Balance Week!

It's Sunday! That means time for a new theme! This week's theme is Balance!

Happy Leaves!

Here's the last panel of the Gilligan's Happiest Day Ever.



and the whole strip!

Gilligan's Happiest Day Ever!

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The Final Exhaustion!

Quite a long week, but productive nonetheless!

A bit more perspective work.

The Big Stick to It!

I'm not gonna lie. I had a hard time not just going to sleep and not getting my daily work done today, but thanks to the great Thursday night animation group I had that extra little bit of motivation. Another few hours down, today I'm slowly chiseling away that 10,000 hours.

Where's the feeling? Where's the emotion?

Don Bluth's critique this week really hit home with me. There's no feeling or emotion, not in the drawing itself, but behind the drawing. He's been talking about this for a little while now between the man vs art podcast and his last two seminars. He said he's gonna keep shouting it until someone hears. I for one am going to open my ears as wide as they can go to hopefully try and grasp what he wants. A couple of his questions he wants us all to ask ourselves is did you push it till it becomes obvious what you feel? Can you draw a character that represents emotion? Can you animate a character that makes people think it's alive and thinking? And in the words of the illusive Mark Rudolph ... Think about it.

Cintiq Cintiq Cintiq

I've really not utilized my cintiq nearly enough, and I've been trying to work looser and faster and I've wanted to get more color into my drawings. (wow that's a lot of ands) So why not combine the goals.

That being said...

Exhausted pose sketches


Today's exhaustion is post athletic!


Pirate a Day

Hand Study

A quick study of Milt Kahl's Merlin's Hands from the Sword in the Stone.

Practicing staying loose with drawing, doing only one pass no cleanup, and using a darker pencil.

Today's exhaustion is daily.


I just realized that I've been using the same blogger avatar for too long, so here's an updated one.