Memorial Day!

Memorial Day!

Completely unrelated:

And I guess I lied about future posts. They're going on BOTH.... I just feel bad leaving Blogger behind. *sniff*

And....Done.

Oh my, look I FINISHED something. I really FINISHED something.

So rare...

migrating my blog over to tumblr! All future posts will be here.

Due Process

For anyone interested

Work that Style

Some style studies of Sienna, and some lighting experiments.

I'm looking for something that can be easily animated as well as look good in a comic page.

I think this is fairly successful...

Prototype page!

Test comic page for Skybound. A lot wrong with this.

Not happy with the ink work. Need to work on the design of the speech bubbles. Background color work is bland etc etc... It's also not 100% finished (last two panels are missing speech and some linework, but meh).

But fortunately, the point of this was to iron out those things. Very informative, indeed.

I'll be doing another soon. Changing style, exploring different color methods, etc.

Moving forward!

Put together sienna's "reference" marionette.... Which is just a fancy way of saying "ugly 3D-you're-cheating" model. Yes, I am using 3D as a tool for spatial reference and motion. Why? Because I'm DAMN horrible at staying on model. I haven't the patience for it. This helps tremendously. And allows me the freedom of artistic expression that would be difficult and costly to emulate in 3D at the same time.

Good Day

Did some work on Rynn today. A LOT of work. Most of which is behind the scenes preproduction stuff that isn't worth showing. These are the ones that turned out moderately well. Have to make a few tweaks.

And a piece with Rynn and Sienna together.... doing something, uh, investigative?

Notice the changing ponytail, or the fact that it's missing because I got LAZY.  I haven't decided what look I want for it yet... So it just keeps changing until I settle! Fun how that works...

24 in Two

More drawings. Well, 24 of them really.

Animation practice. Sienna head turn and a  li'l 'spression work.

Definitely rough, and definitely jittery all over the place.... But I just don't have it in me to do a polish pass on this particular piece.

On with the struggle...

More  drawings for today! Go me! I think I missed a day though

It's Habitual

Habits habits habits. I think everything is about habits.

Like drawing every day...

Or on the train to and from work...

And occasionally something a bit more involved...

I just need to get into the habit of finishing things. The hardest habit of all, if you ask me. (Oh, and that skyship in the image above.... The Sapphire Cutter... Yeah, pay no mind. I've done basically no concept work on it, so that's quite random and will definitely change. It's soooo ugly!)

The Long Versus the Short, part 2

Well, after a five month period in which I tried to let my blog die of neglect, I have returned. I suppose, under normal circumstances, the previous long versus short point that I no longer remember the point of would have long since expired, but in a way, it's also still very applicable.

I mentioned at the end of my last post that I would weigh in on my point of view when it comes to long-term projects. Well, my point of view right now is THEY'RE A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF WORK. However, five months down the road, I'm happy to say my current pet project, Skybound, is still quite alive and kicking....

Though kicking very slowly due to the sheer volume of work that needs to be done. And the woeful reality that, alas, I am but one man.

But hey! Could be worse.... I could've given up or something.

As it stands, the story is still being written (and has already been through a few false starts and incomplete drafts) and has a fair bit of preproduction art behind it...

At least for the main character, anyway...

Obviously, there's still some.... inconsistencies... That need to be nailed firmly into place, but she is what she is for now. 

In any case that's just one drop in the enormous bucket of Things-That-Must-Be-Done before I can even think about the Things-I-Want-To-Start-Doing, which is actually DRAWING THE DAMN BOOKS. The short list being designing the remaining central characters, the world, and the ubiquitous sky-ships, to name a few.

Anyway, here's to a renewed attempt at maintaining a regular webbernet presence.