Experimenting...

I Want That Rock! progress...

I'm finally digging in and trying to solidify some designs for characters for I Want That Rock!, an idea that I worked up a long time ago that I want to relaunch as a web series or comic book one day. Perhaps even something that could find it's home on an iPad one day too.

What an exciting opportunity that device offers for comic book artists.

Sometimes Sunday Sketch sessions stretch out into the week ahead...

SketchSundays in full effect

In between sessions of Avatar and Books of Eli I've been catching up on sketching.

Getting the hang of the Wacom

More sketches done on the laptop waiting for car repairs to be finished...

Hurtling Through Space...

...At An Alarming Rate!

Once again, I've been trying out something new for the first time. In this instance, it's matte paintings for an indy web series called Hurtling Through Space At An Alarming Rate. So far I've done 3 quick matte paintings on each of the last 3 Saturdays and while I'm embarrassed to show them, I've started to get a little bit more comfortable with each one. It's nice to have a blank canvas and a problem to solve and know you only have to finish in a couple hours. It's a bit of a misnomer to call them paintings as they're mostly just quick collage and levels-balancing exercises, but I'm getting there! Here's each of the them in order of completion.

Riding on an aeroplane

Just some sketching done on the plane ride back from LA; kinda hard to keep the lines smooth and straight with all that turbulence!

Planet Hundo

Working up some character designs for a small project I'll probably start up early next year, once I get my head around character animation in Flash. They're related to characters I worked on way back in this post!

By the way, if you're interested in a terrific book on drawing for animation, pick up Wayne Gilbert's Simplified Drawing For Planning Animation! It's a quick read that you'll find yourself going back to time and time again.