the late night draw and a quick case of the updates

I haven’t been posting much recently, so I thought I’d give a little synopsis of what I’ve been up to:

• Taking creature design & vehicle design classes at the Concept Design Academy
• Trying to add more drawing styles to my design bank
• Churning away at my character design portfolio
• Working on storyboards for an animated short that I want to produce.
• Trying to finish up at SMC
• Getting sick
• Not sleeping much
• Celebrated my birthday

That’s what’s been occupying a lot of my time as of late.  But back to the drawings.

Since this week is spring break for Santa Monica College, I’ve been finding myself in some late night drawing sessions. Something about the late hour gets me flowing creatively. I think it comes from my days at UCI when I was up editing video and trying to finish some painting assignments before class. But anyways, the 2 drawings are revised designs from a while ago. They were pretty much warm up drawings before I went and worked on some new stuff.

I’m still trying force myself to draw around the forms more and I think the results are showing to an extent.  It reminds me of something I heard Jerad, my creature design teacher, say after class: “being a great artist means fixing all your bad habits.”  It’s something that I still need to work on, but I’m slowly getting there.  So anyways, until then.

Hopefully some of my habits will be fixed by then.  Cheers