ACTION POSES

MORE WOLVES

HIND LEGS AND HOOVES

Mark McDonnell (Yeah, I know I talk about this guy a lot but he's awesome so it's okay!) frequently suggests spending at least an hour or so a day drawing something you struggle with over the course of about a month. I've found that among many things I have a hard time drawing hind legs and hooves. So expect to see a lot more of these overtime.

DYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION: Warm Ups

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BARBARIANS!

I like drawing bulky dudes. Sue me.

Black Axe Sketch

THIS GUY!!!!

BASEBALL GESTURES 2

Just thought I'd add a few more.

CHARACTER DESIGN ASSIGNMENT: DIBBS

...and then there was Dibbs. He's the wild card of the group. His full name is Weldon Dibble. He was one of the first characters I came up with and admittedly the one I had the most fun with. He's basically combination of a friend of mine who's been like a brother to me since Jr. High, Alex Weldon (hopefully we'll still be friends after he sees this) and Danny DiVito. His last name also happens to come from another good friend of mine who is a fellow artist/animator, Ian Dibble.

CHARACTER DESIGN ASSIGNMENT: KENDRICKS

As mentioned in a previous post, in my Dynamic Characterization class our awesome instructor Mark McDonnell gave us the task of designing five bears or five badgers with various shapes and sizes. I apparently missed the part where he mentioned we were suppose to do it in a style similar to Kung-Fu Panda, but he approved of them anyway :) Here's the first. His full name is Jackie Kendricks and he's the founder of the school baseball club. He has a way of seeing hidden potential in just about anybody. His last name comes from a good friend of mine named Michael Kendricks (Who happens to be an awesome writer by the way!)

BASEBALL

I've never really been big on sports no matter how hard I tried to convince myself that as a man I should be. But I've always had a fondness for baseball. Perhaps it's because I played little league as a kid or memories of going to Dodger games with my Dad. Prior to the character design assignment I mentioned in a previous post, I studied a lot of baseball poses. Here are some of the results.

RANDOM GESTURES

Some gestures done in my spare time from various sources.

Bad Badger Girl

Mark McDonnell gave us an interesting assignment in his Dynamic Characterization class the other day. We were to turn the model into a badger or a bear. We also had to change her proportion. I chose badger only because it had occurred to me that I don't think I had ever had to draw one before. These are some of the results. It was a lot of fun.

Gesture Drawings 02

Just some late night gestures I decided to post this morning...afternoon.

'Tude Mosue. DO YOU WANT MORE?!!

A little doodle inspired by the album cover of Do You Want More ?!!!??! by The Roots.

Game Inspired Art

I love the artwork in NES instruction manuals. I always pictured this guy as my own little 8-Bit Hero. Also, who needs a horse when you can have a dragon!

Mouse Guard Fanart

I've been really into Mouse Guard recently. It's a graphic novel that recently won an Eisner Award and deserving so. I've been doodling the three main leads quite a bit lately. I think in the hands of the right people Mouse Guard would make a great feature film so I thought I'd try and design them how I'd like to see them on the screen.

 Kenzie generally plays the part of the leader. Somehow I always pictured his ears being pushed up a bit. He appeared to be the most well kept of the three. I also pushed his ears up a bit more than the others. I thought it would make him look a bit more proper.

 Saxon is easily my favorite character so far. I always pictured him as an adult version of Martin from The Secret of NIMH.. So admittedly I did observe Martin quite a bit. (In fact I think I lightly sketched him on the upper left corner) I also made him a bit bulkier than the other two since he's the most prone to resort to physical combat. I'd post some facial expressions but I seem to have misplaced them. I'll update this post when I find them.

Lieam was a bit of a challenge since many of them looked too similar to Kenzie. So I decided to tweak his eyes a bit and make them a bit larger since he's the youngest character in the book. Though I'll probably post another sketch of him sometime in a more interesting pose.

Darkstalkers Character Design Contest

Capcom-Unity is apparently holding a character design contest to promote their upcoming Darkstalkers digital releases. In all honesty I've never actually entered any kind of art contest before. I think now is as good a time as any.The game is horror themed so I knew right off the bat I wanted to make a gargoyle. I've been looking at Gargoyle statues for inspiration as well as watching Disney's Gargoyles (my all time favorite cartoon!) Here are just a few doodles I jotted down after reading about the contest. I'm gonna work on making him look a little more intimidating.

Stop! Chopper Time!

Gremlins

If there's one movie I never forget to watch during the holiday season it's Gremlins. It's like Takashi Miike's Audition. You think you're watching one type of movie and then SURPRISE!! It's a horror movie now!