Pen and Ink Skull Self-Portrait

I know I already posted something like this that I did digitally, however, I really like it and want to make more of them. Here is an inked version from my watercolor moleskine, that I still plan to paint.

Bearded Skull Study

For some reason for a while I had been obsessed with the idea of doing a series of painting with skulls with mustaches and beards, I had done several sketches of celebrity skulls. I want to get back to the idea someday, but this is the first one that I did, it could use some more TLC but it's a good start.

AM Q4 ASN2 Week9 Dialogue The Sweet Shop

Splines have been kicking my ass and once I have everything moving smoothly I can see what is and what isn't working. Looking forward to a good crit so I can get it to a nice clean space. I still have 2 weeks to make it all spiffy. I think I can do it!

Giant's Head

I dislike selling paintings, they feel like they need to be something more then what my hands can make. However they needed work for the auction and I think I usually am underwhelmed by what I make because I see what it is not instead of what it is. Though I am excited for a severed Giants Head to be in a silent auctio0n at Arts Benicia. Usually the show is filled with flowers, landscapes and abstract pieces, so I am interested to see if any one makes a bid on my strange piece.
The origin of this piece had to do with a threadless design competition for Adventure Time I was drawing Finn the human slaying a giant and I drew a few really cool severed giant's heads. It was really fun I kinda want to do some more and really develop something here.

Moleskine Self-portrait painting

I start all of my sketch books with a self-portrait and that includes my water color Moleskine. Laura thinks this portrait is creepy.

Giant's Head Study

I am working on a painting for Arts Benicia's Annual Benefit Auction and before I started working on the larger final piece I decided to do a color study of the work first. I busted out my water color Moleskine, which I had been neglecting. I am really happy with it and I plan on doing the big one tonight, because it appears to be due tomorrow.

AM Q4 ASN2 Week8 The Sweet Shop Blocking

Yay, for the most part my mentor really liked what I did. After a couple of weeks of less then being with pleased with my assignments I turned one in that I was happy with and my mentor liked. It is nice. She gave me some great notes on how to improve the motion. I really like everything that I have going on in it now. Just need to finish cleaning it up so I can start adding some and flourishes.

AM Q4 ASN2 Week7 Dialogue The Sweet Shop

I chose Clip number 2 with Val Kilmer playing Doc Holiday from "Tombstone" I feel that it has some more fun and subtle face animation to play with and I am more excited to try and do a creepy character.

I was disappointed to find out that the Bishop rig that I got for this assignment has next to no face controls, just eyes, eyelids and jaw. I was all gungho for playing with a face and a lot of what i have planed for this shot and that I want to do with this shot has everything to do with the face. Oh well, it can wait, I will get the body down and then have whole weeks to play with his face. This blocking pass was meant to just get all of the body movements going in the right place so I can start smoothing those out as soon as possible. I want to mostly play with hands and the face in this exercise so I am trying to keep his body movements as simple as possible.
Though I do love working with Bishop he seems to be pretty easy to pose in appealing poses and his head is a reasonable size, so far he is the best model that I have worked with. I look forward to bishop 2.0 when I really get to play with the face.

AM Q4 ASN2 Week6 Dialogue

YAY! I finally get to animated a character with a face, I love drawing faces and I love working with animation face rigs.

I shot reference for this assignment however, for some reason I was feeling really self conscious and out of my element having to shoot it on vacation, so I really didn't like what I did and didn't find them useful (so I am not going to bother to post it like I usually do). So when I went into planning I decided to just ignore it and try and do something better. This actually led to how I want to plan animation from now on. Before the way that animation mentor kinda taught me was to film reference first and then do sketches and now I want to do sketches and then film reference and change the sketches to fit the reference. I still need to re-shoot reference for these shots but I think it should make things a lot faster this time around.

SHOT 1: the idea is that this a high ranking knight (I have been reading "A Game of Thrones") is sending his lacky squire to go retrieve something for him, the knight is preoccupied with something else in the room playing the squire little mind.
SHOT 2: a creepy, vicious and soft spoken sweet shop owner who has a malicious relationship with his customers sees a regular who loves a particular candy that he buys exclusively and the sweet shop own is out of the candy and takes great pleasure in pointing out to thus man that he is out of the candy.
SHOT3: a father playing with his daughter who is a selfish who always wants more, he is fed up with her materialistic attitude. He can not take any more when she was complaining about how the couch she just bought her was wrong and she wanted the nicer one.

AM Q4 ASN1 Week5 Redux No More Milk Refining

I went on vacation to Maui with Laura's Family when this was due and during that week before I had zero time to spend on this assignment. However, I was able to get my blocking to a better spot and I was able to simplify the actions and adding parts where the character thinks. This is the very first pass of clean up. It still needs a lot of work I am hoping that I can work on it some more. I think once I get back into regular hours I will try and spend my mornings working on this.