General Ursus cleaned and colored

Still need to work on the bg.

GENERAL URSUS rough sketch

I took the face from my Gorilla Design and turned him into a character from Planet Of The Apes. Wait until this piece is finished, it'll be awesome! This is one of my favorite movies ever. The sequels were progressively worse, but they did have some good characters, like General Ursus. I loved the TV series too. There was different gorilla General in the TV show, General Urko, I thought he was great also. How can you not like a huge scary gorilla soldier?

blue gorilla sketch...UPDATED

Updated...again: finished, with color and a bit of photoshop brush work.
Update: Cleaned and vectorized.

quick sketch of a silverback

feeling sheepish

Yep, those are side burns on the male... mutton chops, I guess. Literally.

rhinos

This is how you introduce a character!

I figured the funniest way to introduce the main character was to introduce him 'ass first', as my girlfriend so eloquently phrased it.

Blue Whales

The rough sketch of the blue whales look totally different from the finished version above. Blue whales are very distinct looking. I could have just gone with a cartoony non-specific whale species, like in the rough drawing, it really would not make a difference. In cartoons, a whale is a whale.

Running...

...from weird flying elephant things.

no pockets = no money

When your pants want to go one way...

...and you don't!

dinos and a horse

Here's the T-Rex colored.

rex sketches

Here's a little insight into how I like to work. I did a rough sketch of the T-Rex in my sketch book with a good old fashioned col-erase pencil. Then I import the sketch into flash and put him with a cleaned up character, so that I am working with the correct size relation. Then digitally sketch over the scanned pencil sketch. I will sketch all the expressions and poses needed according the storyboard, and then clean and color it.

You're not the boss of me

who's there?

Cleaned, colored and fixed proportions.


The proportions are way off on this sketch, his head is too small, his legs are too long. I'll fix all that as I vectorize it.

sad pants