monster out of the closet!

the original sketch

the color version

this was for a sketch blog challenge, and we had to draw a theme this week - "there's a monster in my closet".  i think i had a different idea in mind, but yeah, i think i nailed it.

some fun with exaggeration!

so this is where the fun really begins in ryan's class when he encourages us to exaggerate!  a lot of other students in the class did some crazy awesome stuff, but here's some of my favorites.  i need practice with fantasy stuff and all that, time to draw elves, LOTR, marvel and DC comics.  

stereotypes and some gestures...

cholos

punks

rednecks

snobs or "french" people

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a peek into my... life as an animator.

so, this is basically what i've been up to lately.  ryan's class is amazing... i love gesture drawing, and the video is what i'm doing in seth's visual FX class.  i'm making a thermite reaction explosion, so that'll take some fine-tuning before it looks awesome.

gestures!

so, it's been a while since i've done some quick gestures, and boy, it felt great.  i had to warm up for a while before i got into it and here are some of my favorites from this morning.  i'm looking forward to learning lots more from ryan woodward this term!

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rust!

This was something I've been working on recently creating a shader network (SOP) from scratch in Houdini.  I was able to adjust the amount of rust, amount of displacement, and the colors giving it a wide variety of what it could be.  It turned out to be a fun assignment, and I enjoyed it a lot.  

heads... whole lotta of heads!

general conference sketches... yup yup. can you guess which session it was?

so, i've been practicing heads mainly because of my advanced figure drawing class, and i'm getting better and better with time and practice.

i think i'm going to paint this... it has the potential to look awesome!