earth vs. brain

parsec3

2010-03-11T14:11:00.000-08:00

captain space

2010-03-09T17:21:00.000-08:00

2010-01-29T14:48:00.000-08:00

Cartoon Studies

2009-08-18T04:51:00.000-07:00

Collection of cartoon studies from from John K's blog, Preston Blair, and other comics.

sketch dump

2009-07-29T10:03:00.001-07:00

liquor -- Am I Gonna Have To Take My Belt Off pose

2009-06-18T18:38:00.000-07:00

animation studies

2009-05-24T11:35:00.000-07:00

MaxJump loop test

2009-05-23T19:14:00.000-07:00

studies

2009-05-23T18:50:00.001-07:00

more junk

2009-05-23T18:44:00.000-07:00

studies

2009-05-18T17:43:00.001-07:00

some sketching

2009-05-18T17:30:00.000-07:00

girl colored

2009-04-13T19:20:00.000-07:00

Supes

2009-04-08T14:36:00.000-07:00

train sketches

2009-04-07T17:53:00.000-07:00

more sketch jujnk

2009-04-07T17:40:00.001-07:00

cartoon copy/studies

2009-04-07T17:38:00.001-07:00

latenight sketch

2009-03-19T03:00:00.001-07:00

sketchdump

2009-03-12T15:32:00.000-07:00

more comic studies

2009-03-12T15:29:00.001-07:00

fox and crow copy

2009-02-19T14:37:00.001-08:00

more cartoon copies

2009-02-16T17:26:00.000-08:00

Copies of cartoons... still having a major problem with proportions. I guess the only cure is practice.

coffee, tea, memory

2009-02-02T18:19:00.001-08:00

LG strip

2009-01-28T16:52:00.000-08:00

I wrote another cartoon story, making some sketches, I guess kind of story boarding. Maybe an 1/8th of the panels.

off model popeye dolls

2009-01-26T15:25:00.000-08:00

Studies of off-model popeye toys from John K.'s site.

another skadi cartoon?

2009-01-25T19:03:00.000-08:00

hierarchy study

2009-01-25T17:40:00.001-08:00

More practice from what John K. posted on hierarchies. I haven't made any progress. I don't even know what to focus on at this point with my limited time to practice.

Tom and Jerry cover

2009-01-23T16:36:00.000-08:00

here is my attempt at the cover John K. posted a while back to copy. This was my fourth attempt and as you can see it is way under par. My ability to judge proportions is abysmal. I hope all this failure leads somewhere.

more skadi

2009-01-22T18:18:00.000-08:00

still drawing skadi... trying to learn to sketch faster, but I am worried I am going to start getting bad habits and not really learning the basic shapes and proportions. I did a quick and dirty image in flash just to see what I remember about drawing and coloring in it.

I entered the contest

2009-01-12T00:00:00.001-08:00

i did a marathon two days to try and make a skadi comic, but at 5 am Sunday, I had just an inked version. I decided to send it anyway. I got an email back saying Luke and Katie liked it and they wanted to see it in color, which made me so happy. They extended the deadline or something apparently. Now that I look at it again, I see all kinds of crappy problems with what I did, but I guess I will still color it and maybe try and start on a new one. I am so thrilled that I got a positive response. Tonight, I figured out an approach to sketching Skadi's head which I am almost equally excited about it!

skadi prac

2009-01-09T19:27:00.000-08:00

I just found out about a contest to submit a skadi comic... I don't have much time but I am going to try to make something real quick. wish me luck! Here are my crappy copies from the comic to try and understand how to construct skadi and Diseaseoid.

more studies

2009-01-09T16:27:00.000-08:00

2009-01-07T18:42:00.000-08:00

2009-01-07T18:39:00.001-08:00

copying richie rich, hot stuff

2009-01-07T18:37:00.000-08:00

dec sketches

2009-01-07T18:35:00.000-08:00

derby flyer first pass

2008-12-28T20:29:00.000-08:00

derby flyer in progress

2008-12-23T19:21:00.000-08:00

starchild and the parsecs two pages tightened

2008-11-30T23:31:00.000-08:00

These are two pages i did for that cartoon class introducing SATP. I still need to ink them and make better word balloons.

maybe this?

2008-11-30T23:03:00.000-08:00

I've been agonizing over this roller derby flyer... tomorrow is my first day at my new "real" job but i can't sleep, ended up doing this take in pencil sitting in bed. I am wondering if my drawing in bed attraction has something to do with the light (or relative lack thereof). Rembember Bobby Chiu's "visualizing through darkness" episode... need to try drawing on the computer with darker backgrounds going dark to light occasionally.

Also, below is another note to self -- SKETCH LIGHTLY. Another way of holding the pencil, kind of cradling it in the crook between the first finger and thumb and sweeping back and forth lightly. Uses different parts of the arm too which helps.

more sketches

2008-11-30T22:51:00.000-08:00

i've been obsessing about the way to hold the stylus... above are stuff done whilst tucking my thumb as suggested by s. silver. also in here are two characters by katie rice, skadi and her sidekick (lower left).

more roller derby sketches

2008-11-28T21:51:00.000-08:00

rd flyer poses

2008-11-24T08:47:00.000-08:00

posemaniac

2008-11-17T13:42:00.000-08:00

These are some 1 minute sketechs from working with posemaniac.com -- i don't think they are extraordinary, but something started to click for me... One, I felt like I felt like I was drawing instead of just copying when I put down my strokes, but more importantly I felt a vitality in the figure as I was creating it. I felt like it wanted to be alive, and tried to keep that feeling going, just trying to aid it's struggle into existence and trying to tap into it's own will to be.

I also tried picturing a grid plane beneath or wherever it needed to, but the other point was the main one. I have heard people express trying to capture the life in the pose, but I never really felt anything close to that until now.

After studying the "Force" books, I think i was getting caught up in the silhouhette which was good practice, and understading the alternating paths of a limb or shape is good to know, but things were staying flat for me. I need to get back to feeling stuff being created, like when I used to play music and it just felt like I was an antennae for some supernatural tranmission -- that's what I've longed to capture in drawing. For a few short minutes I felt like I was somewhere in that neighborhood.

three panel cartoon

2008-11-17T09:46:00.000-08:00

more girls

2008-10-25T12:35:00.001-07:00

more random sketching

2008-10-25T12:07:00.000-07:00

SF sketches

2008-10-25T11:56:00.000-07:00

2008-10-17T13:54:00.000-07:00

gag cartoon first draft

2008-10-06T08:53:00.000-07:00

roughs for cartoon class

sitting purty

2008-10-03T14:50:00.000-07:00

rollergirl final

2008-09-24T15:29:00.000-07:00

guys

2008-09-16T19:32:00.001-07:00

cabanaman doodles

2008-09-16T19:29:00.001-07:00

more buggs

2008-09-11T19:02:00.001-07:00

original buggscopied buggs

memory sketch

2008-09-11T19:01:00.002-07:00

sketches

2008-09-11T19:01:00.001-07:00

Vampirella mirror

2008-09-04T22:57:00.000-07:00

Vampirella once more...

tyra banks caricature

2008-09-04T06:18:00.000-07:00

Don't know if I completely got her likeness... maybe the eyes?

vehicles sketch

2008-08-31T19:32:00.000-07:00

unlocking buggs

2008-08-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

trying to get a grasp on buggs head...

vampirella take 2

2008-08-25T20:17:00.001-07:00

in progress

2008-08-25T07:28:00.001-07:00

hope i can finish this one

nick cave

2008-08-24T13:20:00.001-07:00

another dog

2008-08-20T06:46:00.000-07:00

park

2008-08-18T04:44:00.000-07:00

life study july-august 08

2008-08-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

more ink

2008-08-17T07:31:00.000-07:00

playing with the windsor newton brush again... kind of lost a lot not practicing, but these sketches were also not very tight...
These are micron pens I thinkthis must be penstix

fifth grader portraits/caricatures

2008-08-17T07:25:00.001-07:00

fifth graders from Nory's yearbook

playing with ink again

2008-08-17T07:19:00.000-07:00

playing with mars/staedtler duo graphic brush pen... still not as good as windsor-newton #2

pencil practice

2008-08-17T07:16:00.001-07:00

Sketches from web, random flickr sketching fellow sketchers

jetpack and face

2008-08-17T07:09:00.000-07:00

sketch dumping

2008-08-17T07:06:00.000-07:00

bbq

2008-07-28T19:36:00.000-07:00

Old bbq thing I was working on... just colored it flat...

vampira

2008-07-28T18:59:00.001-07:00

buggs bunny studies

2008-07-28T18:58:00.001-07:00

boy with hair

2008-07-28T18:57:00.002-07:00

heads

2008-07-28T18:57:00.001-07:00

hedgehog + zebra

2008-07-28T18:56:00.001-07:00

old woman

2008-07-28T18:55:00.001-07:00

hands

2008-07-28T18:54:00.000-07:00

gymnast studies

2008-07-28T18:53:00.000-07:00

pops

2008-06-30T11:50:00.001-07:00

for my dad's birthday...

Bodybuilders

2008-06-21T06:04:00.000-07:00

more liquor

2008-05-12T16:50:00.000-07:00

Here's more attempts at Mr. Liquor on the cintiq...

plus an imagined pose

George Liquor Tests

2008-05-07T20:36:00.000-07:00

I tried doing these tests found on John K's blog. It looks like I'm way off on a lot of things. The first one I did last on the cintiq... the others I tried with pencil.

Here are some imagined poses I tried:

life study march-may 2008

2008-05-05T17:40:00.000-07:00

more field studies at the mall

2008-05-05T17:35:00.000-07:00

blind preston blair dogs

2008-05-05T17:34:00.000-07:00

rihanna drawing jam

2008-04-06T19:37:00.001-07:00

snoop and rachael ray

2008-04-06T19:36:00.001-07:00

a couple more roller girls attempts

2008-04-06T19:34:00.001-07:00

birthday wishes

2008-03-25T22:56:00.000-07:00

guess who

2008-03-24T01:30:00.001-07:00

Second caricature attempt... Self-portrait... not really that adventurous, but I painted it from real life and picked all the colors without any photo to pick from. I think I'm getting better at painting, but I just need to get a good drawing down first. It was harder to concentrate while getting the same pose in the mirror.

Jekyll skater revisited

2008-03-22T20:48:00.000-07:00

still mucking around with this character I started in silver's class. I tried this figure with the "Melvin" head.
I've also been doing these lessons in flash to try and learn how to animate better. So far it forced me to try a real turnaround of this head. This is more in line with the first drawings I had. You have to click on the picture to see the animated version.

life studies february 2008

2008-03-22T11:43:00.001-07:00

bikini girl

2008-03-19T19:32:00.001-07:00

more preston blair studies: little dog

2008-03-19T19:30:00.000-07:00

caricature 2

2008-03-03T04:53:00.001-08:00

rodney wolf turnaround

2008-03-03T04:52:00.001-08:00