DebRiver Designs

Vintage Sailor-ette

2011-11-18T23:51:00.001-08:00

Bit of a late night drawing session. It's been a while since I spent this much time on a single drawing. Yay for getting back at it!

Post-it!

2011-08-18T17:05:00.000-07:00

Sketching on paper. Well post its are paper, right?

Best Friends

2011-08-17T22:12:00.001-07:00

Yay an update!!!! Been so busy with work but I need to find time to draw.

Quick 5 minute drawing before bed

2011-02-23T21:28:00.000-08:00

I need to start updating this thing again.

BG Painting

2010-11-16T19:50:00.001-08:00

It's been so long since an update! It has been a pretty hectic last few months. From deciding to leave Wildbrain and join 6 Point Harness, to getting my own place (finally) while still doing freelance has been insane. Tonight I decided to post some of the freelance work I did while I was still at Wildbrain.
For a 3 minute short called Click Stars online at allgirlarcade.com. Hopefully some of my original stuff will make it up soon!

-Deb

Cohen Dollar

2010-08-20T14:02:00.000-07:00

To the happy couple ....

2010-08-19T11:45:00.001-07:00

Created this for two good friends who got married in Chicago a few weeks ago.

Been a while

2010-07-28T16:53:00.000-07:00

It has been quite some time that I have posted something on here. I had started getting into the groove of drawing and what would you know I go and get hired at W!ldbrain. Now that I have been here for a little over a mth I am hoping I get back into drawing. Starting off simple for now but I have a lot of stuff in development that will hopefully be ready soon. :)

Pre-Teen Development

2010-06-02T10:01:00.000-07:00

I decided to develop a few characters and environment for this character. These three are the only ones I have on my comp right now but I have an emo kid designed as well. These are all just rough concepts but I am very excited about this little project I have decided to take on. :)

Sexy Killer Pt. 2

2010-05-27T19:28:00.000-07:00

Changed a few things and added other details. There are a few things here and there I want to fix but I am afraid if I touch it any more I will ruin it.

Sexy Killer

2010-05-26T23:12:00.000-07:00

Needs some more work but I think I am finally getting enough confidence to start pushing my characters and designs a little more. This could have been pushed more but meh ;)

Voodoo Priestess Part 2

2010-05-21T16:57:00.000-07:00

Cleaned her up and tweaked a few things here and there. Only thing left to do is color and practice drawings hands and feet more. :)

Voodoo Priestess

2010-05-19T17:00:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I surprise myself. Needs some tweaks before I clean her up and color her though. :)

Studies

2010-05-16T20:00:00.001-07:00

Needing to update my portfolio asap with some action/comic type poses I decided to study a few poses I found online to try to get a feel and idea as to what I am going to be doing.

Hidden dangers of a plumber

2010-04-21T16:04:00.001-07:00

A good friend of mine asked for submissions for his blog Cuter In Bunny Ears and this is what I came up with. I don't know what it says about me and I am rather scared to know.

Joseph Cohen, Science Teacher

2010-04-16T00:20:00.000-07:00

My boyfriend of 5+ years recently passed the CSET exam that allows him to become a Science teacher in the state of California even though he is also certified to teach History. Having said this is the most difficult test he had ever taken I can't be prouder knowing he passed it on his first attempt and will soon have his own classroom. As long as he isn't teaching English I think future generations have a chance ;).

Little Update

2010-04-03T17:25:00.000-07:00

Just a little something for the time being. I returned from Mexico about two-three weeks ago and have yet to really get back into the drawing mode. So for now just a little avatar of myself as well as having created a new layout for www.debarroyo.com .

More to come soon! I hope X|

Monster 2

2010-03-03T12:55:00.000-08:00

I want his lollipop.

Monster 1

2010-03-02T17:38:00.001-08:00

You know you wants hims :)

Teen Girl

2010-02-05T15:25:00.000-08:00

Two days in a row. Cool. :)

Value Girl

2010-02-04T16:22:00.001-08:00

Oh boy

2010-01-29T17:58:00.000-08:00

Getting away from girls for a bit.

Dr. Sketchy

2010-01-10T23:18:00.000-08:00

So Dr Sketchy had an event this past Saturday at Gallery Nucleus that I could not attend due to a previous engagement. However, I have always wanted to go to a Dr Sketchy night but have yet to do so. I decided to see when the next event is and I saw they posted a picture of one of the models of Gallery Nucleus' event and I just had to do a quick sketch of it. Surprisingly I liked how it came out for being so rough and cant wait to work on this even more. But what it means is, I must now go to Dr Sketchy's!

Gray

2010-01-06T19:32:00.001-08:00

She's probably very moody.

Rainy Day In SoCal

2009-12-30T20:57:00.000-08:00

Don't get many rainy days in L.A. But I do enjoy them when we do have them. Even if LA drivers tend to get dumber on these days. :\

Animation Academy

2009-11-11T10:25:00.000-08:00

So I have been taking classes at the Animation Academy in Burbank for a while now. Trying to get back into the groove of things when it comes to drawing and more so drawing on paper. The class I am currently in is a Visual Development class where we pretty much just focus on shading and trying to add more dimension to our designs. I decided to post two pieces up that I like how they have so far come out.The design above was actually done on transparency paper.This other one is on animation paper. I really like how she came out and decided I am going to try to develop her and her world a little more. Maybe add some other characters into the mix. We shall see when I will have time to do that, lol.

First comic ever!

2009-10-16T16:11:00.000-07:00

A few weeks back I mentioned how two friends asked me to do a save the date comic for their wedding. Well, I am finally done! I never did anything like this but they love it and will be printed and shipped out to the wedding guests soon, I think. :P

I would like to thank my arch-nemesis Steph for helping me out and giving me some tips. XD

Update, no way!

2009-10-08T14:19:00.000-07:00

Haven't updated in a while so I did a quick sketch to put on here. I got lazy towards the end and I am sure you can tell where that happened, hehehe.

Save the date!

2009-09-22T13:54:00.000-07:00

Two good friends of mine are getting married in May and they have asked me to create a "Keep the Date" Postcard for them. They want to do a short comic strip of the proposal and send that out to everyone. I've been trying to come up with ideas as what to do and I think I finally have a starting point. For the layout and what each panel will have I am going to do something like this:For the style/design of the characters I wanted something more cutesy so I am going in this direction:I think I already created a perfect image of Josh and just need to clean him up a bit and need to adjust a few things on Kim and then they will be perfect, lol.

I've never done a comic before so I have no real way of knowing how to approach this especially with the posing since the first two panels have to be front view. But I know if I take my time and a few shots (and get some help from some friends hehehe) I will get there. :)

Tis be the the 22nd of September

2009-09-22T10:51:00.000-07:00

Blast from the past

2009-09-08T12:45:00.001-07:00

A little back story to this design. I attended Hollywood High School and was a part of the thespians group. Loosely translated it means I was a drama geek. My junior year (01/02) our group decided to have thespians shirts made and I designed this logo. It incorporates everything our program was about: acting, dance, singing/music, film and stage tech/design. WellI graduated HS and they never did anything with the design. But eventually about 2-3 years back I get an email from one of my old teachers wanting to know if they could still use the design. Apparently the new thespians and students loved it and wanted to use it. I said OK and now its on t-shirts everywhere! OK, not really. But still :)

Here ya go

2009-08-28T17:20:00.001-07:00

Here. An Update. Enjoy. XD

Re-starting

2009-08-14T12:53:00.001-07:00

Updating with one of my newer and older pieces. I hope I can gather some of my pieces from home and upload them this weekend. After tweaking them of course.