veggables

found some miraculous free time yesterday (to bw fair, half of it was lounging around in an academic class) and drew tuber-headed characters for no particular reason.


(my favorite's the dapper radish!)

Character Design - Djinn

Sorry guys, I haven't posted much content here regarding school assignments. I have no excuse! This must be fixed.
Below is a recent assignment given in a character design course I'm taking this semester: Redesign a main character from 1,001 Arabian Nights. I was paired with the Djinn from Aladdin's lamp, and I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy taking a few major liberties in pushing this figure past conventional identity. Apologies, for my sense of rendering is a little rusty.


bonus! sketches:

Robot Ruckus

Asides the Ivan myth project, I have to create a design for a skateboard deck & matching t-shirt based on the topic, "Giant Robot Sports/Olympics".
I'm on the fence with two ideas: one being Gentlemen Robots playing Badminton in a park,


the other being Wacky Race inspired Automatons relaying each other across the deck.

I'm at sketching stages right now, but I'm hoping to make up my mind soon :/

Prince Ivan and the Firebird

Our final project for Illustration 2 is to create a narrative of a myth or legend. I chose the aforementioned Russian fairytale, and decided to make work for a mock-animation project, complete with storyboard, colored key sequences, character studies and environment work. This post will get bigger as time progresses, but for now please enjoy some character sketches.

First up: Young Prince Ivan




Ivan's Father, the Tsar


Various Firebird Designs




The Wolf




Tree Patterns


(I'd like, for the most part, for backgrounds to be flat. Scenes such as the Wolf's forest, and the beginning of Ivan's journey are to look almost like a setting in a play.)

Unfamiliar with the myth? Please check out this page, which sums it up very nicely!

Monster Bromance

Would it be called a momance?
"So a yeti and a sasquatch walk into a bar..."
Nevermind, I got nothin to back up why or how this idea got started.


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(what the witness fails to capture while filming this is the hackey sack the two cryptids were chasing after)

Color Testing, Pt. 2

So, apparently colors on my mitsubishi monitor (hooked up to a Mac G4) look more vibrant and beautiful than they do on my Dell's, and this is a problem because the Dell is the correctly calibrated version. While I try to sort things out, enjoy some watercolor doodles I messed around with in photoshop.

Attack of the Summer Courses!

Last week marked the end of Child Lit class; it was a lot of fun and way too short, but at least finishing it (and hopefully getting credited) will be the first real accomplishment I've made all summer.
Anyway, onto the PICS. My final Project was to write and design a picture book; for the most part I'm actually proud of it, due to the fact that 1.) I've never pushed myself to write anything other than essays before, 2.) Skelton (big blue thing I drew below) got to be the star of the book, and 3.) I used real media (watercolors & charcoal) on the illustrations rather than sticking with photoshops/digital media. Just who do you think you are Shanti Jones, Arthur Rackham or something?

These are some examples of the 20-something illustrations, so please enjoy! Critiques are WELCOME, as I'm currently still working on polishing the final product. Teacher loved it, which made me think if I gussied everything up enough, it would be worth while to print out a copy or two.












(will post more soon! until then, fin for now!)

Maintenance

So I'm slowly fixing up the place, one post at a time. Also, I added a links box to the right! It's not filled yet, but to classmates and friends: remind me to put your link up if I've forgotten...

Asides from that, here's a little old janitor man.

Doot-doot, dum-de-dum-dum...

One more thing

Here's something else -he keeps popping up in my sketchbook every once in a while.

School Work, cont.

So I'm continuing to post work from Dig. Illustration class over the last semester. I'm not content with the way Blogger compresses images, so I might stick with PhotoBucket to provide sources. But anyway, in descending order are a metaphoric childhood self-portrait, a dramatically-lit scene, and a piece based on a song title (Paper Tigers by Helios). Kudos to anyone who's heard it before...

How It's Made

Thought I'd kick off the start of this sketch blog with some art from school!
Above is an assignment done for Digital as Illustration, which required us to make something inspired from a "phrased" TV show title [ex: All My Children, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Desperate Housewives].
I drew inspiration from "How It's Made" -quite an informative show on Discovery, but it doesn't have much to do with giant Robots.