February 23rd pre-post...

Weeelllll I'm calling it quits on this one.  Was killing me that I didn't finish it sooner so got Cole out of the way before I start farther in on anything else.

Bumped the colors around a bit for a wider palette range, and polished up detail.  One of my favorites I've done in quite a while.

February 15th

Breaking achievement challenges again tonight but this idea wasn't letting me rest in peace.

Kind of a propaganda-esque poster!

February 13th

Lucky No. 13 means I'm ALMOST back in the groove.  Gonna have to leave this here as is in it's WIP state for today's daily draw competition.

February 3rd

Another achievement down for the Draw-a-Day Challenge! This one is "Flowers!".

Kaylee from Firefly. Bless her spunky, sexy heart. I may have overdone it though. My eyeballs feel like they're going to fall out of my skull.

Tools: Photoshop

Faces

I haven't been working with enough realistic faces lately anymore so...there you go.

Pink

So the lovely ladies over at GirlsDrawinGirls have "manga heroines" as their weekly theme going on now.  Of course I cannot pass up an inspiring push to draft one of the baddest bad-asses of Japanese femme fatales.  Battle Angel was a huge influence on me when I was a teenager, and really still is today.  Alas - I am not a member of GDG, but I will post my hawt girl here anyways.

If you've never picked up a book from this series I highly suggest, nay, PLEAD with you that you do - even if you're not a fan of anime or manga.

Grass Green I Hate that Color...

Welp, this was supposed to be a daily-draw post for Monday but, well as you can see, I got a little carried away.  I ended up having to do more of a collage effect for the sky because I was starting to go a little bonkers.

Reference-getters for this one will be awarded one (1) Internets and a status on my list of Cool People Who Like Old Geeky Games Like Myself.

Green

Ackthp...I left one of my sketchbooks at home I've been drawing in recently (AND my drive...I feel nekkid)...wanted to scan them for this post but...looks like I'll have to later -_-

Purple

Ok, so I'm trying to complete a drawing a day again for myself.  Not doing so well record-wise, but I have more...

Scribbuls

I made a drawing.  I liek orange.

Draw a Day still Underway

Ehhhhh so for the time being, and until I can submerge myself back into HTML editing without getting eyestrain I'm defaulting to a different blog template for now.  Thanks to those who offered tips, I just gotta dig around where all the values are for proper layout...

Also BACK TO ANIMATION SOON...I promise.  Well I promised myself so I've got to set my time aside wisely, but I'm gonna be switching my catch-up personal stuff around since this month is so short.  For now here's some more drawings/paintings (all digital here) for the going-ons over at Satellite Soda this month:

 ^ I did this one with my opposite hand for shits n giggles and because I am a jerk.

A Wee Delay but Still Tons o' Stuffs

Ok ok, so I'm a little behind with my personal animation, but that should be gearing up again in a short while. In the meantime I started a Monthly Draw-A-Day Challenge that I haven't taken part in for some years now with a fantastic gang over at SatelliteSoda.com. Here's my first entries so far...the rest of the month to go!

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Also, if anyone has any tips on how to reformat a blog so posts and images arn't chopped in half (like you're probably seeing now), any help is appreciated!  I'm going a little crazy trying to fix this...

Cub and Cody and ???

Just a quick sketch journal post before I take off on a trip...



Faber-Castell brush pen in a Moleskine.

Character Art Post

A little something for this morning to share, one of my newer characters...for goodness knows what at the moment to be honest. Wanted to post a bit today since I'll be really busy with guests this weekend.


Mellie the mysterious rock princess.

Gouache Work

Been busy on and off, cutting into time to create pieces for myself or doing any daily drawing. I also lost time to work for July's 11-Second club, so it will unfortunately not be done in time. Will still work on it though for a demo reel pieces since I love the sound effects and idea I came up with. Good news though, I sought out an open drawing session in a gallery close to work, so I'll be working on figure studies once again (slacker me!). Also, here's a random gouache piece for you all:

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!