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Shapes'n stuff

Decided to challenge myself with putting a character on a horse for some reason, then I scoped out some inspiration. I found some great artwork by some great artist when checking out behind the scenes of "How To Train Your Dragon" and I've been humbly watching "Road To Eldorado" the past few days. So I guess in my mind this is some weird combination of the two. This is one of my early attempts at caricature with an animal,and of course working on entertainment value in my drawings, I also decided to play around with some flat gray values, good exercise.

The Cadets (w.i.P)

Here's an original sketch i did a while back, and the more refined version i just worked on recently i'd like to toss some color on these and see what happens.still workin on getting across characteristics and such...(left to right- Officer watumacallit,shortstack,captain muttonchops, his parrot, eduardo,badass, and huskybeardface...yep that seems about right.

The Curious Prince (first tunaround)

Good-day all just thought I'd post these concepts that pertain to the "CP" post from earlier. As always another key element in deciding a look for your character, are the "turnarounds". I think I'm getting there but he still needs more work. so here are the gesture lines and then color.Overall I tweaked some elements here and there and droped in some more or less solid color. the discussions I've been having revolved around the notion that the environments the prince would find himself in would be riddled with color in contrast to his overall darker, and more bland tones. so feel free to take a look. More shtuff coming soon. stay tuned.

The Curious Prince (sketches)

These in addition to the previous post are some early ideas for the little story i have fizzling in my head for my character design class. The semi-naive quick witted prince, the girl who is the quintessential street smart thief. And the man shrouded in mystery. These are all the first passes on the characters including some of the sketch book thumbnails I worked on in order to play with minor design elements and personality. I plan to sketch out the entire line up and see what results I get. stay tuned.

THE CURIOUS PRINCE

As always the preliminary stages of some new character designs. Just finished these up for class hopefully I can get a solid body of work from the theme I've got going. I was basically sketching and thought of Aladdin or the typical peasant boy falls in love with princess. But instead I wanted to switch the roles. which isn't anything new either I just though I'd take a crack at something that might be fun to do. Lets see what happens. The main page has a couple of other character while the line up features the 5 (the two in the middle are a duo)I have to focus on for class.

Banner : THE FISHERMEN

Playing with shapes and just basically trying to create characters. Trying to make some changes here and there, including finding ways to have more finished works and solid work production, stay tuned. let me know what u think....On the other hand happy new year folks and keep fighting the good fight....(Mtr: ink,photoshop)...

"Thin wooly hats and metal pipes that'll bash your face in."

Thought up a little motley crew and as I was playing with different ideas I thought of incorperating hockey gear on my misfits as that would be a cool and effective touch. I'm trying to establish a process so I took up my sketchbook hashed out sum ideas and beefed them up on sepreate paper so now in order to finish these drawings I have piling up. I've decided to try a dead line inking technique for these guys, (feeling inspired by a wicked cool concept artist) and from there drop sum color in. So in essence the main focus is those shapes and a constant vison of what I want the end product to look like that's why I drew them light and tried to press those shapes so lets see what happens.

blue line and ebony pencil

quick characters that came to mind, did these a little back as well.

Back to the drawing board! ( lll )

So these are the cleaned up looks for these initial characters, with our DETECTIVE and his love interest high on top of the list. I think this is going to be the working (stress on working) aesthetic for the characters in this series. As I said before a disheveled, lumbering, brutish looking detective adds some flavor to what I had originally planned and I'm going to keep pushing the envelope and see what some more silhouettes and shapes test might churn out in time for all his arch nemeses. if you've never heard the infamous "My Funny Valentine" song covered by so many great musical talents, you should. when I create for this series that's all I listen to, look it up and see if you get the idea. stay tuned for the updates. Comment 'n check 'em out.

Back to the drawing board! ( part deu ll )

From the previous post this mash up of images was set up to give a sense of what was going through my head when trying to solidify a look and aesthetic ( I love that word), which was the next step,( we were also steadily narrowing down the characters for another line-up, soon to follow). It came to a point where I said.. you know what this still isn't working. Especially after a critique I had. the class tossed around interesting ideas but for some reason I wasn't content with my detectives outward appearance anymore... I thought it would be more interesting if his looks played no part in winning him the ladies.Just his wit and no mess attitude. A seasoned detective. check it out! more details to come, the sultry femme fatale (working on names) and just a tip of the iceberg as far as his opposition goes. I'm trying to build this dark and twisted world from a solid foundation. Comment 'n check it out!

Back to the drawing board!

One of my many assignments in my bag 'o' workload was to build some characters from the ground up. No solid story plot, but enough meat on the bones to create a solid cohesive batch of characters. Being that these characters are geared towards animation I decided to keep the look simple,(well...duh) BUT!! try to capture some personality. I couldn't help but visit my old detective friend from from my fall semester days.. I felt like I didn't do him justice so a while back, since I saw a window I jumped through it. More details to come on that front these were the selected silhouettes from the couple rounds that I did. Check 'em out!

PROJECTS.COM (thesis)

Recently I was asked by one of my home-skillets, to help out with concepts for a senior thesis project he's tackling. Aside from the fact that his ideas are solid, and his drive is nothing short of inspirational, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to do some critical thinking thanks to him and feed off some of that energy. So were moving things along 1 step at a time. This is the initial look and overall feel for the main character. I don't think its my place to divulge all the details about his project but time will tell so stay tuned as I reveal the awesomeness, in the mean time I'll do my part. Every now and then I'll post these updates here and there,. Hes got a whole ton of images from more earlier works that I did for the project, these are just nitpicked for my blog. I'll give you guys the link as soon as I figure out how to work this damn link thing!

RECENT PROJECTS FINALS AND STUFF

Blogger's, I've finally made it back to update this vessel of mine. Ive got some recent finals and personal projects coming your way ready to share and ready for some input and insight. I'm on my spring break now so now is the perfect time and oppurtunity to upload,and see what folks ahve been up to, hope everyones getting inspired and trying there best to stay inspired! up top Ive got a little peek at one of the short stories I worked on for my visual story telling class, just basics in trying to get an idea of the look and feel of the story. The title was "overdue" and basically our geek! goes head to head with the security guard who hates overdue books!