The progress so far

Yea I know I've not been updating. Truth is, I kinda think my sketches aren't really worth posting anyways.
I do have some of my portfolio peices I wanna put up, but they're in A3, and my puny A4 scanner refuses to work with them.
So until i get them resized for submission, which I'm holding on til I get more out, this blog probably won't see them for a while.

Looking back, I've burned through 4 full sketchbooks since July, which may not mean much to most better artists, but it's probably the most I've drawn within 3 months ever. There have been improvements, which I've yet to document on this blog, but meh, I need to improve more. This is kinda where I'm feeling right now. (Copper comic by Kazu Kabuishi)

Parkour

Did these after watching some parkour clips on youtube. If you not sure what I'm talking about, think Yamakasi. Really amazing stuff being done with the human body.

Some links here and here. Enjoy =)

Progress?

Heya!

This is the result of my 'training' so far. Hmm, not there yet, but I can feel it. That first picture is something from work. Just a little concept, but I think it kinda sums it up.

Its come to my attention that the average male anatomy really bites. One word -

Potbelly.

I think a good percentage of men have them. Sure, fun to draw, gives a little handle on character, but honest to goodness dang hideous to look at. Almost makes me want to execise, well, almost. Thank goodness for metabolism.

I'm not sure if girls have them though. Maybe they do and we pass them over thinking, 'Maybe she's pregnant!'

I dunno, I think I might've been a little mentally scarred.

Back to (Home)School

Yea, been going back to relearn how to draw. Just wasn't happy with what I produced so far.

Been doing a whole lot of life drawings, nothing but it in fact. Bought a new book called Force by Michael D. Mattesi. Real great dynamic life drawing book which really opened my eyes. Will post stuff when I get a firmer grip on it.

Anyways, after a few weeks of execises,I kinda got a little bored and just started to just doodle, like the good ol' days. Eventually, the doodles grew to become concepts for the project with the Kwan. I showed him a few, which he liked, and asked me to just continue what I was doing.

I'm not complaining, its really fun to just wander with a pencil, brings back why I wanted to do animation in the first place.Of course, being slightly better with a pencil than I was back then really helped, lol. Eh, the doodles are above, for you beautiful people =)

This looks familiar

Concepts, nowhere near the final stuff. Some input would be nice =)

(Might have gone overboard with the lance though, what I thought was a good idea in my head came out looking like a giant streak knife)

Colours

Ah no new sketches today, but i do come with some killer sites =D

Donna's been exposing me to some killer blogs, some from Canadian artists.
Total Drama Island
MythUnderstood
The Gas Pump
Todd Ramsay
K. Schmiddy-Schmidderson

And Alex pointed me to a DS painting software, called Colours!. Pictochat can eat snails, this baby can even playback all your recorded strokes! I highly reccomend playing around with this if you own a DS yourself. I'm still trying to figure out how to transfer drawings onto a pc though. Seems that I have a problem saving my stuff so far.

Oh oh, one more thing, do catch this movie, Paprika, by Satoshi Kon. Critics claim it to be confusing, but I really loved how they did their cuts.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

woa hey *brushes the cobwebs away*

hows it hanging. Must've been stuck in time, didn't realise I haven't been updating for so long.

Been doing DigiPen's portfolio, nothing special, just observational drawings, some of them above. That last one was a practice in inking, meant to be Ligne Claire, but old habits die hard I guess. Actually did 3, some practice for DG, but the other 2 pieces went horribly wrong though XD

I went back to NYP today, to talk to Hanxin about his project. I think it has potential to be a cartoon sitcom. I shan't say more about it though, gonna respect creativity ownership. Can't wait to start work on it. (Edit; I removed my lame catchphrase because that joked sucked. Sorry!)

We decided to poke into Block M for a bit, and met up with some of our classmates who signed on to NYP. To quote KaFai, "Sell your soul to NYP man, you get to work here." Had more sobering news about the industry, seems like thats all I'm hearing nowadays. Perhaps I am just hiding. Well, if anything, its a much needed slap in the face.