"Christmas in the Sky," Pixar Fan Art

Otay. It's probably obvious how obsessed I am with Pixar. Don't get me wrong -- I love and look up to all the studios and what they're producing and contributing out there. In my third illustration, I wanted to stylize this scene from Up in my own way and add my personal imagination and touch. Just the next step I guess. I love Christmas and I secretly want to just abandon this life and attach a million balloons to myself and go to Paradise Falls, so the result was this fantasy escape with the Northern Lights. In this piece, I started Google-ing a ton of images to inspire the starry sky with the aurora borealis. I even learned how to spell aurora borealis through this project. Oh, it's important you know I listened to this on repeat when making it.

"La Luna," Pixar Fan Art

This is the second tablet work I've done. I chose to do a pencil illustration rendering of another Pixar short called, "La Luna" (nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards) directed by Enrico Casarosa and shown before the movie Brave. This short was important to me because it involved blending traditional media closely with the computer animated product through pastels for the milky ways and textured night sky. I personally think this film was absolutely stunning with the glowing and ethereal sound effects and images. Ch-check it out. Plus, I just want a family business of mining stars for a living too.