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.

First Monday Art Dump

Here's a combo of art from the last week or so. Been drawing a bunch of stuff out of the thick Preston Blair book, and there's also a page of random doodles. Nothing fancy, but hey at least I'm drawing.

Updated girl

Here's an updated version of the previous post. I lightened the barrel in the back and tried to make the tree a more interesting shape. May still do more to it, but not sure yet.

This is a work in progress that I'm making in Flash. It is based off of an old photo that my mom took when i was really young. I haven't seen the photo in years, but i wanted to see what I could do with it. I'm going in and adding some more work in the bkgd, but if you have any comments on what is working and what needs tweaking I'd love to hear them. And the kid in the drawing isn't supposed to be me, I just took the pose hair and outfit from the photo.

Teddy

I had this cute little doodle in my sketchbook from work and thought it would be fun to take her to completion. I forgot how good it feels to bring something to finish. Sketch in pencil, art in Flash, and the texture is from cgtextures.com. 

random

so i thought i would post the ink pen and mechanical pencil that my dad turned to show everyone. the pen was made with wood while the other was from acrylic. the bottom 2 pictures are of sketchbook covers i sewed together this summer.

demo reel as of august

sorry it's been so long since i posted anything so i thought that i would just through up the demo reel that i've been sending out to places trying to find work. still haven't found work yet, but i'm going to keep trying. i'm really excited for my animating in flash course that is going to start on tuesday! other than that not much else is going on, except it is fall now and i forgot how cold it can be up here.


SHOT LIST

Shot 1: Animation, Layout, BG Painting
Shot 2: Animation, Layout
Shot 3: Animation, Layout
Shot 4: Animation, Layout
Shot 5: Animation, Layout, BG Painting
Shot 6: Animation, Layout, BG Painting
Shot 7: Animation, Layout
Shot 8: Animation, Layout
Shot 9: Animation
Shot 10: Traditional Animation Only
Shot 11: Animation

all traditional animation is by myself. The last of the pieces is my friends film Child's Play where all I did was the traditional animation

another watercolor

learning how to use watercolor to paint people. i have a few others that i will post later. sorry for not posting recently. schools just been really hectic and IOH is in 2.5 weeks. AHHH><

thought i'ld temp you all with a bit of a teaser with images from my film. these are the first two images colored in. i'll post some animation up soon.

landscapes

Today I went to the beach to plein air paint with my watercolor class. I spent the time painting/hanging out with Bethany and Sencia. I found that candle wax worked really well to keep the white of the waves. Of course I figured the sun wouldn't bother me that much. I was wrong. I really noticed it when after painting we decided to jump into the ocean in our normal everyday garb and the water really hurt wherever I was burned. It was a lot of fun painting at the beach, and I think I'm going to try and do it more often, with sunscrean.



A few weeks ago in class we copied a winslow homer painting off of the projector. The projectors color was quite off from the original so I decided that I would use it for a starting point (color wise) and make everything a bit brighter than what I was seeing. Everything else is the same though. I really enjoy the wet into wet technique in watercolor. You can get some really interesting effects with it.

Pan's Labyrinth

I just finished watching the audio commentary on Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and recommend it to anyone who is interested in visual storytelling. It also gives you a great insight into his mind. Throughout the commentary he discusses the juxtaposition of different elements of the film: fantasy vs reality, fascist vs rebels, good vs reality, childhood vs adult. The color scheme was planned out so perfectly in the way they started out differently with the real world in blues, the girl is in greens, and the fantasy world or the world of the mind is warm colors and as the stories intertwine so do the color schemes. Guillermo del Toro uses a beautiful shape language with the characters. Only with Ofelia do we see circular elements while with the captain everything is very hard angles. If you haven't watched this film before watch for different sequences where they mimic each other almost exactly. He spent so much time discussing the little details of the film that make it work so beautifully. You also get to hear how he created many of the effects and the reason behind doing so.

favorite shot of the film

cows are evil-guillermo del toro

film progress

thought i should show something more from my short film "A Windy Day" so here are a few of the paintings for the backgrounds. they haven't been cropped yet so the edges are still a little everywhere. i painted all of these before i took watercolor. lots of experimenting to get them done.

old paintings

these were done for my figure painting class. all are on sketchbook paper with oils. not sure the lengths, but the longest was more than likely only 20min. this is where i started to understand how color works.