Dustin' off the ol'blog. (Again!)

Hey Bryan!  Here's an idea!  Post things on your blog more than just every few years!

I've been drawing some stuff over the last little while (YEARS) but for some darn reason never post anything!  Here's a quick example of some stuff I did for the 9 Story Entertainment Art Challenge, the topics here were 'Ninjas vs Zombies' and 'Dinosaurs vs Luchadores'! 

In other news, since my last post, I became a co-creator and co-host of the podcast Crash Course in Awesome alongside my friend Ricky.  It's got almost nothing to do with Art but it does cover a wild variety of topics (from Pop Culture, to the Unexplained, to Movies and even real world Survival).  Basically we pick a topic and give a quick Crash Course in it every single week!  Check it out!

Back after a... 'short' break.

With the mindset that I need to get back in the saddle in terms of illustration and creature design I'm happy to post my latest creature/digital painting.

This was the 'Lizard Swamp Monster' design I did for a design studio earlier in the year to be made into a suit for a TV show called Freak Encounters.

They didn't go for my prefered design of this guy, but I had me blend parts of him in with another illustrator's take on the creature, which is probably the version that'll make it into the show.

Anyway, I was pretty happy with my (unused) take on this and wanted to paint something up to show him off. It's good to be back and here's hopin' the next one of these things comes sooner than later.

-BRYAN

"Mattingly, I thought I told you to SHAVE those sideburns!!"

Some explainations/ Shameless self promotion.

Hey-o from a blog that never get's update! Never!

In the interest of protecting the works of myself and Sir Matt Smith and our life changing comic strip 'Generation Y' I've pulled down all posts from this blog containing the comic and it's innocent and Copyright-free contents.

But have no fear dear readers (Mom)! You can still read about the hilarious adventures of Matt, Bryan and the rest over at www.genycomics.com, our very own webcomic site (loaded with accurate copyright information to save ourselves the headache of winning lots of law suits.)

So check it out, tell your friends and, hell, if you feel up to the task become a fan on Facebook- we'll update you when new strips go up and such. Just search Generation Y in your facebook and become a fan!

That's it for me for, well realistically, another year or so.

Boom.

-BRYAN

ANIMAL

This month's Lineitup challenge was to draw up a Muppet... so here's mine!
I've got a pretty sweet idea for a new series of drawings... so stay tuned and keep an eye out for genycomics.com... soon to be launched!

Catch up!

Time for Another catch up! The first ones here are some of the rough work I did for the Gorillaz Challenge, and 2 of the ways it could have ended up!


















The following sketches are some character designs I did for a Design Company. Gotta look Trendy!














And Lastly just character/Creature design i did a little while back!

Gorillaz Challenge

January's Line it Up topic was to draw yourself in the Gorillaz style, and I'm pretty happy with the results I think!

So, Turns out, Forcing yourself to draw like somebody else opens your eyes to new ways of drawing for yourself!

Oh, and for anyone who cares, Derek and I shared the honour of winning the 'You Blew It' award for January, through our little 'drive the moving truck around the city with our back door wide open' fiasco!

"IT'S OOOOOOPENNNNN!!!"

Line it Up Topic 1

Fellow Animator and general Madman Frankie Stellato started up a sketch group and the first topic was Hallowe'en... and here's my submission! Combining my love of Pumpkin Headed characters with my distrust of the Amish!

"Didn't see-me doit!"

Hey Hey,

So here's somethin' of a bi-monthly update... with... more subway sketchin'!

I grabbed new Zelda for DS and despite that occupying a good chunk of my commute time I still found some randoms to draw on the TTC.

Will and Dewitt's going great these days, like Andy said- It's safe to say I'm the greatest Animator since the Beatles.

Bit of a catch up

So it's been a GOOD while since a post, but Frankie got me thinkin' it might be worth throwin' up a few drawings. The info on me is I'm workin' at 2 Presidents Productions workin on the the Warner Bros show 'Will and Dewitt' it'll be on in the states, like, this weekend- but it'll be on YTV sometime soon. It's going really well, it's a Flash show and at first I was having a hell of a time figuring out what they wanted, but these days I'm doin' pretty good I figure.

So I'm drawing when I can and Animating for real money... it's the weirdest thing...

Apple Fritters... *HRRNN*

Been Drawing lots, but it's for work stuff... so it's not really 'post friendly'. Soo... Figured I'd post some new stuff that is! I'd been saving these 3 for painting up and then posting, but things are busy so here goes!

Colours Class

A couple Paints of earlier posts. Done while watchin' Venture Brothers- funny show eh?

Up to 60

S'more creature sketches. I'm up to 60 now... hurray...?

This week in Drawin's.

Continue to work at the Circus... and it's letting me draw like a madman. The first image is the last drawing of that sketchbook i didn't like. Still don't like it. It's a nightmare to draw on and a nightmare to scan.
Thankfully I've moved onto an older one i had that's full of paper like printer paper. SMOOTH. And immediately my stuff started shining again. Some creatures, and a Spidey that i whipped off.

Cafe and Subway Sketchin' May 07.

I've been working Security at 'Cirque Avaia' this month at nights. It's so ridiculiously boring. But i'm getting to draw a bit. Some of these faces are Circus staff. Some from the subway.

Best part about it all is that i'm finally done 7 years of University AND College and I'm working at the Circus. My parents are SO impressed.

Updates!

I figured i'd start posting some of the stuff i've been drawing as of late. I got this smaller sketchbook a little while ago that i thought was so sweet because it was tiny and had a nice pleather cover. Turns out the paper is super rough and i can't draw for shite on it. So i've been powering through it... but what i've got is a bit, i donno, messy.


Some creatures: My 1,2,3 soldier. A sailboat head and bird warrior! And then this rabbit-ish thing.

Quick Post!

Busy Busy these days, figured i'd post SOMETHING, even if they're like a month old. Photoshop paints! An old Kid's Pirate Layout i painted and started really experimenting with Textures in.







Two Cafe Sketches i was quite happy with, these were the first 'real' paints i did. Turned out I had alot to learn painting digitally.

















And Lastly my character 'Carnival' and my quasi-Beast Man painted up. Pretty happy with both of these.

Cafe Sketchin'

Did most of these the same night i became a 'Knight of Strongbow'

Layouts Layouts Layouts

3 Layouts from the Classical Animation Days. The second two being about as different from each other as possible.

Some Progress Pieces

Just to show a bit of my process work. Here's my Cyborg Gorilla from original Model Sheet to Col-Erase and Pencils to the final Photoshoped Version.






We were asked to design a cheerleader, librarian, Mafia Hitman, Trucker, Jock and Lunch Lady. After we'd finished them we were then told to completely re-invent 3 of them. The colours on the last one are done with mostly markers... looking back I wish I'd known digital colouring alot better.





A Layout and the resulting Tonal Study.

Life Drawings

I figured that the one thing this blog was lacking was some actual in studio life drawings so here are a selection of my favorites from the past little while.