Animals, for realz

Even more zoo drawings!! What a surprise!! I am going to post my boards from the final in Ryan's class soon. Really. :P

a weird observation that came to me today

We watched bits of Young Frankenstein today in Cynthia's animation class. And every time Gene Wilder smiled, I kept getting weirded out.

Here's why:

Breakdancing!

Stubbs the armadillo, gettin' down wit' it! ...What do you mean it's not awesome?

EDIT: Ew, Blogger Video. Just ew.

Here, check out this link for better visuals, even if they do come without the appropriate music.

John Held's Lackadaisy!

So I decided it'd be fun to draw Lackadaisy characters in John Held Jr.'s style, since he was popular during the '20s and that's when the comic takes place.

Not a perfect representation, but fun to draw nonetheless.

*shrug?*

I don't even know where this came from.

I can make tiny little lines with my new brush pen. It's awesome.

First zoo trip of the season!

A couple critters

This has been a full week, so Wednesday night I finally made time to play in Photoshop.

This dude is a forest shaman. He knows all kinds of um... arboreal secrets. And he can probably sic trees on you too, so I'd watch my step. Unless you have some of those baby carrots on hand - then he'd probably love you forever.

I don't even know what to call this thing. But he sure likes to kick that ball around.

Dancin'

Recently my ward had a Formalish Dance Thing.

I went mainly for the food and sketching, because both are more fun than dancing.

ranting comic

Yay rude people in church.

This is pretty much all that happens if you make me mad... unless you do a spectacularly good job of it.

*incoherent snarling*

We did Batman boards for Ryan's class, which was fun and awesome.

Also, this thing showed up in my sketchbook a couple weeks ago. I don't know why I drew it, but it was fun.

COMICS

I'll post some art next time. I'm not this time because I don't want to distract from...

THIS

Just click on the .swf file when it loads, and use the arrow keys to navigate. It really inspires me to try something like that... in a cool, McCloudian kinda way. (there are some swears)

It also has a FOLLOWUP ... which gets bonus points for making fun of Twilight.

Enjoy. :)

Gestures

Finally got back on the gesture train - these are from a couple weeks ago.

Advertising boards - Trunk Monkey

Done for Ryan's class.

Yayy sap :D

I went for cute because the trunk monkey concept seems to invite slapstick humor... wanted to try a different angle. But now I feel like I have to redeem myself with something hardcore. Good thing the Batman storyboard assignment is next.

Ready... FIGHT

This was done a while ago. I don't think I'd ever watch cage matches or mixed martial arts fights on my own, but they do provide a good opportunity to do 1) gestures, and 2) muscles, both of which I'm always open to.

I believe we have a birthday boy here somewhere...

So! Here's the story.

I drew this like last week, when Michelle told reminded me your birthday was coming up.

And then for the next few days, you were always in the lab, which is the only opportunity I had to do any Photochopping.

Which is why this is late.


Jerk. ;)

More sketchbooking

This week I went to the Bean again. I wanted to try drawing from life by first blocking the silhouette in marker, then using a white pencil to define form.

I liked the way these turned out, but I cheated by putting outlines in after I was done. And I also went on an otter binge, because I've ever seen their stuffed otter before.

Here I did it the way I wanted. And you see, Laura, I do failtastic drawings all the time. I just don't usually put them on my blog. (but as these actually show what I was trying to do here... I have no choice)

And Saturday evening I sketched mountains in the twilight drizzle - same method, basically. I love how the air clears out when it rains.

Character Design Final... and stuff

And here was my final lineup. I wasn't nearly as pleased with them as I wanted to be, but I suppose they're fun enough.

Hero

Villain

Comic sidekick

Love interest

Environment
(had to turn in another too, but it blew chunks so I'm leaving it out)


And as a bonus...

Memory sketches of my cats. 'Cos them cats is fun to draw.

Agni Kai!

This started as a "love note" exchange (done at a church function every Sunday) and, while it stayed weekly for a while, rapidly got out of hand. What we ended up with is something incredibly geeky and criminally insane fun - an agni kai (or fire duel) between our two zodiac characters.

Me = fire tiger snake of Justice
Michelle - fire rabbit lion snake

Before you click any images, I recommend you open this music in a new tab (for atmosphere):

OK. Go.

Travels, 08-09

Done in the airports as I flew from Utah to Ohio and back this Christmas break.

Hanging out in SLC airport...
from SLC to Cincinnatti...
from Cincinnatti to CMH, in a puddle-jumper airplane.
Return trip (CMH-Cincy), tried to capture the awesome lighting scheme above the clouds... with only limited success. It was beautiful in real life.
I will be posting my final images for last semester's character design class, but not right now. :P

Animation studio 2 final

There are still a few inbetweens (at the end, mostly) that I wish I had time to do, but my character design final is beckoning and this is Good Enough. This time tomorrow, I will be watching me some Avatar and eating the things I avoided tonight because I was afraid they'd put me to sleep.