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www.mikkibenaglia.com
www.artstation.com/artist/mikkibenaglia

 -Mikki

Oddly Studios | MEDIUM magazine

This summer, I interned for MEDIUM Magazine | Canada's Style & Beauty Community. Here's the Illustration I did for their sunscreen article:

-mikki

Digital Life Drawing pt.2

digital painting reference exercise. colour credit displayed alongside life drawings.

 loic zimmermann (above)
http://www.e338.com/

richard anderson (above)
http://flapssketchbook.blogspot.com/

-mikki

Digital Life Drawing pt.1

black and white stuff life drawings experiments...

-mikki

Final Layouts

 Layout with a Pirate Ship crashed in an indoor old castle dock. 

 Toned in black and white.

Layout of an "urban hell". Cables, pipe waterfalls, street car cables, posts, fences, etc leading down into the ground.

Toned in black and white. 

Thanks to Blake for all the painting help and textures. wouldn't be this good without him.
but yay, i like them and how they turned out XD. still thinking about redoing the tonals with no linework though. lemme know what you think.
-mikki

Backgrounds for Storm of Norm

Note: Colours were following the Art Director's pre-made schemes. I was just one of the digital painters for the film were working on in Flash Class. The shot was drawn by one of the board artists, the lab was developed by many designers, and the trees and fire hydrant were taken from another layout artist to be a universal objects distributed through all the layouts for continuity.

In essence, I had to adapt my shot to look like everyone elses. So--many credits to a whole bunch of other people ^____^.

Here's the blog if you're interested.

http://midnightpencil.blogspot.com/view/mosaic

Gaming Portfolio

Hozzaa!

Onward to the final month of this semester. Hoooooly.

Hopefully I will live, attempting to finish everything up. There's alot to do, and as exciting as some of the assignments are, I'm hoping I'll have the time to put the amount of work I'd like to.

Here's to hoping! Wish me luck.

-Mikki

im alive!

the animation centre started this weekly challenge thing. first week was batman. its pretty awesome, they leave the display case open and we put stuff in. here were my submits::::

-mikki
p.s. SNEAKY BUTT BATMAN!! is a joke...

Final Heavy Ball Lift

summer semester - 4th assignment - heavy ball lift

p.s. not my character design. i gave him a hat instead of that being his eyeline to make him look different from everyone elses at least. also, i gave him eyes.

Final Step Up Step Down

summer semester - 3rd assignment - step up step down

p.s. it's supposed to be a humanoid version of toothless from how to train your dragon...ish

Final Broad Jump

summer semester - second assignment - broad jump

Final Jump

summer semester - first assignment - jump

summer art!

look! i'm updating! so none of my animations want to load on blogspot. im going to have to make smaller versions of them i think.

here is some art i've been sketching quickly for the last bit, coloured them quickly WITH MY MOUSE...cept the first one...do not judge me! haha.

very short sketches, less then an hour. not amazing, but at least im drawing for fun!

Tegan and Sara - Feeling in my bones fanart
watercolour and pen...yeah there are proportion issues, damn ink!

Howl and Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle:
i lost all my cool brushes, i worked with what i had! also...apparently layers fail.

Mal from Inception:
went to draw a downward perspective...then changed my mind. haha!

deviantart!

hilo world i've been ignoring!

so i haven't updated...in forever. so much for keeping up a blog. but look what i did! i'm part of a blog with a few of my friends in my class called Team Pocket. it's....going. to say the least. it made me do a fan art. here it is...

http://pokepose.blogspot.com

and now i have a deviantart! its what ive been concentrating on. i have my animation class going, so new work is going into that, so i decided to start putting up my stuff since HIGHSKOOL. yeeeeesh. some of the stuff is about 9 years old! its gonna be ugly, but it makes me feel good! ppl should really join devinatart!...cuz ppl are already favourite-ing me, and it makes me feel awesome. i was never a show off in high school, i mostly hid my drawings, i was shy and never thought i was good enough. i still don't think so, but i'll get there, and people are appreciating the work i did so long ago.

it really pays off, to me, and now i wanna do more. people i don't know, who can barely draw [ahahhaha....im not mean], are motivating me to do more work and put stuff up. it's phenomenal. who woulda thought it?

anyways, ill go do my homework now.

http://deadlyplay.deviantart.com

p.s. also i'm supposed to join some grade blog too...it's crazy. i need to learn how to multi-post.

im alive

look! i'm not dead! another bluestein line art, coloured by moi. i think the goal was to mostly get rid of the line art...but he didn't, so i didn't! hozaa!

-mikki

just for fun

needed to relax, and try to get some creativity out of my head. i know it's just traced, but i like it. it's too bad it didn't shoe it was a lace bandage, but oh well. either way--- i'll post my other stuff soon, probably when i'm trying to get ready for the yearbook stuff. hopefully ill get stuff in in time. ill make myself, i wanna have my own pages in a book XD

life has been giving me a hard time lately, and i'm trying to get better.

Alpha Caricature

Here is Alpha from Dollhouse. Or Wash from Firefly. Or from Death at a Funeral. Or Alan Tudyk.

Here's the main picture I used...

So, anyone can tell this is rushed. Especially the colours. the background is a piece of bs, but i still like it. i would have liked to have had the time to do this better. I do love him, and he is not sexy enough here hahha ^___^

self portrait.............take two

hozaa.....here it is. it sucks! i'm posting both to show comparison. i like the first one better.

there is some sold, detailed stuff in my new one. i like the new colours i put in, but it doesnt look like me, it looks like i drew my eyebrows on [didnt know i messed that up...didnt mean to smooth them out, ahhk dont know when that happened]........and the lighting under the eyebrows looks like makeup. the eyes, the nose and the blending is super cool! but the lips look pasted on on the top half...so ya.

can u tell im not happy with it? its nice as a painting on its own, but its not what i wanted on my self portrait. i stand by my first one. i hope i get good marks though, cuz i blended and put planes on everything to make them happy. so whatever! ahhh!

Life Drawing Week 5

-In Class-

suck...lol i was talking to him about stuff, i didnt rele get alot of time to draw, mostly boxes as u can tell.

-Cafe-

did them during class...boxes are easier with conte..haha. i likes them. theyre alot funner to do when using newsprint. i think i might take this up more often. i dont know why i have trouble applying this to a sketchbook with pencil. hmmm o_O

-Extra Life-

didn't really do boxes and skeletons this week. liked this the best.

i only got 2 torso studies worth studying done...so i wanna do a study on this, even tho it was a short pose. its pretty crazy. also i liked that it was a side view.

torso studies...havent done the muscles....im sort of dying. ill get to them, cuz i think shes torsos are pretty awesome. if i see this model again, im gonna ask him to do this pose. i havent even sent these to werner yet >___<;;;