More drawings of earthlings and their enviroments

6 steps to curing a cold

I was sick all last week - it sucked, but at least I got this cartoon out of it. This is what I wish I could do everytime I get a cold.

'Halifax Tracks' 24" x 20"

This is the first acrylic painting I've done in years. Coincidently, it was also a good opportunity to improve my layout skills. It isn't a scene of any one place in Halifax, but a combination of reference photos I took around the city. It rains often in Halifax (in fact it was raining earlier today) so I thought it would be appropriate to paint it as an overcast day.

(Sorry that it's a photo and not a scan.)

Wednesday night life drawing

Wednesday night life drawing and a page of cafe sketches - Score!

The Gorillaz Style

I LOVE Jamie Hewlett's designs for the Gorillaz characters and thought it would be fun to draw myself in that style.

3 posts in one month? I rock!

These people were all drawn at Starbucks last night.

By the way, if anyone knows how to change the settings so when you upload drawings and click on the thumbnails you don't get giant images that you have to scroll to see the whole thing, please let me know!

Wednesday night life drawing

Horney Hornet pencil test

Prior to my gradation, I recorded some extra dialouge and one-liners to later animate to. The voice recording I did (not my real voice) is taken from one of those recordings. The line of dialouge comes from a guy I overheard last year talking to his friend at the train station - and he was dead serious!

Below is some of the development of the character 'Horney Hornet'. I'm forever finding new and better ways to draw my characters and they seem to turn out different everytime I sit down to draw. If I animate this character again, there will be some more changes made.

Scroll down to see the pencil test.

A special drawing given to me by Animator Jacques Muller of his interpretation of the character.

This page is one of the earliest ones I found, drawn way back in June.

Wednesday night life drawing

Reservoir DOGS

Just for fun, I thought I would re-design the four main characters from the film 'Reservoir Dogs'. There was two things I wanted to achieve with this project and the first was: I didn't want to take four random dogs and dress them up in suits. Since these characters are based on real actors, the designs should resemble them. Secondly, (but more importantly) I wanted to create appealing designs.

Below are some of the roughs.

This was actually the first sheet I did. Just trying to figure out ways to contrast each character in thier most basic shapes. Note the differences in height, waist, shoulders and various head shapes. I also was looking though dog books at this time and figured out what breed of dogs each character should be.

Rat Creature Run Revised

This is a revised (albeit, rougher) Rat Creature run cycle from the previous video. I took the constructive criticism from Ryan Cole and strengthened the keys and changed the spacing. One problem supporting the timing problems I was having, is that I did not realise at the time the default Flash setting (on my home computer) is 12fps instead of 24fps. (The previous video is slower than it should be, but still needed some impovement anyway.)

Rat Creature Run

BONE is a well drawn and well written epic graphic novel and I finally got the chance to read the whole story while I have some time off. I really liked Jeff Smith's (the creator of BONE) design of the Rat Creatures and wanted to give animating one of them a try. This is a quick run cycle I did with one of those characters.