Did I say "soon"?

Okay, here comes a whole load of stuff I've been working on. I'll try and break it up into smaller posts so I can feel like I've accomplished something.

A lot of portfolio stuff has been going on, trying to get the best work I have up on my portfolio site so that employers think I'm a real artist or something.  Anyway, so all of my time has been split between drawing for portfolio, sleeping, eating, and drawing stuff for myself so I don't go crazy (while thinking I should be drawing stuff for my portfolio instead of goofing off. Sigh...)

Alas, there is little point in drawing all this stuff if nobody gets to see it. So here goes!

This was already posted, but look how nice they are all on one page now!

First half of life drawing assignment. Reinterpreting life drawings into characters.

Second half of life drawing assignment. Accidental Simon Pegg. Completely unintentional, I promise.

Trying to draw in different styles than I usually do. Or at least to try things that I normally wouldn't.

Revamped first year assignment! Much better now that I know what I'm doing (somewhat)

Because you have to draw your favouritest artist in the whole world at LEAST once

Too busy making art to show people to show people the art I'm making.

It's a horrible cycle, you see. Working on portfolio has you drawing every day as much as you can. So much so that you can't be bothered to upload it anywhere. I need to find some sort of balance.

I was about to go to sleep at an almost decent hour, but then I had an idea I NEEDED to draw. Stephen Colbert + Jon Stewart= Awesome Bromantic Team. Sherlock Holmes + John Watson = Awesome Bromantic Team. .: Stephen Colbert + Jon Stewart= Sherlock Holmes + John Watson???

So now I'm going to bed at a ridiculous-er hour. I hope you're happy, whoever looks at my art. I might never get around to finishing this, simply because it's too ridiculous to actually use for anything. Expect a VERY large dump of portfolio work coming up soon!

Demo Reel Time

The time has finally come for me to make a demo reel. This feels almost like some sort of coming-of-age ritual. Now I am a man, for I have made a short video which briefly shows some of the things I am capable of. And, behold, I shall show it unto potential employers and they will see that I am a mature...animationstoryboardingemployee-person.

Action Analysis

Oh boy, it's done (temporarily removed to fix).

Action Analysis Concept

Pretty much that ^ We had to do 5 pages of just thinking and experimenting with colour or characters or bg or whatever. I chose to do mostly characters stuff and one fancier coloured background (then some experimenting with different colours). Anyway, it took a long time and I am very tired. Good night, everybody. 

Heroes and Villains vs SAI!

Okay, so I finally went for it and bought SAI Painter (an older edition). It's a Japanese program, so you actually buy from a Japanese site; about 5000 yen, or 70-ish dollars. Anyway, the point is it is TOTALLY worth it. It's amazing. I'd heard it was good, but THIS GOOD?? Very, very good. Allow me to explain.

I haven't been using my tablet very much. I only bought it when I came to this school and even so I haven't used it for everything, I still preferred using pencil and paper over Photoshop. I always thought my lines in Photoshop were too clunky, not really going where I wanted, and colouring in was such a pain! You needed to go around the edges to fix all the white pixels and UGH. What a hassle.

Using SAI is completely different. It feels like a much better connection with movement on tablet -> what you get on screen. Or maybe the way it applies it is just much more like what I expect to see? If that makes any sense. And it's just a much more pleasant experience over all. I have only used it for 4 drawings and already I am in love.

Enough about SAI, though, here's some art. It's for our Life Drawing assignment about Heroes and Villains. I guess I'm a story person, because before I could design characters I had to imagine a place for these three characters to be in the first place. First I thought: Superheroes. But then the teacher told us it didn't necessarily need to be Mr. Incredible everywhere, just someone with hero-like qualities or villainous qualities. So then my mind went to these two battling FBI agents, possibly fighting over the third. As if the third has information of some kind or is valuable to both agencies in some way. I knew I could do anything with these character designs, and I didn't want to to something like I always do...

So, instead, I decided to challenge myself. For some reason I always draw white men. Why? I dunno. But it's true. So I decided this time it would be three different WOMEN of different races. And I just went from there. When I had finished the drawings on paper I didn't really like them, but I thin the colours and more decisive line have helped quite a bit. Now I am all right with them. That's the best you can expect from an artist, right? Right. Yes. Right.

Without further adieu, the art!

BONUS ART: Me :) Why not.

Action Analysis Storyreel First Pass

Exactly what the title says. This all has to be redone, of course. Just something to get a rough idea for the final piece.