Sunday, November 15, 2009

more luck of the draw...

sorry. sorry. I know I've been neglecting my blog. it has been months since my last post and subsequently there have been way more luck of the draw drawings done. So here's a second wave of stuff.... to be honest I don't remember the order that we did these in. some of them I spent less time on and were less happy with so I'm probably going to leave them out... check our work blog if you want to see all of them at: http://phetch.blogspot.com/



So these two were done for 2 different weeks first up was Meg:


..and a couple weeks later I did Sam (who also is a huge Disney fan):












This isn't even all of them. Like I said I kind of left off some that I didn't really like how they turned out, and there are even more to come....

Friday, August 7, 2009

sketches from work...

so sorry that I've been neglecting my blog. But that doesn't mean I haven't been drawing. I'm working at an animation studio now, yay! So I draw most the day. Well most of it's confidential, but we do have a little thing on the side going. So every week we have a luck of the draw, where one person from the studio is picked and we all do a drawing of them.

So Jason wasn't officially up, but it was his birthday around when this started:


The first week was Krishna, I did two:




Next up, Adam.


then came Jessie.


So that's what I have right now. There have been more since posting this, but I haven't put them on my home computer yet. So more to come. Although they seem to be getting worse as we've gotten more and more busy at work... :p

Sunday, May 3, 2009

sunday sketch...



So it was a beautiful day today. I was working on some lip-syncing animation, but after staring at my computer for a while with the sun pouring in from the window I decided to take a break and get outside. Went for a jog. Took in the lovely breeze, and the simple joys of nature. Yeah I live in an apartment area, with an apartment complex on every corner, but there is a plot of land behind us where I sat down and was inspired to do a quick watercolor sketch of the bridge/storm drain thing...

Hopefully I'll get around to doing more. Because it's fun and relaxing, you get to be outdoors, and you are being artistically productive. Hooray! :)

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

For Nate..


So I finally got around to making that request for Nate. I know it wasn't much, all he asked was that my next sketch be one of Cable... but for some reason I just never got around to sitting down and making him one. I'm not a huge Cable fan, but I like him well enough. It's odd because I now have both Cable and Domino up here. I don't know what he looks like now, but from what I remember he had big shoulder pads, glowy eye, and lots of pouches.. yeah. but mostly shoulder pads.. oh and big guns...

What else is new. I'm working on several things at once it seems. I started a script for an animation, but may have to put it aside, because it looks like the start of a feature length script.. yeah. May go for things a little less ambitious for now, keep working on that script and then maybe try and option it out once it's finished... I'm also trying to get back into painting.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

life drawing...


so aside from work not too much has been going on art wise. my mom is kind of in and out of treatment so I've been traveling back and forth to Dallas a lot more than usual of late. A bunch of the guys from work and I have started trying to attend figure drawing classes on a regular basis. which is what you're seeing here.. I saw Coraline, it was amazing. Ean from MICA works at Laika and apparently did storyboard work for the film. that's awesome... and Kirsten is still making a ton of animations and art, all the time. I'm totally jealous, and inspired by her work. I can't believe I went to school with such talented kids.

more figure drawings...

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Domino, ready for action!

Okay as for the title. Back when I was young and we used to pretend to be X-men characters one of my best friends would sometimes play as Domino, and for whatever reason she would always say "Domino, ready for action!" and flip her hair. It's usually the first thing I think of in association with this character.

Well anyways so in the vein of hour sketches and in combination with watching the first couple episodes of Wolverine and the X-men I decided to draw Domino...

Now Domino holds a very special place for me. Because as a child the Marvel Masterpiece '93 Domino was the 2nd comic card I ever owned, Wasp being the first. But I have stared at that card more times than almost any other, and I was so in love with it that I tried to copy the drawing several times as a child. So I think you can say it had a great deal of influence on my current artist status...

Well anyways. She's often looked over, and yes even forgotten by me. Until the people behind the Wolverine & the X-men cartoon decided to put her in the Brotherhood. ??? Well I'm not sure where they are going with that, I guess she is a mercenary after all. But I was just elated to see her with a rather big role! And she looks badass! Fuck yeah! Anyways, her costume is kind of a combination from what I remembered from the cartoon and her old costume from that card... And the guns are wonky I know. But hey it was done in an hour and I didn't get a reference like I should have...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

show sketches...

So I've started work at an animation studio, and the people there are just amazing artists. It's actually really depressing and inspiring all at the same time. They constantly draw, I mean all the time and they are sketching people all the time... Me being a bit rusty on the art side tried to doodle a bit to get back in the habit of it, and in sketching in general.

I wanted to work on the cartooning and caricatures like they do, but I think first I needed to work on just making a person look like the people I'm drawing... So these are some random little doodles I've been piling up in my sketchbook... that I thought I'd put up. Sorry they are so terrible, but I feel bad not putting up work as often as the rest of the world.



These are just some doodles I've done of characters from some shows I watch. the ones of Six & Tigh, from BSG, and the Claire ones all had references. Kate & Daniel of lost were done from memory and maybe one or two peeks at them.

Monday, January 12, 2009

quick sketch for ben...

ben caught me on facebook and told me to draw him phoenix in one hour... actually he said "the most badass phoenix ever." unfortunately I don't think I made the most "badass" one. but I tried my best in the time allotted. so here it is..



I also wasn't sure whether he meant the comic character or the bird, but since he didn't say "A phoenix" I went with comics...