It's been a while...

It's been a while, I know. Crunch time down at the school. Everything comes to a screeching overlap - so I haven't actually had time to post. Getting a lot of animating done - but my lipsync prject isn't going to be fully completed as I'd hoped. My scanner blows. Anyways, enough excuses. Here's a few life drawings from the past couple weeks. I just realized I hadn't posted any yet - so here we go. These are all gestures - I'll post the longer/sustained ones soon. I realize there are problems with them all, but there's something about all of them that I kinda like.

Also, a quote from Jim Hull's Seward Street Blog when he went to visit Ollie Johnston's place:

"But the one thing he did say, that still stands out for me was, after taking a look at each one of us, he said with a tinge of creative envy, "Look at you guys...you've got the whole world ahead of you..."

"And ever since, I haven't wanted to waste a single moment."

Really great quote - its true - if you can do something, why not do it? There are probably a bunch of people who wish they could, so live it out.

-R.

















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Collaging

I've been doing a bunch of collaged faces while in class. The first done in blue pencil and the second in ballpoint pen. I've noticed doing these really forces you to change up shapes and proportions so that you don't get a repetition on the same page of the same type of face. I can see an improvement from the first to the second one, so I'm going to keep doing these and trying different styles, types and shapes - as much as I possibly can. Now, to character design!

-R.

The Thief and Inspector

Here's a character I made for myself, and a potential story idea. Again, using the poly lasso and paint bucket, I'm planning on using him to learn flash in the summer - he seems very suited for it. Here's the thief's nemesis - the short, wily Inspector Briggs. I'm developing a little short story to animate soon. A model sheet will come soon of this character. Any comments and crits are greatly appreciated.

-R.

Starlet

Just playing around with colours for the character that I drew for the earlier post.
Quick post today, better, longer, newer post tomorrow.

-R.

Characters and a New Method

So, yesterday, I was bored, I didn't feel like doing school work so I decided to do something else involving drawing...other schoolwork. Heh...sorta. I used a character design assignment as a basis of creating four characters. The clothing I tried to keep mundane and simple as that's what the assignment was, but I added some accessories which I wasn't supposed to - I think I'll just hand this in as an extra. These were done in Photoshop with nothing but the Polygonal lasso, paintbrush and paintbucket. I find this exercise really helps as it allows you to break down a character into its simple shapes and the limit to doing point to point forces you to take chances and try new things, I highly recommend it to anyone. More to come in this fashion soon...working on some designs as we speak...screw sleep.

-R.

Costco and Girls

So these are some sketches I did today - the paper bag sketches were from Costco while I was waiting for my bro to finish that Hot Dawg he was eatin. The paper bag was the closest thing nearby. So I started drawing people on it. The girls were just plain ol' doodles. Hope you like, and comments greatly appreciated.

-R.

Some relative's child.

This is a really quick drawing I did on my dads 50th birthday last weekend - had a bunch of people over and this kid who I'm somehow related to was sitting on the kitchen counter having a glass of water...I thought it was kind of funny so I'm putting it up.
The other drawing is some time I took out of doing work this week during the strike (which is now officially over - heading back to school on tuesday) to just play with drawing. What turned out was some brainpuke on paper. Again, I like maybe two pieces on there, but I always enjoy seeing people's process and the crappy drawings with the good - so I'm posting mine.
Comments are always greatly appreciated.

-R.

Scare Tactics Leica Reel

This is my Scare Tactics Leica Reel - I am not at all happy with the way it turned out, but it was something I think I needed to go through in order to learn as much as I did. I also figured out that the product of a project doesn't need to be good in order for one to learn from it, in fact, sometimes when you it turns out bad, you learn more - what not to do. Of course, that's a lot easier to say if the project isn't supposed to make any money and is there for an assignment's sake. So here it is, if for some reason it doesn't work out, refresh the page it should work.

Comments and crits are greatly appreciated, be they good or bad. I will be updating with my lipsync leica reel from this semester very soon. That one I am pretty happy with.

Enjoy.

-R.

Back from the abyss

Yeah...so I've been busy. I feel bad for not posting anything especially since there's a bloody strike going on. Yet I've been busy animating, doodling, working on another leica reel and trying to get an exploded motherboard fixed. Yep. Those are my excuses. I'm going to put up two leica reels, as well as a bunch of animation as soon as I figure out a small file size outputting codec - enough to be able to upload stuff to video hosts. In the meantime, here are some doodles, many more to come.

-R.

Girls

So I tried doing the same process for girls as I did for the birds, and it didn't work out as well I think, but decent. I need to play around with the shapes a lot more. Pushing the expressions, I didn't vary the expressions too much (if at all) here because it was more about seeing what kind of faces/face types I could come up with. Needless to say, there will be much, much more of this coming. Comments and Crits encouraged, valued, and appreciated!

-R.

Birds

Here's a bunch of doodles I did of different birds, just trying to play with shapes and see what happens. Comments and crits appreciated!

-R.

Western

So I've decided I'm going to try to post something up here everyday while I'm on reading week...so for this week.
Here's two quick sketches I did of a cowboy and his love interest.

-R.

Coffee Gal

Just a little experiment I wanted to do with a drawing and a photo - got the photo from corbis, so I'm assuming it's public domain. I think it works pretty well.

-R.

Storyboards - Character Development

This was an assignment we had to do to show the personality of our character. This is somewhat similar to my lipsync boards, which I will be posting soon - but this centers specifically on the rooster character whereas the lipsync centers more on the girl. As always, comments and crits are more than welcome.

-R.

Layout

I haven't posted much (if any) layout on here as of yet. Seeing as how there's a first time for everything - here's a layout I did for my lipsync project, colored and done in what was aiming to be a UPA-ish sort of style. Takes place in a nightclub/bar. As always, comments and crits are encouraged!!

-R.

Go Train

A girl and guy from the go train when we went to U of T a couple weeks ago. Subway sketching is really fun - need to make time to go down with Bobby...definitely soon.

-R.

Dawg

Here are some sketches I did of my dog Sparky yesterday evening. Trying out a new pen and playing around with gesture. I posted up all the sketches I did - I'm aware that there are a lot, actually most, that suck. But hey, can't have the sweet without the sour. I do like how some of the quicker ones turned out.

That's all for now. Until next time (hopefully soon).

-R.

Friends

Long while since I last posted...sorry to those who've been checking.
I went over to a friends house last night and drew him and his cousin while we were all watching a movie - "Waiting" starring Ryan Reynolds - pretty good, kinda slow at parts but really funny when it's funny. The other drawing is of his dog Hampton, sleeping on his coat.

-R.

Doodle

Just a quick doodle I did tonight after dinner - while watching family guy.

-R.

Scare Tactics Con't

They wouldn't let me post more than 5 images at a time... but I just figured out how.

-R.