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  • A Hoover Craft

    Here’s a lunchtime doodle for ya. I didn’t have time to really finish it off, so hopefully I’ll get back to it later :)

  • Evening Paintodoodle

    This one could have used a lot more work, but the sun went down too quick. At any rate, I liked the color scheme.

  • Kung Fu!

    hhhEEEEEEEEh Yaaahhhhhh! Hey look, I made another pencil test:

  • Setup my scanner!

    I finally did it. I made my scanner more accessible. And here are a few images hot off the press (but in reverse if you think about it…?)

    Hadn’t done much gesture drawing in a while, so figured it was a good time to do some last night while watching a video.

    These are a couple of office doodles I did the other day while wishing I was outside.

  • The Perfect Dive

    I finally got around to finishing it! I ended up taking this animation further than I intended when I first started it, but that is largely because I was learning the new software and wanted to test it out in each stage of a 2D production. It certainly has plenty of room for improvement, but it is definitily my best 2D animation to date:

    I’m glad I got this one out of the way. I originally wanted to set myself up to do 2D so I could just do a whole bunch of quick pencil tests to study motion and get better at animation in general; but having started this project, I felt that I should finished before moving on, which ended up mentally blocking me from doing any of it. So hopefully I’ll start posting some of them-there pencil tests in the near future.

  • Sunset from balcony

    Wow, that was fun. When I got home from work tonight I noticed that the sun setting over the mountains looked amazing. I’ve got a lot of work to do with my painting skills, but for 20 minutes work I’m pretty darn happy with it:

  • Nerftastic

    So my friend and I have had this idea for a short quite a while back about these kids with over-active imaginations that engage in a Nerf war between one another. Not much has come of the idea, but we do like to kick out some concept work for it periodically… Here is my latest that I started at lunch the other day:

  • Colored Tiger

    Hey Look I colored it!

    I originally thought I would end up fully painting it, but I started playing around with a markered look and liked how it was turning out.

  • Quick Studies

    Yeah Ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Sorry to disappoint… I’ve had a lot of other things taking my attention and using up my creativity. Not that I haven’t been drawing; usually during these times I’ll do study sketches to sharpen my creative ax. Typically from a book or tv, trying to pick up a better understanding of anatomy or light or character or whatever…

    Here’s Christopher Reeves in the original Super Man

    The Psychiatrist in Terminator 2

    And after spraining my ankle last week, I did some foot studies from Louise Gordon’s anatomy book

    My apologies for the poor quality images. I really need to make my scanner more accessible…

  • the Three Musketeers storyboard

    Hey, this is fun! I get the rewarding sense of accomplishment that goes with making a post, without producing anything new. I am actually working on a new image, but I don’t expect to have it ready to post for another couple of days.

    So here you go:

    (Click for larger image)

    This was a storyboard of a short scene in “the Three Musketeers” that I did for my storyboarding class in college.