Life Drawings

I don't normally post my life drawings online because I don't really consider them too interesting. However, I thought these were kind of neat.


I like this one because it vaguely reminds me of the scratchy illustration style that was becoming popular in the late-fifties/early-sixties:

Taken from Today's Inspiration

I tried mimicking the style a little more with some help from Photoshop:


One more.

I got a tablet!

This is my first attempt at using a tablet in Flash class. I was so enamored of the experience that I went and bought my own (Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch for $70).

This was animated on twos (in Flash one can just set the frame-rate to 12) and is in fact also my first attempt at animating a character of my own. One problem is that he gets smaller towards the end. Another is that I first did the animation on one layer that was very sketchy. Then I made a layer above it and planned to do more refined drawings on top of the sketchy one. I did that for a few frames, came back to it a few days later, and then started where I left off except I started doing the clean drawings in the layer the sketchy drawings were in. This made coloring a lot of the frames a pain. Having to use the paint bucket tool for all those little spaces the sketches made was time consuming. That's why you can still see the sketchy layer in the background; it's all intertwined together. Something to be careful with next time.

Here's another one:














I do these in class between our exercises (and maybe sometimes when I should be listening to the teacher...). I'm still getting used to all of this.

Davis Sketches

Here are some sketches I did when I went to Davis, CA in early January to visit some friends:




I went to a genetics class with my best friend, just for fun.

And here's some sketches done more recently.

I'll just leave this here.

Biology Metal

Biology Metal by Harkosion
I'm quite proud of the new song my band Harkosion has finished. I used samples I recorded of our friend David's drum set to get more of that "band" feeling. I like electronic drum beats and all but sometimes it's fun to pretend to have a real drummer playing.

Note: the working title for this song was "Meat Mace to Face"

Classroom sketches

You know the situation. You have a question about something and you cannot proceed without the teacher's help but he has a couple other students to help before you, so you have 10 minutes to kill. That happens to me a lot. A few examples of what such boredom has wrought:




The hand's not meant to be a part of the picture but I drew it first and then starting drawing the guy too close.

Lucas

I just watched the film "Lucas" the other day for the first time. I really liked it.

Trying to figure out horses

Below is from memory:

Skater guy is an actual guy I was skating with at the skate park.

Kyle's Christmas Present: 2010

Every year I make my best friend Kyle a comic for Christmas. Here's this year's, based on a true story:





This is my favorite frame:


Here's some of the planning my sketchbook:


I've heard that during the layout process in animation the storyboards are often toned down. I usually work the other way with the storyboards being kind of bland and the final product being crazier. The storyboards are more about a general placement of things and basic poses to me.

New Animation

This is the final project for my Maya 3D class. The only guidelines were to have a mechanism that stays on the ground transfer a ball from one container to another. God this stuff takes forever to render.

A Trip to the Vitamin Section

I went to the vitamin section at Henry's the other day and was intrigued by the multitude of designs and illustrations in the children's section.

Good:

Fun, cartoony design. It looks like it's ready to be claymated which adds more charm.

Good:

Minimalist design makes the kid in me think, "Kinda boring," but it makes the design side of me think, "Cool (i.e. modern), clear, and appealing." The design side wins.

Good:

These are some of my favorites. Look at the octopus! So full of life and happiness! Big eyes and pupils are a plus always.

Bad:

Reminds me of Pokemon in the worst sense. Cold, insincere, lame. Belongs back in '98.

Good:

This was probably uncool at some point but they stuck with it for so long that now it's cool again. Taking it to the '80s is always cool.

Bad:

Again, cold, lifeless, no clear and defined shapes. Mushy. Lack of emotion. Bland.

???:

I'm not sure where this falls. It's kind of scary. In that case, I think I'll side with good.

Bee Animation

I was thinking of putting this in my CalArts portfolio submission but decided against it as it's still very crude. It is my first fully thought out attempt at 3D animation.

T-Shirt Design

My best friend Kyle's former room-mate from college asked me if I could do a design for a T-shirt that conveyed the concept of the id, ego, and super-ego for his psychology class. He wanted the ego to be in the middle saying, "So I'm having trouble balancing my life" to a psychologist.

The room-mate originally wanted the super-ego to be a superhero but I made him more of an up-tight moralist, raising his dainty nose in disgust to the barbarism sitting with him on the couch. He was going to stick his tongue out but it felt too immoral and in bad taste, something that the super-ego would never condone.
I first thought about having the id be represented by a burly caveman but then started to think of using a child because children only think of themselves.



But I decided a caveman would be more visually interesting so I opted for that again.
I also put a little Freud reference in with the cigar.

And that's it:

San Diego Zoo

I went to the San Diego Zoo today and brought my sketchbook. I was with my best friend's family though and I couldn't really linger on any of the animals because we were constantly moving on to the next exhibit, so the drawings had to be rather quick.
I had a lot of fun.

Warm up sketches.