Digital Paintings

My artwork has been slow this summer due to the death of my grandmother. Things are starting to slow down so I wanted to update my blog with some of my recent work. Enjoy!

Generic Walk Sequence

This is a generic walk sequence we recently did in traditional animation. The character is walking on 12's. That is, he completes one full step every 12 frames.

Animal Drawings

We were concentrating on animal drawings a couple of weeks ago. The following are a few of the ones I gathered from observation in my sketchbook as well as a few from still images in a documentary. Enjoy!

Caesar!

Two posts in one day?! What's gotten into me? Maybe I'm just making up for lost time. Anyway, here is a portrait I did of a bust of Caesar that was in the studio. I used oil paints and pushed the expression to show him angry. The other portrait is done in charcoal and is a fairly decent representation of what the bust looks like with an underlight.

Flour Sacks & Animation

Traditional Animation has been a lot of fun so far. We started with simple ball bounces and progressed to flour sacks. They are great for getting the basic shape of a character down without all the superfluous details to get in the way. I'm pretty pleased with the way this turned out, even though there might be more I would do to it if I had the time. It's all part of the learning curve and I'm always amazed at how much there is to learn with each new project.

Jellyfish Chess Set

 So we had to come up with a chess set theme at the beginning on the new semester and of course I decided to challenge myself. My two main ideas were to do an African animal themed one or a jellyfish theme. I probably should have stuck with African animals but I decided to push myself and go with the more abstract of the two designs. I had never really sculpted before so the entire process was one huge learning curve. There might even have been some tears shed during this project, especially when I dropped all of my finished pieces and shattered all but two of them - necessitating a complete re-do of everything. As I said, I learned quite a bit and now feel somewhat more comfortable with the material. The following pictures are my completed works.