The Giant-Hunter's Daughter

This semester, I've got a really stunning class on character and storytelling with Kevin Kurytnik instructing us - an awesome dude who does tons of amazing animation stuff. Some of our first assignments so far:

Design Three Characters



...and then further refine them and help define their characters and the story you want to tell with a sentence for each character. Very fun so far...




Plus, a little rotoscope test...

A Busy Week

Well, this semester feels like it's gonna be really busy. Already, I'm doing so much work!

Here's some life drawings...




AND BEST OF ALL: A really fun animation chronicling British Politics from 1970-79! I love the cut-paper stop-motion!

BASMACHI FIGHTER! (studies)

One of my first projects this semester involves developing portraits portraying a protagonist and an antagonist from SOME story, element of history, etc. For the protagonist character, I decided to illustrate the somewhat tragic figure of a Basmachi fighter - the muslim rebels, backed by the western powers, that fought to keep Central Asia free from Soviet 'liberation' between 1917 and 1931.
(The soviet conquest of central Asia is especially interesting from a cinematic perspective as it birthed the 'eastern' genre some thirty years later - a russian variation on the western, using many of the same tropes as the western, only with Soviet soldiers and muslim rebels replacing the cowboys, bandits, mexicans, indians, etc,)

Here are a few studies for said portrait.





Next week - the final.

The last year begins.

Well, after a crazy busy summer of work and play (the fruits of the former which will be in print sometime next year, I believe), school is BACK ON. To celebrate, here are a couple pages of a short-lived experiment that I was working on back in April.

Check 'em out.

Miss Cambridge 1215

For our "Going medieval" subject this week: Miss Cambridge for the year 1215 of our lord.

God, medieval times must have sucked.
drwnblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/going-medieval-results.html

A Mother's Love

Another awesome week at Drwnblog!

FILTHY GIANTS

Our week's topic at Drwnblog - "Crevasse of the Jötunn". Go check out one of our better weeks of work - with an ADDITIONAL TWO AWESOME GUEST ARTISTS!

Military Robot

Another INCREDIBLE week at Drwnblog! Check out everyone else's wicked stuff HERE

ALSO! I had an awesome weekend at the Calgary Comic Expo - I got to meet a bunch of cool people, enjoy the company with the entire Acts of Violence Crew as well as Vic Malhotra, who recently collaborated with my friend Ed Brisson on a Murderbook story. I even got to see William Shatner hanging out with the mayor of calgary, Naheed Nenshi. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it such a great weekend!

Cosmonautical Ideas

The brainstorming page for an old cosmonaut short I drew in 2008 (Which you can read below in the little flickr window...) The worst thing is that some of the ideas on this page probably would have been more interesting then the story that actually came to fruition. It's a little cliche and melodramatic, but for an early effort...

Fastest Tentacle in the West

My entry for this week's drwnblog challenge: GUNSLINGER.

In doing this one, I guess I just figured the doing some boring old human in western clothing was NOT ENOUGH. So here - the fastest tentacle in the west prepares to bring hot death on some desert bandits ( out on some godforsaken planet further up the galactic arm).

Check out the rest of this week's entries today (or preferably tomorrow - the other guys are slow) at our site:
http://drwnblog.blogspot.com/

If an astronaut collapses in the forest...

Does anyone hear a sound?

This is just a cool page I found while going through the endless piles of paper I've left around my parent's house. The first and only page of a project that remains unexplored, but the visual themes will be showing up in some large and small projects slated for release in the fall (ish).

Gentlemen of Fortune

This week's topic on the Sketchblog? Gentlemen of Fortune!

The what the rest of the team did HERE:
http://drwnblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/man-of-fortune.html