Well, I am seriously the worst at keeping up my sketch blog. I have pretty much been going in and out of art block these past few months. Also finally gave myself a new blog url/name update!

I'm currently aking another class at Concept Design Academy, this time with Rad Sechrist.

But enough text, here's a couple drawings of my character, Blaze:





Hopefully I'll get out of my funk soon and be prolific like I once was!

Wow, again a huge posting gap.

I don't have much of an excuse for not posting except that I've been working full time for a couple months now. I'm JUST starting to get back into drawing. I seem to fail at keeping a public drawing blog though :[. I post my art way too many places...deviantart, a couple different LiveJournals, roughs on twitter...sometime I should just consolidate.

What I'd LIKE to have happen:
-update my personal site (my gosh I haven't added any new art or updated the layout in aaaages)
-get off my butt and sell the sketchbook I've already put together

(I have the digital files all ready. But I need to print several copies and get a long-armed stapler so I can put the books together)
-start a webcomic

Oh yeah. Also. Maybe thinking of either re-naming this blog or moving it somewhere else. But I shall see. Bahh I am WAY too ambitious sometimes!

Observation sketches

Just finished my semester of character design classes at Concept Design Academy! I am going to try to be better about updating this blog. I'm going to make a few posts today of some of the things I drew while I was taking classes (or maybe spread them out over a couple of days).

First, some observation sketches! We were supposed to observe people and animals but design and stylize the figures, not just copy directly from life. These are not nearly all of the drawings I did, Just a selection.

From the first couple weeks, drawings of my pets and at the zoo (and a few people):



And these were a little later in the semester:


Next up: progress of the animal character design assignment!

Well I certainly haven't updated here in a while!

I had my first Intro to Character Design class last night at Concept Design Academy. Needless to say I am SUPER inspired right now (and have been this whole week, actually). My teacher, David Colman, is really freaking awesome and talented. He's SO good at animals, it makes me really want to try harder with them.

We did drawings last night based on the costumed model who came to pose for us (dressed like a mafia/mob guy). So it wasn't figure drawing from life, it was figure drawing BASED off life. We had to take the poses a bit further and have them be inspired by what was going on. It was tough, but super good practice.

And this morning, I woke up and drew my cat, who was sleeping on my bed in a really cute pose. We have to draw 10 pages for homework, so at least I got a couple out of drawing my animals today. But I'll need to make a trip to Costco, Walmart, or a mall and draw all the ridiculous people there.

Some things I know I need to work on:
-making my poses more dynamic
-working on rhythm and shapes
-...hands and feet (which always seeems to be the case)

Inspiration has also come from reading the tips on Rad How To. I haven't even studied everything there is on that blog, but I will try to study a little bit of it every day (and also from the ever-growing collection of art books i've been acquiring lately)

I'll certainly have lots to share during the process of taking this class. Guess that's all for now. Sorry there's no fun visuals with this post :P

More Character Development Sketches

Wow, it really has been far too long since I posted anything. I blame it on my scanner/Photoshop, they kept crashing whenever I was doing huge amounts of scanning.

This is more stuff from my character design class at Animation Academy.

Female character turnaround



Expressions, one of my favorite things to draw~



Poses!



Some random doodles, mostly practicing female bodies. And a few sketches of one character in particular I was trying to develop.



Well, hopefully I'll try to update this more often instead of letting it sit idly for months! There's a bit more stuff to scan, but I didn't want to risk it with my finicky scanner. So that's all for now :) Need to get back into working on my portfolio!

Some character development

Here are some things from the class I'm taking at the Animation Academy! Finished my first turnaround so I thought I'd share the process of creating the design for this character.

Some of the many many heads I had to draw. Drew 3 or 4 pages of variations (well, this and another character) before deciding on the final one. These are just the majority of them.


Turnaround of the chosen head.

Body shapes. Also several pages of these were done.

Body turnaround. 3/4 back is tough to do! Also need to fix the arms on the back view, they're a bit too long.


I'm really enjoying this class. I'm learning a lot, it's forcing me to draw more and think about things a bit differently, and also to experiment with shapes more. I still need to learn to go further/push it more but I am getting there.


Also, some more Star Trek things, just for the heck of it!

Drawings of Geeky Things

Sooo I saw both the Wolverine movie and the new Star Trek movie. Wolverine was just hilarious, Star Trek was AMAZING. I've been watching the original series a lot lately.

Here are some stupid Wolverine drawings!


This is basically my interpretation of the whole movie. SCREAMING AND BUTT.


A couple more. Ignore the left doodle that is obviously not Wolverine. Notice how I'm using the Origins version of his hair, not his crazy devil horn hair (well, guess I tried that in the little one)...because I don't really know how it looks. No reference, woo!


Now, some Star Trek drawings!


The ones in purple are based off The Naked Time episode. The pencil ones were drawn while slightly under the influence of 3 glasses of wine.


Aaaand bad Spock. Inspired by the wonderful Bad Spock blog

Look at all that yellowy paper. You can really tell I've converted to the church of Moleskine lately.


By the way, character design class at The Animation Academy is going well. I'm learning a whole lot! Eventually I'll make a post with all my progress. Maybe once I'm done with one of my characters before we move on to the next one!