Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Lap Painting


Title: Lap Painting
Date: December 31, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Same as Above.

Notes: Looking down, I noticed that my mouse in the distance and was being all reflective and whatnot, so to paint? I THINK SO!

Master Swordsman - Thus Far


Title: Master Swordsman - Thus Far
Date: December 23 - ?, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: First few frames all animated out... many many more to come!

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Sometimes it's good to just chillax for a few days.

Master Swordsman - Preview


Title: Master Swordsman - Preview
Date: December 23 - ?, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: This one might not look like much, but it's the start of an animation I'm working on. This is only the first frame, and I'm not trying to do any pressure on it. Just painting one or two frames a day. They are more-or-less my warm-ups. Trying to work on stroke economy really. Like I said, it doesn't look like much at the moment, because this is only one frame, but you'll see in time...

Cylinder Test - Mug


Title: Cylinder Test - Mug
Date: December 31, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Same as Above.

Notes: Working on doing some shape exploration combined with some painting from life. Glass has so many reflective surfaces that it's a good and hard material to study.

"Mock me, will you?!"


Title: "Mock me, will you?!"
Date: December 28 & 31, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: A push into more portraiture combined with some focal point exploration. Just mainly having fun doing some long-deserved rendering. 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Continuing to play catch-up. Here's some old and new.

Gestural Final


Title:  Gestural Final
Date: December 2011
Medium: Graphite, Charcoal, Conte
Scale: 42" x 36"

Notes: I apologize for the ancient-ness of this one, but I just found it while digging through my art work from the move. I realized that I never got around to taking a photo of it and posting it. This was one of the larger pieces from my final for portfolio in drawing. The idea was to take a type of anatomy study from a book and them duplicate it as best as possible. I thought it would be interesting to combine a ton of them all on top of each other while standing on hands. Hopefully it reads interestingly enough.
The other kind of interesting thing about this piece is that this is the first one that I worked on that was larger than 20" x 30". It was so huge!


Movie Still -- Clockwork Orange


Title:  Movie Still -- Clockwork Orange
Date: December 2011
Medium: Ink, Conte
Scale: 30" x 20"

Notes: This was about the same time as the one above. So again, sorry for the old post, but it was a different kind of exercise for me.


Pokemon Linework


Title:  Pokemon Linework
Date: June 11, 2012
Medium: Photoshop

Notes: The initial line-work and color pallette for each of the pokemon that I'll be working on.


Squirtle Color Test

Title:  Squirtle Color Test
Date: June 12, 2012
Medium: Photoshop

Notes: Testing out some colors and things. This still has a way to go, but I'm having fun with it.


Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Finally done with school for FOUR MONTHS! Ugh, what am I going to do with myself...

Well, here's the wrap up of animation:

Cora's Day


Title: Cora's Day
Date: May 7, 2012

Notes: Here is the rough version of the animatic that we submitted for finals.


First of Many Anatomy Studies


Title:  First of Many Anatomy Studies
Date: May 5, 2012
Medium: Graphite
Scale: 9" x 12"

Notes: The first anatomy study to celebrate the summer with!

Well, there will be MUCH MUCH MUCH x 10 more to come this summer. I have a ton of stuff to get onto, but for now, WE DRINK!


oh, and bonus points if you know what game I'm quoting in the title of this post...

Saturday, April 14, 2012



Okay, so I'm sorry that I haven't been keeping up with you guys lately... but I'm being crushed under the weight of deadlines.

So! With that, I'll give you the smallest sample of what's going on... And I promise you, there will be more soon (I have approx. 40 more things to scan, not counting the large pieces).


This is just a TINY sample of my animation... UNCOLORED of course.

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