56th Post - Finished Clay

Now that my little clay man is all baked up, I decided to slap on some acrylic paint, and snap a few pictures to show off.

I made the glasses just by twisting and curling some wire, then jabbed it into his head.

If I make more of these little guys, I'll have to work on a way to get the classes in and out without damage to the head, which I've been dealing with. The sides are quite weak and crumbly, but with a little glue, it'll hold.

Let's hope my brother likes it.

That's all, folks.

55th Post - Playing with Clay

Recently, since my courses are done for the holiday (for the most part) I've found myself with a lot of spare time, and clay, on my hands.

Making things out of clay (characters, maquettes, and the like) is something I've always had an interest in.
I picked up a brick of gray clay, and a box of sculpey from the college supply store ages ago, and only now thought to mix the two together.

The gray brick had the consistency of...well, a brick. It took around 15 minutes just to get the clay kneadable, and it was hell on the hands.

The sculpey was flesh-toned, and I found to be too oily, or at least, to have too much moisture.

 I'm sure there are occasions when this would be preferable, because it made using it very easy, but I just found it to be too soft.

Therefore, I, being the creative genius that I am, decided to  mix the two materials together!

Elementary, my dear Watson.

I'm sure a much smarter person would've done this long ago, but we won't get into that today.

And why did Sherlock call Watson "my dear"?

Anyway, back to the experiment.

 I'm still working on ways to get the clay just right, and to get a proper maquette that will survive the baking process. I've some...crumbly disasters.

I'm semi-planning on making a little clay figure, and painting it up, for my elder brother (in the beer bottle) for Christmas.

If it doesn't work out, it's not the end of the world.

Anyway, just a little update. Doing lots of sketching and doodling, working with the idea of a Conan-esque character. Perhaps sometime I'll upload some scans of those.

That is all, my freaky little darlings.

54th Post - Mission Hill meets Pirates of The Carribbean

For another drawing jam, we had to do Pirates of The Caribbean in the style of Mission Hill. Really tried to go for the style a bit, here.

53rd Post - Philippe's Peaceful Ride

Here we have a couple characters I did up for a Scriptwriting and Story-boarding project.

And here is a rough version

52nd Post - December?

It's December.

Officially.

Where did November go, and where did this sudden snow come from?

Anywho, things are going alright. Working away at projects and doing oodles of doodles.

That is all.

51st Post - Another Sketch Dump

Above we have a little doodle I did up to use up the rest of a page, I just scanned the corner to capture it.

Below, we have another drawing jam. The theme was that of a Renaissance Fair, and I admit, I took a little liberty with the expression.
Har Har.
It only made it that more awesome.


This is a little character I've been drawing a lot of recently, just for fun.







Here we have a little sketch I whipped up, based on a Glen Keane (I believe) drawing.

I wanted to try to figure out the basic construction of
Ze Beast.

Then I shaded the crap out of it with a pencil.

50th Post

Here we have a rough little sketch I did up for a storyboarding assignment. We have to tell a scene with two characters in 5-15 panels, with no dialogue.

I coloured him quickly in Photoshop.

I like his mustache.

That is all.

47th Post - Brad

Here we have a little doodle I did up of one of my friends, Brad. Intrepret it as you please, screaming amidst a caffeine high, or trying to get a character animated correctly.
Did a quick doodle, then coloured it in Photoshop.
That's about all.

46th Post

Here we have an updated version of my two previous characters from storyboarding, the surfer and the ice cream man. These were whipped up from a base sketch, then put into Photoshop and Illustrator for a quick trace-over and colour job.
That's about all.

45th Post - Speedy Express

My buddy Steve had to do up an alternate intro for the old Superman toon, only with different audio.



He came to me for my lovely voice ( I've been doing a lot of voices for people, lately), and I pitched him a European/German one that he liked and we went with.

44th Post - Rocketknight!

Here we have another drawing jam. The subject was Jousting, and the style was The Last Unicorn, which I didn't feel like applying. I had fun with this one nonetheless.
That's all.

43rd Post - Musketeer

Here we have yet another Drawing Jam assignment, the subject being The Three Musketeers in Dexter's Lab style. I neglected the style, as well as the other two Musketeers. I whipped up a little sketch and coloured and filtered the crap out of it in Photoshop.

That's all.

42nd Post - Ghostbustin'

I've wanted to do up a version of myself as a Ghostbuster for awhile, so, I did! And I also coloured it up in Photoshop.

That is all.

41st Post - The Shadow Knows

I decided I wanted to do up a little sketch to one of my favourite classic comic characters, The Shadow. Did up a pencil sketch, then coloured and fooled around with it in Photoshop.

That's all.

40th Post - Monty Python & Gorillaz Drawing Jam

Did these sketches up for the drawing jam in around 5 minutes, coloured them quickly in Photoshop. I like the 2nd one.
That's about all.

39th Post - Some quick Characters

Just dropping off two characters I whipped up rather quickly for Script Writing class. We had to design characters set to a piece of music.
I came up with an Ice Cream Man, and a Surfer.

That is all.

38th Post - John Cleese Podcast and Supernews

Just felt like sharing a couple recent discoveries I've come across, the first, being a podcast by none other than one of my favourite Pythons, John Cleese. The second is a fun little cartoon I've become quite fond of, called Supernews.
Both are definitely worth checking out!
Do it up!

That is all.

37th Post - Life Drawing Sketch Dump

Just dropping off some new sketches from Life Drawing class, I think they're lookin' pretty good!

These are done with a variety of materials, like pencil, grease pencil, and brush pen, with poses varying from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.

36th Post

If you want bigger, better views, just give one of these little babies a click.

A caricature of the Manager from the Hotel where I was working.



Some Star Wars-y things. Me, in SW Style,
and a version of Han Solo ( I guess ) with a wonky hand.




I was thinking... "Miami Vice" or, something...something with a gun, anyway.




And here we have a Knight done up for the Drawing Jam, from The Tudors.


so, I'm retaking some courses I didn't do so well in last year, and it's going well, and I'm already improving a lot (I'm told)
So, all is well.

That is all.
Just a sketch dump for things I've done over the summer.