The last batch of animals!

And so ends my favorite unit in Character Design class.

The categories:

Human/Animal (horse)

Farm Animals/Equine (either works - donkey)

Bears

Next assignment - emulation! I know I'd like to take a crack at Claire Wendling and Juanjo Guarnido, but I'm not sure yet who my third will be. Maybe Mignola or somebody else who's cool like that.

more animals! and sketchbook stuff!

The next batch!
In the CAT category...

a lynx! At least, that's how he started out. I was encouraged to try to break free of my own conventions, but this looks kinda like maybe one of my cats had a baby with one of Michel Gagne's rabbits.

And in the DINOSAUR category...

Pachycephalosaurus! With a Tootsie Pop! This is pretty much Rachel-style all the way... though I did really like the way the shapes on his head/neck/spikes ended up flowing together.

For the FOREST ANIMAL category...

badger badger badger badger
I felt the most successful in breaking out of my regular approach with this. I had a vague idea of a posture/shape I wanted to fit the badger into and started with that. Though my original mental image way way more heroic and epic than this goofy fella. :)

Halloween sketching on campus. The sketchy dudes in the upper left were riding unicycles with carved pumpkins over their heads.

Church. I was advised to draw more environments instead of all characters in my sketchbook, so I tried it out. Too bad I got that suggestion right as it's starting to get hard to draw outside.

These were doodle pages showing my original direction for the CAT assignment, which is saturated in Rachel's Normal Approach. I wanted to do Pallas' Cat, because that thing is made of FUN shapes and I had a blast drawing it the last time I went to the zoo. I also explored lynx in my style as well - wanted to play up their big paws, thick legs, and big ol' noses. :)

The end.

Animal character designs

Here's the two that were due today - "flying animal" and "ocean animal."

Sometimes I wonder how often this is a true story.

Zootastic!

Abbey and I went to the zoo last Saturday - and then these pages happened.
And yes, I am a terrible copycat. Whatever, brown paper is fun.

And suddenly about here the scans got really weird and contrasty. Sorry about that.

Animation WIP

Watch me make Milt Kahl spin in his grave! :D

Heroes/Villains

These are the rest of 'em. Ryan thought these were very successful, which gave me warm fuzzies.
Pyroman: His passion for saving people is only second to his passion for watching (and causing) burning things. Ryan wanted to see this dude in color; I'll probably post an updated version sometime in the future.

The Puppy Punter has allergies. Which would make her acting out understandable... if there were no pills that could help her deal with it less violently.

This is the Owl... but with slightly sexier shading.

More character design work - heroes

Threaten her little kidlings and you'll get a cyber beatdown.
You don't have to be rich to be a superhero... the evildoers may take you a little less seriously because of your lack of spandex, though. Their loss.

A Self-Centered Post

because it's my birthday today!

First up, my zodiac conglomeration: Fire Tiger, born in hour of the Snake, who is also Libra, = FIRE TIGER SNAKE OF JUSTICE. (sue me for the copout - inanimate objects aren't fun to incorporate into a design) This fella exists because of Michelle, and we have been having a healthy note/comic battle for several weeks now. Ask me about it if you want to see it.


Also, my self-caricature (and wacky expressions) for character design class. Ryan liked it (while pointing out that my eyes are bigger and my ears higher on my head), so it can't suck too bad?



Still, the expressions are kinda terrifying. When we were taking reference photos Monday, Ryan kept telling me to emote more. My face doesn't stretch all that much - I think most of my real expressions are eye-dependent.

schoolwork update

Here's some of the stuff I've done in Character Design so far. I haven't got my silhouettes back from Ryan (didn't get a chance to scan the whiteout versions) so they won't be included here.

SHAPE DRAWINGS


NATURE ELEMENTS (rocks/trees/clouds)
CARICATURE
Next assignment is self-caricature (and then applying a bunch of expressions to that
design). Should be... interesting.

Click on the image for animation WIP!

See that link on the side of my blog that says "Lackadaisy"? If you've never been there, the above animation will not be nearly as enjoyable to you. And you have my pity for that. :'|

This is also a WIP, so feel free to critique. The final is due next Thursday (Oct. 2) but I'd love to improve anything I can before then.

OK, I lied.

I implied that I would only post once today, but this couldn't wait.

Let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time there was an animation student. That student was pleased to find that he could enroll in an advanced animation class, taught by a new faculty member who specialized in character animation. He went to the class and was able to get into it with ease. It was generally exciting and spent the entire class with an expression of childlike joy pasted on his face. The glee was oozing so much out of every pore that after class he went to the department meeting and hugged half the people who showed up.

And his classmate thought this was amusing indeed and decided to document the event with a poor likeness:

Zoo + killed sketchbook

Yup, I killed a sketchbook. July 22-August 25, probably my fastest sketchbook killing ever. So! While I have a lot of crap piled up to scan and post, today I will start by offering the last page of my old sketchbook along with my "best of zoo August 2008" collector's JPEGs. :P

And on to the zoo! :D

And then a page of memory sketches from afterwards.

Avatar @ Comic Con

I hope you already knew Michelle and I are nerds.

Fun with white Prismacolor, and more!

Jake's awesomeness made me want to play with white pencil on toned paper.

Or on this case, white pencil on whitish paper that's been marker'd black.


Nothing too special, but it was fun. Lightning on the savannah! :O


And here's some Comic-Con drawred stuff I haven't blog'd yet!


I picked up a copy of Mouse Guard: Fall 1152, finally. And then threw some Redwall characters into the Mouse Guard style because it's really fun to draw. Yeah, I'm cool. :P


This saber is ticked off because RAWR faces are also fun to draw.



I purchased a water brush a couple weeks ago. This was part of my "hrm, what can I do with this thing?" playtime.