some development stuff

This is still in it's very early stages. Can't really go into what it is yet, but I am having fun with it.

life drawing week 8

For this session I sat on the floor and did my drawing, still waiting for my art "donkey" bench. Sitting on the floor was a HUGE mistake, my back was hurting BIG TIME during the life drawing session, I put an ice pack on my back as soon as I got home. This morning was bad; my back was in so much pain, I could barely role myself out of bed. On the other hand, it was a good life drawing session, I found the model very easy to draw. No pain, no gain, I guess.

God light

This is from a pilot I did a couple of years ago. The light of God from Heaven shines down upon our two garbage men. This would have been a fantastic show, the direction I was going in was something new and funny. We were really on to something with this...and then it all went down hill. Instead of having a discussion about things, bad decisions were being made by the producer and the creators that I was forced to comply with. Things were not thought out and debated, explained and defended. It's a shame too, because this project had some good potential.

life drawing week 7

I actually ordered an Art School "Donkey" Bench (or "Drawing Horse") to sit on for life drawing. Hopefully I will receive it in a week or two, but until then I will be standing uncomfortably at the easel.

life drawing week 6

I still haven't found a comfortable position to draw in. If I stand and use the easel, my shoulder kills and my back hurts; if I sit, my shoulder hurts even more. And in either of those positions my drawing surface is not at the right height and angle yet. I had the most success years ago at life drawing when I used to sit on a wooden "Donkey" bench. I am thinking I will buy one this week.

life drawing week 5

Frederator featured

I got this in the mail the other day, from the great people at FREDERATOR. Fred Seibert and Eric Homan are class acts. I can listen to Fred talk about animation for ever, glued to every word he says. He's one smart cookie! Always looking to the future, looking for what's new. Thanks Frederator!

Actaeon

More from the mythology project. This guy was a hunter that was turned into a stag by the gods. The hunter becomes the hunted.

life drawing week 3

This week's life drawing went much better than last week. I am still rusty though.

what to do with all these cut-outs?

By the end of this production we will have hundreds of characters, cut out and painted on water color paper. What to do with them? My idea is to pick some of the better ones from each myth, frame them with a colored piece of construction paper behind the character cut outs, and have an art show to sell a few of these pieces of art. There are three of us working on this project Errol Burke, Roxanne Ducharme, and myself. Together we have created some very nice pieces of work. Even if we don't sell anything, an art show is always nice.

POSEIDON

Another stick puppet from the mythology project, and a screen shot of the scene he is in.

life drawing

Tonight I went life drawing. It's been waaaayyyy too long since I last went life drawing, I am horribly out of practice. It'll take a while to get back into the swing of things. Of all the drawings from tonights class, this is the only piece that doesn't completely suck.

centaurs

A centaur named Chiron, from Greek Mythology. He looks pretty good as a stick puppet.

studio pics

Here's my work environment. Pretty messy eh? That's the way I like it. None of the sterile work environments you get at most studios. Those places are more like banks than they are animation studios. We are doing it OLD SCHOOL here on this part of the project, water colors, paper, messy paints. When this part is done, we move onto the new school computer part. The water colors will be replaced with digital programs, the paper with computer monitors.
Excuse the bad pics, they were taken from my camera phone.

hillbilly for art jumble

This is a little something I did for Art Jumble.