About time o.o

Wow it has been forever since I've actually posted anything online. I draw all the time but I'm just never sure whether or not its worth posting, I need to kill that mentality...

But yeah not a lots been happening. I'm living with my brother and his fiance now, all of us trying to work for a better tomorrow and trying to put ourselves out there whether it is through jobs, going back to school, or even getting a hobby that we can show to the rest of the internet...I mean world..nah I meant internet!


Currently working 2 jobs, soon to be 3, nothing that'll kill me so don't worry! I just need to learn how balance everything. All my jobs are related to my major in some way which is great cause I learn something everyday and I'm actually getting faster as well. I just need to upgrade in my equipment! Been using this laptop for a couple of years, cause I break all the other ones, and I've had my tiny tablet for about 6 years...It's about time...


But yeah...not much other than that. Oh! I started working on 3D things, even though I had a hate for it...I'm trying to work to get better at it and hopefully start a small animation series. So here's hoping I have something to show you guys

Oh snap! Graduation~

Well I know this is kind of late...But I grraadduuaatteeddd! Well it's not really late...it happened on Thursday. BUT ANYWAYS yeah! It feels good to be out but at the same time this is where the real challenges come into play. There's so much I need to work on and plan. The portfolio show was on Thursday and I would like to thank my friends and family for stopping by and showing their support. Though it was kind of hard when the employer portion came around I did get almost a hand full of people be interested in my work, which is more than what I thought it would be. We traded information and I will be contacting them pretty soon to see if I can get my foot in or around the door, lol. In the mean time I also have a good number of projects lined up that I hope to achieve and post up. It'll be a while though for I need to get a couple of things in my life situated but I will be posting some concepts for an animation I'm working with a friend called 'Destiny Cafe'. Hope everything goes well.

You can see my demo here,

Thanks everyone for the support and enjoy :D

Flash Animation Demo Reel 2012 from Melyssa Rolon on Vimeo.

I'm back

Yeah I haven't forgotten/abandoned my blog. Just a lot of things have been happening these past couple of months and I never knew when it would be a good time to come back to it. But I did remind myself to always go back because..yeah. Really need to update.

1st UPDATE!
So I had a lot of small animations that I was suppose to clean and be done with in order to work on more in October...but around the 2nd week my boyfriend and I got into a car wreck and my work time that I had planned was basically cut down. I couldn't sit or lay down to work on my things, I couldn't hold a pencil/stylus in a comfortable matter in order to work on my projects. So it ended up becoming to just cleaning what I had from the previous quarter and if I can go to the other animations I planned to put in my demo...at this point I doubt they'll make it but I might just put some pencil tests in there to show...MIGHT.

2nd UPDATE!
Well school, "graduation", is right around the corner. I shall be having my portfolio show on December 13th and be officially done with college and getting my Bachelors!~
As the day grows ever so close I feel like there is still a lot that I didn't really learn, that I wasn't aware of while being there, but at the same time I want to get out in order to work on more of my stuff. I have a line of projects already set up so it'll be a matter of strapping myself down and working on them.

Thought I should show something...This is Lani my Helicopter Girl. I'm still a big noob when it comes to Flash Animation but it's the one thing I enjoy the most and hope to get to know more and more of. Flash shall be my baby!!! I will make it that way!

Lani- Helicopter Girl from Melyssa Rolon on Vimeo.

Lumina pt2

So I forgot about putting these up. Lumina has changed again! And guess what...she might change once again!~ Trying to make it as simple as possible and likeable. But here's some more color concepts and the turnaround with her new hair :3

Figure Drawings

I finally scanned in my drawings from the open life sessions.
You get to see from my struggles to my not...so...struggled stuff?

Not forgotten

Wow I can't believe I haven't been on here for like...almost 2 months now. School has been kicking my butt this quarter and with Graduation around the corner I've been trying to be more on top of my projects than ever before, by around the corner I mean this December. I'm  working hard and attempting to show something amazing. Working on a group animation project right now which is what is taking a lot of my time at the moment and I'll be posting the results of it the beginning of June..between the 3rd-10th. Hope people look forward to that. Annnddd well only thing I have to show is sketches for now so SKETCHES it shall be.

So I was just trying to come up with a race of water/fishy people and came up with these concepts. I'm loving the lady with the big hair. Always love drawing people with a lot of hair...I don't know why...

Spring break?

Drawing doesn't take breaks!

I just wasn't sure whether or not I should post them here because it was things for fun. But you know what it is still practice to get better at what I love to do. So yes! Let the posting begin!!!

I'm involved with a group online where we just talk about animation, stories and share character ideas. So someone suggested to draw our female original characters in bathing suits. The challenge was accepted and so someone from the group did. And then I decided, "why the hell not? I'll do it too."

So I did these all in Flash. No outline just flats. I wanted to make it simple and get comfortable with coloring, slowly but surely, even if it was just paint bucket.

This character belongs to me. :)

The rest of the characters do not belong to me other than Raizel.