Looks like it's posting day again

Research and character sketch for the dreaded bumper for Don's class.
NOTE, I used a John McCrea drawing as the model for the big shark right here but at least I didn't trace it:


Attaching a shark's head to a man's body is not as easy as it looks.
Right now the design is too realistic for my animation considering my time limit, but I'm going to clean him up more stylized...

Hand of glory..?

First, a working sketch for my final layout. If you have any comments, they're very welcome, I've already had some good suggestions today.



HEY so I'm reading The Hundred Days right now and today in life drawing I fandoodled Stephen contemplating his infamous Hand In A Jar - before it went all bad from lack of spirits, of course. If I'm not mistaken, the lesson is do NOT leave spirits lying around in plain sight in a ship, not even in a jar containing a cut-off hand.
I want to make the character construction (what a noggin!) better and clean this up in Photari some day.

Nonsterdam and Modern City

Here are the other layout assignments from this semester, an old-timey city-type thing and a modern city-type thing. They're not spectacular but they ARE an obvious improvement from my layouts last year, so I'm happy! Final assignment is in the works. Must - get - back to drawing...

Life drawing trance

I haven't posted any life drawing from this semester yet!? Here's some of the stuff that I like, all in one happy heap.

I like drawing people's backs:








"Crollages" of particular models:

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Remembrance Day...

...IS FOR SHOPPING. I shopped the hell out of Lush. If you love baths, you'll love Lush; no two ways about it.
Also went to the Aquarium again, been there a few times this year, so I figured I should just give in and get a membership.
I'd forgotten my favourite sketchbook at school and had to use a tiny one, so I drew less than usual. But it does make my visit seem nicely... "sketch journal-ly".





Tiger salamander had a funny face:



^This little guy looked super evil and super cute at the same time.


^The fish is outraged.


^Scared.














^CAIMANS still my aquarium favourites!





^And the visit concluded with a happy chubby fish.
(Next post: a bangload of lifedrawing.)

Don't jump into heartache

Dumping!
Here's my first layout of this semester, the house I used to live in (I moved a few of weeks ago when our "my street / my house / my room" assignment was still going on). Obviously I made some alterations for the sake of composition.



And what the heck, I'll post my Alice "acting" assignment too...



And this is a walk cycle with a panning (and loopable!) background. I don't know if it's possible to loop Vimeo vids, but you'll see it pretty well if you hit play right after the video clip ends..? You can go on forever!


Made in TVPaint and I enjoyed it ever so much! Well, I half-a**ed the character design, but you can see a heavy Janosch influence. And unintentionally Garfield.