This is just a website where I’ll post various drawings or little animations I’ve made that I consider more polished than my usual doodles. Anyway, hello, my name is Elise Acredolo and I’m persuing a career in art, preferably in animatics and storyboarding. I’m currently studying at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in the 2D Animation - Storyboarding major. For two semesters, I was the editorial cartoonist and illustrator at The Inquirer, a newspaper put out by Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. The majority of things I’ll be posting is digital, but I’m also very involved in traditional mediums, especially marker and pen and ink. I’ve lived in the Bay Area my entire life, currently in Oakland, California. Please feel free to contact me at eacredolo@gmail.com.Tumblr (3.0; @acredolo)http://acredolo.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9r3jLDRw1qh2957o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The Coit murals are so new a style for me— It’s an odd one to try to draw out. It’s very simple, but it’s not simple because they’re not able to do more detail. It’s like a restrained detailing, where the majority of the emphasis is on the expressions and meaning of the image itself as well as the shading (which, with a tablet, is reallllly hard to imitate, so I sort of stopped focusing on that).</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3169798079http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3169798079Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:42:00 -0800<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/acredolo/3168877985/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_3168877985" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="291" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“Crocodile Rock” by Elton John, just having fun again.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168877985http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168877985Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:48:05 -0800<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/acredolo/3168787603/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_3168787603" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="291" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Sound belongs to Disney, from the movie Hunchback of Notre Dame. Track is “Out There”, I believe composed by Alan Menken. I was just practicing animatics.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168787603http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168787603Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:42:25 -0800<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/acredolo/3168631489/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_3168631489" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="291" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Sounds belongs to Sesame Street, I was just having fun as I went.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168631489http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168631489Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:32:38 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9n9qEbvV1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168434178http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168434178Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:20:13 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9n8xkx5T1qh2957o1_250.png"/><br/><br/>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168426030http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168426030Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:19:45 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9n7vosgE1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168415893http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168415893Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:19:06 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9n6kmJBA1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Arms confound me.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168403787http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168403787Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:18:19 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9n5xg3hf1qh2957o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168397263http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168397263Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:17:57 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9n5aoXkO1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>More one-layer drawings on iScribble.net.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168391356http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168391356Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:17:33 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9n1iIvcb1qh2957o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Just a group screencapture of the panels from a story sketch idea… thing I was working on few quite a few hours at once.</p> <p><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=252580&id=643716314&l=9a852fae84">http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=252580&id=643716314&l=9a852fae84</a></span></p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168356194http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168356194Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:15:18 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9mqpzlSw1qh2957o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I draw on a lot of online group-drawing sites, so usually end up drawing one-layer images, this being one of them. They’re doodles, but I usually find I mess around with lighting practice the most in them.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168253432http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168253432Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:08:49 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9mo1oqzX1qh2957o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168228888http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168228888Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:07:13 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9mlf3b0X1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Very old, but was proud of manipulating anatomy.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168203207http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168203207Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:05:39 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9m474SPO1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>These are all pretty old about 2007-2008, I promise I’ll have much better work from figure drawing posted soon enough.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168038788http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3168038788Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:55:18 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9lojkSIA1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is from over three years ago, but I might as well include some traditional medium.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167888151http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167888151Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:45:55 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9llbuTSY1qh2957o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I was asked to design a logo for a friend’s blog, a female take on videogames. They ended up putting the project on hold, but I’ll share this either way.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167857299http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167857299Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:43:59 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9lc9RcVm1qh2957o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Sketch itself was very fast, not happy with the lineart, but wanted the feel of being in a tent with a laptop as the light-source. It was weird to use blue-ish lighting.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167770981http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167770981Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:38:33 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9l96UXVw1qh2957o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yet <em>another</em> character of a friend’s. I had fun working on smooth linework and colored lines, and thought it was smooth enough I’d leave it unshaded.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167741742http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167741742Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:36:42 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9l6kywrS1qh2957o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>A literally 30-minute drawing, but always sorta’ liked how it came out overall.</p>http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167716696http://acredolo.tumblr.com/post/3167716696Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:35:08 -0800