Elwood in the Snow

A work in progress that I've kind of abandoned for reasons... anyway, enjoy what I did so far!

Trooper Leica Reel

The final animatic for end of semester hand in:

watch in high quality

Arms and Hands

Nebula, in Progress

A star field background with some nebula action going on. Nothing too flashy or eye catching, there's going to be some foreground activity I don't want overshadowed. The first picture in this post, actually.

Hands 'R' Us

Dog Breath

I liked the inks from this strip, but some of it got lost when shrunk down. Particularly the snowflakes. So he's a bigger version for you all!

Vote

Would have been better if I had some American coinage...

More Poses

Quick Poses

Some five minute poses...

Life Drawing, Legs

I might start using the A3 scanner in our studio for this stuff. Photographs never come out well when the paper's not perfectly flat and with crap light sources.

Background Concepts

Some ideas and concepts for backgrounds. Nothing final here, just experiments.

Friday's Life Drawing

If you're interested, you can see some alternate angles of these and my two previous posts here:
http://megpark.blogspot.com/2008/10/life-drawing.html

Elwood on Sax

Been listening to some jazz today.

Elwood in Tree

Lying

30 minute poses.

Trooper Turnaround

A rough turnaround of Trooper, the character in my current animation project. A few bits are a little wonky, and I was brush inking this with caffeine shakes so the lines are a little off aswell.

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EDIT: Re-inked.

Likeness

Max with Brush

As I mentioned before I'm keen to let go of my Wacom and get some more stuff done on paper. Well here's another attempt at brush inking, using a Faber-Castell brush pen, with emphasis on different line widths.

Once I get some more practice I might feel like spending the money on some nice bristol or something, which should, maybe, possibly, in a fair world, improve the quality a little. Although I still need to learn to get faster, smoother strokes, or find some way of keeping my hand/arm extra steady.

Hatching, there's another thing I need to look into. I've done it very sketchy here, not sure if I like it. This is all the Beano's fault! I saw some original artwork up close recently and was just blown away by the quality of it. As a kid I never really appreciated what went into these drawings. Although I'm sure a lot of it gets lost when it's shrunk way down and printed cheaply.

I don't have any pictures to show some of the excellent line work on the characters but this is a nice example of the kind of quality these kids' comics have/had (I haven't seen a recent one in a decade).

Oh, and while writing this I realised Max has the Batman logo on his tag...

More to follow!

Grime

Trooperball

A quick visual knock up for a course project. I'm borrowing this character from another project of mine, but she may change a bit during the production.

Street

Dundee Law

I found an old sketch I wanted to upload it, but it was pretty smudged and dirty. So I decided to ink it, which lead to colouring and well, here's the result. This parodic character gets his name from this so there's a bit of a pun in there too.

3D Photos

A selection of 3D images I've created; some new, some old. You'll need 3D glasses for these to work of course... or perhaps some coloured celophane (left eye red, right eye cyan).