Work, School, bleh

Haven't had a lot of doodling time lately. Hope that will change in a couple of weeks. 

I've been working a lot, almost 40 hour weeks. I work at a children's museum and I see this (below) a lot.  

I've also been slowly doing digital painting in place of traditional. So you'll be seeing more and more digital work in the future.

Photoshop!

Still working on it. 

Richard Williams Exercise

Assignment for school, this is taken from Richard Williams "The Animation Survival Kit" of a fox hitting a wall. It's supposed to help you see the effect and difference of applying or not applying an elongated frame, and seeing how much more impact we get. The fourth version was one I added in there for kicks. I did all the sounds so sorry if it's really amateurish.


Untitled from Alberto on Vimeo.

M. Sporn on Feininger

Not too long ago i did a post on 'old-school' caricature. In it I mention Lyonel Feininger a German artist who according to the book i was looking threw did caricature but couldn't find anything on the web about outside of his fine art skills (which undoubtedly is excellent).

This morning while paroosing through my morning blogs Michael Sporn did a post on Feininger's cartoons. Turned out he had a syndicated comic, Michael posted some of them and they are beautiful so check em' out HERE.

Huckleberry Hound - John K Style

Color

Line-art


-original-

Boo-boo

So i got Adobe Illustrator (finally!). I've been practicing with inking and it's pressure sensitivity, though i haven't gotten the hang of it completely It's pretty simple to use. I just need to fix little quirks here and there. 

For practice, I've been using some of John K's HB drawings. 

Coloring is a nightmare in Illustrator, i can't figure it out and when I do try something it seems to just ruin the lines. So i had to import it into photoshop and color it in there.

Having A Blast!

Make-believe time with Billford!

gouache on paper, colored pencil for detailing.

Kid

Just your standard, red-blooded, all-American boy!

more sketches!

People in Elle magazine

Taylor Swift is all the way on the right

     Recently I've discovered two websites, one from Kristen McCabe called They Fight Crime. TFC generates a hilarious Duo of oddball characters that fight crime together. The other I found is called Fellow Humans and has pictures of many many people from different locations, this is great for caricature. I've only done two, the other caricatures was in a diner.

     

      Waffle Woman however is my own creation, yet it wasn't till 2 days after creating her that she was very reminisant of Powdered Toast Man, except she's a vigilante spy but she's inspired by an Abbott & Costello joke and TFC.

This page just has some random stuff, Ruby Poolcue is of course the symbol
of affection from Lou Costello, and Leslie Beanbag is his shrewd neighbor.
I got some Bavarian architecture, and the first drawing of Waffel-woman and Pizza-face!

All of these are based of TFC, the top two I adjusted for my own tastes, an opera singer that becomes obese and a black woman from the 1970s with her Disco Fortune Ball.

Sketches of Marc Anthony from Chuck Jones' "Feed The Kitty"

Strangers with Candy bit players and Shawn White caricatures

more to come!

layout sneak-peak!

Here's a picture (cropped) of a short little 'toon I'm going to try and work on, I hope i can get far, i have attempted to make shorts in the past but have lost interest or have gotten stuck. Not only that but I didn't know much about the process, which also lead to roadblocks. I started layout and it's extremely difficult, once I'm done i have a feeling I'm going to start all over or make many, many corrections. However, once layout is finished it might be all down hill from there, I imagine it to be time-consuming but not as technical as layout.

I hope you like the general look, I've been studying some Chuck Jones expressions, the way he works with eyes are fantastic, and the hands will be inspired by Witch Hazel's hands (Broomstick Bunny). I'm doing layout and maybe the extreme drawings by hand, then I'll scan them and digitally ink them, and breakdowns and inbetweens will also be filled in digitally. I'm also working on one of the backgrounds and it's coming out well. I'm going to digitally paint the backgrounds as well, right now I'm using corel painter not photoshop.

I've never done a short planned like this, so i'm sure to experience bumps along the way. does anyone have comments or suggestions about my process or how they go about doing layout? If so please comment.

Who Lives In a Pineapple Under the Sea???

Why it's Spongebob Square Pants of COURSE!!

Oh lookie there! It's his next door neighbor SQUIDWARD!

I just got gouache 2 days ago and boy is it fun. People say that it dries too quickly but i haven't had a problem with that at all. I hope to post one of Patrick soon, i might do one of Mr. Crabs but not completly sure, I'll probably do one of Mrs. Puff instead.

Billions and Billions pt 2

Sagan plants a loving gaze on a bust of Da Vinci.

you might recognize them from yesterday, these were the first i did.

i did a couple extra this time from different points of view, and understanding how the head is built. You'll see a list of features which could be exaggerated.

here, i'm starting to play with the features and trying to figure out where and how to size and place and build.

The last stage i get closer, polishing the overall caricature.

completed version!

Preston Blair!

Here's more Preston Blair goodness!

pooches!

oh man, so the image above was done by me, but below my 9 year old step sister want to do it too and below is her attempt.

this is just... i can't even... just... wow, just wow. (Yes i know, I'm a terrible person) When i asked her to draw a sphere she couldn't do it, so i have a feeling that's where the problem might lay.

Ren

Got a Ren & Stimpy DVD from Netflix! It contains one of my favorite episodes, Sven Hoek! I got to snag some stills for references some of the expressions are just brilliant. Also mixed in there are expressions from the pilot "Big House Blues" there's a bizarre scene after Ren yells in Stimpy's ear about the big sleep where they're just sitting making the weirdest faces for about 20 seconds, I don't know what it has to do with anything but it's my favorite part!

i did these (above) first. not very good, i haven't drawn other people's drawings in a while

These are much better, i guess the first three are just warm ups.

Here are a couple others i snagged. These are just fantastic! Kudos to whoever animated Ren threatening Sven and Stimpy the quality was impeccable I couldn't believe it was for TV.

new doodles. new media.

I've been playing with color and media lately (I don't paint much), it's something i should learn to do considering i don't really have a portfolio.

One thing that i have been doing that is really fun and interesting to me is mixing media so i can get a nice contrast of texture (or create a new one!). I've been playing with perticuarlaly colored pencil and water color, occasionally i'll bust out my inks too like the picture above but not often.

This one above is just colored pencil (ugh... i badly screwed up on that nose). The thing that i didn't really care for about the pencils is that alone they create kind of an ugly texture if you want them opaque, that texture though is great for hair! Yet skin is a different story, also they can get a little muddy after a while and because it's so waxy if your on that top layer and you make a mistake that color has to be blended in but it won't go away, you're basically left with a smudge. I draw pretty loosely and this is a very, very bad thing for me. This happened a lot when you were in an area with very contrasty colors, look around the eyes and you'll see what i'm talking about.

I tried something different. Instead I only outlined in color pencil. I created a thin watercolor base of colors and gradients, next I used some pastel chalks to darken and smudge, and THEN i went in with color pencil. The nice thing is that I didn't have to apply it very thick as in previous drawings, which meant that nasty textures and unwanted smudges could be easily averted.

I'm still playing around with this, so I'll hopefully find new ways to color drawings.

Jack Horkheimer

I'm going to try using Flash more often so I get used to it. I made a couple caricatures of the infamous Star Gazer choose my favorite and digitally inked and painted him in.


God, he's old. I've been watching him since I was little, and I'm 20. My mom was watching him as a kid and she's 49! And he's still on PBS reminding us to "keep looking up."

He's a really tricky reference you'd think for being on T.V. since the 70's even if it was only for five minutes there would be better quality pictures of you when you did a google image search. Guess I was wrong.