Bianca's Shock

After being asked a rude/inappropriate question...Lately I've been writing/ drawing at the same time.

Adriana

Adriana, a cocktail waitress that works at the club the Benedetti's own. She's embarrassed of Sly, and won't admit to seeing him outside the club.

My Fursona

5 yrs later, i finally finished my "fursona"! Im a coyote!! cute but will totally eat your children and small pets if youre not careful! Har!! #drawing #art #fursona #me #drawingoftheday #sketch #coyote #instaart #drawingtime #girl #artwork #artistsoninstagram #drawinglife #style #swagger

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Fancy $15 Pentel brush pen vs cheapo $1 Daiso brush pen.

Was testing out some new materials with this one and actually ended up liking the cheapo Daiso brush pen better. It had a felt tip rather than plastic hairs so I thought it was easier to control. The brush tips are cool for adding drama/ texture though.

A Birthday Card for my friend Charles

The brains of the operation

Even though Sly is the main character Anca is the brains of the operation and the character that forces Sly into a transformation and a final moral decision where he must choose between redemption or damnation.

Sidebar, I'm aiming to have the story tied down by memorial day.

Silvio's Smog Check

Here are some of Silvio's needy customers at his Smog Check Test and Repair shop. Harold the neighborhood drunk, a harried single father, and Angel the bootylicious babe.

Ratty McGee

Got slammed with work this week and am just getting to my homework now...Although its not over and I will prob be working this weekend. Here's some designs for Harold and Ratty, the stars of a short for Karl's storyboarding class. Stay tuned for the storyboards.

LΛDY Designs

Some designs for a show called Lady that I worked on this week..

Drawing Like an Animator

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to draw like an animator. I never liked the "stiff" looking poses I saw in comic books and always wondered how animators got that "je ne sais quoi" that made their work really leap off of the page and seem as though it were actually alive.
 It turns out, part of what I've been searching for this whole time is volume, weight, and structure. Its that emphasis and understanding of the underlying structure that really sells a drawing and makes it seem real. Where others might be more concerned with the colors and details, animators are trying to understand volume, weight, structure and the mechanics of how things turn in space.
I'm striving to get more of that in my own personal work. These are some (rough) development sketches for a series I would like to create.

Winter drifter / summer soldier

Working on a series. Ok so I haven't worked out the title of it completely yet, but its something like that. These are my two main characters (can you guess who is who?). Working on model sheets, and episode treatments(!). Right now the entire series is plotted out on cue cards on my living-room wall. I probably look like such a looney scrawling out all these cards and taping them to the wall, then re-arranging them endlessly, bud I don't care because its fun.

Peace Hero Sketches

Ladies and Gents, I bring you...
Rocco Benedetti, the teenage star of Peace Hero.

 

Jack Character Expression Sheet

First entry back in LA! Whew! Let me just say that it's great to be back. I'm still getting set up though, so I'll be taking photos for now until I can get my scanner up and running.

Studying human expressions. Depicting human emotion has always been a fascination of mine. The face and the eyes have so many complex surrounding muscles that a sometimes a single line can completely change what the character is thinking or feeling. This sort of thing is so much fun for me, but its going to take a while for me to do such a thing and stay on model and have folks know exactly what I'm trying to convey by simply looking at my drawing.

At the Highland Park Library

These are some sketches from my sketchbook. All these are real people that were in front of me. I think keeping a blog is great because it lets you chart your progress and figure out your strengths and weaknesses. Clearly my lines are more confident in pencil (no surprise here) even though its a non erasable color pencil. I need to work on getting more comfortable with pen. Also, as much as I'd like to take down some of the older weaker stuff it helps me figure out what I need to work on.

Battle Royale

This is Battle Royale's Shogo Kawada!

Character Design I with Charles Zembillas