Animal Life Drawing Compilation!

I don't believe I ever uploaded these. The above images are life drawings I did at the beginning of the semester from skeletons and museum animals. I guess these were early October.





And these were done through November at the L.A. Zoo. I'm really quite pleased with how much I improved. I just wish I had known sooner that we could fill up our sketchbooks with drawings from photos so that I wouldn't've done a bunch of bad scribbles to fill up space. =(

Gerard MacHoppington

Finally got around to uploading this! I've discovered while storyboarding that I really need to work on drawing faster. Something I should learn to do anyway since I'm always afraid of doodling on a whiteboard or while someone's looking over my shoulder.

Frog Poses Are Inked!

Now I just need to color the pose on the left and I'm DONE.

Granda Frog WIP

WELL I tried inking with pen, but kept messing up and all that fun stuff. So here's grumpy grampa frog currently getting inked in Corel since Photoshop was giving me wobbly lines.

This would be so much faster if I had a Cintiq. Once I'm done with school and get a job, it will be the first thing I reward myself with.

Old Frog

Some roughs for the grandpa frog design. I was gonna go straight into inking them on the computer, then remembered I can't do that until I have a Cintiq. =(

Update with Art!

Mitch the hake brush! I'm not sure how to go about uploading storyboards in a way that isn't overwhelming, but I DO have various flour sack expressions.

Mitch the Hake brush!

I'm in a Cartooning class, and our first assignment was to bring 5 inanimate objects and transform them into a character. This is of a hake brush I had lying around, and when my professor chose the hake brush, I really didn't want to do it, but the more I worked with it, the more I liked him! Sometime I'll scan in the other initial versions I had, but these are his four main poses.

Brush Painting

A quick update of one of the flowers we painted in my brush painting class. This was the orchid session.

T-Shirt Design

It's been awhile since I updated. I've been practicing drawing people and faces and am getting pretty good. =)

Anyway, I'm in a screen-printing class. It started on Tuesday and we had to come in with a finished design for a one-color print on Thursday. I had no ideas, except that I wanted to draw Steve doing something. I tried thinking for hours after class about what Steve should be doing, had nothing in mind, then slept. Then on Wednesday, I came up with Steve dangling with some opossums, and by the end of the night, I sketched and Photoshopped this composition, with no tree design in mind:


Then today I skipped my Chinese Brush Painting class (this is the only class I will miss: I was tired and didn't want to paint lotuses) and worked from 11-4:30 in Illustrator and managed to make this:


I'm pretty happy with it. My teacher warned me about fine lines, and I tried to make the important ones thick enough. So when I made the screen today, I was surprised when most of the details came through. Even the opossums' fur made it. And it made me happy when a girl in my class asked if she could bring a shirt to class for me to print my design on. =3

Chinese Brush Painting class is going well, and Ning Yeh (my teacher) is awesome. I suck at it for now, but I've gotten much better. Will scan some/photograph it when I have time!

Dinosaloon

I thought I had posted these. Whoops! Here is my Dinosaloon. I had the most fun on this one. My sketchbook is filled with various dinosaur-related props that I wanted to put in but failed at.. I wanted to do a western setting and asked my friend what I should fuse with it and she suggested dinosaurs. I was like OF COURSE. These are the final (top), a very quick value study, and the line work.

And here are all the color keys I did for it.

Nuclear Winter

Here are color keys, a value study, and the final. I made this using symbols in Flash.

Layouts

These are my finalized value studies/layouts for Cliff's class. I wanted to do a nicely rendered version of the forest, but it never happened. The wall could easily be colored. And my triops desert might show up somewhere since I really like it. Wish I could've gotten the flat areas to blend better though.

Pet Psychology Layout

These are color keys to a layout that Cliff gave us. I like the red one best, but was told to go with the dawn one.

These are the finished product. I found out by accident that using red Digital Watercolor in Painter gave the light part of the picture a sunset quality. So I submitted both. =3

Also glad that we did this project first because I found out through printing that the monitor I mainly use is horribly calibrated and looks nothing like other monitors or how it prints out. So now I have my Wacom set to default on my smaller monitor. So this looks good on a Samsung SyncMaster. Too lazy to fix it, but now I have the problem solved for future digital paintings.