Showing posts with label Totoro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Totoro. Show all posts

9.17.2010

Kittenbus!

Just like every venture to the Ghibli Blog. I came across something amazing, but this time it's even more amazing than usual!

Just watch! It's adorable!










Oh and a quick little tip to everyone out there in internet land to check out a couple fantastic illustrators that I rediscovered today.

Allison Hershey who did the lovely art in Halls of the Dead Faery Tale Adventures 2, and
Laurent Cluzel and Jacques Muller who produced the beautiful illustrations illustrations in Fable. Their sites are featured to the right ->
along with a few other new links if you haven't check that section out lately!

5.05.2010

Productive Day!

I thought I was behind all day today. Then I realized how late it was so I started scanning the work I'd done, and well it turns out I drew a lot. Moving on to the the more animation side of my Preston Blair Study. Today was line of action in a sequence. Time permitting I'll turn these images into an animated gif tomorrow.



I'm still not sure where I want to go with that Minithology idea I had. So I thought I'd draw a Pegasus, that soon turned into this.



Some weird Dr. Seuss like tentacle.


Claude and his turtle in an epic game of tug of war.



Gilligan preping for a party.



Tried out that exercise where you draw a random shape and turn it into something. Ended up doing a Robin Hood and Friar Tuck image.


When I was little I had a fascination with drawing Abraham Lincoln Beards and Hats on everything. So I'm working on a new character the Mustache Bandit. Who basically draws mustaches on everything and everyone.



Watched a bit of Pen and Teller's Bullshit with Rhys this evening and thought I'd try to be productive while I watched.



A couple other people who were on the show.


A distant cousin to both Totoro and Snorlax.


Picked up the Art of Miyazaki's Spirited Away. I could just stare at each page for hours. He has such a simple fluid style. I just love it. I've got to learn to watercolor some day.

4.05.2010

Finch on the Quick

Today was quite the busy day. I had a long day at work and then went and saw How to Train Your Dragon in 3d. What a great movie! Rhys, I think, said it best. "This is the best kids movie since Totoro!" Sketches today are a bit rougher than usual, but they didn't turn out too bad :). A couple things I gleaned from my Podcast listenings today, from the Asifa Ahaa Podcast I believe it was Eddie Fitzgerald that said something to the effect of "If Anything is easy, you're probably doing it wrong." I really like that. Another idea that I want to put into action I heard about on the Ninja Mountain Podcast. They suggest keeping a library of images around your workspace that inspire you and write down on the images what inspires you or that you find interesting about them.