From a costume gesture drawing class this week.  The model came in as a Celtic Warrior and I was fortunate enough to turn out a decent drawing.   A tad too heavy-handed with the drawing, but I like the overall design.   I approached the drawing wanting to use different proportions and shapes from what I normally do.   It’s probably why this drawing was one of my favorites from the night.

I was looking at my portfolio recently and noticed that I didn’t have that many character designs of kids.  So I spent some time during the week coming up with a design that I would care about.  If I didn’t, it would just look uninspired and just plain boring.  After some thought, I came up with Buffalo Brave.  I drew it in pencil, scanned it in photoshop for digital inking and coloring.  Hope you guys enjoy, cheers!

PS – Buffalo Brave has a sidekick, so look forward to that

Trying something new by dabbling with watercolors today. It’s something I dreaded in color theory class but I felt I needed to give the medium an honest attempt.   I got the idea to paint nude figures from some watercolors Mark McDonnell has been doing from figure drawing sessions.  I recently got an uninstructed workshop pass at LAAFA, so I thought it would be a good idea to use one of the workshop days to practice watercolors.   So these are some test runs before I start doing watercolors from a live model.

Since they’re studies/test runs, I didn’t want to be committed to a design so I started flipping through the Art Models Books to find poses to paint.  I think it’s better that way.  When I screw up, I won’t be so butt hurt about it and I’ll just move on to the next one.

The approach is similar to the one that David Colman uses in his iphone sketchbook app.  Didn’t exactly stick to the script, but it’s a start.  So here’s to progress, cheers!

paintings 18,19,20, 21 of 1001?

Link Em:
1001 Painting Challenge
David Colman Water Color Doodles Volume 1
Mark McDonnell
Live Model Books
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art

One thing that I’ve been trying to do more of in my designs is exploring options.  I’ll often get locked in on one design so much that any kind of “exploring” ends up looking too similar.  So to fix that, I’ve been trying to play with the whole design in general as opposed to changing one part of it.  After looking at these explorations, the designs aren’t as pushed as I would have liked.  I got a bit of exploration work done with the costumes and props, but I probably should have played with proportions as well.  Anyways, it’s a start and hopefully a step in the right direction.

So this was a story I came up with and did an animatic for last spring.If you guys ever wondered where my bluejay design camefrom, here’s the story. Anyways, the story is fairly simple and short: it’s about a boy learning how to fly. I always hadthe intention of animating the story, but just never got around to it. Maybe one day. Hope you guys enjoy. Cheers