Chameleon

Warm up sketch with color. 

Petco had the most adorable veiled chameleons in its herp-hut the other day. Couldn't help but sketch them when I got home. 

Reindeer

Some reindeer sketch warm ups for my holiday cards this year. Caribou are fascinating, such fun and playful shapes. 

Sugar Skull-esque cut-paper design.

Art trade with Kaze-The-Blaze of FA. Made with cut paper and jewel embellishments. 

Design and Color Theory

Classwork from both my Design and Color Theory classes at CSM. 

We are studying Notan, the positive/negative relationship of space and symmetry. 

Values of color. 

"I prefer evil genius."

Jumba Jookiba made his way into my sketchbook the other day. 

Ali-gator

Pen doodle with a splashing of color. 

Sketch Dump

Recently started reading The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams even though I've had it forever. Tried out a few animation apps for iPad, eventually I will work out YouTube and post some experiments. IT'S SO DIFFICULT AT FIRST! Aaauuuugghhhh, like want to flip a desk difficult... Then you get the hang of it and it's SO FLIPPING AMAZING!!! 

This most likely has so many glaring errors any animator can pick outright away, but I don't think it turned out that bad. After jumping into an app right away without planning key frames and having everything be -jumpy- I sat down with the book and broke it down in steps. Still so much to learn! 

Otherwise here's stuff from this week: