Chat Roulette Portraits

Right, so I got a webcam recently, mainly to capture line tests and cut out the middle man of commuting an hour to school to test some animation... a happy little consequence is I have now tapped into endless supply of portraiture subjects with Chat Roulette... all I got to do is endure some exhibitionist... anyways, here's the first wave of results....






anyways, hopefully having this camera will speed up some of these projects of mine... and posting on here won't be so tough... just be much lower resolution

very quick posting

Way off track for my new years resolution... again... but school has been insane... here is a quick life drawing post... Here are some new quick contour with watercolour exercises...


There are 4 drawings in this series, which includes a new reductive technique... its essentially a painting technique using charcoal on new print... the entire class had amazing results from it.




I'll be trying to post more of my animation work later this week... I'm actually starting to head into production on a short 30 second animation set to some free music... (I know there are some continuity errors in how he holds the umbrella, those will be fixed in the final)



and a much better version of my jumping sack loop

Sketchbook Update

Ok, quick update, cause I haven't done it in a while... been busy with all the class work, and this work week has been dedicated to unplugging and relaxing... so naturally I have a ton of work to get done over the next few days... maybe I'll update again this weekend with that work.

So life drawing sketchbook to start off... We've started to introduce tone into the quick studies, which I was doing last year, but been patiently waiting for the green light this year. I've also started to work more quick contour into my gesture exercises. I'll let you be the judge of the results.




Oh, and we have been encouraged to start characterizing the people that we see... so might be doing some more caricatures...




Had the first, and only field trip of the year. Fortunately its was to the anatomy lab at UofT... So I got to draw form actual human 'parts'... seriously... it was pretty awesome...

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.