-07:00

Another Thank You card! Because there are SO many very nice people! :)

The Pig wih the Froggy Tattoo

2011-09-19T23:09:00.000-07:00

I normally don't do anything or care much with popular video on the net, but I couldn't resist the urge to get this out towards this parody. Meh my doodle didn't do any justice of the movie style :/Being honest, I'm not crazy for returns of The Muppets (yet), but December 21st this year surely is exciting :)

flowing gash

2011-09-16T01:56:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to doodle something before getting rid of this brown paper.

These Dreams...

2011-09-14T10:09:00.001-07:00

...Under My Pillow.

New Moleskine cover.

Lepas

2011-08-31T22:47:00.000-07:00

From the Artists at Bento Box :)

2011-08-28T00:22:00.000-07:00

Huge thanks to everyone for the awesome drawings!! Now I can sell these on eBay.. jk. NEVER will.
We were drawing on napkins over lunch one day.. Perry just unstoppably kept drawing perfectly. I loved this drawing by him so I kept it with me!
Dave drew me haha. He drew it with his left hand too but his right handed :O
Really cool send-off drawing from Devin!
Another drawing by Perry, this time in my sketchbook :)
It's a Mickey Belcher! :D by Wes Archer!!
Burger Spirit and Free Burgers! by Phil Hayes and Wes :)
I was working on the show Bob's Burgers with those great artists above and learning so much from them. The show is about Bob Belcher and his family running a burger restaurant. It's aired on Fox so you should check it out!

Thank You!! .... :(

2011-08-24T21:14:00.000-07:00

Sadly the last day of my wonderful time doing internship at Bento Box had come. Today was my last day. I learned so much from the very talented people there and not just skills and getting inspired art-wise, but also life! Everyone is so friendly and nice! I already miss everyone and everything.. I had such a blast!
This "Thank You" image I did was just a quickie and I definitely wished I did to draw something more fun to really express my gratefulness!
Couple months ago, I quickly drew out this image below for my iChat avatar at work. I wanted to do something related with the studio logo.
Thanks to the Television Academy for the wonderful internship opportunity and getting such a fantastic host company!

Places

2011-08-21T00:07:00.000-07:00

Vancouver, BC. View of North Vancouver from Vancouver Convention Center, 3rd Floor. Yea I was there having a blast at SIGGRAPH 2011!
La Jolla Beach, CA - stopped by there after I skydived (tandem) in the morning!

lunch doodle- blue girl

2011-07-22T13:31:00.000-07:00

Greetings..

2011-07-21T22:23:00.000-07:00

Well, hello dangerous temptation..

Hide and Seek

2011-07-21T21:48:00.001-07:00

Doodling during workshop this morning.

Westwood Village

2011-07-21T21:30:00.000-07:00

thank you card

2011-07-17T15:44:00.000-07:00

I added the plaid pattern on the 1st image after I scanned this.

CoD

2011-07-05T15:34:00.000-07:00

Listening to Call of Duty soundtrack at work.

Some Original Sketches from Don

2011-06-18T20:05:00.001-07:00

Don McCullough has always been phenomenal illustrator and artist, and everybody back in college knew him. I miss hanging out with him also flipping his sketchbook pages and blown away and inspired, just like back in the day.
He gave me some of his original sketches (again) when I saw him few days ago :) He just ripped the pages off from his sketchbook before I had to go.
He signed it. "Love, Don"
This image is on the other side.
He drew me saying "Don forever" -_____-
The hand-made-printed envelope that he put those sketches in so I could carry them safely back home. And he sneaked in a poster of amazingly done image of Hellboy by Mignola :) Thank you so much, man! In the mean time of seeing Don's artwork at gallery shows, check out some of his art on his blog.

Go See the C's!!

2011-06-08T09:55:00.000-07:00

The student films from 181C class is being screened tomorrow evening! This event is purely non-profit and just for final of a class purposes. The copyright characters (Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, Batman, Jason Vorhees?) are copyrighted by the rightful owners.

Wetwork, Inc.

2011-06-07T09:40:00.000-07:00

I did these two posters, helping my screenwriters friends in our school. It's a very fun dark comedy feature script. The writer, Spencer Ballou, and JOey, who worked with the artists to set these posters up, already knew clearly what they wanted, so it was really fast working on these. And special thanks to Jackie Marion for her great tips on font. She's the professional graphic designer for real!
The screenwriter showcase was last night, where Spencer and other winners received their awards, and so did Aaron Sorkin, for a distinguished achievement in screenwriting. The special guest who introduced Mr. Sorkin was Armie Hammer, and the host was Mike Werb. He's a great host - very clever. Congrats to all the winners and award recipients. My friend and I had great time!

Character Board

2011-06-02T10:53:00.001-07:00

Tear Sheets:

I did this for my Film Studies class, where we had to design costumes for two characters based on the script, and the biographies we wrote of them earlier in the quarter.
Blegh, the character drawings still look stiff! I basically did this for 1 night only, and I added some more stuff on the tear sheets for additional few hours. It was fun reading the scripts and trying to figure out which scenes I want to do, picking up and choosing the quotes.
It's so hard to design costume for these two very iconic characters and well-known, and Michael Kaplan just did real perfect job on the costume designs for this film! So many Tyler Durden's red leather jacket replicas being sold online now. So, I didn't make or create much changes just to make them really different.

Can't say his name..

2011-05-29T12:34:00.000-07:00

Last Friday, my friend who was in town took me to go bowling. We met this very cool guy who was very animated. He did way more of cool movements and silhouettes than what I could remember and sketch out here.

The Rose Bearer

2011-05-27T02:55:00.000-07:00

from Coming to America dir. by John Landis.

NOOOOO

2011-05-24T00:28:00.000-07:00

Doodle from Jarmee!

2011-04-17T08:45:00.000-07:00

That's right. While so many people were still in line, trying to get autograph from Pen Ward, who looked real tired, I got an exclusive on spot doodle from my awesome artist/animator fellow, Jeremy Polgar! I asked him to draw Monsieur T from his latest short film, "Tea Time in France"! Not that I don't like Pen Ward, his stuff Adventure Time is awesomeee! But anyway, Thanks, Jarmee!

Palms

2011-04-06T23:52:00.000-07:00

wanted to sketch a bit while reading class's reading assignment this afternoon

Couple pages from today

2011-03-30T00:07:00.001-07:00

I got this setting in one part of one of my dreams, although not precisely like that.

Sketching a bit while waiting for class at the school garden.

Dancing Wolves

2011-03-29T01:23:00.000-07:00

I didn't create or designs these wolves! They're from a super cool and fun music video.
I finally feel much better today but I'm still slow in working. I loveee these wolves and I want them to cheer for me, giving me support to keep working harddd on my film!! It's bit selfish probably hehe.
I did storyboard for my friend's live action film project last weekend and the intense vibe is still quite glued to me that I dreamed bout his film project, twice, instead of my own!

Yeah, I have Wolvies cheering for me starting tonight!!

Sumo Citrus

2011-03-17T12:01:00.000-07:00

A scientist friend suggested me to try that new variety of mandarin.
http://www.sumocitrus.com/

(Another lame doodle.. but I couldn't help thinking of this image when I saw the fruit and its name)

g o n e

2011-03-15T16:48:00.001-07:00

03152011

2011-03-15T15:36:00.000-07:00

midnight wait

2011-03-14T04:27:00.000-07:00

blehh.

Stretching--

2011-03-05T10:05:00.000-08:00

Some cliche doodle...

2011-03-03T16:39:00.000-08:00

"Blow-up" of a thumbnail I sketched out while listening to my friend's presentation of her analysis over Waltz with Bashir.

Gotta Be Moar Intense!

2011-03-02T17:35:00.000-08:00

Woah, 'intense' doodling was very relaxing!

A Girl and Her Cat

2011-03-02T08:42:00.000-08:00

Doodling while waiting for AE to finish rendering earlier.

I blurred out the name of the place where I got this brown bag from.

Gotta Be Intense!

2011-02-28T21:38:00.000-08:00

Another Rainy Day..

2011-02-25T21:30:00.001-08:00

It's been raining all day. I saw this lady last year while waiting to cross the street. Her yellow theme caught my attention. Did a quick rough sketch and decided to color it today.

Saw her yesterday

2011-02-23T03:06:00.000-08:00

Saw this little girl at the beach yesterday. From profile and quite some distant.

Drawing class earlier today

2011-02-18T18:48:00.000-08:00

Today's drawing class was real fun! The model was so awesome! Unfortunately my drawings didn't do enough justice :/

Relax

2011-02-15T19:50:00.000-08:00

Nothing..

2011-02-14T16:17:00.001-08:00

warm up

2011-02-13T09:49:00.000-08:00

Lie. Just wanted to draw something else before the actual project. *procrastinator.. T__T
Oh, I drew this character when my friend Saeko gave me the honor to fill up the last page of her sketchbook during class break time. Inspired from what I saw at the Natural History Museum.

Til I see you

2011-02-13T02:44:00.001-08:00

Some Guy

2011-02-12T23:12:00.000-08:00

Writing a story for this guy.

yellow

2011-02-10T09:24:00.000-08:00

Mint Chocochip

2011-02-08T09:14:00.000-08:00

Blehhhh my doodles are getting to feel not fun anymore. Shoulda spend more time on them, but I need to spend more time on the actual project too :p

Girl quick doodle

2011-02-07T18:15:00.000-08:00

Mystery Box - Falling Lizard 2011

2011-02-07T15:58:00.000-08:00

The Mystery Box - part of Falling Lizard 2011 from Kartika Mediani on Vimeo.

This past weekend was the Falling Wizard weekend, an annual animation event at The UCLA Animation Workshop. We all animated on one theme and the voted theme for this year was The Mystery Box

My classmates and I decided to do a group project. Ten of us (the other two didn't come out, busy with their own stuff) drew different kind of boxes, then we switched and animated from one box to another, and made everything to hooked up in a loop.

This is the clip that I contributed.

Lil girl

2011-02-04T09:56:00.001-08:00

Adventure Play

2011-01-29T13:13:00.000-08:00

One of the plays my sister and I used to play when we were little kids. We used badminton rackets, sat on a mattress and imagined we were on an adventure, in a huge wild river, in the middle of the jungle. Haha it was a lot of fun! Now my sister uses the racket to play badminton properly and well! I don't.. >__<
It was her birthday few days ago. So proud of you, Sis!

SketchCrawl

2011-01-23T22:12:00.001-08:00

First time joining SketchCrawl. it was the 30th SketchCrawl yesterday and the LA one took place at the Natural History Museum. These are few pages from yesterday.

Is It A Toy?

2011-01-20T07:31:00.000-08:00

Random Meeting-Doodle

2011-01-19T20:44:00.000-08:00

One of the random doodles I did during meeting earlier today.

I Have Demons I Can't Even Imagine

2011-01-18T01:09:00.000-08:00

Moleskine cover. I had this idea few months ago. Was a lot of fun.

Jet Lag

2011-01-14T09:36:00.000-08:00

I still had some subliminal jet lag syndrome. This scene was in class couple days ago, I felt so weirdly sleepy while we were watching animation clips, even though I had enough sleep. With the idea from Ryan Green's awesome blog, I thought the jet lag would get off of me, if I added bunny ears!

upside down

2011-01-12T20:14:00.000-08:00

the Fish's Dream

2011-01-03T21:20:00.001-08:00

the Fish's Dream from Kartika Mediani on Vimeo.

Final assignment for Intro to Animation class at The UCLA Animation Workshop.
Cell Painted and background was color pencil. Clean up was done with black sharpie marker. Shot under a digital camera. Based on the idea I've been sketching around: The blue fish that somehow lives in a balloon and belongs to a little girl.

Had a lot of fun with my classmates working so hard at the lab during Thanksgiving break to meet the deadline.

Winter break 2010

2011-01-03T14:58:00.000-08:00

Some of the sketches I did during my Winter break. Yay SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 was so much fun! I tried to sketch out the Student Volunteer Office room but it didn't turn out well :( Then I got to see my family for a bit. It was a really packed break, and too short. My little brother helped me coloring the big white chunks on the last sketch.

Heart Puppeted

2010-12-07T02:41:00.000-08:00

I've had this image in my head for these past few days.

Sketching it out was a good excuse to take a break from the realistic image I need to get done and studying for final exam. I should've used color pencil instead of col-erase though :/ or tried some paint.

Saudades

2010-12-04T12:00:00.000-08:00

Some panels for my final for the storyboard class.
I had a hard time "writing" the story, many doodling and writing while on the bus and other places until I came up with a story I'd like to board.

Journey. Alone.

2010-12-03T09:24:00.000-08:00

Last night class' doodle.

color ideas

2010-11-11T23:51:00.000-08:00

For one of my final assignments. Trying to get some color ideas.

Beneath the City

2010-11-09T23:02:00.000-08:00

Today's in class doodle.
I like how yesterday's turned out better.

Sketching during Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk, about his production company hitRECord, yesterday evening. I was sitting at the very way back in the ballroom.

her fish

2010-11-08T18:32:00.000-08:00

Monday class doodle

Star Fishing

2010-10-13T01:07:00.000-07:00

Drawing while listening to class discussion.

Natural History Museum Friday

2010-10-09T10:42:00.001-07:00

Some Dumping

2010-10-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

Waiting for classes to start, on the bus, at the beach, waiting for a friend, for a friend's laundry, and listening to people's talk in meetings and to lectures in classes.

An Awesome Drawing from My Friend

2010-10-07T23:19:00.000-07:00

Super cool, hu? My classmate, Saeko, and me were drawing on each other's sketchbook today. She gave me the honor to fill up her last page. I will definitely ask her to fill more sketchbook pages of mine with her cool drawings!

Sketchbook/Notebook cover

2010-10-03T12:37:00.000-07:00

front

back

From my story for the storyboard class assignment.

bandage

2010-09-30T12:32:00.000-07:00

...

2010-09-27T16:12:00.000-07:00

Tea Time

2010-09-24T03:42:00.001-07:00

First Day of School

2010-09-23T02:20:00.000-07:00

09172010

2010-09-18T16:14:00.000-07:00

It was orientation day... glad sketchbook was there. The most memorable orientation was my high school orientation. Very tough but very memorable.