The Art Of Svetla Radivoeva

The Pearl

2012-01-08T17:59:00.000-08:00

This is one reaaaaly old work, which I couldn't finish on time for some reason. I decided retouching it and post it, because it inspired several more sketches lately, and I thought it is fair this one to be shown first and I will follow it with the new once after.

last post for this year!

2011-12-31T10:24:00.000-08:00

It was an awesome and truly hard but amazing year for me!

I wanted to colour this picture before the year have past, but since my tablet broke, I couldn't.

Anyway, I dedicate this post to my amazing friends that made my hard moments much more easier and bearable. And I dedicate it to all the other people that are not in this picture but that I truly love for the love they give to me without asking for anything in return!

Thank you for helping me making my dream come true!!!

Green dress

2011-09-19T13:42:00.000-07:00

Moustache Party

2011-09-17T10:14:00.000-07:00

We had an epic event last night!
The moustache party finally happened!!!
Boys and girls were supposed to come with moustaches :)))
It turned out awesome!

So this is a pin-up inspired by the event :)

Beer Lover

2011-09-04T15:46:00.000-07:00

This beer is called Leffe, and it is one of my favorite. There are many variations, but I prefer Leffe Brune /and sometimes Leffe Blonde/.
There is one beer which even breaks the amazing taste of Leffe, but they don't serve it everywhere /I'll try to take a picture of it if I have the chance/.

And - no.. I am not an alcoholic..

Rada

2011-06-19T15:43:00.000-07:00

Dreaming of Cheese

2011-06-19T15:36:00.000-07:00

Yeah.. I miss the Bulgarian food and there are days when I wake up and have an extreme desire to eat something favorite. And in this case it was the Bulgarian white cheese.. the closest thing here is called Feta cheese, but it is still not the same...

I love you Cheeeeese!

PS. A bit after this crisis for cheese, I found a Bulgarian store in Brussels :))) Amazing!

Meeting Brussels

2011-04-25T04:57:00.000-07:00

Watch your words mister...! I am NOT short!

2011-01-21T07:22:00.003-08:00

Lost friend

2011-01-19T15:09:00.000-08:00

Happy New 2011!!!

2011-01-01T15:24:00.000-08:00

For start of the new year I am sharing with you two small test done for fun, by me :).

2d animation helps me to learn so much more, and the pleasure of drawing and animating at the same time cannot be described :)

PillowWalk test from Svetla Radivoeva on Vimeo.

PillowJump test from Svetla Radivoeva on Vimeo.

Stay inspired :)

2010-12-21T13:41:00.000-08:00

I wanted to share with you guys these links about a great studio called Headless Productions.

They say when you want to stay inspired - surround yourself with inspiring people and inspiring things. So this is one of my sources of inspiration. And my eyes just melt from satisfaction when I watch the work of these great people.

Headless Productions blog

Headless Productions Interview

Just adorable!

Vienna

2010-12-09T00:41:00.001-08:00

Not that this is symbolic for Vienna, but I was very impressed by the greatness of most of the buildings there. And of course the amount of the statues and details on the buildings was stunning.
When I came back to Sofia, most of the buildings felt empty and unfinished :)

Exercising

2010-11-21T15:57:00.000-08:00

AM Newsletters November 2010 :)

2010-11-19T02:17:00.000-08:00

I wasn't sure if it is good idea to post this here, but this is one of the things that doesn't happen every day, so I am sharing the AM November Newsletters with you:

http://info.animationmentor.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuaXBZKXonjHpfsX%2B6eglX7Hr08Yy0EZ5VunJEUWy2YEFWoEnZ9mMBAQZC81gzgVVG%2FScc45N%2F%2FtJBFM%3D

*Thanks to the editor, I probably sound better than I did back then. She nicely manage to cut out all of my stupidity /thanks Amanda!/. This video was taken in Animation Mentor headquarters, when I was in the states for my graduation.

Cheers!

Witch

2010-10-30T08:36:00.000-07:00

I was called a witch last week :)))))) .. and in honor of that this is what I've done /and somehow this perfectly fits the incoming Halloween!/

Whatever tomorrow brings...

2010-10-30T08:28:00.000-07:00

I am experimenting lately with the painting process.. and this is the latest result.

Witness

2010-09-12T06:14:00.000-07:00

This is specially for my dear friend Av :)

Thank you, for knowing how to find my inspiration when I loose it.

Chloe :)

2010-09-07T00:46:00.000-07:00

Fast Drive

2010-09-05T05:11:00.001-07:00

Animation Mentor Showcase 2010

2010-09-02T16:37:00.000-07:00

Ok, some latest news...
I can proudly present this sweet thingy:

http://www.animationmentor.com/showcase2010/

.. which we all waited for so long.

And I wanted to say how proud I am to be in it, next to so many amazing people! Most of them I met personally on our graduation ceremony in LA last month. It was one of the greatest moments I have experienced ever so far :))))

I can spend years trying to express how HAPPY I fell about all this, but it will be useless. It is a product of tons of hours of work, tons of sleepless night, tons of feedback!, tons of despair, tons of fixes and last but not least - tons of fun.

I also don't want to miss giving the credits to the AM staff, which makes AM so spacial and awesome!
Bobby, Shawn and Carlos.. thank you too :)

I know.. I am still in a "thank you" mood.

Addition /in case you are curious/:

http://www.animationmentor.com/showcase2010/newsletter.html

Finally !

2010-07-06T05:26:00.000-07:00

And finally after hours and hours of fixing, rendering, fixing again.. and again rendering.. and probably some rendering in the close future, I present you my "year and a half sweat and tears work". Although there was a lot of pleasure too... and I can assure you it was much more than the tears :P.

So.. it is not perfect, but it is the best work I have, done with tons of love and dedication.

I just want to add a "thank you from the bottom of my heart" note ...

I want to thank all the AMers for helping with their feedback. You were so great!!! Love you all!
I can't thank enough AM for giving me the chance to meet you all.

I want to thank my super amazing and awesome mentors, that lead me through this great adventure: Jalil Sadol, JoshBook, George Schermer, Paul Mendoza, Mark Pullyblank and Kenny Roy. You are amazing! I still can't believe I had the opportunity to have your awesome critiques.

And thank you, to my lead and my boss/endlessly!!! Thank you Gabs!/, for not dismissing me from work :))) /Hopefully I was doing my work well enough! I tried my best./

And of course /last but definitely not least/, thank you to all the people /especially my mum, sis and boyfriend ;)/, that supported me and was next to me, no matter how grumpy and tired I was :)))) /and I was hell tired and hell grumpy!/

... I am not at the Oscars, I know... I just needed to write down what I think :) And I have never had the chance to share this .. so..

Enjoy!

DemoReel 2010 from Svetla Radivoeva on Vimeo.

It is drawing time again :))))

2010-06-19T06:14:00.000-07:00

After soooo long I can hold a pencil again, without feeling guilty :P
Sigh of relief...

Class 05

2010-03-29T18:01:00.001-07:00

... and this is my class 5 progress - two characters shot...

This was the toughest and the most sleepless of all classes so far /and the hardest time in my life ever ever ever!!!/

I am stepping in class 6 now, so one can never know what it will be like till it is all over. Unfortunately this is my last shot for AM, coz we are going to polish our so far shots for our demo reel /I am sure it will be a cool term though :) /

Cheers

PS. And make sure you sleep enough!

Class 04 ... better late than never...

2010-03-27T05:14:00.000-07:00

OK, so this is coming a bit late.. I am still not completely satisfied with what I have, but after all we are still learning and I hope I'll fix what I do not like in class 6, because we have to do demo reel polishing all term.

The lip sync of the girl I did in the beginning of class 5.

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T09:07:00.001-08:00

New Happy Year everyone!
I'm sorry that I am not as regular blogger as I want to... but hopefully 2010 will be an year with much more time for drawing!
I wish this year to bring to all of us tons of smiles and happy moments!

Svetla : )))))

Ha ha! Class 3 - Done!

2009-09-17T02:21:00.000-07:00

Class 2

2009-06-18T05:46:00.000-07:00

So... one more term has passed... phewwww...
I feel very pleased with AM so far! Learned tons of stuff, and hopefully am going to learn much more :))) Plus fellow students are awesome! So I want to thank you all that you gave me your wonderful feedback and helped me through this semester. And thanks to my wonderful mentor Josh Book, that for sure gave awesome e-critiques!
This is my progress so far, hope you are going to enjoy what you see.
A lot of stuff could look much better, but as you know this is part of a learning process so hopefully someday I am going to be fully satisfied of my work :)))

Progress Reel - Class 1

2009-03-29T04:22:00.000-07:00

And here it is :)))) My First Progress Reel!!!
It starts with the latest assignment and goes back to the first.

It has been a while....

2009-03-25T14:40:00.000-07:00

... since I haven't posted. Animation Mentor does its best to keep me busy. I am even not sure have I been so busy ever in my life before. And because of this tough schedule I have absolutely no time to draw, except for the weekly planning sketches :) /which does not count much :P/
Anyway.. The only drawing I have made during this semester - "The Bullshit Detector" :))) The machine that took me away from all my life and made me dedicate all my free and sleep time totally to animation. Thank you :)

A Progress Reel is Coming very soon..

AM

2008-11-30T09:08:00.001-08:00

So... I have been in Animation Mentor Maya Springboard since.. October and I decided to post something related to that... :)

I'll probably start to post animation related stuff very soon. Since now every homework assignment is software exploring and learning /and of course a bit of animation :))), to keep our enthusiasm up/

Look at me!

2008-10-13T14:01:00.001-07:00

At Night

2008-10-10T11:37:00.000-07:00

Taking a bath

2008-09-28T02:24:00.001-07:00

It has been a while since my last post here. Sorry for that...
This is because of the lack of inspiration... I hate those periods.

So here is something new. I hope you're going to like this.

And thanks for your comments people!!! I love to have them :)

Nati

2008-07-02T03:01:00.001-07:00

Dragon

2008-06-26T07:11:00.000-07:00

Making the hair

2008-06-24T13:05:00.000-07:00

Morning'

2008-06-14T14:39:00.000-07:00

And because I have passed my driving exam...

2008-05-06T06:43:00.000-07:00

...recent sketches...

2008-05-06T06:31:00.000-07:00

These are some sketches I did recently.. some stuff are from pictures, others are from own inspiration...

Winter

2008-04-14T12:12:00.000-07:00

Me and my rabbit...

About the updates

2008-04-13T09:07:00.001-07:00

Recently I've been drawing mostly in my new sketchbook, which I received as a gift from a dear friend for my birthday /which actually was two months ago... /!!!

So, some new stuff are coming soon...

Samodiva

2008-03-30T11:28:00.000-07:00

Samodivas are female creatures from the Bulgarian mythology. They live in the deep forest. They love to dance and punish everyone who dares to step at places which are in their possession. They adore the sound that comes from Shepherd's kaval (Bulgarian music instrument). And because of this music passion they kidnap young Shepherds which play music to them all night long.

Hawaii

2008-03-03T23:48:00.001-08:00

Medusa

2008-02-22T03:23:00.000-08:00

Sigh

2008-01-30T15:32:00.000-08:00

Disgust

2008-01-20T11:38:00.000-08:00

Feeling unwell

2008-01-09T07:14:00.001-08:00

Kitty

2007-12-15T08:52:00.001-08:00

Some more of my Catwoman..
Actually I draw her when I have no idea what else to draw.. she is inspiring...

Chinese anger

2007-12-15T03:17:00.001-08:00

Fairy... again

2007-12-06T13:19:00.001-08:00

Bottle of Rum..

2007-11-24T15:11:00.001-08:00

Bottom

2007-11-11T03:01:00.000-08:00

Top View

2007-10-28T04:25:00.000-07:00

...Stella...

2007-10-21T11:32:00.000-07:00

Attempt

2007-10-21T02:33:00.000-07:00

A small test which I made for myself..
A different style of drawing..
It is made from a picture that I've made some years ago.

Dafska

2007-10-21T01:40:00.000-07:00

2007-10-14T00:41:00.000-07:00

Tongs

2007-09-30T08:40:00.000-07:00

From the debths of the sea

2007-09-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

Summer time

2007-09-29T01:54:00.000-07:00

The charm of the plumpy ladies

2007-09-22T05:09:00.000-07:00

At work lately I have the task to animate a fat woman, and probably that made me draw those...

I find them very cute :) and there will be no surprise if I post some more of them soon.

Fairy

2007-09-08T02:11:00.000-07:00

A character which I've made an year ago. First pictures are old, the last one is newer.

Addicted

2007-09-07T08:45:00.000-07:00

... to you

Catwoman :P

2007-09-07T05:10:00.001-07:00

As a fan, I coudn't miss drawing some of her...

Oddie

2007-09-07T05:03:00.001-07:00

Dear Alex, this is for u! ;)

God How Painful Was That...

2007-09-07T04:57:00.000-07:00

... haven't been around for some time.. so here are some pictures I've made lately. Enjoy.. or not :)

Angel..

2007-05-20T05:12:00.000-07:00

.. or as my boyfriend said - 'The blue one' :)

I Got Trouble

2007-05-20T05:05:00.000-07:00

That is the last picture from this series but actually it was the first one I drew

/The inspiration for these drawings was the album 'Back to Basics'/

Whatever...

2007-05-20T02:06:00.000-07:00

Cabaret

2007-05-20T01:48:00.000-07:00

I have made an experiment here with the shadow effect, which I was told and haven't tried before .. :) /Thanks, you know who!/

Here I am again

2007-05-20T01:42:00.000-07:00

So I haven't been around for a while, but some new drawings are coming up. As a start I'm going to finish with my cabaret series... :) Enjoy and feel free to comment!

Glamourous

2007-01-14T15:02:00.001-08:00

A Glass of Wine...

2007-01-14T15:00:00.000-08:00

... and everything becomes soooo nice

Sadness

2007-01-08T14:30:00.000-08:00

Love Disappointments

2007-01-08T14:22:00.000-08:00

Beach session V.2

2007-01-08T14:19:00.000-08:00

Retro Cartoon 2

2007-01-07T05:26:00.000-08:00

..or somekind of 'Grease' fever ?! :)

Retro Cartoon

2007-01-07T05:23:00.000-08:00

Exhausted

2007-01-06T14:35:00.000-08:00

First there is sadness and emotional collapse.. then.. comes the peace and the silence...

Introducing.. Me

2007-01-06T10:05:00.000-08:00

So.. here I am.. with my first post!

I sould say a big WELCOME to everyone and 'Thank you' for passing by :))))