Just popping by with a life update.

Sorry I've been so neglectful of this blog for the last few weeks.  Between recovering from the cold I got from CTN, Thanksgiving, and how cold it's been getting I haven't really been drawing or finishing anything to post up here.  The most artsy stuff I've been doing is some really rough doodling that I have yet to scan and editing stuff to add thing to my stores (Society6 is doing some holiday promotional stuff so check it out). 

The lack of updates will probably continue for the next week or two as I'm having LASIK surgery on Friday morning.  Soon I'll be glasses free!  I'll have to limit my computer use for a while after the surgery, but I'll be back as soon as I can, hopefully with some new stuff!

I'll leave you with the only thing I've managed to get close to finished.

More gods and goddesses and a Portfolio update.

I'm attending CTN this week, so I've updated my portfolio website.   You can reach it by clicking the portfolio link above.  I've updated my demo reel on the animation page and have added some newish illustrations and character designs (mostly stuff that I've already shown here)

Now onto my Greek Pantheon designs.  I've been working on designs for Apollo, Artemis, and Persephone this week.

Aphrodite and Ares

I've put together some model sheets for Aphrodite (like the ones I made for Cupid and Psyche).  I've also finally reached the half-way point in writing the script, so yay for that!

I'm working up some designs for the rest of the Greek pantheon and for the other characters for the project.  The first one I've finished is Ares.

Some Cupid animation!

I've been playing with some Cupid animation for the couple of weeks trying to get a feel of how he moves.  I'm still gonna push this one a bit further for my reel I think and then try and get some flight animation done before CTN.  I might try some Psyche animation as well.

New digital painting stuff

I've been doing some digital painting stuff in photoshop over the last couple of weeks, and since I don't have a keyboard directly in front of me yet on the cintiq I haven't been able to comfortably do any posts.  Here are a couple of the paintings I've been doing.

I've been browsing through Modcloth since my sister and I are planning on going to DapperDay at Disneyland in February and was inspired by all of the pretty summery dresses.  I love the way dresses look even if I rarely wear them myself.

With this one I decided to play with a somewhat limited color palate.  I used yellow, orange, red, and violet.  I never really work with a limited palate consciously, and I need to do that more often.

Now onto some animating!

Cintiq set up!

My cintiq came in!  (as most of my facebook friends and twitter followers probably already know)  I'm still getting the hang of it, but it is so much nicer than drawing with my old tablet.

Here's a simple painting I did the other day.

Cupid and Psyche character sheets

When I get bored or art blocked I like working on character sheet for stuff I'm working on.  Here are some character sheets for Cupid and Psyche.  I'm working on ones for Aphrodite right now.

I've had these character sheets finished for a bit now, but no time to do up a blog post.  I'm going to try and get better about being more regular on here.  I don't know if there will be a post on Sunday as I my cintiq is coming in at the end of the week and I'll probably be getting it set up.

"In Waiting" The Finished Film

I finished animating my short film this week, hence no post on Sunday.   I've uploaded it to Youtube and now it is time to share it here.

May I present, "In Waiting."

Time of Angels

I finished this a few weeks ago, but have only just got around to posting it up here.  I was watching the Doctor Who series 5 episodes, "Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" when the idea for this came to me. 

Updated Demo Reel.

I've just updated my Demo Reel.  It has some new shots from my short film that you haven't seen yet.  I'm only five shots away from completion on that so I'm not going to do an update on my short film until it's finished.

Another Cupid and Psyche illustration

Here's the scene that follows last weeks illustration.  Although for some reason it feels a bit stretched out...I'll have to check on that.

and here are the breakdown images.

Psyche Discovers Cupid

I've been working on this piece on and off for the last couple of weeks.   I thought I'd put up a breakdown of how I worked on it.

I had a rougher sketch before this.  I refined it, figuring out better posing and started figuring out the lighting.  I also broke down Cupid's pose to get a grasp of how everything worked together.

 I created a gradient background to get a better idea of the overall lighting in the piece.  I also started a rough clean up of Cupid.

Laying down flat colors to get some idea of the local color and overall idea of what I was going for.

I started refining and getting a rough clean up of the drawing.  I moved Cupid's lower wing to a more comfortable looking position.

I did a final clean up line freehand so that it would have some variation in line.  I also put down a neutral background to lay the flat color on.

 I put down the final flat color and set what color the shadow and light would be (the two color blobs next to Psyche)

Here's the final piece.  I laid down the shadow and light and set their layers to different modes.

Work in progress sketch

Since I'm going to be out of town for the next week or so,  I've decided to post a work in progress sketch of what I've been working on.  I'll hopefully be able to go further once I get back from NY, but it all depends on how my Intuos is doing.  I'll probably be upgrading to a Cintiq sooner than I planned...

Over all I'm pretty satisfied with Psyche's pose, but Cupid is more problematic...  How does one sleep with great big wings on their back?

Cupid and Psyche Sketches

It's been a busy couple of weeks with lots of graduations, family leaving on trips, and not getting time to do as much art work/animating as I wanted.  The next few weeks look just as busy as well, but I'll try and get some stuff up here, even if it's just really rough bad digital sketches.

I worked on these story sketches last weekend and they were supposed to go up last Sunday, but I didn't get a chance to upload them onto my photobucket.  The images are ideas for different parts of the Cupid and Psyche story.  I'm going to try and take some of these to full color, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to get them up here.  If anyone has a preference let me know as I may put them up on Redbubble or Society 6.

I'm going to try and get something up next weekend, but I'm going to New York in a couple of weeks and am trying to get everything done for the trip.

Finished my Doctor's in the Time Vortex Series

I've been working on this series for about a year now and I've finally finished.  Here they all are!

First Doctor

Second Doctor

Third Doctor

Fourth Doctor

Fifth Doctor

Sixth Doctor

Seventh Doctor

Eight Doctor

Ninth Doctor

Tenth Doctor

Eleventh Doctor

And Finally, all of them together

"In Waiting" update

I said last week (just looked and it was my 50th and broke 1000 page views) that I'd try and get an update of my short film up here this week, so here it is!

I still have about 13-14 shots to animate before I'll be finished with the rough animation.  I'll leave it as rough animation for the most part once it's finished.  I might go back in and clean it up later.

I've started saving up for a Cintiq, so once I save up enough we'll see if I have an easier time getting polished work up on here.  I love my current tablet (it's survived almost 10 years of abuse), but drawing on it is so much more difficult than drawing directly on a screen.

Some finished monster girls

I've been super busy this month and so haven't had time for updates.  Even this one is going to be a quickie.  I've been working my way through the monster girl challenge on Tumblr.  I'm taking my sketches and cleaning and coloring them so it's taking longer than the girl a day.

Day 2 was Centaur.  I didn't like my first version, so I've redone that entry.

Day 3 was Slime.

I'm going to try to get another work in progress update on my short film up next week.  I've got about 15 shots left in it so I'm getting close to the end of the rough animation.

Yosemite!

I spent the last few days out in the fresh air of Yosemite with my family.  We had no internet or cell service most of the time, so it was a break from the rest of the world.  I did some hiking, taking pictures, even doing a bit of watercolor.    Generally doing healthier activities than I do at home, so now that I'm home again I've managed to bring back the beginnings of a cold.  Oh well!

Here are some of the watercolors I did.  I was mostly playing around with it, but the people who stopped to watch seemed to like them.

   

 I also took a lot of photos and videos.  Here are a bunch in no particular order.

These guys came by while I was painting.  They didn't hang around for long.

   

Views of Yosemite Falls from around the park.

               

These two are cool.  They're the same picture, but the focus is different.  It completely changes the mood.

   

  I've got a bunch of Half Dome pictures as well.

      

I'll end this post with pics of some of the other major waterfalls around the park. 

           

If anyone is interested in seeing more pics I'll set up and link an album on my Photobucket. 

EDIT: Argh moved the pics to a new album, so I'm fixing the links.