Summertime Water Fight

 

I've been in some fun water balloon fights this summer and I wanted to capture the feeling of the moment with this image.

It's a Ferrari!

I recently listened to "The Creative Way" by Rick Rubin. The audiobook is great and he gives inspirational creative advice.

Late night sketching

Self portrait

Drawing while on a video call with friends.

Aladdin & Jasmine Broke Up

 

Aladdin feels a sense of motivation while harboring feelings of defeat as he turns North in the desert towards the inevitable.

Study of Picasso

Study at the Norton Simon Museum of Picasso's "Woman with a Book."

Drawing with Pens

"Claude Sitting" 2017 

"That Feeling Only Computers Can Give You" 2017 

Kitty Cat Council

Fun drawing before work in the mornings.

Coffee I love you

I'm like legit tired

Jenna

Doodlin' during a meeting

A Sandstorm

Through the red sands

Pocket Square

Warthog character model sheet

The above image is a front and side view of a warthog warrior. Leon, the 3D modeler, will take this plan and build a model of it in Maya 3D software. The small yellow dots and orange lines represent joints and bones. Jeff, the rigger, will place joints and bones inside of Leon's model so the character can move. The warrior will move on to the animators desk where he will be brought to life.

In the meantime I'll draw some armor. Leon will take the armor drawings into Maya and the process continues... :)

Drawing a character for 3D modeling

Work in progress. The final drawing will be a plan for the 3D modeler.

Woman Standing seen from two Angles

Same woman / different angles.

Long Weekend Sketching

Normally, I won't post my daily sketches - they're not very interesting. It's been a long weekend and I have a bit of drawings built up. My sketchbook drawings aren't as interesting as these drawings done on the Surface Pro 4 with Photoshop. I like my posts because a year or two from now when I look back at them I hope to see progress.


I find it difficult to understand a simple shape for the pelvis. Like, I get "it". I can describe it as this bowl shape that muscles/tendons attach to, but it's abstract for me. Admittedly,  I have some work to do. I gotta understand how the pelvis attaches to the rib cage and the degree of rotation between the two. Lemma figure that out.

Maya Problems

Things have been pretty tense these past couple weeks between me and Maya. My 3D animation software.

Counter Terrorist Win!

I had a nostalgic moment with some friends talking about how great (addictive) the days of Counter Strike were. I did this little sketch of one of my slug people in counter terrorist garb.

Practice makes progress

I had a pleasant little breakthrough this morning. While drawing a pose from memory, my curves vs. straights/ squash vs. stretch seemed correct but the pose felt very inauthentic. I've heard it a thousand times to stand up and act out your pose so you actually feel it in your bones and not just in your mind. 

I got up in my pajamas and acted out the pose and suddenly I knew where my weight should be going, were the tension parts of the drawing should be and how the main masses should rotate. I'm not smart/practiced enough to make this stuff up. I re-drew the pose and then it felt authentic, because it was! The bottom left 2 drawing were from memory and then the ones on the right were from after I sill-ily acted them out in my pj's.