A Not So Secret Place

Mooooooaaar

More daily work sketches, including some backlog from the holidays.

Satan Claws

Rudolph

Sloth

Fancy Pants

Skeeeetches

We've started doing daily themed sketches at work.  Here's a few

drunken dinosaur

fruitbat

tentacles

scamp

Hall o' Bones

We went to the LA Museum of Natural History today to check out the (somewhat) newly opened hall of dinosaurs.  I was trying to do Norm's teaching justice, but I was definitely rusty.  missing you Norm.  so we drew us some bones then decided hot dogs were in order.  Minus the mobs of screaming children, it was a good day.

 science is cool.

 

YETI

Yeti design for Laika House's Creative Challenge.  Woot Laika!!

His name is Yoris and he would like to drool on your shoes.

Dood(les)

More Flash doodles fit in somewhere at work.  Hopefully planning some more out-of-work shenanigans soon

 

Yeah, they don't make much sense to me either...

thresher

SHARKWEEK

 

I fight bears

What happens when my mind wanders.  I'm really starting to enjoy doodling in Flash.  It makes all my lines look so purposeful.

Bill Perkins makes sparkly magic

So just a week after graduation I took a oil painting color class with the great Bill Perkins.  Not only was it a joy to work in oil again, but Bill helped me to start thinking about color in a whole new way (I hope).  Most of it was doing 40 minute studies from setups that he created using different lighting situations to highlight different color concepts.Here's a few of the better examples from his class.  Apparently I have forgotten how to properly photograph oil paintings.

Tidings!

Well, I haven't quite dropped off the face of the earth, but it definitely feels like it a little bit. So just to tide you over until i finally get to fixing the paintings from Bill Perkins' workshop (omigodAMAZING) here's some sketches that I banged out at work while waiting for this n that.

 

GraaaaaaaaaaaaaduationJOB

Ok, I've been promising an update for a while, so here's the grad update.  That's right.  I am now an official graduate of the Art Center College of Design, yaddayaddayadda.  I busted my butt, I made a wall, and I got a job.  Now begins my lifelong journey to ruling the animation world while simultaneously being a outdoorsy bum living out of my car.  ... It'll be an interesting next couple of years anyways.

SO. Art.  This was the totality of my wall.  For my story, I took the ballet Swan Lake, tweaked it so that it was more character-driven and less boring, then set the whole shebang in ancient Mughal India.  The main characters are as follows:  Vanhi, the flirtatious princess.  Sitara, her shy handmaiden. Dyanesh, a noble prince from a neighboring empire.  and a demon who inhabits the body of a young courtier named Kuber.  I painted 6 keyscenes and 4 characters.  I already want to redo most of it.

 

and the characters:

and now on to things that don't involve classes, tuition, or long saturday nights spent in the computer labs.  ..supposedly.