By for now

Hey Bloggers

just a note for anyone that happens on this page (both frequently and by accident) I won't be updating
much anymore as I have a deviant art page (and too many other sites that need updating) so if you like
what you see please head over to my other page - http://lelpel.deviantart.com/ and check out more.

I'll also be developing my own site this year, so stay tuned for links to that as well

Thanks to everyone for their support this year - for the comments and page views, its meant a lot

See you on deviant art ^_^

Lesley

the cold that caught up with me....

Hey guys

Sorry for the severe lack of updates but things have been a little crazy here all of sudden... not to mention that I'm now lying in bed with a bad case of what I fondly call the "end of semester loogies".... you know the kind that starts in your head and slowly
makes its way down your body, I'm in the fourth day with means its well into my chest and I'm stuck with that annoying cough that sounds like your putting it on for attention...

Any way, enough moping, I thought I'd put this up as I was pretty proud of how it came out... I'd put the animation I did up but as always my internet connection wont let me (I'll wait till I'm back on campus)

hope you like it ^_^

Oh and I now have a new obession, James Jean he's a great American artist I discovered whilst at a little art gallery James took me to in Darlinghurst (thanks again James) - check out his site - www.processrecess.com

well, I hope things are winding down for you all and your gearing up for holidays
I'll be back soon ^_^

this is just a little test for an animation I'm doing for the start of my work...I need to get it done by tonight so I'm not sure if it will work out... but i do have a back up plan ^_^

fairy

Hey guys

sorry I've been a little out of it, just finished of the book the other day and handed it in for printing, hopefully it will be done by Wednesday in time for class, AND I finished my essay (woohoo) so now I'm relaxing, doing some drawing and watching Toy Story 2, then its of to bed (I'm so tired I had a three hour granny nap tis afternoon ^_^

Hope you like this pic, the pose is inspired by one of Andrew Stanton's drawings (he did the designs for Lilo and Stitch) not sure about the colours, but I can always change them later

Colourful Mary

Hey everyone

As promised, I did this one up today in class, I've gone back to using illustrator, as I just wanted nice clean lines and some blocked in colour, I'm gonna put it in my book... probably shouldn't, but Meh ^_^

Thanks for visiting : )

Mary Mary quite contrary

Hey everyone

I was at work all day today then uni from 5 to 7 so I thought I'd take a bit of a drawing break tonight... I know I know
I should be doing my essay.. but I have 6 more days (very unlike me I know : )

Any way, hope you like this, the style is inspired by Sean Galloway, the character is my own though.. well mostly, the outfit is inspired by "The secret garden"

I didn't have time to finish it of, but I'll do it up nicely in flash or illustrator tomorrow... after some essay research ^_^
Enjoy

until next time...

The back, a back, what a back...

hey guys,

Haven't been doing much drawing unfortunately, just trying to get everything together with my book, but I did this for the back page, its the mirror image of the previous drawing... thanks again Ant for the inspiration

Hope you all enjoy,

and if your interested in seeing my book, make sure you stop by on the 26th at COFA - I'll be shamelessly carrying it around and stuffing it in peoples faces (I didn't manage to secure an exhibition spot in time)

- over and out

Almost there...

Hey guys and girls, robots, aliens and... anything or anyone else that stumbles on this blog

I did this today for the inner front page of my book, thanks to Anthony for giving me the idea, even though all your ideas have now doubled my work load ^_^
hope your all well and things aren't as crazy for you as they are for me... speaking of, my computer broke down the other day... so just passing on an important message... back up back up back up... and with that

until tomorrow : )

ITS FINALLY HERE

Hey guys

So here it is... my final animation, although I'm tentatively typing this as I watch blogspot trying to load it... tis struggling abit
if this doesn't work feel free to go to this link and download it from there

http://rapidshare.com/files/153821570/finaltest.mov.html

I'll try to have some more vids up soon of a few of the other things I've been working on

ENJOY! - I know I'm happy ^_^

finger painting

Hey bloggers,

tried to upload this last night but blogspot was being slow... I drew the pic with pencil on paper (inspired by Annette Marnat) then coloured it in photoshop using my track pad : ) nothing like a bit of finger painting

Hope you all like it

Now for the book...

Hey guys

I'm back, and now things have wrapped up on the animation its time to move on to the book, unfortunately my In Design has gone all screwy the very day I need it (surprise surprise) so while I'm waiting for the wonderful ant to fix it I thought I'd start designing the title page and chapter separators

Hope you like what I have so far, I did this with the touch pad on my laptop again (I'm starting to get the hang of it)

catch you round!

Are you using this scanner?

these are kinda old, but I went on a massive scanning spree today for the book, and decided I may as well show some of them of... I ended up with waaay more pages than I thought I would... which is a good thing I guess, better too many than not enough

as always, comment if you can

lel

just a quick shout out

Just thought I'd add a quick note, that the latest girl drawings have been inspired by the awesome Annette Marnat - find her at - http://marnette.canalblog.com/ - let me tell you its well worth it!

- ok thats all :)

staying between the lines...

Thought I'd do this one at uni as its about 50 times faster and more reliable to upload the pics... the bottom one needs a little work, but I thought I'd go old school with the top girl and use my good'ol faber Castel pencils... it came out better than I thought it would but I think I need more practice with my colouring in....been a while ^_^

thanks for visiting!

I'm Back... did you miss me?

Well as you can see from the title, I'm back from Brisbane and ready to jump straight into blogging... ok thats a lie, I got back on Friday so didn't technically get "straight into it" but considering I was extremely buggered I figured I'd catch up on some sleep so I could provide some more decent entries than what would have happened on Friday night (polar bear in a snow storm style) ^_^

Thanks Ant for the message, and thanks to those that hung around, as a present I give you a few sketches, some I did tonight and others just before I left... enjoy!

The one of the girl in the hat was inspired by the Dutches with Keira Knightley, if you haven't seen it already, do... its a great film, just the right amount of funny and sad... made me appreciate being a girl in this era a lot more : )

Muahaha! Ant's Takin' Over!

Howdy there Lel fans! My name's Ant, and I hope that if you know Lel, then you'll know who I am! If not, well, just ask her.

Anyhoo, I'm just here to let you all know that Lel won't be posting (or replying to emails) on here for a week, while she has a blast at a camp. But stay tuned afterwards, folks: I'm sure she'll be back in force in a week, with more awesomely brilliant stuff for you all to enjoy!

Catch y'all later!

Spag bowl

Well bloggers

Here are a couple more pages, I promise I'll have pretty scanned versions by tomorrow, but in the meantime here they are in all their laptop camera goodness :)

The animals are mostly taken from favourite movies and the other is a little funny sequence about the hazards of animation... beware animating late into the night as you tend to fall asleep in the wrong situations :)

- this actually happened to my sister, we were eating spaghetti one night when we where kids and deep in conversation we were suddenly interrupted by a strange gurgling noise coming from the end of the table... Alex had fallen asleep on her spaghetti and was blowing bubbles in the sauce.
After cracking ourselves laughing mum managed to get her out of the highchair, wash her face and hair and put her to bed all without her waking up ^_^

SATURN

Hey blogsters

I decided to fix the Bee girl up in Flash, and I'm trying to replace the other images with the scanned ones I did today : )
Hope you like this though, I did this using the mouse so my lines aren't as smooth as I would have liked but I think it came out ok
let me know what you think

back again

****SCANNED IMAGE COMMING SOON****

I know, twice in one night but I really wanted to show you guys this

I really need a scanner, but I hope you can see some of the detail : ) I guess she's kinda like a ninja bee girl... yeah, I think I need to work on the title a little...

till next time

Zoom zoom!

Hey everyone...

yep back with another page for the book, I did this one tonight and I'll try and do another one before i fall asleep... which may actually happen while I'm drawing... serisouly, I'm that tired right now :)

I know looking at this your probably thinking... why cars?? well I've decided I should probably do a few pages of different things (besides people) just to show that I can draw other things as well... I'm thinking of doing some animal pages and maybe some accessory stuff... if you have any suggestions I'd be happy to hear them

Be back soon