Izzy's Manga Anime`

So...being an artist runs in the Mingolla family. Steve's Uncle Dom was an artist and many of you have seen the black canvas of his that we have in our home. Our niece, Britt, is an art major and an amazing artist. I've seen her do a black and white version of the famous Audry Hepburn painting, that you would swear was an original. Steve is also quite talented. He's made handmade, one of a kind, Mother's Day cards for his mother for over 20 years now. They are amazing. I tell him he should make a coffee table book called "Letters to Mom" or something, they are very funny!

Well, Izabella also...has the gene! You may remember that when she was in the 3rd grade, her teacher submitted some artwork of her's to the county and she won first place in the 3rd grade. Anywho....she's been into manga anime lately and has been doing a really good job on her own. Just recently, she's started saying that she wants to live in Japan one day! When we were at the last festival at the park we met some people that own a play up the road from us and they teach art and music to kids. It's called Play, Music and Art. It's so much fun for her and they even have a couples thing where they send the kids next door to the Karate class for a couple of hours and the adults get to drink a bottle of wine while you paint something. We're soooo going to do that.

Izabella came home tonight with her first completed project from her art class. They made their first cartoon strips. SO cool. See for yourself....

This is the first draft after her rough draft....

This is the final draft.

Now, I took pictures of it close up for each panel...from start to finish so you can see the detail...

Their next assignment is to work on their eyes and how to make them look more "real" so I've taken a few shots of her first attempts. 

I REALLY like this one!

Cool, huh? She's working on her "signature" this is a revised on I noticed here. I like her other one better, but she's developing as an artist, who knows where this can take her. She draws all the time.  We have several of her things up in the house and I have 3 more that I need to get up and framed, I love having her artwork around us. I can't wait to see what she brings home next.