Holy Old, Batman!

I was digging through my old sketchbooks to see if there were some ideas that could be reworked/salvaged into portfolio quality pieces and stumbled upon some old freeform sketches from 2004. I think this was the stage in my life where i thought i could be as good as jon burgerman, jason sho green, and tim burton. What the hell was i thinking? haha. hope you enjoy.

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jason sho green
jon bugerman

gerenuks at the zoo

I haven’t been to the zoo in over a month and an animal drawing session was long overdue.  I actually bumped into one of my old classmates, Alex Alvarado.  If you wanted to improve your life drawing, I’d suggest taking his intro to figure drawing class at LAAFA because he’s an awesome draftsman.  Anyways, we talked character design and animation while drawing Gerenuks.  Considering the time off from drawing animals, my results weren’t too bad.  All in all, it was a pretty cool day.  It’s great to just take a break and just draw for leisure considering I’m swamped with school during the week.  Hopefully, the zoo trips will be more frequent now that the term is going to end in a few weeks.

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The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art

Figure in Color?

I just purchased a set of Dick Blick brand markers today and had the urge to test them out in my life drawing class at SMC. Since I just got the markers, it took a while to figure which colors would work best for flesh tones and whatnot. I got the urge to do colored marker renderings from a post Mark McDonnell made on his blog about experimenting with different mediums. Check out his blog it’s rather awesome and he’s also funny as hell in person. Anyways, what you see above are tonight’s results. Enjoy.

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Mark McDonnell

Amazon

Just got back from my Vis Dev class at the Animation Academy in Burbank and here’s a watercolor value study I did in class.  It was from a botched marker rendering i had lying in my sketchbook so I figured this was the way to save the illustration.  There are some parts that still need a little fixing, but I thought it was a good exercise in watercolor. I remember when I was taking color theory at Santa Monica College and how I tried my best to avoid doing the assignments in watercolor and now I’m beginning to like the medium now. You’d get a real kick out of the watercolor assignments I did in my color theory class. But that’s for another day. Anyways, enjoy.

The Good, the Bad, and the Andy

So last night in my figure in motion class, we drew Andy again.  This time he came with costumes.  Makes sense since he’s such a character so it was pretty fun.  Anyways, here are some excerpts from the session.  I still need to figure out a way to work on my line efficiency, but that’s gonna take a long time.  So for now, baby steps.  enjoy.