Girls

Girls are just really fun to draw. 

In the jungle, the mighty jungle...

Jungle Gardens might be a small little zoo in Sarasota, FL, but it sure is fun to bike over there and draw their animals. They don't have a very big collection, but they have a lot of loud birds and some interesting reptiles and lemurs. Oh! and one single spider monkey.

Here are some gestural drawings from my two visits to Jungle Gardens the past week.

 And here are some squematic drawings that are based more on construction.

By the way, flamingos are far scarier than they seem. Especially when they are nibbling on your sketchbooks and looking at you with their beady eyes.

Don't Mess with my Bubble Gun!

Monster in the bedroom perspective assignment.

In which a girl imagines her stuffed animal has grown to massive proportions as she, playfully, tries to fight him off with a bubble gun. Will she be able to defeat him?

And now, for process:

First crappy thumbnail

Second pass. 

Final linework

Work-in-progress. Much experimentation with a "chalky" brush. 

A New Approach to Figure

In Figure Drawing II, we have been turning observational drawings into different characters. In this assignment, we had to incorporate the character into an environment that fit the mood and the person's personality. This is the end result.

Also, Cintiqs are amazing. I missed them so much.

Oh, hey, a character sheet!

As part of our Traditional Animation I class, we had to create an animal character that we are later going to animate. I was assigned a badger, so I created a rather naïve young badger that thinks he is as strong as the rest  of the badgers.

And here's the result!

Perspective Work

I just scanned absolutely  almost everything I have done at Ringling, so expect many pictures.

This is just some of my major assignments from my Drawing I course

 Two Point Inventive Exterior. We had to make a figure destroying a building, so I made a chain reaction that started with a bird pooping and ended with a car crash.

A two point inventive interior. A Samurai exile living in a Caribbean island; just because I miss my home. This actually got submitted to a class-contest my perspective teacher did, so this here image got sent to some guy named Doug from Disney and he picked a winning piece. 

Last perspective assignment: an inventive exterior done using three point perspective. A Star Wars themed roller coaster collapses when the AT-AT that supports it moves. Done in ink wash and pens. We picked the best in the class and mine got tied in for third place. It was cool. 

Pershpective

Allow me to bombard you with some good old fashion figure drawing

I can't wait to have better things to show off.