pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room

Cyndi B, illustrator/costumer/art school survivor, Chicago. If you are looking for my general-purpose tumblr, it's queencardigan.

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” --Ray Bradbury
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rough character ideas for a thing

a thing that is probably related to boats in some way

THIS IS NOT A REAL EXHIBIT AND THESE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE NOT MY ORIGINAL WORK. Just a design exercise!

In the last row you can see the original covers I started with.

fifteen seconds of improvised on-stand animation. i think i’ve discovered the worst animation medium on earth. is there a prize for that?

the text, which is kind of hard to read in this video, says

ONCE UPON A TIME—

WELL—

I GUESS NOTHING MUCH HAPPENED

NOT REALLY

there is no drawing in this anywhere but I am CRAZILY HAPPY WITH IT

how come i did this in like an afternoon but I still can’t get my portfolio to look like it was even designed by a human being

ETA WAIT SORRY THAT WAS THE WRONG VERSION OF IT

queencardigan:

some concept sketches for a student film

whoops posted to the wrong blog first, DISASTER RUIN CALAMITY

oh hey right I also designed a book interior to go with this cover

Hey look, I animated a thing!!!

It’s v. short and basically nonsensical, because we were just given two images and told to turn one into the other in 36 frames, but I have never animated so much as a flip book before so this is super exciting for me.

here is a school thing I have been whining about out of all proportion to the actual amount of work involved!

These are pretty much Addams Family redesigns (Lurch, Wednesday, and Grandmama) but our instructor find/replaced all the names in the script to things like Butler and Daughter so we have to pretend we didn’t figure out what it’s from

ladiesnightcomics:

Here are character sketches by Cyndi Bottomley for Jen Aprahamian’s  story Hot Time in the Old Town, Tonight. Look for it in the upcoming Ladies’ Night Anthology!

hey look it’s almost as though people want to look at things i draw or something

Holy shit, I drew something that isn’t a diary comic!

(I have a huge backlog of diary comics, too, but they’re sitting at home right now because my home computer is off getting repaired. Hopefully I can get it back and deal with those soon.