Findings & Doodles of Gabby Zapata

Anonymous asked: Where can i buy your artwork

Hey there, sorry for delayed response! Currently I don’t have prints available. But hopefully I’ll get back at it again soon :)! There is one artwork piece over in Gallery Nucleus  if you’re interested! 

Anonymous asked: You're work is so beautiful! I want to be an artist like you someday. My dad got me a wacom for my birthday and I'm trying to figure out the brushes in photoshop. How do you create your drawings and make it look so natural? Thank you for posting your art. I love it

Hi there! First, happy belated birthday! :) your dad is great for giving you a Wacom. I sometimes make my custom made brushes to my liking. You can tweak current brushes on photoshop and save them for later use. There are brushes sets online that you can dig up. Google around photoshop brushes and see which ones you like the best, then you can load the set into your brushes and then just play around until you find the ones your like! I hope that helps :)

Spark?

Some of you may be wondering where I have been for many weeks now or perhaps not wondered at all. But to those who have, I have disappeared from all social media to take a breather and focus on me for once. Taking time to reflect, try to enjoy life, and just think about what has been bothering me and what needs to change. I have been struggling internally lately with a lot of personal matter and I feel that by not having any media influences and just being oblivious to it all would make me feel better…and it has. Ignorance is bliss.

Normally, I don’t like to talk about my feelings; I tend to keep it all inside and I think that is also part of the problem as to why I have depressed for the past few months. I have been feeling emotionally drained, artistically challenged, overwhelmed, not being good enough, and overall down in the dumps. I am not clear as to why that is, but all I know is that it has been affecting me for quite some time now.

Now, you are probably wondering why I am writing this, right? Like, who cares? Well, how would you deal with a situation like this? I know the obvious response would be to get out and explore, or meet new people, etc. Those solutions are okay to a certain point, but they have their limitations. I just cannot find the motivation or energy to get the “old Gabby” back. Maybe it is a sign times are changing? New phase? Growing up? Who knows?… I’ll tell you what I have been up to, however… I have been trying to find something else to entertain me, cooking/baking, biking, exploring different types of art-making, seeing what else I can do, things like that… So, we’ll see what happens.

Anyway, I just wanted to share a bit of thought of what has been going on in this little brain of mine before it explodes even more. I am still going to continue being distant for a while, until I have a handle on things and find that “spark” that I once had a long time ago.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of my cat Minnie being all cute :]

       

ps. Sorry if any of you have sent me messages and things like that and I have not responded. I will eventually get back to you at some point. Thanks for understanding :]

Anonymous asked: All your art is so gorgeous! Is there any way you could put up a little info about yourself? Where do you work now that you graduated? Is it fun? I like hearing about other animators making it, and you're very inspiring!

Aw gee, thanks :)

Well, let’s see..I work at Digital Domain as a visual development artist working on their upcoming feature film! It is very fun! I get to live my childhood dreams working on cartoons. How much more fun could that get?! I don’t know, growing up in a small humble family, I didn’t think I’d be able to make it but I pushed through my dream goals and well, here I am! :)