Daily Workout - Week 6

So I've had a "meh" week and a half not posting. Honestly, haven't been very motivated, but on the other hand was more concentrated on work. Got myself a new journal to jot down stuff while on the train though. I'm such a sucker for wanting a clean, purdy new journal when less than a quarter has been used in the last one.

I also saw Transformers 2 last night, and all I has to says is...when the heck am I gonna be seein' sum DINOBOTS HMMMM????


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Tuesday Morning:

I cheat! I did this last night... =)

Daily Workout - Week 5

Nothing special happening as of yet, but I did get that disaster of an art room clean this weekend! Hopefully I'll be seeing myself at a desk working at home more often again.

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Monday Morning:

Starting off the morning with a beakey turtle man creature.

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Friday Morning?
ehhhhh I've been really slow on drawing in the mornings this week since I've been so distracted with work and other personal projects. Been doing way too much writing and daydreaming as well, so I've only been able to do some practice sketches on hands.

I've also been painting in gouache in the evenings at home, so I'll have a make up post of all that practice soon.

Daily Workout - Week 4

What weird weather we've been having here in Chicago...cold rainy to warm then cold again. In June. Thanks, climate change! =P (maybe I'll just move somewhere warm again...)

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Monday Morning:


For good news though, I got a brand new bike and took it for a fun test spin yesterday running errands. Maybe I can actually get into shape again...

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Tuesday Morning:

Once upon a time there was a mysterious girl, and two boys fell in love with her. One was a handsome prince, the other, a lazy scoundrel. All the girl wanted to do, however, was climb trees and play in the dirt!

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Wednesday Morning:

Umm...a dragon???

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Thursday Morning:

I'd love to be on a warm beach with clear water and bright white sand, especially today (rainy....).

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Friday Morning:

TGIF!!

Daily Workout - Week 3

Happy June everyone! Starting off the day to more Henry this Monday morning.



Also! Check out my big-timey cover art over at Screen Magazine:



There's a great chunk about Calabash Animation inside pages 12 - 13!
The art is all digital (Photoshop) save for the "movie screen", which is cut paper composited on top. There's a total of three layers of various textures of mine to make it look water-color-ish, even.

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Tuesday "Morning":

Well, didn't actually get to do a "morning" warm-up per se, because of tight deadlines on stuff that took up all of my time, but I managed to squeeze this out before I left the studio for fun and study work.

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Wednesday Morning:

I was getting carried away with this one and started coloring it, but thought to just post the linework for now! =)
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Here's a little work in progress for the color, at the moment:


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Thursday Morning:

I don't draw a lot in the way of machines and vehicles, so this is just a rough attempt at a concept.

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Friday Morning:

TGIF!

Daily Workout - Week 2

Whoops! Missed a couple of work day warm-ups! Actually, I took last Friday off so I could get some things done at home before I flew out of state for vacation, and of course - studio was closed on Monday. Hope everyone's Memorial Day Weekend was nice! I'm a little late for Tuesday, erm, "morning", but here ya go!


This is Henry the Aardvark! I caught a glimpse of a blurb of two colors, and suddenly wanted to doodle this little guy. I didn't think he was any kind of animal until I thought he looked like an aardvark. Actually had to google an image of one because I've forgotten what they look like! What neat creatures! I want one now...

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Wednesday Morning:

More Henry, I guess!

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Thursday Morning:
(ok ok...so I'm cheating a bit and posting a day late...but my computer had been commandeered for Maya rendering, and...well...ya know....)


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Friday Morning:



One last Henry piece to end the week! I don't draw much underwater environments, so this was nice to doodle up.

Daily Workout - First Go!

So I'm trying to convince myself to fall into certain habits. Isn't it funny how you can get into bad habits easier than good ones? Haha...ha...no it's not!!!!!!

But here is my attempt at a "morning workout" routine. Boy I WISH it was an athletic workout! Instead, I'm trying to do a morning warm-up drawing when I first sit down at my desk at work...whether it's a digital color piece, or a doodle on a scrap of paper to get my gears turning. I don't do this as often as I like, but maybe posting here will bump up the production.

Here's my first "morning workout"; this Monday morning, to be exact.

"snrk!"

I'll keep adding the morning drawings to each weekly post, so they're easier to follow. This'll also be a fun time to experiment with techniques and styles for myself, since having more design roles calls for that.

Here's to moar art!!

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Tuesday Morning:
Thought about this kind of color study walking home from work and observing buildings; how the difference of where the warm and cool colors are can bring about different effects.

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Wednesday Morning:

haha, spent way too much time on this one!

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Thursday Morning:

I personally feel that, as a designer, you should never be married to one way of doing things, and always enjoy experimenting.

Random Stuffs

Some recent random pieces I've done in my spare time. All these are digital (Photoshop).


A mama 'Rex from a short idea!




This last one's a work in progress. Utilizing some reference for starters (the moss, main part of the tree trunk, and main clump of needles), but mostly out of my head.

A Piggy!

They're becoming my default thing to sketch when I'm bored.

Helps getting in some digital painting practice, too.

Supahmah??

"Look ima supa hero!  Can'tcha tell from mai supa hero physique, my robust triangulation, my serious face?  MY ANGRY FIST CLENCHING?? Ya??"

Haha, I drew this real quick like to illustrate to someone how frustrating it is to see every freakin' superhero drawn this way, "stylized" up the wazoo. As irony likes to have it's way, t actually ended up looking pretty funny and I liked it, so I finished it.

That is all!

But on an extra note, I was at the OIAF this year - had a blast - and got a staff position at Calabash Animation.  Horray!  I'm not too good at covering news very frequently, as you can tell.

Artwork: Some May Stuff

And some icky traditional medium use. =(

Oh well; I've been a little tired of digital coloring lately, so I've been breaking out the paints and whatnot. It's fun painting and working like this again - mixing my own colors and what not - but it's been difficult getting used to them all over again and getting the results I want. Trying to apply what I've learned color-wise digitally to these.

I never really draw anything with cats, but since I happen to live with three of them, and Greg has been working so hard, I did this number up for him:


Our girlies, left to right: Kali, Starfish, and Maya. Did this with no initial sketching (only on the surface), and just jumped right in to make a finished piece. Photo of it sucks like always, but I tried to adjust it as close to the original colors as I could. Gouache on matte board - scraps from Greg matting a commission piece he recently did. Guess which ones are the attention hogs!!

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A development piece for a yearlong personal/collaboration project that began about a month ago. Didn't mean to go in and render it so much, but a simple color sketch turned into me trying to fix it turned into layers of paint and pencil and really making it a little flat and overdone - not my initial intention. I really should have connected the wing to the back leg, but ehhhh...still figuring it all out. The project is still in early development stages, so not much to post on it here now, but will be filling all you in about it later =).


Watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil on watercolor paper.

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OH! Edit: And Tony Stark hearts yoo!!! Go give him yo monies!