Sep 29, 2007

Vacation Sketches

Even though my vacation was like a month ago, I never really got around to scanning my coffeehouse/airplane drawings.

Consequently, I hate drawing on airplanes because it feels like all the anxieties from being strapped to a rough cushion for 12,000 hours show through in my sketches.

Anxious drawings make me more anxious.

















Ironically, this one wasn't drawn on the plane.








Until Next Time.

Sep 26, 2007

More Flash Traces

I found a small pencil drawing I had done and decided it might be fun to trace and color. I was curious to see if I could take a quick sketch and turn it into something presentable. Eh, maybe. It was a blast to do.















Until Next Time.

Sep 22, 2007

Some Flash Backgrounds

Just some samples from the short I'm contributing to. Enjoy the simplistic Western theme.












That's Horse poo, by the way








Until Next Time.

Sep 20, 2007

The Triumphant Return

So after yet another LOOONNNNGG hiatus, I'm back. There's a bevy of new things to post (how wonderful).

I'll start with a video for the first time in eons. This is the rough test of my dinosaur ball roll. The animation is where it needs to be I feel, but as you can see there's a lot of cleanup that needs to be finished. Enjoy!









Until Next Time.

Aug 9, 2007

More Conceptual Concepts

So for the other project I'm working on I was also required to pass through the gauntlet of character design. This time I'm simply pseudo-caricaturing two regular peoples. This was a really fun process, not to mention I got my brain around their designs fairly quickly. It's clear I had more fun with these than the cowgirl from earlier.


















Until Next Time.

Aug 7, 2007

I'm a Tracer

I've been trying to hone my skills in the Flash cleanup/color department. As practice I used that shark drawing that was posted eons ago. I'd like to make more of these so I eliminate as much of the guesswork in the process as possible.







He's surly cause his fin is incomplete.





You'd think he'd be less surly now that he has a complete fin. You thought wrong.


Aug 6, 2007

Cleanest of the Roughs

Sometimes I get into a drawing and I just keep working at it beyond a rough sketch. It gets pseudo-complete (as far as my sketchbook standards are), but it's surrounded by other drawings that I was doing before. Those warm-up drawings invariably acted as blockades to my better ones. Too bad for them; I've got Photoshop.







I want to get better at drawing cartoony ladies. Mastering that technique seems like a small rite of passage into animation-dom.






This was done on a marbleized notecard. Curse my lack of foresight.






Until Next Time.