kimberly knoll

More Caffe Frascati

2012-01-03T18:55:00.000-08:00

Another speed painting, 1.5 hours. Practicing painting people from life.

Caffe Frascati

2012-01-02T13:07:00.000-08:00

1.5 hour painting at Caffe Frascati in San Jose.

Eucalyptus Trees

2012-01-01T21:38:00.001-08:00

Speed painting.

Quick Paint

2011-10-25T02:25:00.000-07:00

Quick environment idea for a water tower house I am designing for a class.

Desert Comps

2011-09-12T20:04:00.000-07:00

This is some work I did over the summer for side projects. I'm thinking I will develop the one in the lower right hand corner.

Still Life Study

2011-08-12T00:43:00.001-07:00

No Robots is Finally Online!

2011-07-20T17:00:00.000-07:00

No Robots from YungHan Chang on Vimeo.

This is the animated short Yung-Han Chang and I directed last summer (2010). We gathered a big group of our friends at San Jose State, and together we made this film happen. It took 6 months to complete. Enjoy!

Isometric

2011-07-06T00:15:00.001-07:00

Final for Spring 2011 Vis Dev class. Isometric design of a small farm that is no longer in business. An environment I created for the story Flying Carpets, by Steven Millhauser.

Lanturn Lemur

2011-04-19T16:04:00.000-07:00

For this project I created a lemur that acts as a guide for his master. The setting is Madagascar, and the lemur has a lantern strapped to his head to the light the way during night hikes. The middle piece is a quick color study of the environment. I painted it after I realized the night scene didn't quite look like Madagascar.

Sir Gawain and the Green Night Story Moments and Isometric

2011-03-18T17:38:00.000-07:00

The top piece captures the moment when Sir Gawain is going to be seduced by his host's wife. In the second painting, Sir Gawain is contemplating how he will kill the Green Night. Next to the gun is a broach that his seductress gave him for protection against the Green Night. I set these scenes in a basement under a speak-easy that was turned into a private meeting room.

Sir Gawain and the Green Night Characters

2011-03-03T00:52:00.001-08:00

Sir Gawain and the Green Night, but set during the 1920's Prohibition era.

Self Portrait

2011-02-25T01:42:00.001-08:00

Needed to take a break from homework, and realized I haven't done a self portrait in a long time...

Revised Gary Soto Kitchen

2011-01-29T21:31:00.001-08:00

Cinequest Trailer BGs

2011-01-24T23:25:00.000-08:00

Backgrounds done in UPA and cinematic style for the Cinequest Film Festival 2011 commercial. Storyboard layouts by: Michael Fong. Our vis dev/ background team included Wilbur Liang, Christine Nguyen, and me, with Priscilla Wong as our unofficial lead. I learned a lot while painting these backgrounds, making this winter break a very productive and fulfilling few weeks.

Pimp My Truck Assignment

2011-01-24T23:20:00.000-08:00

Work-in-progress moment piece. This is an old truck I turned into a traveling Beatnik coffee shop called, "Beats, Beans, and Streets."

Witches Cabin: Hansel and Gretal

2010-11-30T13:47:00.000-08:00

This cabin design is still in the works. I plan to improve the design and finish painting the environment

Crew of You Project

2010-10-20T22:16:00.000-07:00

The Crew of You project was done in my creative illustration class taught by Barron Storey. We were supposed to design six characters that represent different aspects of ourselves. Barron had us create a story, environment, and a model of a stage design for our characters. In this moment piece, my creatures, who live in a tree, must escape their hollow trunk because the entire society is being destroyed.

Gary Soto's 1950's kitchen

2010-10-20T21:50:00.001-07:00

Vis Dev Studies

2010-10-20T21:43:00.000-07:00

Prop studies for a kitchen design based off a series of short stories by Gary Soto.

No Robots Color Process

2010-10-20T21:23:00.000-07:00

This was the first time Corwin (production designer) and I had ever done a color script and it was one of the most challenging aspects of the film. We created the rough color guides on the top left, and as production began, we realized that the color guides were not clear enough for the background artists. Since we had a few artists for each act, the color between shots were not congruent. To tie all the shots together, I painted over each background to clearly define the pattern of the colors and the light.

No Robots

2010-10-20T20:55:00.000-07:00

This past summer, I co-directed an animated short, "No Robots," with Yung-Han Chang and 30 of my other classmates. I was in charge of color and lighting, and leading the over all look of the animation, along with the production designers Tim Tang and Corwin Herse-Woo. Unfortunately as a director, I didn't have much time to contribute much artwork for the movie, as this is one of the only backgrounds I did. This scene was the most difficult to color, because I had to make it warm and inviting while sticking with the overall color scheme of the film, green. I decided to go for the blue-green light of the exterior and split compliment for the interior.

PS Speed Paint

2010-06-21T23:44:00.001-07:00

Making Paper

2010-05-15T23:17:00.001-07:00

Here are some doodles I drew on home-made paper. The paper is made out of kozo I cooked, chopped, and blended, to make this nice brown pulp. After I laid it out to dry for a few days, the drawing began. I also made paper out of found material, like jean, paper bags, and animation paper! I can not wait to make good use out of these odd paper creations!

Figure Drawings

2010-03-14T01:34:00.000-08:00

Figure drawings from Fall 2009.

Birnum Wood, Acrylic

2010-03-14T00:54:00.000-08:00

Forest I designed for my illustration class taught by Alice Bunny Carter. This was my interpretation of Birnum Wood for the play Macbeth. The inspiration for my design, was a giant redwood with bark that twisted up its trunk. It also had giant finger-like roots that engulfed the forest floor. I revisited the redwoods to find more trees of this nature and study the movement of the bark. Rendering the bark was so much fun, it was hard moving on to other parts of the painting.

Experimenting with Paint

2010-03-14T00:34:00.000-08:00

The first assignment I was given in my animation class was to create an animation doing whatever we wanted. I decided to make a stop motion abstract short with paint on canvas, because..... I love paint. We were given only a week to do this, so I apologize for the abrupt ending. I had too much fun on this project and I plan on making more paint animation films in the future.

Totoro and Rubber ducky study

2010-01-18T00:09:00.000-08:00

Another Photoshop practice on a still life. I'm still figuring out the program and trying different processes. It is a lot of fun! Although I still need to find out how to make neon orange...

Strawberry poison Frog

2010-01-03T21:02:00.001-08:00

One of my first times painting on Photoshop. Photo reference used.

Art Exchange

2009-12-21T00:24:00.001-08:00

My friends and I did a Secret Santa art exchange and here is the painting I made for my good friend Clam. Thanks Kristina for making this happen. I'm looking forward to next year.

Arden Wood

2009-12-21T00:11:00.001-08:00

My design of Arden Wood, from the Shakespeare play As You Like It. First time with a visual development assignment in my illustration class. I also designed two forests from the plays Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth. I'll post those once I put the finishing touches on them.

Portrait Study

2009-12-21T00:07:00.001-08:00

A gift I did for my friends back home.

Tree Studies

2009-11-08T14:09:00.001-08:00

For my intermediate illustration class with Alice (Bunny) Carter, I have to do 25 studies of natures a week. I'm really practicing on getting looser with my drawing style and understanding values. We are preparing to paint three forests we are designing, and I can not wait to start painting!

Sketchbook

2009-11-08T14:00:00.001-08:00

I'm a bit late, but these are some sketches I did over the summer after I got back from my trip to Paris. The paintings were acrylic.

Still life painting studies

2009-09-30T23:46:00.000-07:00

Acrylic object studies for my "tide pool" class with professor Alice Carter, a.k.a Bunny. Right now I am preparing to design/paint/render three Shakespearean forests this semester. The three forests are from Macbeth, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to this semester!

Paris Streets

2009-07-27T23:56:00.000-07:00

Water color and pen drawing I did as a gift for a friend's birthday. Working from one of Priscilla's awesome photos of Paris.

Paris Sketches

2009-07-10T22:43:00.000-07:00

I spent the month of June in Paris, taking a class on creativity with my professor John Clapp. During that time, my outlook on life and art changed drastically thanks to the creative exercises and constant wise words of John. Self exploration became the theme of the trip for me, so the sketchbook I carried contains mostly notes, scribbles, and some journal entries. Here are some pages I thought looked finished enough to put on the blog.

Color Rendering, Acrylic

2009-05-31T08:28:00.001-07:00

This is the 80 hour color rendering I did for my intermediate illustration class. The original painting is 8x8 inches. I used the low key, limited palette adjusted with a touch of yellow-orange for the final piece. Below are color comps, experimenting with analogous, atmospheric perspective, limited neutralized, and split complimentary color pallets.

First Plen Air, Acrylic

2009-05-31T08:21:00.001-07:00

Plen air painting with Cameron Chun, the instructor for my intermediate illustration class, and the rest of my peers at Monte Bello near the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was my first time ever painting outside and painting a landscape. I think I have discovered my new passion!

Portraits

2009-05-31T08:18:00.000-07:00

Portraits I did for Sheldon Borenstein's advanced life drawing class.

Figure Drawings

2009-05-31T01:22:00.000-07:00

A few figure drawings from the past Spring semester. The bottom two I used for the SJSU A/I portfolio. Yey! I got in the program! The top two figure drawings were done after I finished my portfolio. After that, my figure drawings improved a good amount. Maybe I was celebrating through my drawings. Hmmm...

Black and White Rendering, Acrylic

2009-03-26T12:02:00.000-07:00

I spent about 90 hours on this rendering for my 113A class: intermediate illustration. This was my first time doing representational painting, and I had a good time learning. I find matching values to be a lot of fun, and I can't wait to apply it to future work. :)

Winter Marathon

2009-01-22T10:48:00.000-08:00

These are from the Shrunken Head Man life drawing marathon during winter break. The last weekend we did figure painting, which was a new experience for me. The painting on here was a 3 hour pose I painted with my palette knife.

The Char-Kole Reversal

2009-01-18T19:24:00.000-08:00

This reversal took me about 80 hours total. I wiped it out and started over 50 hours in and completed it in 30 hours. I really enjoyed this project because it taught me how to see shapes accurately using the method of squinting.

A few figure drawings.

2009-01-18T19:20:00.000-08:00

This is some of the work I did during the SHM figure drawing sessions.

112A sketchbook

2009-01-17T17:01:00.000-08:00

I know it is a little late, but better late than never. I orginaly wanted to start this blog in the beginning of 112a, so I will begin my posts with those sketches.