Buffalo Brave

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

watercolors?

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

exploration

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.

Flyboy Animatic

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

day 31: enough with the Zeus already!

The previous Zeus was more of a jolly looking type.  So I tried going in the direction of a Zeus that was fat but could also whip ass.  Went with a more traditional toga.  Thought it was more fitting because I drew Zeus as a heavy enforcer type.  I also shortened his hair so the crown wouldn’t be too overshadowed.  I think I explored with enough ideas to mix em up and come up with a Zeus that fits in the same world as my Poseidon design.

On a sidenote, the new year’s challenge was over over a month ago, but I finally finished my 31 drawings for it.  I probably would have finished it on time, but I became more critical of my drawings and just didn’t want to post anything just for the sake of posting.  I just wanted to post the best drawings I could have done at that given time.  That’s the only thing you can honestly ask of yourself as an artist.  Hopefully within the next few months, I’ll look at these drawings and find nothing but mistakes as it shows that I’ve gotten better with my drawing by that time.

Anyways, the whole point of the drawing challenge was to get myself to draw more human characters since I was drawing more vinyl toy characters towards the end of 2009.  Now that the weight of challenge is off my shoulders, I can move to experimenting with styles and focus on diversifying my portfolio without trying to force the issue.  So be on the lookout for more artistic growth.  Cheers.