Massive Update #2

Right, so the term has come into full swing, work is mounting, and stress is building. Therefor I have a ton of work to post, and unlike before I'm dedicated to actually getting it posted on here.

First off, cartooning, we have started doing full character sketches from animation stills. These are copied works from "The Brave Little Tailor" a personal favourite short of mine. We are apparently going to be doing a ton more mickey's so look forward to that I guess.




Also started up the anatomy course this term, which I've really taken a liking to. a lot more then I thought I would, but it seems to have already improved my life drawing a great deal.


And a little life drawing for good measure. These are sustained studies, an hour for each. I approach them as an extended gesture using sighting and point to point to help with proportions, which are still off. (still working on that)


and finishing up with some animation. Yet again, Youtube, and terrible capturing software have butchered this animation, and sadly I can't reshoot it to make it look prettier. Oh well... I've actually advanced well beyound where my class is currently at. seem to be able to draw special effects as though they were second nature (well at least water effects) So I should be posting a bunch of new animation soon...

Massive Update #1

Alright, as promised, here is the weekly update... starting off with some facial gestures from Snow White. These were drawn from frames of the movie, so I really can't take any credit for them. I'll be posting a bunch of new cartooning gestures in the coming days and weeks. The purpose of the exercise is to create a visual vocabulary of poses and gestures to draw from once I start to create my own characters.


And Life drawing. We haven't really covered too many new exercises in life drawing, just hammering home the fundamentals. Making sure there is a good comprehension of the relationships of the major masses in the body.






Oh, and for good measure, here are a few animation I've completed since the start of the new year. Apologizes for the terrible quality of the image, but it keeps degrading with each layer of animation, and uploading them to youtube certainly didn't help. This is the first attempt at animating water... think I knocked it right out of the park... enjoy

Resolutions, part deux

Right, so yet another hair brain new years resolution of mine is to attempt a blog posting a week for the year, that's right 52 of them... anyways, I won't stand on any formal system of posting, just putting up random work from the week... today I have some anatomy, and subway sketching... if you can't tell the difference between them, then I have failed as an artist.





more inevitably to come... actually should have another animation to post for next week

Accumulous, 1.5 years

Right, here are some scary pictures of the accumulated artwork from school... This first one, that's life drawing, all of it... well most of it, I've thrown out a few days worth of it, but thats still a ton.



So how much animation have you done? about 2 inches worth, (plus there a few scenes from LBH project that haven't even joined that stack yet)


The painting mountain isn't very big, but represents far too much time... its the pile on upper right hand of the drafting desk. Oh and thats a new background from LBH stretched out there.


right, I'm back in school tomorrow, so hopefully I'll still have a chance to post more work over the coming weeks, but if not, I'll be sure to dump it on here when I hit the 6 week break.