Old Cat and a Forest Church Thing

I was working on this forest church thing for my background portfolio, but it's not really going where I want it to. So I took a break and drew a grizzled old cat. I think the background drawing just needs more contrast and a lot more work. I have so much trouble when I actually try to finish something - it looked so good in the color key phase. I'll post it when I actually finish.

Canyon BG

Just putting my background portfolio stuff together, made a canyon. I scanned a storyboard panel I had for a bird flying and used that background as the basis for this. So, final first, storyboard after.

Bit o' ToonBoom fun

Wolf in the woods from EmilyT on Vimeo.

Just playing around in ToonBoom. I even went and made a quick little background. Boy, I really like doing backgrounds - I think I should start applying for those jobs too.

Spaceship

Yep.

Giraffe

I went to the zoo today and drew. But I don't have a scanner here, so I drew this giraffe in Painter.

Tarzan

Supposed to be studying for geology. Ended up drawing Tarzan. These were like... one minute drawings. If that.

His legs looked a little girly to me here, so I put hair on 'em.


Fighting a jaguar.


Something's going on below the trees, whaa?


I'm afraid it's probably painfully obvious that all my knowledge of Tarzan comes from Disney. Oh dear.

It's a Jungle Out There

I won't apologize for my cheesy post title. I seem to be all about the jungles lately. If these images look a little grey, my big monitor seems to have a green cast to it. Or maybe my laptop has a grey cast.



This one is for the animajors blog. The prompt was "She rarely moved unless the handle turned. Then she struck like lightning." It was a bit of an experiment for me.


No jungles here. I think I've been looking at Yacin's storyboards too much. I want to be that cool.

And a close-up which I think I like better.

Floating Castles

Floating castles with skyways and airships. I think I'm going to do this again, but better. These colors turned out mushy. It'll give me a chance to do a better composition too. But I like the idea of roads in the sky.

Blue Forest

Monster in a blue forest. The first one looks right on my big NEC monitor, the second looks right on my little powerbook monitor. The upside of this dual monitor setup is that I can test what colors look like on different monitors, the downside is that then I want it to look the same on all monitors.

Uh Oh Bird

Sketchbookery

I started drawing this today while I was watching TV. I think I've perhaps been looking at Shaun Tan's "The Arrival" too much. Nevermind. You can never look at that book too much. I think I'd like to make a story out of this.


Here are some bats. I was looking at slow motion film of bats flying the other day, and then this came out while I was sitting in class. It's really amazing the way their wings move. Apparently, something about the leading edge of their wing allows them to flap much slower (and stay aloft) than scientists expected. Pretty cool stuff.


And here are just a bunch of random in class drawings. My sense of humor goes weird places when I'm bored. Mostly to chickens, I've noticed.

Run Run Run

Playing with the croit pen and cross hatching. I think jpeg compression was a little unkind to the crosshatching.




The original sketch:

Cat Lady

I drew this for the Animajors Unite blog.

An Eagle

Sometimes I'm animating and I need a break so I open up a new file and just start playing around. This time I was wondering if fills in Flash go "behind" the lines, so that if you take away the lines, you're left with just the colors. It works, but I don't know how to just select lines, so I had to select each one individually and delete it. I'm hoping toonboom can also fill all the way behind the lines so that you can delete the lines and just have color - I like the idea of having the color separate from the line art in case I need to make adjustments. Anyway, this is an eagle I did in Flash. This was quite the ramble for a blog that almost no one reads. :D

Farmer

So, I just discovered the ink stuff in Painter. It's really fun. Here's a farmer.