Snow White and the Seven Bootleggers

We had an assignment to illustrate a scene from Snow White with the Queen/Old Hag peering in through a window at Snow and the Dwarfs. I decided to do my own take on that scene. This version is set in Prohibition era New York and the Queen is the Chief of Police peering in through a two way mirror window at Snow White the flapper girl and six of the seven bootlegging dwarf gangsters. Where is the seventh? Well, it seems that Dopey was finally ready to talk.

Head Drawing in Pastels II

Here's another one, this time using an analogous split-complimentary color scheme (blue being the obvious dominant color).

Head Drawing in Pastels

Here's a first for me, a head drawing done in color with pastels. I think it turned out ok.

An assignment for a class. I had to create two characters that demonstrated twist and motion. Originally I wanted to make them two wrestlers or something, but Pirates are just more fun. Who doesn't love puffy shirts?!

Some more head drawings...anyone recognize the model for the second one?

Hands

I've finally moved on from head to hands.

Head Drawing 4

Here's another.

Head Drawing 3

Another old guy for the head drawing class. I had a choice between this guy and a woman in profile, but this guy was too interesting to pass up.

Head Drawing 2

Another couple of head drawings I did for class.

Scruffy

Again I find my thoughtless doodling entering the realm of weird old men. I think this is the kinda guy that ends up moving into a camper on some backwoods area with only his double-barrel and hound dog for company.

Head Drawing

I'm enrolled in a head drawing class this semester and it's interesting to go back to this style of drawing after so long; usually if I do figure studies it's just small thumbnails sketches in a notebook. Here is a second attempt at a head assignment last week. I've also included a more "Joe-ish" doodle of this guy--just for fun.

Pitch Boards

Here's some pitch boards that I did for a story I wrote about a man named Skipper Pickle who encounters some life-altering gelato at a small Italian Cafe.

Other Characters

I decided to name this alternate version of the "Hundred Acre Wood" the "118.37 Arpent Copse."

Here are the other characters that live there. Their names are Trigger, Hamlet, and Rabid.

Turnaround

Here's a turnaround sheet I did for the character below.

Silly Old Bear

Here's a character I just finished tonight. I call her Lamia and here's the tagline for the image:

"Sometimes, unbeknownst to Christopher Robin, Pooh would wander off the Hundred Acre Wood to the neighbor girl's house where they played more sinister types of games."

More Batman Boards

I reboarded a Batman scene that I had done last year. I like some of the changes I made, but I'm not sure that anything could ever be as cool as my original opening frame, I'll have to post the original at some point for comparison.

Storyboards

Here's some storyboards I just did for class. If they look familiar it's because I did a variation on this same story last year when I was in this class at BYU.

Mike Mignola

This last assignment was to create a character in an established comic book style. I chose Mike Mignola the creator of Hellboy. His style looks so simple, but it was a real challenge to try to duplicate.

Michel Gagne

We had an assignment to create an original character in the style of an established artist, I chose Michel Gagne. This guy's stuff is great because you can't tell if it's something cute that he's made creepy or something grotesque that he's made cuddly. There a certain quality to it that makes you want to be revolted and say "awwwww" all at the same time. Anyway, here's the character I did.

Frogs

So my final is finished...finally. It isn't cleaned up and colored, but the animation and sound are all there. Let me know what you think.

Sucker

I'm pretty sure this is a self-portrait of what I will look like when I'm ninety years old. I did this to give my self a break from animating my final project of this semester.

Just a Doodle

I doodled this guy a couple of weeks or so ago and decided to toss some color on him tonight and post him. I think he just needs a hug and a cup of cocoa.

Intricate

Here's a really quick doodle I did for Illustration Friday. The theme is "intricate" and I thought about all the 'intricate' details of our country's economic system and, more especially, the methods which we use to attempt to stimulate growth. I wanted the doodle to look crude, but I think my coloring is too heaving and it looks muddy now. Oh well...maybe it's more appropriate that way.

Pencil Tests VI

For this animation I had to create a scene from 3 expressive key frames. I based this off of an illustration I did a while back. The illustration was a sequential 3 panel piece that showed a man drinking from a bottle and then discovering it is laxative and then running off. I think it translated well into an animation.

Pencil Tests V

Here's my full head turn. The frames need to be cleaned up, but I think the action is nice.

Steve

I'm trying my hand at fonts now. This first one is pretty crude, but I kind of wanted it that way.

Steve.ttf

Head Turn

This one isn't really a pencil test per se, but it was my last assignment. This is a flat, stylized 2D head-turn. The character design is borrowed from Pixar's short film "Your Friend the Rat."

Sacks of Flour

This assignment was to show anthropomorphic sacks of flour in action. My favorite is the "flour killer," I thought it was very Bill Watterson-esque. In case you are wondering how a sack of flour grows eyebrows and a beard...it's mold.

More Figure Drawings

Here are two more. The top one is my daughter (isn't she cute).

Figure Drawings

Here are some figure drawings from the last couple of weeks. The assignment was to "hi-lite" the stretch and compression areas of each drawing. Red indicates the stretch and blue indicates the compression.

Pencil Tests IV

This is my favorite so far. It's still fairly rough, but eventually I'll redo the the body animation to make it more fluid. The assignment was to make a flying creature in 3/4 view. Everyone did a bird or bat so I had to do something more...Joe-ish.

Pencil Tests III

Here's a flag waving. I'm not overly pleased with it; it's supposed to run on a loop, but it looks way too repetitive right now. I'll re-post it when I've worked on it some more.

Pencil Tests II

Here's my favorite one, so far. It's a cannonball test animation; the assignment was to convey the feeling of a cannonball coming toward you and landing in front of you. I want to finesse my camera shake and dust cloud eventually, but it was a pretty good first pass.

Pencil Tests I

I thought I'd go ahead and post my pencil tests that I'm doing for my animation class. This first one is a balloon floating across the sky. The assignment was to make it feel like a balloon through movement, but the shape had to be just a plain circle (no tied end or string). I'm not super pleased with it, but my instructor thought it was pretty good.

Christmas Project

I haven't posted in a while because I have been wrapped up working on Christmas projects. I'll post some of them on my blog as I get them reformatted for the web.

The first one is an action figure I did for my brother. The initial sketch was fairly detailed, but due to constraints of the material and time I was forced to simplify.