Out with the old

So I took the time to dig up some things to post from the end of the school year. I couldn't get all of it, one because it is just too much uploading time for me to care, and some of it because my Mac won't let me use the filetypes or convert them in order to access the stuff.

This is my flipbook page i submitted, i believe all of the drawings from it have been up here at some point.

The steps of my 'Chameleon's Christmas Card'. hand draw, to digital clean up, to gray tones on top of the background.

Final painting for painting class, done digitally. With ares shouting up at another mysterious statue of a ram god.

The pose sheet for Ares to compliment the facial expressions I posted earlier.

I'm also posting 2 videos on my youtube account. I was hoping to upload all my animations but they are the wrong filetype and I can't convert them from my filetype.

Anyways, enjoy. That means you Noam and Nicole, since you're the only ones that will probably read this.

Write, and rewrite, until it's right

Basically I want to write something great for down the road when I have the time and ability to create something good. So I come up with all these short stories, and just write, and rework them in my head all day until I get fed up with them, and then I just let them sit around for a while. As soon as I'm happy with one enough that I want to board it out, I will /promise.

Anyways, I decided that while I work out the stories, I could still play with character designs. Here's a few drawings before I go to sleep.

Oh look it's Djonar. Ok I didn't change his design really, I just needed to practice drawing.

The rest are for Mesmer. So far what I got is a little dragon, is trying to figure out if he's a monster or not (Monster as in the villainous way medieval dragons are portrayed). And he get's turned into a boy. I've written out the story almost completely in about 5 or so completely different ways. Like COMPLETELY different. But I keep making each version too long. I'm sort of getting fed up with it. But I love his design, cause it's me when I was 6, lol (I think I talked about that in an older post).

Ok and for anyone dedicated enough to keep reading. I saw UP, and I loved it. Especially the short 'Partly Cloudy'. I think the best part about Pixar's approach to story is the way they repeat elements throughout a story. They'll introduce something in the beginning, that really is small, but you know it's important, because they make it important. And I'm always impressed by how they reintroduce things. Like the grape soda pin in UP, and the football helmet in Partly Cloudy. You just have to watch the movies to get what I'm talking about.

I also have to say, 3D animation is too impressive. As a student I understand traditional is the best way to go, to learn about good design, and posing, and shot composition, but making a feature film, 3D is just amazing. You could literally see all the threads in Russel's clothes. Like no one doing it traditionally can do that. At the beginning of the year I didn't feel that way, but now I don't know where I stand on the debate between traditional and 3D.

Oh, and Jon and Kate plus 8 is too interesting. Blogging complete.

Am I Nickelback...

Cause you should "Look at this photograph!"

Lol ok, so a semi-interesting post with some semi-interesting photos. Basically I work all day bagging dirt, and cow poop and such. And hence I get a thin film covered on me by the end of my 11 hour day. So on my way home, me and my dad passed by some deer in a field. So he decided to take a picture, but our camera is awful, and can't really zoom. So I told him I'd go get the picture. And cause they really can't smell 'me', they just let me walk right up

This first one has me at about 40 ft. which is about 5 ft. from the road.

Around 15 or so

And me at 8 ft. which, is sad cause I'm so close for what the final picture is.

Not much of a post

Hurray summer has started, and yet I still have no free time. I've already started working, and therefore I'm really sore and tired everyday, so I'm not really up for drawing. (Not to mention my hands are all dry and gross :'( )

To make up for it though, I pass the time at work writing short stories in my head all day.

But I finally took the time to figure out how to link to other blogs on mine. I added a few already of the people's I check regularly. Pretty much if you check all of them, one of them will have updated today. And I added the follow this blog gadget, why don't you do that, since you're already here.

I do want to do some story sketches really soon, so those will probably come up here before the month ends. And I have probably 6 assignments from the end of the year I could post up. There really isn't a lack of content, I'm just lazy. Oh, and I'm tan now, lol.

Have a good summer everyone!

ares heads

these bad boys took around 30 min to an hour a piece, I hope you like em. This is half of the character design assignment. I'll try and do the other half tomorrow

more aries/ares

just the rest of the roughs I did today. Cleanups on the weekend.

Something is just weird with this last one. I think he needs to be bending in the torso or something.

lol

Been working for a couple of hours on character expressions. I got all 8 done, so now I'll be doing poses. But I thought I'd put these 3 up cause they're all on 1 page. I got a bunch of stuff to put up like animations, and that final product for the chameleon but It'll have to wait for another day. And I'll make sure this project is put up too. I think I'll be doing digital clean ups.

Keeping it interesting.

Such a fun week, wish I had actually done some work though. I did go into school and finish most of my layout assignment today, and I'll probably get half the animation one done tomorrow. Things should work out just fine.

I've been feeling guilty having not posted really any drawings in a while, so I decided to stop being lazy, get up from bed and walk the 3 feet to my drawing desk and pick up a collection of drawings from scrap papers, and my last sketchbook.

It is really meticulous work throwing things together like this, considering I don't have photoshop, ugh so painful. And I'm sorry about the quality, but cellphone camera is so much more convenient then individual scans.

First group is just random designs I like. I keep getting in and out of a grove of how I like to draw people. I think it just has to do with a clash between learning about differnet facial structures, and keeping with a design sense. So I always get a few good drawings, and then a ton of ugly ones where the harmony doesn't hit right.

YEAH RAMS. Working on Ares, these were a couple of older designs the very bottom right one being the most recent.
The rest of the drawings are all classroom sketches. The first 3 though of Bijan I think will lead into something, where I'll just draw him once a week, and see how weird and different I can do it each time. The one in the middle which looks the most realistic was one of the first tries, and now they're becoming more jokey.
The kings are just there cause Eyassu keeps saying I'm subliminally drawing Kyle, so they belong with the rest of the studies I guess.

I also just gotta put this out there. Always take careful consideration of what type of sketchbook you buy. It makes all the difference. I bought one that was giving me this horrible choppy quality, and smudged so easily. And it just shattered my confidence and possibly made me unlearn some drawing ability, cause I've just been trying to use the thing up, and I don't really care what goes in it, cause I hate the thing. 

quick post

Gonna work all day on character design, finished a bunch of sketches, but I like tossing up head turns on this blog. I guess this is a model sheet for this character

Another painting

Ok, I truly do not paint a lot, and I have a bunch of subway sketches and stuff I could throw up, but it's always nicer/easier to just put more finished work on here, even though it's horribleh.

Anyways, this is the painting done for the still life requiring a reflective surface, and a drapery. I may touch it up a bit before I hand it in.

Now onto the real reason I'm posting. Congrats me, another birthday!

I like to think that I'm now a man 20 years in the making, and eventually when I'm finished all of life's little quirks will make me into something awesome.

The last week being home gave me a lot of time to think, and too much has happened in the last month. The good thing about it is now I've decided to finish off some long term work. Up til now my goal was just getting into animation. That's done. I know I always have to keep working at it, but I can be doing other stuff that coincides. For instance I have a story I've been working on for four years, In which I mean I think about it everyday, and occasionally jot down ideas, but I never actually have finished it to a point I can give it to someone else to read. I'm also going to get in better shape. I was doing really well at the beginning of the year, and once I stopped, I just started waking up later, so I'm done with that nonsense. And I have a bunch of books to read, instead of wasting time looking at comedy on the internet. Oh, and me and a few friends should have a film in the works, for the summer.

Now that I think about all that, I'm just going to hang up that still life painting somewhere I have to see it everyday, so I remind myself of everything I have to do.

I'll make sure the next post has a lot of cool drawings, and is less bloggy.