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.

Anatomically Correct Creature!

We went on a field trip to the Guelph University 'Bone Room' (a pretty impressive collection of animal skeletons and anatomy lessons) and we were asked to draw some skeletons and then combine them all into one animal. Mine has the Head of a Ram, Body of an Emu, Arms of a Baboon and Tail of a Cougar

(jeez, feel like i'm talking about Marshal Bravestarr here... and now i've dated myself considerably. )

*sigh*

"...and if we're not home by dawn... call the President"

Got to do some cafe sketchin' during our (too brief) reading week when not locked in my apartment playing the new Zelda (Aaron Hong is a dead man for lending it to me and taking away my life). Anyhoo, I've been told to start thinking more about designing my character's bodies as well as their heads... because there's nothing worse than a sweet head on a crappy body. So here we go on that.

Creatures 48-51

Jeez, made'er past 50. Even though this 'creature a day' idea grew into a 'few creatures a week' deal I'm still happy to be doing them. Here are some deformed dogs (the one on its hind legs is actually based on a video on youtube about a dog with no front legs that learned to walk like this. It's absolutely terrifying watching this thing on a leash.)









And because no good scketchbook is complete without a 'Orc with a broken tooth' sketch.

Older Splash Panels

Here are some splash panels i did for Story Boarding Class around this time last year. We were to draw up 6 panels outlining a story, then after go in and fill in the blanks of the story with more panels. But i won't be posting the rest of them, as they aren't up to par with the rest of my stuff. No sense posting stuff that doesn't look good right?

It's a trick... get an axe

Hoop Heads'n'Sharp Teeth

Realizing a number of my most recent creatures were on the cute side i figured a coulple more dangerous looking ones would be in order.

Cafe sketches'n'such

Creatures 33-43

More Recents

Joe said try and draw more realistically and with a better sense of form. Joe says draw, i saw 'HOW HIGH!'

Cree-CHAH's

"How ya Doin' Fraggles?"

Yup. Definetly got sick this week. I knew it was time to cut class when my eyes swelled up so they were about half closed and then the tears wouldn't stop flowing out- despite my chipper attitude. Then the clammy hands and burning forehead kicked in. Slept like a baby!

Lesson learned?

It's hard to come off smooth when sweet talking with a stuffed up head.

New Years Postin'

A little sketching done over the holiday









Cutest... creatures... yet... (and one not so cute)

Creature Catch Up!

Creatures #19 through 26 comin' atcha.

Xmas Eve goblin. You were all thinkin' it.

The one in the middle here started out bein' a fish character (see the gills) but after a while grew into a kinda Chameleon kinda thing. The one on the right was another stab at that wierd skull character from before... with less interesting results.

Battle Droid anyone?

Somethin' different

This started out as a creature sketch... but ended up being something I've never really done before. Verrrry Mignola'ish. I like it though. Any feedback'd be much appreciated.

Holiday sketchin'

I headed home to Ptown (Pickering for those not in the Posse) this past week and even though i was depraved of pretty much everything internet related I did manage to draw a bit.

Cafe Sketches... Old'n'New!

A couple older cafe sketches from weeks past. I've been told the bug eyed guy looks like Claudio.












Last week myself and 44 other animators stormed Toronto for a day of cafe sketchin' and starting trouble pretty much anywhere we could. These last two collections are from that day/evenin'. For photos from day's hilarity check out www.alphanuiota.blogspot.com