New pin up just in time for Christmas.

Found this on the Character Design Blog (http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/character-design-is-back.html) and felt that it needed to be shared.

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

Thought of You - Behind the Scenes Preview - ROUGH CUT from Cambell Christensen on Vimeo.

Dec 1-3

I've decided to do a drawing a day till Christmas, and since it's already the 3rd I'll just post all the little sketches I doodled earlier. There has been no editing of any sketchbook pages. I may or may not take some of these a bit further later on.

New Business Card

This is my new business card minus the phone and email address which I didn't want to post here on the web, but which are on the actual cards themselves.

Shower pin up girl.

Yet 1 more pin up girl. Not based off of some type of food this time. She's based off of a sketch I made while hanging out with friends at the 24 hour comic day last weekend. Next time I'll draw someone with their head facing the other direction.

Candy Pin Up

Here's a quickie post. Another food inspired pin up girl. This time by Christmas candy. Had a blast making her so I think I might make a few more food inspired pin up girls for fun.

Just a quick post. The challenge was to take an existing character and swap their gender. Had trouble picking a character so I went with Rick from Casablanca thus the black and white.

throwing these up quick. All are from DAC challenges. Would like to go in and make the grandpa and grandkid nicer eventually though.

Mushroom girl

Same girl, but I couldn't decide which background I liked more. This is a sketch I made this weekend for DAC food challenge and I thought it would be fun to take her to fruition. I know I should try for something more fantastic and out of the box, but the thought of doing the food challenge as a pin up girl sounded like a fun idea when I was sketching her. Oh just in case you didn't know there is an actual mushroom that looks like the flower in her hair. I even tried to copy the color of the image I found of that mushroom. Sketched in pencil, colored in Photoshop CS3.

*edit. Added a top on her so I didn't have to worry about privacy settings for DAC.

NemaFromSpain on DA is having a coloring contest of his ID drawing, so I thought I'd try it in order to work on my photoshop/coloring abilities. I will update with a link to the contest later. Just thought I'd post the flat colors for now, and will post it in process hopefully a couple more times before it's finished. I was amazed at how long it takes to do flat colors.

Here's an update. There's still more work to do, but since it was floating around on my system I thought it would be a good idea to post what I've done so far.

dance early pass

This is something that I was working on earlier this year for class, and thought since I hadn't posted anything for such a long time that I would post this rough pass. Right now it is just keys and a few breakdown poses. It's not very good so I am going through it now fixing and pushing all the poses before cleaning it up and adding all the secondary animation such as the skirt and hair. With that said I will gladly take any constructive criticism you may have in order to create the best possible animation.

Goku from Dragonball Z. Yet another challenge over at DAC. Sketch in pencil, final in FLASH.

DAC lifetime final

DAC Lifetime Challenge

Here's the sketch and line work for the lifetime challenge for the DAC group of DA. Will hopefully post finished piece tomorrow sometime.

DAC emotion challenge

elephant update

I scrapped the color version for just black and white so I could focus on painting with a good value range. I might add color later, but as of now I'm happy with the practice I got working on this. This is actually based on a giant stuffed elephant that I had when I was a little kid.

elephant painting

I seem to have gotten very out of practice with painting in photoshop and am trying to remedy this problem. I decided that I didn't want to do flat colors like I usually do, so if anyone has advice I'd love to hear it. Below is the painting in progress. It's in color, but the only jpgs I made were in black and white so you'll have to just imagine the colors. I'll try and keep you updated.

wcd4

DAC wk 3

The first girl is who I am animating in class right now to music. The feet are off, but I thought I'd put her up here anyways. The second was last weeks design a character challenge. I like the second from the left the best.

Just some doodles done at work of the character I am animating for the first assignment in class. Was trying to come up with a design that was different than what I normally do.