OH JEEZ

I'm shocking myself over the fact that I've actually started drawing the roughs of the comic that I started posting about below. But yeah, I'm actually feeling good about this. But mostly because of the fact that I've actually started it. And I'm already working on the second page. I'm going to be looking to have this updated once a week. probably on sundays. Will probably be uploading between 2 or 3 pages on that day as well. Just because it won't be -too- much extra work added to my already massive pile of things to do, and I can work on it during my free/down times. Once I'm done with the second page (which, oh em gee, I totally started! And yes I feel like that needs to be repeated), I'll set up another blog for it. So... keep your eyes open for Narcoleptic Insomnia!

Fast Face Practice

Did a really face facial consistency practice with my fairly old character, Nadia. I usually like practicing my ability to be consistent with her because she has some of the hardest features for me to draw on a woman and it still look female. Some of these came out pretty nice, the upward 3/4 is probably my favorite, though, of them all. I'll probably be doing these as much as possible. Or at least until I run out of characters to draw.

Narcoleptic Insomnia

Have you ever had words pop into your mind randomly, and they somehow form an actual thought process, and that though process becomes an actual idea for a comic? Yeah, I had one of those. Meet Wayde, my narcoleptic insomniac who starts to discover that eveytime he passes out from his poorly treated narcolepsy, his alternate universe self, Dwayne, takes over and fucks his life up. Oh. And he ends up taking his alternate unverses self's place in the alternate universe and discovers that he's a wanted ass whole criminal who fucks shit up in his own life. AWESOME. I'm hoping for this to become a weekly strip that I can get done pretty quickly, and eventually as I regain ownership of my life once more, wil make it into something more serious. But for now, LET THE HILARITY BEGIN.

Zutara!

Who doesn't like a little Zutara fan art?

Art Dump

Been a while since I updated. A whole ton of sketches, though, that were done so far for my group third year film. These were initial Character explorations done. New ones will be uploaded soon.

And then I have some fast Characatures I did of some of my classmates. Some of the ones I did are missing, but I'll upload them later.

Oops.

So, As fate would have it, my computer had to die this summer on me. Which is why I haven't posted in ... 3 months. Errr. Yeah. It wasn't fun. Quite the pleasantly stressful summer, heavy sarcasm on the pleasantly part. My old computer's mother board died so I had to get an entirely new one. Luckily I still have all of my artwork and projects I was senselessly working on before it died, so I should be back into the groove of things fairly soon.

Sloppy Sketch fun time

Super sloppy concept sketching, I rarely do drawings like this (stuff laid on top of each other up the wazoo), but I'm just trying to get a good handle on things. I've been trying to think up some ideas for my fourth year film which drove me through quite a few weird ideas (including doing an animation about the four horsemen of the apocalypse as dysfunctional children in a day care which I'm still trying to flesh out), but finally found something that I'm genuinely starting to get a sincere liking to and the basic idea is completely fleshed out. It's basically a story about a girl who's been born with a horrible disease that causes everyone she comes into physical contact with to die. Sounds kind of depressing but the more I keep thinking about it, the more I can't help but laugh. Obviously there's more to it than just that but. I guess I don't want to divulge everything hurhurhur.

Going to actually start storyboarding it soon ... and then put it away tout suite and way an extended period of time before I retackle it, just so I can look at it with fresh eyes. I'll probably keep doing that for a while until the school year starts and I can start talking to teachers about it for their input.

So in order to get it better fleshed out I'm playing with styles. Trying to get into the habit of making my doodling style (which is so much more loose and animated than my normal stuff) more consistent and easier to tap into outside of the realm of boredom. Anyway, keep an eye posted if you're curious for more. I'll probably end up scanning my rough storyboards (at least some of them) onto here. This is mostly me trying to not get caught without anything last minute, and the rest is just me needing something to do. My plans are for it to be an oral narrative with some dialogue from the characters themselves. For this one, I'm thinking I don't want it more than 2 and half minutes. If I can cut it down to shorter than that it would be quite awesome, it's supposed to be a comedy so hopefully I can get to the punchline in time.