Asteroid mining town!

Here's a quick layout sketch for our upcoming comic. All freehand, and all orange.

BUBBLE SHOT OKAY!

Wow, this looks AWESOME! But it's completely wrong. For some reason when I upload .jpegs the colors are adjusted negatively - but this colorful accident I'll post because it's kinda wicked. I'll post the actual version once I figure out the noobish mistake I made when posting.

EDIT: Saved the file accurately and so the top image (the blue one) is the actual image. This is my first 3D model, created in Illustrator and then brought into Painter and Photoshop for editing.

Technical Illustration just started. Second year, and it's amazing. More school work to come, alot of variety ranging from animal anatomy to orthographic and isometric casters. Fun!

Delayed Life Drawing

Pose times respectively:

2o minutes
1 minute
10 minutes
1 minute
2 minutes

Some of these I chose because I like the energy of the drawing, rather than the technical prowess *cough cough* such as the drawing with no legs... nice gesture though! I wanted to put these up before the new semester begins, so I can compare what I did last semester to the improvements I will make this semester. Everyone come out to extra-life this year! It's great practice and the best learning experience for observation and drawing.

Diesel and Daphne

These are some quick sketches which are then converted into quick paintings. I found an awesome new brush that simulates an excellent oily marker effect, which yields a strict linear brush stroke. As well, playing around with some perspective stuff with the girl. I hope to post a broader range of my process, rather than two steps of sketch and finished product. I will be a tutor this year for any of the digital classes, and possibly life drawing (if I have the time). So feel free to e-mail me if you want me as a tutor, and make sure to request me through the Sheridan Career Centre.

Yay, something else to look at!

Okay, so here's a "comic" book cover I finished up for a story called...The Shepherds..dun dun dun!!! It involves a young girl and her dog who are obligated to be their families shepherds, and watch over - whatever things they watch over in space...dun dun dun!!!

Here's some cool facts/factoids! Shepherds are usually the last siblings of the family, because the elder siblings either received inheritance, got married or are just waaay cooler then the youngest runt in the lot. Because of this, the last born becomes the families shepherd and wanders alone, watching over the herd. When alone and with nature at all times, a shepherd becomes pure and untainted by society which is why shepherds have such an iconic background within many religions. There's an awesome Dutch painting (I wish I had a link, I'll get one) depicting a shepherd who is barefoot and in the tall grass and dirt, yet her feet are clean. An excellent visual of this magnificent character.

So - these shepherds (the girl in space and her dog with an engine attached to his back) are set up in space...and they don't herd sheep....dun dun dun!!! And why does her dog need an engine anyways?! We will just have to wait and see....

Thanks for stopping by!

Maybe this is better?

I haven't posted in a billion years, but we DID get a comic finished and printed....

HERE!!! He's happy, but he is not complete!!!

Check our comic out at www.uvcomics.blogspot.com. It's what I've been working on with my friend Sagan, for like the past 7 months and why I haven't posted in ages. THE END! Here's a silly creature.

Perspective is awesome!

So here's a "movie poster" I'm working on for Cleopatra. Cool times! I was playing around with an environment, taking some creative liberties with Egyptian architecture and then later on rendering it and adding Cleopatra into the scene. She's lit completely different because I created her seperately, so when it's all done the lighting should unify the image. Take a good look at my sexy line quality, because the environment and perspective is all free-hand. Rulers and T-squares are for the weak!

Final Portfolio: First Semester

Here are some pieces from my portfolio within December 2007. These are good examples of my first attempt at rendering using the crazy "smudging" techniques. It's all new and cool to me, and it's quite an effective method to get a rendered drawing down in 10-20 minutes. This last one, or the one closest to this paragraph - is the last drawing I did on the last week of school - therefore it is technically my greatest drawing with all of my skill and experience combined. Of course...this is only the beginning, and I have so much to learn and so much to struggle with.

It was all fun and games...

...until all the pictures I took were much too blurry. Gah! So, I won't have any pieces from my current life drawing portfolio except for this one, right here.

For this portfolio we are required to have many rendered or "shaded" figures. I don't like rendering, because I was never good at it, and I always stuck to my straight-ass lines. But, my roommate (4th animator, awesome) showed me some elite tips on how to attack the drawing. Unfortunately none of those examples are here, so you will just have to look at this drawing for a prolonged period of time to make up for all the other images that didn't make it. Enjoy!

(If anyone is curious - I will get the portfolio up later, but I need to hand it in this week, so possibly within the next two weeks I will have the drawings up. Oh, and this was a 10 minute pose, cha ch-cha!)