Wednesday, June 04, 2008

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.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

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!

Friday, May 23, 2008

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.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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.

Monday, May 12, 2008

POSEIDON



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

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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.

Monday, April 28, 2008

centaurs

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

Thursday, April 24, 2008

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.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

hillbilly for art jumble


This is a little something I did for Art Jumble.

Friday, April 18, 2008

horse study


I need to draw a centaur for this Mythology project. I could count the number of times in my whole life that I have ever drawn horses on one hand. So it goes without saying that I needed to do a quick study of the body of a horse.

Monday, April 14, 2008

TALOS

The man made of brass.

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

morning metro ride

I saw this guy the other day on the subway on the way to the studio.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Demeter colored

With a flat application of water color.