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.