July 28, 2011
June 30, 2011
Fish Physics and Philosophy
I have a secret wish to draw the comic panel that revolutionizes science and the world. The idea came to me at the airport waiting for my fiancee a few months ago while staring at the fish tanks from the local zoo or museum. Started to wonder if fish see their world as a weightless flying universe and what it would mean for them to see the other side of it. I think humans see their world one way never knowing of the 'dry land' that's just beyond the glass.
June 16, 2011
It's Been Awhile
So it's been a while since I've posted on here. I've just been busy with life. So anyway here are six images of a bunch of things from the end of the school semester, things for the comic and further adventures, and a little randomness. Firstly there's something I call Nerd Girl and Monkey face. The two girls with the "lightsabers" are very loosely based on my fiancee and the girl lounging across the bottom is very much based on her. I'd actually really like to color that one one day. I was going to give those girls faded Star Wars shirts but I figured Lucas gets enough advertising on his own without my help. The monkey face was a product of new blue pencil lead. The nerd girls came about today actually when I was freaking out that my proportions were completely screwed up and that I couldn't draw anymore. Maybe a product of having not done anything in awhile, so I attempted those as a way to reassure myself before I begin character designs for a project soon. The cowboy is something I doodled in a book while in class.
Sean,
May 5, 2011
April 30, 2011
"Cadaver Workshop" or "Real Live Dead People!"
I am fortunate to go to a school that was able to set up a workshop using cadavers. I wasn't really sure how I would take the experience. When I was younger I couldn't even walk into a cemetary without freaking out. Actually walking into the room and seeing how many wrapped up bodies and tables there were actually did make me a little dizzy but we only focused on two that they said they had been using for about 10-15 years. They pretty much just dived right into it then. The whole thing was from 9:30-11 which in the end didn't end up being enough time and they said we couldn't stay for the afternoon group. That's why there's really only four rough drawings.
They said we could poke around and move anything we wanted to get a better look at stuff. I touched a tendon in the thigh. It felt rude to poke at someones insides though dead they may be. And freakin I never realized the heart was so HUGE.
Take care of your hearts people. The guy said he gets bored with the normal ways of dissecting sometimes so he does different things. The one had a had a slice out of the top of the head and half of the brain was left in. It was crazy because you could see the inside curve of the eye socket. So it was almost like an old action figure were you could look in the back of his head and see what he was seeing. You can sorta see a thumbnail on its side in the picture with the face. Trippy.
Overall the bodies were kind of mummy like so it wasn't a huge deal. There wasn't any real smell just the formaldehyde which I feel like I can still smell, would hit you in the face when you got close. I took the bus to get there and in the end I decided to walk the ten or so blocks back through the park and stuff while I can.
April 23, 2011
April 22, 2011
April 20, 2011
April 8, 2011
April 7, 2011
April 1, 2011
March 31, 2011
New Anatomy Drawings
New Anatomy Drawings. I'm very happy with these. The lecture was all about muscles in the torso today. Unfortunately the successful ones I did of the male model don't look like anything unless you know what you're looking at so I didn't bother putting them up except for the first one on here. By the end of class I was getting hot and annoyed and the image I was doing wasn't turning out and he made us keep working on it. Finally I was fed up and started over my way for the last ten minutes of class. The guy wasn't fat but he's not skinny either so it's hard to find anything really visual to latch onto and say that's a cool looking line and I can replicate that. The girl however was a lot easier. I think it's because women are naturally curvy and to me that relates to cartooning very easily. So I surprised even myself with the last two (I think there was a piece of paper underneath the one that's why there's a line down her shoulder). Enjoy.
March 18, 2011
New Art
From class today. I am baffled by how amazing this can look with so little. My instructor came over and showed me how to start softening lines and I was dumbfounded.
March 16, 2011
JOHN CARTER OF MARS!!
I have to come up with a final project that demonstrates an understanding of anatomy...and that's pretty much where the stipulations end besides having to do with my major. I figured that I would borrow Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter Saga starting with "A Princess of Mars" for the assignment because most of the characters are nude throughout the novel anyway. Rather than doing a book cover scenario I figured if I'm going to be a comic artist I should do a comic page. So here's a compilation of sketches that I did for the mid point presentation to try and establish a look. Tars Tarkas still has a long way to go but it's just studies so whatever. Also yes it's true that Disney is doing a movie of the same name but I can't picture the guy they got as John Carter. He's too young looking...and pretty....bleh. As such my Carter (plus mutton chops) is loosely based on Michael Fassbender of "300" fame. He's got that particular kind of handsome ugly going for him and I could totally see him being from the south and having fought in a war the way John Carter was supposed to have. Enjoy.
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