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.

Bongo

I went over to the Natural History Museum today and painted this guy. The ever present small children are even more in awe when you draw with a computer.

National Geographic

Working from reference on a couple speed paints. I think the angler fish is more interesting than the snow leopard. The leopard is rather washed out.

Phil Goes Fishing

Spring semester and my sister needed a new planner cover. So here's Phil the penguin going fishing. Whee! Didn't end up unsaturated this time. Too saturated? Nah... it's spring.

Corner of my room

How exciting! The corner of my room. I was trying to get the colors relatively right while keeping a limitedish palette. I dunno about all this color business... It's all rather tricky.

Musk Ox

Went to the Natural History Museum to draw after class today. Whee musk oxen! I had my screen on low brightness to conserve battery, but that means I was seeing darker colors than I was actually drawing with. Oh well.

The Early Years

I was cleaning and I found a lot of drawings from elementary school. I really liked dinosaurs. We had a fun fake airbrush that you used with Crayola markers that I used with a dinosaur stencil.


I also found a ton of these cards with pictures of dinosaurs on them - maybe 20 of them? I made up a lot of dinosaur characters after reading Dinotopia, apparently.


Also, there's my first 3D character from when I was about... 11? I used this weird little program called "3D World" that came with our computer.


I found a million little notebooks that had the first couple pages filled with drawings and the rest blank. I loved notebooks, but I could never keep just one going.