Whoa, Life Drawings!

Hey guys,
I went to Basic Inquiry this evening to do some life drawing and like what I did enough to post them here. I think reading On The Art of Drawing is helping out a lot!

Also, check out the teaser posters for Alice Through the Looking Glass from D23. I'm having lots of fun working on this project and still can't believe I get to animate such cool characters such as the Cheshire Cat and the March Hare!

New Little Prince Trailer

Hey guys,
Long time no post! I have a few updates to share. First, there's a new trailer for The Little Prince! I'm so excited about this film! It's really good and I can't wait for everyone to see it. We just don't seem to get sincere movies like this anymore.



My next two updates are that Friday was my last day on Pixels and I'll be starting on Alice 2 in a couple of weeks! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2567026/

More TLP

The Little Prince is in the news!
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/the-little-prince-the-new-film-of-the-boy-who-fell-to-earth-9949079.html

Posters

Hey guys,
Pixels posters have been released! The Pac Man one looks pretty cool. I wish we could see the face on the centipede one though.

The Little Prince

Hey guys,
Check out the trailer for the film I worked on in Montreal. The Little Prince is one of the most sincere, heart felt movies I've ever had the privilege of working on. The crew was fantastic and the project itself was a great experience. I really hope it does well next Christmas!

Chimp Skulls

Studies for a painting I plan on doing before I start at Sony. I hope to do another fancy animals piece while I still have a bunch of free time.

New Character

Hey guys,
My recent visits to the gym and interest in martial arts has inspired me to come up with a new character. She doesn't have a name or back story yet. All I know is she is a tree kangaroo and is in martial arts training for a style more suitable for larger/heavier animals. It would be great to do an animation test with her too! Lol, I'll add it to my ever growing list of art things to do.

A Couple of Drawings

Hey guys,
I have two more drawings to share. Sadly, life drawing has been cancelled until the fall so no more model sessions on Tuesday nights at work. Some friends have started an unofficial lunchtime sketchbook club though, which is turning out to be really fun. It's super inspiring to see my peers drawings. I still have so much more to learn!

Abandoned Painting

I haven't drawn this guy in a long time! It would be great to streamline his design so I could do some animation tests with him. There are some shots from Space Dandy on vimeo in rough animation form and that inspired me to try to some of my own anime style animation. I never got that far though. Rather than coming up an existing with a character to use, I remembered Dae Dae and did a sketch of him. What was supposed to be a quick coloring job turned into an attempt at painting...which was later abandoned, lol.

Some Drawings

A random slug guy and an old man! I kind of want to color the first one since I have very few pieces that aren't just line art. It's time for bed though, so we'll see if I still feel that way after work tomorrow.

How Did You Find Me?

Drawn while listening to one of my favorite episodes of Welcome to Nightvale. It's really nice to be drawing for fun again!

Life Drawing

Hey guys,
I had a rather successful time at life drawing last night. I like to think the videos I watched over the weekend on Sycra Yasin's youtube channel and having started the Pencil Kings Figure Drawing Challenge have something to do with that, lol. Sycra's video on drawing shoulders was very helpful. The proportion practice from the figure drawing challenge has been even more helpful, since that's something I've struggled with for a long time. Lol, looking at these, I feel like I was replaced with someone who knew how to draw. Hopefully this improvement won't turn out to have been a fluke.

Cougar Studies

Hey guys,
I'm thinking about animating a big cat test and did some cougar studies for practice. I did these using Mischief (www.madewithmischief.com/), as my trial is going to expire soon and I haven't used the program enough to make a decision on whether or not its worth buying. Do any of you have experience with Mischief? The infinite zoom continues to blow my mind and its been the only program where I feel like I can really (comfortably) draw digitally. That being said, it lacks things like pressure sensitivity controlled opacity (they say that's on their to do list), the ability to make selections that aren't squares, and only have a few brushes. Have any of you guys tried painting with the program or anything? Please feel free to let me know how you like it if you've used it!

Badgers and Bears!

I'd like to do some Welcome to Nightvale fan art and decided to depict the characters based on animals typically found in desert places like Arizona (since Nightvale seems to be somewhere in the US). I imagined Cecil as a badger and Carlos as a black bear. Before trying to design either of them it would help to learn how to draw their respective animals, lol.

I like the direction that the top right drawing on the second page is headed in. I want their designs to remain animalistic enough so that walking/running as quadrupeds would be believable and plausible. I'm also unsure of how much clothing I want them to wear. At first I was thinking of a Blacksad level of characterization, but after looking at some pages from the comic I decided that would be too close to the human side of things.