Happy Mother's Day

You should bring home a big gray leather-clad biker dude to show her just just to see what happens.

Teach Yourself Strata!

So this is what I spent all day at work doing. I swear to God, this program makes me miss Maya so much. Please excuse terrible skinning job... that was as good as I could get it without doing horrible things to the computer out of frustration. And it's a really nice Mac, so I don't want to hurt it.

Apparently this is the software they used to make Myst. Or so I hear.

End of the Year

That's right folks! School just got out and I haven't slept real sleep since I woke up on Tuesday morning! Here's a smattering of the stuff that's been zombifying me over the past week.

Face I did in Maya for Digital modelling. It's the bad guy from my Western storyboard sans hair. Made him look kind of like Lex Luthor...


Background for my Muzzle/beak animation done for painting class. Kinda makes me want to get it all cleaned up and coloured just to see how it would look...









Panning layout for painting class. It was intended for us to do our diagonal pan for Johnny's class, but I'd already handed that in, so I just redid a pan I did for first year.

The hero from the old New Zealand-ish zombie movie "Braindead." He was kind of cute in an awkward, skinny, hawk-nosed Englishman-y kind of way. Not for any classes, I was just trying to stay awake until Painting started.

Dolph... just because I like drawing him.

Tank Girl and Lobo

Say cheese.

This is Sparta

'Cause it's not like I had real work to do this week, or anything like that.

Beak & Muzzle semi-cleaned up

I can die now.

Combo Art 2

Pirate Jedi in honour of my good buddy Cap'n Will.











Dancing Reverse Mermaids in bacon skirts as is relevent to Tracy's interests.










Ravenmoose wolftaur eating a rabbit because I miss Manitoba.

Seoras Family

Commissioned stuff for Rametarin on DA. Original characters of his for a monthly webcomic he's trying to get off the ground.

Beak Sync

Posting the bird on his own because the crocodile got a solo clip too. I'll probably post the two of them together sometime within the next couple weeks.

Combo Art 1

Sometimes when I feel like the style or subject matter of my art is getting stale, I brainstorm things that my friends like and combine two of the themes together into one.

Ninja Robot, drawn in honour of Igor's love for all things both mechanical and stealthy.










Cowboy of Barbaria for Steve and his affinity for Westerns and burly, axe-weilding Norsemen.










I guess as long as I'm uploading art that I've done for other people, I may as well throw up this dragon that I did for Adam last semester.

Muzzle Sync

Now whenever I listen to any song from Avenue Q with Rod and Nicky singing, all I can see in my head are my crocodile and plover bird.

He's going to be paired up with the bird when I animate it a couple weeks from now.

Human Lip Sync

After listening to Jack Nicholson say "I'm not gonna hurt'cha!" over and over again, several hundred times at varying speeds I have to say, I completely understand this character's motivation.

Playing With Underpainting

Felt inspired by the concept art from the Bouncer and decided to give underpainting with crazy vivid colours a try. Some gypsy guy, Iggy Pop, and Chad from Bleach, respectively.

Corpse Room Sketches

January 25th was International Draw Severed Human Body Parts in Jars Day. I was out there celebrating, where were you?

Skelefaunidealie

I'm not sure exactly what's happenning there either. Just saw Pan's Labyrinth and I'm riding high on all this inspiration I don't have the skill to utilize well.

Gotta force myself to learn how to make dynamic, interesting compositions.

Twilight Princess Art

My little Brother got Twilight Princess for Christmas and knowing how much of a fan I am, decided that he would only play while I was around and beat the entire game before I leave so that I could see the final battle against Ganondorf. To celebrate him finishing it today, here's a stack of all the art I've done since he started.

Renado with Ooccoo. Renado's great, it's like someone just took all the qualities I like to draw and mashed them into one character. That said, it's not a great drawing of him, couldn't think of anything interesting to do. I just wanted an excuse to draw Ooccoo, she's as bizarre as you can get and still be completely adorable.



And just 'cause I wouldn't be the Kelly you all know and love without Ganondorf cheesecake, have some Ganondorf cheesecake. I'm trying to force myself to try different colouring styles, and this was like pulling teeth. I dunno, I barely got it this finished before I just got sick of it and decided it was as done as it was ever going to get. I'm thinking of using the lineart to do a better version sometime in the future.


I love love LOVE Ooccoo. She has that stubbly little fluffy chicken body and she gobbles when she runs... She's weird looking, but she's still the cutest little alien-headed chicken harpy I've ever seen.








Dag, yo. For a little three-foot imp thing Midna's got some serious boo-tay.


... Just wanted to draw Midna and had to come up with something to do with all the empty space...






Yeah... the postman was a fun guy.

New batch of tablet art

Just so you guys don't think I'm slacking off over the break. Did these since I got back, all on the tablet in photoshop, most of them this morning.

Character belongs to Livejournal's Rantingmule. I signed up for a character art exchange thing and got him this month. It was fun to draw, he's supposed to be this muscular, shaggy-haired, scarred, tattooed junkie, so basically the sort of thing I always draw when I'm left to my own devices. I had higher hopes for this picture, but it refused to turn out the way I wanted... so, meh. Did it over the course of an evening or two between bouts of sickly napping.




House/Wilson stuff, because someone told me they wanted to see more of it. And if someone tells me to draw something, it's usually pretty likely I'll draw it for them. Spent about twenty minutes on it.








Vega's great, he's my favourite Street Fighter character. I would (.... /have...) bought the games entirely for his presence in them. Played with the perspective in this one, but wasn't overly satisfied with the results. Meddled with the anatomy to the point where his abs kind of started to pudge out. I dunno, despite all that I'm not overly offended by the end product. About an hour or so of doodling this morning while I watched inane talk shows on CTV.




People say I should draw more women, so I tried my hand at one of those pink haired Elfen Lied things that always seem to be having their limbs torn off. Tinkered with it for a few hours but ultimately got bored of it and left it as it was.
On that note, the cartoon wasn't bad. Kind of an overly-cutesy style for a cartoon about people being torn limb from limb, but meh. I have to say I got a kick out of the way the character's horns changed dimensions every time they moved their heads, though.


Felt like drawing Sailor Moon.

Felt like making her look less... Aryan...


Started this late last night sometime, finished early this morning.






Bryan said he likes Harley, so I drew Harley.

Maybe half an hour of doodling sometime this morning. After Sailor Moon, before Vega.








So the moral of this story is, catch me in the right mood and suggest something to me, chances are I'll draw it for you. Also, even when completely incapacitated by illness I still can't stop drawing.

I should force myself to be more like Igor and experiment with digital painting instead of just doing the same sort of stuff over and over again. Gotta let go of those inhibitions, just get messy and figure things out.

Expression Change

Last project of the year, I'm animating whatever I want. Just big tough men beatin' each other up and acting like sucks. Yeah. That held my attention long enough to keep me awake for 80 straight hours.

New Links, Doodles

Hey! We're getting into the holiday season, aren't we? Time to start celebrating, Squiddums style!

And by that, I mean draw a scribbly, unfinished picture of two men groping each other and put it on the internet! Add a sprig of what could pass off as holly for extra festive appeal.

Aww, I want it to be Christmas time.




Went about reshuffling my links. I made a list for sites our instructors have, webcomics I like, and general interest stuff that would be separate from the fellow student stuff. I stuck a link to my livejournal up since this place is just for art and I tend to post a lot of jokes I find, amusing flash cartoons, Youtube links and the like there.

So far I've managed to track down Mayerson's blog and Emslie's online portfolio, but if anyone knows of sites any of our other instructors have I'd much appreciate links. The Unofficial Animation Archive is great because it's full of model sheets. If you know any needy first years working on their head rotation assignments, it's a good place to send them. Mad Creator Productions is the illustrator Gris Grimly's site, who is one of my favourite artists. As I track down sites for them I'm hoping to build up a good crop of links to internet galleries for artists I like there (By the way, if anyone knows of a website devoted to Stephen Gammel, I would love you forever if you passed on the link). The Supernatural Image Board is kind of cheesy, but it's a great place to track down spooky reference photos. 99Rooms is there for the same reason, but it's much more artistically done as well as entertaining. Maybe a bit unnerving if you visit it late at night, alone, in the dark.... Retro Junk is a fun site for the nostalgia value.

Other than that, I just stuck up a couple webcomics I enjoy. Girls With Slingshots and Ugly Hill are pretty standard gag strips. Red Meat is made from a series of cut-and-pasted comic templates with different text. A little like Dinosaur comics except far more disturbing. Perfect Stars is a marker-drawn art deco style strip.


Now, as long as I'm updating this thing I may as well add some art. Not much to show off at the moment, besides some scribbly notebook doodles.

Fuzzy Llama thing, Billy Idol and Iggy Pop as five AM dictates I should draw them, and a fish guy I started that isn't really going anywhere. Just so people know I'm still drawing.

Cranberries

My story for storyboarding class. Depending on how the leica turns out, I may post that here next week, but for now here are the drawings I used in my pitch a couple weeks ago.



Cranberries is the heartwarming tale of a girl and her zombie, who unintentionally ended up looking kind of like Nemesis if he really let himself go.We open with the little girl standing outside a TV salesplace of sorts, watching as the newscaster warns people that the zombie scourge has put the public on red alert.

Hearing footsteps behind her, she turns around to find herself face-to-.... belt buckle with a hulking tank-of-a-zombie.

Lucky for her he's a friendly zombie! The two go off to find a park to play at somewhere.

Unfortunately, the zombie plays too rough for the little girl, and she ends of on the bad end of many unfortunate playground mishaps. She tells off the zombie and sends him away, not wanting to be his friend anymore. He leaves, alone and dejected.

The zombie turns back to look at her one last time and sees that she is about to be hit by a truck! He runs into the road and pushes her out of the way just in the nick of time!

Unfortunately, zombies are not made of tough stuff. The zombie is left as a gooey pile of organs on the pavement. The little girl cries for the loss of her friend, but the trucker shows up with an idea...

Cut back to the park later that day. The little girl os on the swingset with the zombie, wrapped up in duct tape, pushing her. Fade to black and happy ending and all that jazz.


Awww.