My name is Janae Baptiste – Lewis and I’m a third year Illustration major. My primary art interests are making digital art and animations and I also have an interest in video games.
My artworks usually don’t involve humans because I prefer to draw animals and any types of “creatures”. I make art involving playing with textures, colors and some sort of animal(s). I love the idea of contrast in a piece, whether it be a physical contrast or symbolic contrast. In the rare times I do a piece that’s not digital I usually mix different materials together to make my final work (i.e. most of my 3D objects). I also love sketching out different creature/animal ideas when I get the chance to. Designing animals is something I want to do more of. All my projects communicate my love for animals. My common materials for making art are acrylic paint, pencils, and my tablet (for drawing digitally).
I make what I make because I love the idea of creating things, animals especially. It’s important for me to have some sort of creative outlet with all the crazy ideas swimming in my head, drawing just happens to be that outlet. My interests are cartoons, anime, webcomic, I love taking in any form of art. All these forms of art media really inspire me to work on my own things. One day I want to design my own world with my own webcomic. I hope to improve my artistic skills a lot in hopes for accomplishing that goal and the only way to do that is to keep drawing.
Here are some of my works:
Sketches for animation about a moth:
Final animation about moth:
Different animation about a rabbit:
Different animation about a phoenix:
Sketches about a creature made up of different “lucky” animal parts:
Final product:
Creature in it’s own environment:
Sketches for a puppet of a phoenix (separate from the stopmotion phoenix!):
Final product:
