sliced bread head and chicken lady

I was asked to design an old woman character, very typical, very uninteresting; as I sketched her jowls and wrinkled chin, a chicken came to mind. So I designed her as a chicken lady. I blame this one on the medication too. There was no way the producer and director were going to accept this. I made a normal old woman into a chicken! I emailed the design anyway, knowing full well it is not at all the character I was given a description of. You can imagine my shock when they told me they liked it. I got away with it again! Bread Head and Chicken Lady!

nerd chic

She's not a nerdy chick, she's nerd chic (pronounced SHEEK).

who needs hair...

...when you have sliced bread!!!! I blame this on all the medication I have been taking. I pinched a nerve in my back and was literally paralyzed for a week. Then in week 2 of the pinched nerve I took tons of muscle relaxants and pain killers, the pills allowed me to stand up and do some work at my computer, but they made me pretty loopy. I came up with this design during that time. The character description I was given made no mention of his hair, bread hair or otherwise...that was all me baby!! I was pretty sure the producer and the director would take one look at this and think I was crazy. But to my surprise...they loved it! Go figure.

with or without an outline

I always found suits and ties to be somewhat surreal. I hate neck ties, I hate wearing suits. But I love drawing them!

get your motor runnin'

size chart

The cast thus far.

inspired by Mark Twain

This guy needs some more work, but this is the direction I am going with him; he's sort of a bird/Mark Twain/mechanical contraption.

the rough sketch

good ol' COL-ERASE 20043 brown

mix and match

With or without wings? Flying or walking? 1 eye, 2 eyes, 3 eyes, or many eyes? Horns or no horns?

same 3 colors in 3 different ways

I only used 3 colors here, and switched them up. I like the orange one on the right best.

inspired by Professor Sumner Miller

Still needs a ton of work on this guy, but this is a starting point of where I want to go with this guy. This is actually the second version of this guy, the first was too much a caricature of Sumner Miller, his face looked just like Professor Miller's, so I changed his head, but kept the hair and the crazed look and the overall feel of Professor Sumner Miller. At least I hope I did.

options

just some early ideas and options, different colors, different hair styles, with and without horns, and different head gear; a toque, an aviator cap, and Axl Rose's hat

more vectored development stuff

an office cubicle guy

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.