3 animals and 5 dots

Posting old stuff while away from civilised computers. By the way, I'll probably post some crappy photography of my snow-buried 'hood in the next couple of days YOU'VE BEEN WARNED

The three animal characters. I coloured this supposedly final version before beginning to wonder why the hell I'd chosen THE most boring options for every single character out of all three keys - argh! So they'll be getting a do-over.
The lineart is final, though... Probably.

Another "5 dots pose". This approach really has given me some much needed digital sketching fuel. Although, weirdly, both of my 5 dots poses so far have turned into some kind of self-portraits... Huh.

Unproductive interlude

Nobody's going to understand what the holy hell I'm talking about, but it really doesn't matter, it's awesome. There's this loopy British kids' show that I kind of LOVE called "Young Dracula." It's the story of how the Dracula family moves to a modern-day English town, Stokely. (...Not Stokley.)
Somebody went and combined Young Dracula with the title song to a somewhat similarly themed show from back in the day, and all I can say is, IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.

Crawlage (January life drawings)

I want to create a character called MAYOR POPPINS. Just like Mary Poppins, except a mayor, so he or she comes to a town and declares themselves mayor for a while and sorts the whole town a-out, and then disappears again without a trace! And there's going to be a lot of singing and chimneysweeping. "But Mayor Poppins, none of us have chimneys in our houses these days--" "Silence! It is townwide chiminy-sweeping weekend!"
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Silly lighting gestures:


As I've mentioned, the reason I keep posting such loads of simplified gesture drawings is that even though I love them, they would be kind of a waste of space in a portfolio, whereas this space is for me to waste as I see fit:



...Okay, those two very last poses go together a little too well, if you catch my drift. But he just did those poses one after the other and they ended up right next to each other in my pad. It was too great a coincidence to ignore!

Silhouetted

Designing starting with a silhouette in today's class. Just a quick doodle, which inspired me to once again sketch some "Slings & Arrows" characters with the same approach. I'm closing in on them little by little... :)

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(BB and S&A comparison)

Now with more Miguel

Two posts in as many days!?
The next pass of the Tulio and Miguel assignment. Hey, at least it has both characters now!

Watch at Vimeo.com
Still haven't animated a lot of it, but I have my stuff pretty much mapped out and I like how it's coming along. (You might notice the ending bit I used in the pose test is missing -- I'm still planning to include that, but I didn't have time to draw it for this pass.)

The cartoony bunny

For digital painting class, we had to have three character designs of our own so we could then do three colour keys (variations) of the package. It feels like it's been ages since I tried designing characters, but I do want to use these guys in something, maybe our next animation assignment:

I got extremely helpful critiques from our teacher today but haven't fixed the designs yet, so consider them a work in progress.
The same goes for these three colour keys!