Digital Media Spring 2017 UMASS Boston

I'd been so strapped for time this entire semester, so I pretty much didn't blog. I was also working on an independent film with my friend whom is a television producer IRL. But, by Finals time, I couldn't work on it. I was already operating AT MY LIMIT the entire semester. But, this causes me to crash n burn because there's ONLY SO MUCH TIME IN A DAY, commuting cuts out of my productivity, PLUS I also needed to go to my work study job.

AND edit my spouse's English homework, PLUS almost every other day, and sometimes every day, I had to help him write, re-write, and edit his proposal for a giant scholarship that they gave him such a hard time, and the run-around over. I refused to write it FOR HIM. because that's unethical. But, towards the end, both of us were so fed-up with doing that and he openly said he no longer wanted to pursue it out of a deep seeded pessimism of trying for 4 years, he was told to keep doing it. Eventually, I was so fed up with working on that which distracted me from my own work, that I actually re-wrote whole sections of his proposal, especially the final draft. I was SO ANNOYED with him NOT listening to what I told him about grammar, punctuation, and capitalization and still doing the same WRONG things over & over, that when I was told that he was being urged to increase the funding amount significantly higher, I just went ham on it after reading the notes he was given from his feedback. Needless to say, he did get the huge scholarship, AND he's going to Japan on June 6th. And, no I'm NOT going with him 9because I'm often asked if I am)

Anyways, when finals time hit, I couldn't work on the film because I needed every moment I could get. I also helped my video classmates as well, because there was no one around to help them.


Anyways, here's my Digital Media Classwork:

This assignment was called "Identity Portrait".

Zimbleman Identity Portrait Finished by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

This was an animated GIF assignment using Photoshop. You were supposed to use "appropriation". I did, but I didn't. Honestly, I don;t care to steal other people's works, but I did technically "appropriate" an existing visual which was the symbolic representation of Liberty and Justice. 

Anyways, this was hours and hours of work. I made everything from scratch BY HAND using my WACOM and referencing thousands of images online. In the "net art" spirit of "appropriation", since that's the vibe here, I actually licensed ALL of these graphics to the CREATIVE COMMONS so IF you would LIKE to use these images, so long as it's NOT COMMERCIAL, and NOT FOR PROFIT, you can use them all, TOTALLY 100% FREE.

Liberty n Justice For Sale Animation by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Justice Animation Still Frame Figure by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Liberty Animation Still Figure by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

The Laser Cut Box Project I Made:

#lasercut #lasercutting #art #UMASS #UMASSBoston #BlackUniGryphon #qilin #kirin #kylin #umicorn #chineseunicorn #dujiaoqilin #chineseinspired similar #artwork of mine found here: @wudujiaoqilin #mermaid #nixie #melusine #melusina #siren #2tailedmermaid #2tailsmermaid #2tailed #2tails

A post shared by Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 (@blackunigryphon) on Apr 27, 2017 at 2:43pm PDT

Other projects I created in the Digital Media class were images created using text, and HTML coding from scratch, and also using DreamWeaver. 

My Art on Textiles

The CEO of a company "VIDA" e-mailed me this morning with a special invitation to submit my artwork for some textiles. I e-mailed her asking what she wanted, but never got an answer. Meanwhile, I did try to submit some artwork.

If you are interested here it is: KLICK HERE

 Apperently, you can get a $25 gift-card.

Here's some Coupon codes:

Purchase Artist Wholesale: Receive 15% off when you buy 5-9 units of a design (use code: ARTIST15), receive 25% off if you buy 10-19 or more (use code: ARTIST19) and receive 35% when you buy 20 or more (use code ARTIST35). With Artist Wholesale, you can sell your items at the MSRP listed on our site and earn up to 30% of revenue share, instead of the standard 10%.

I'm actually, INCREDIBLY busy right now! I have 2 new temp jobs. Just got out of the hosptial with a false misscariage of sorts. Really scary stuff.

I'm no stranger to online markets that print art... I've probably done over a half a dozen already.
This one is actually pretty expensive.

Even tho' I have made sales throughout my life on some of the site, it's pretty rare, and very small money. Usually, people tend to just ROB my art, and not buy ANYTHING!

I pretty much LOST almost a decade's worth of my work in January due to a malware virus.
So, I don;t have the original source files for this, and the resolution isn't the best ever.

I do not have time to totally re-do everything from scratch. And, that's HOURS of work, which never paid off in the past anyway...

Anyways, I kindly submitted some artwork. And, I've taken the time to promote it.

I did NOT know that I was going to have to plug & pedal this stuff myself, or I wouldn't have done it at all in the first place. When I read the forms today it said NOTHING about it...

Whatever, I've done whatever they wanted, I guess... and I don't have anymore time to do anything else...

Nixies (Double Tailed Mermaids or Undines) Concepts

So, just in case u didn't know about my Nixies, it's not anything new. They are called any number of names in antiquity, anything from Nixes to Nixies, to Melusine, to Mermaids, to Sirens, to Water Nymphs or Water Elementals, and even Water Djinn, or Jing. Whatever... it's a mermaid with double tails. or, just a mermaid if you prefer....

I first became enamored with the idea when I was living in China just before the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. What a strange year, a whole bunch of strange surprises and so many things going massively wrong for me, including the economic crash, I wanted to be a volunteer for the Olympics but that didn't happen, because even tho' I'd wanted to apply early, they wouldn't accept my application yet, and then once it was time, they not only filled up with applicants, but they suddenly got snobby about whom to choose. too bad, I wouldn't be an excellent volunteer.
I also went to Mongolia that year, and I was so sick from the AC & the unsanitary conditions in Guangzhou, and some weight and got accosted by a creepy beggar in Beijing with "I love you! I love you! I love you!" and my spouse still heckling me about it to this day, and also getting mocked by people for being  (the Chinese idea of) fat all over Beijing as tho' I was some sort of freak.

It's been pretty depressing for me on the art front. I couldn't go to CAL-ARTS due to the so-called Recession. And, all my dreams of anything went up in smoke. To top it all off, a number of persons whom I'd thought, unquestioningly, were my friends, turned out WERE NOT. Ouch! What happened? I questioned it, and them, and my brain worked...

2009 was especially difficult for me. A ton of anguish, sadness, and so on... I would just stay in bed all day weeping, and sobbing because my heart hurt so badly. But, I had to play all happy for my daughter... I never felt so alone in my whole life. Alone, unwanted, unwelcomed, disrespected, betrayed, and tossed aside like I were trash...

I would sit at my sketchbook, trying in vain to sketch, and nothing happening... it's the most painful thing any artist could ever go through. And, haunting dreams.... terrible. I kept trying to sketch. And, I couldn't! It was just all coming out like scribble-scrabble!


Well, anyways.... 

Since last month, these Nixies have been on my mind again.... it seems like everywhere I look around something is reminding me of them, and I often find myself in a daydream.

I started to watch those Australian Mermaid TV shows "H2O" on Netflix, and altho' they can be silly, something in those triggered my inspiration... altho' I must say, MINE IS NOTHING LIKE THEIR CONCEPTS AT ALL!

My original concept that I'd come up with in 2008, while in China, was something of a musical number animated short set to music... I wanted it to be sort of like a water ballet, and sort of like Fantasia.

It was intend to be a small piece for my "Eyewitness" project. (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)

However, it has been morphing in my mind, and it keeps on growing, and expanding, like a concert, or a live show.

I have quite a few versions of how I want it to be produced, sort of like how Macross will produce multiple variations of different versions of the same project, like "Macross Plus" which has a Mini-Series version, and a Full Length Feature Film version, as well as different language versions. And "Macross Frontier" also did this. I also like the whole modern concept of "remixing". And, also how the "Macross Frontier" also inspired live show performances as well, or even Disney does this with their films and puts them on Broadway.

Well, with my empty pockets now, I doubt I (a total nobody) could ever get my work preformed in Vienna at the place I currently am now.... As if! 

But, I can at least sketch out the rough concepts...

It is so strange, because when it comes to art, the whole inspiration stuff comes from somewhere... but I don;t know how, nor where... and it just flows into me, and through me, and floods & fills me up... after a while, I just couldn't contain it any longer, and stuff began to come out. It just sort of writes its self... and amends it self as well...

I spent several moments today, and yesterday just crying big tears because the emotions are so intense.

It's really overwhelming, and kinda gives me some major anxiety... and nervousness... but, I just had to publish some of the sketches, and I couldn't stop sketching either...

I'm out of practice, but I can still sketch.... it's terrible, but at least the concepts are THERE.

I spent so much time last week searching for reference materials, including shipwreck photos, artist paintings, and so on...

I am VERY confident that NO ONE has ANYTHING like my original art. Sure, it has influences here and there, but I am making/creating something entirely all mine.

But, I'm also incredibly paranoid of it getting robbed, or ripped off before I can even get a chance to do anything with it.

This one here, has been on my mind all month. Altho' it is rough, it's kind of close to what I was trying to figure out how to make a a scene look.... I am still developing this scene and/or concept... so please do not use my work. I really do not want any major corporations ripping off my stuff.

And, much fund that I need are still stuck on a perpetually pending status much to my frustration. For crying out loud, I'm on food stamps, and I still haven't been hired for any job at all yet...

However, mark my word, should anyone rip off my work, I do not care how much of a mega corporation they are, hen I'm all set with my fundage situation, and my legal/financial team, I WILL COME AFTER YOU. This stuff I have here IS DATED, and I WILL COME AFTER YOU IN LEGAL WAYS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT YET... That is a promise!You don't even know the meaning of the word vicious yet until you have vexed ME! You won't even be able to sleep!

I very much want to showcase the prehensile nature of the tails, with exaggerated muscular movements.

But, I am still working out how I want the tails to be... they might end up being even longer than they already are... but, I haven't worked out a formula/design yet.

I do, in fact, very much want an electronic fusion musical style. It is still forming inside of my mind, but it's coming along much further now. But, after reviewing music all month, I am quite sure that I want to incorporate synthesizers and modulator transistors to give a whimsical "watery" sound or mood. I am VERY amendment about this.
But, I also want to incorporate orchestra/symphony and ethnic/folk fusion.

Each animated short or performance I already have a very close idea of how I want the music to be, and sound, and in one case, I almost have the words, in my head, coming to me for a singing part.

I've had similar experiences with other shorts I'd created for my "Eyewitness" project in the past also, which I also want to strongly incorporate music, especially THIS ONE HERE.

The rough sketch to the left is another concept. More and more, I feel this one might actually be already becoming it's OWN individual performance piece. This one is meant to showcase the muscular ability of the double tails, like yoga, gymnastics, ballet, and bellydance floorwork as well as contortionist and acrobatic performance arts. I also want to have the dancer coming out of the water onto either the shore, or cliffs/rocks, and specifically SHOW that the hair is WET. This one will be a REALLY excellent challenge!

I realize the anatomy and proportions are off quite a bit, but I am out of practice... I would like to go practice a lot more in life drawing gestures classes, but I am so broke that it;s just not gonna happen yet, unless my funds are ready.... of if some major charitable benevolent person swoops in out of the kindness of their heart and- oh who am I kidding?! It's 2015! That kinda stuff never happens except on TV!

And, this lovely rough sketch over here is my Diva Nixie, Melusine!
She is still being developed. I think she isn't plump enough yet. I want her to be very voluptuous, curvy, round, and full figured. And, she isn't there yet. I also want her to have very defined biceps & triceps, and well as wide hips, and I want the tails to resemble thick thighs.

I want everything about her to be big, broad, plump, and stable. She will have CURLY BIG HAIR and she will be BRONZE skin toned, with some kind of dark hair... maybe black... haven't decided yet.
I haven't decided which color to make her scales yet... I was thinking orange and gold... but, I haven't decided yet.

Her animated performance part will have minimal movements, because she is so detailed, and will require several layers of animation. 

I think I would also like her to have a voice like, or very similar to, Alison Moyet.

I will say this: THERE WILL BE NO BLONDS, and NO CHERRY RED HAIR, and NO EMERALD OR REPTILE GREEN scales ANYWHERE in my productions! NONE!

I also want to make my Nixies to NOT all be Caucasian. NO WAY! Just a few...
I WILL also have a piece with extensive PEARLY BLACK mermaids, and some Pearly White. But, I will be breaking ALL stereotypes, and boundaries it those!

AGAIN: IF YOU STEAL OR RIP OFF MY IDEAS I WILL FUCK YOU UP! OKAY? 

The rough concept art sketches are found in my DeviantArt gallery SCRAPS.

DevArt Valentines

So, I saw there was this new feature on DevArt with Valentines, n I tried to make a morbid valentine with their on-site program artsy thingy, and NOTHING happened... I also found it frustrating...

But, my daughter figured it out, n scolded me for being dumb & lazy... :-/
Hey! I worked a lot on that dumb thing! Not my fault DevArt didn't let u do it on their own programs...

So, she made me MAKE ONE FOR HER.

So, I made this ULTRA SIMPLE one... since she robbed my WACOM again!!!!

It stinx, but people ACTUALLY LOOKED AT IT, USED IT, and FAV'ed it! WTF?

Heartness by BlackUniGryphon on DeviantArt

Nightmare Moon Carved Pumpkin Jack-O'-Lantern

Here she is!

My hand carved Nightmare Moon pumpkin Jack-O'-Lantern!


Klick the Deviant Art one for the HDR version.

You know me! I LOVE My Little Pony, and I especially love BLACK UNICORNS!


This is no exception! Here is Nightmare Moon AKA Princess Luna. As with the typical theme os Black Unicorns, she is also a misunderstood, deeply wounded personality, and not truly bad.

But, we still like her to dress up and scare the crap out of us!

I carved this by hand using my old vintage X-ACTO knife from 1994. Seriously!
I worked on this from about 4pm-8pm. So, about 4 hours, including: washing, gutting the pulp & seeds, pre-production marker sketching layout, layered carving, rewashing, candle prep, lighting, photography, photo importing, HDR tone mapping, photoshop editing, etc.

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic is an animated series by Hasbro.


Nightmare Moon Carved pumpkin Jack O Lantern HDR by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART 

Black UniGryphon Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman-Wang 2013

Tribal Fusion Belly Dancer Floorwork Sketch Colored

I finally finished this one!














Bellydance Floor Work COLORED by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART

Found A Belly Dancer Remake

I had to share this! :D

I generally licence my art sketches/line-art to the kids so that can practice coloring, and stuff. It's FREE and good practrice when your studying arts!

But, this is the first time I've EVER come across a re-make of my human figures! ^,^ Usually, I see kids doing re-makes, re-interpretations, or inspired pieces of my griffins unicorns, dragon,s and especially my wings.

So, THIS was a rare find! ^_^ Thank you Google!

It has an anime feel to it! ^,^ The artist even dis variation on my hair, and not only the pose, but the same hand gestures. ^_^

Well, makes me feel happy that I put my work out their. I felt like no one really liked my art anymore. And, I've been very depressed for a number of years. 2009 was a really bad year for me.

Here you can see the full version of this re-make:

Belly Dance-Art trade with Toshinden-fanclub by ~cupcake2088 on deviantART


Here's my original 2008 peice:

Turkish Bellydancer by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART

That's Lively (my character). My stuff is never blond. but, I licensed the line-art so that kids could have fun with it. ^_^

I've actually been considering all month whether I ought to do a blog just based on my character, "Lively".

Does it seem like a sign???

FREE DOWNLOAD Old School Goddess Desktop Wallpaper

FREE DOWNLOAD:
Old School Divine Goddess Intention Desktop Wallpaper

Artwork By Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸
( Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 )








It's an old school wallpaper, so the resolution is lower. But, it works fine. It's especially good for Smartphones.

You can download it below: 



Divine Goddess Wallpaper by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART

FREE Old School Wallpaper: Monochromattic Purple Black Unicorn Poem

Here's an old school wallpaper I made from way back in the day.

I've found you can still use these on smartphones, and they still work on newer versions of Windows or Mac, but the size is smaller than the higher resolution new stuff.

Artwork by
"Black UniGryphon"  烏獨角獸
Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒












Download it for FREE (Virus free)
Klick below:







Black Unicorn Poem by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART

The Complete Portfolio of Belly Dancers Artwork (Digitally Colored) By "Black UniGryphon" 2003-2011

Here is the COMPLETE List/Portfolio of Black UniGryphon's Belly Dancers & Exotic Maidens
(The finished Digitally Colored Versions)
(All Colored in Adobe Photoshop 6.0) 

They are original hand drawn pencil sketches which are cleaned. these are ONLY the Digitally colored/finished works:

Artwork by
"Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸
Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman-Wang 任思麒












 Sketched in 2005-2006:
(Colored in 2006- 2008)

2008:

2009:

2010:

2011:

Misc. Other:

Drawn in 1996, Colored in 2000:

2003 Furry:

For larger resolution versions & prints of artwork by "Black UniGryphon" (Kandice K. Zimbleman) visit the gallery on Deviant Art.<----->