This small painting is from a series of paintings that I have done in my sketchbook. This is the third sketchbook I am working on to learn how to tell the story by turning the figure with warms and cools, lighting, mood, attitude, what the director was looking for etc. The film is Elizabeth: The Golden Age. I'll watch a film, spend a lot of time taking several screen shots, then will paint a little during a lunch break. These are done for me; since I love to paint. What I do for work is completely different. Right now I have been digitally inking Princesses and Fairies for Disney Consumer Products using a program called Illustrator, using black and white vector lines. About a year and a half ago, I was asked to come in and train for 6 months to learn how to digitally ink; Illustrator is a very technical program and at some point, becomes all problem solving. I tell people if you can work Illustrator like the artists at Disney Consumer Products do; then you can probably problem shoot and fix a car engine! I have been drawing all my life. I live, eat, breath art. It's the first thing I think about when I get up and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep. I am a graduate of SJSU; I grew up in the Bay Area near Berkeley. While at SJSU, I won a national art contest for Hallmark cards and left California for the first time and went to Kansas City, Missouri! I ended up completing 2 summer internships for them before graduating; they literally paid my tuition! Sometime later, I worked at a great start up gaming company in Marin County called Stormfront Studios, and then from there left to work in Southern California for Walt Disney Feature Film for 5 years. After the mass lay offs of most of the 2D artists, I have been freelancing and for one year worked at MGA Entertainment, (Bratz Dolls), then back to freelancing. I hate to commute and love to work from home. It's a healthier lifestyle, when I need a break, a do laundry, dishes, or
exercise myself and my dog. I have a 12 year old daughter and this is
the big reason I enjoy working from home. The trade offs are: it's
either feast or famine, I can work months without a day off, I always plan to work weekends, holidays, late evenings, but the freelance life also allows me some time to work on my own projects, which I love, love. To see sketches and progressions of some of the paintings, including this one, please visit my website: Kimberlymzamlich.blogspot.com. Feel free to comment and just to say hello!~Kimberly
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