Lift revised

Glockenspiel Lift

Originally I was going to make the bells tinkle and he was going to turn the crank and play it, but it took me a week to think of an idea so I only had a week to sketch it out. Also I have an essay for Sufism due today...which I should probably start. But this was way more fun.
Also, my scanner is a finicky little drip. I had to use my friend's scanner for the second half of this project. I shall have to invest in a new one.
Stalling stalling stalling don't want to write essay.

Spread #12

Page one: After that Jon Gomez excursion, my mind couldn't stop its design-oriented processing, so I did a little pen thing of Clive and Shibuki, trying to capture more of the feeling/element of the scene and less of their anatomy. Also werewolves.
Page two: Random eyeless Jez. Then, my favorite picture I've ever done of Ecrus ever. Photoshopped version here:http://squonkhunter.deviantart.com/#/d3d2xsx. Last one is a very brief sketch of a later scene...still working things out. I have almost everything developed for my story, now. It's a pain that it's moving so slowly. Here's what I have so far: http://hmscdrcomic.wordpress.com/

Spread #11

Page one: Clive's introduction to my comic (http://hmscdrcomic.wordpress.com/), he won't be here for a while, though. Jez, Slenderman, Tarkus and Ecrus, Papageno and Papagena...I would like to try this as an animation someday.
Page two: Remfield Montgomery Tarkus from my comic. We shall be entering the western setting soon, and seeing as he is a gunslinger by trade, I thought I'd try it out. He's actually right-handed, but is ambidextrous when it comes to shooting. I did this entirely in pen, no pencil sketch beforehand. Wanted to see if I could do it. My backgrounds need major work, as do my guns.

Another piece of inspiration

Just saw this...pretty amazing. Made entirely on Flash, I think.

Spread #10

Page One: Failed attempts at Shibuki as a dog (going from the original Bram Stoker description of vampires, having dog forms as well), unamused Clive werewolf dog with stupid tongue and bug, Ecrus with quotes from "Ella Giammai M'amo" by Giuseppe Verdi from the opera Don Carlo, basically reading "Love for me she has not, I will sleep alone in the mantle of my castle, when my day has given way to evening." Very rough translation, I apologize.
Full body picture of Tarkus, Ecrus and Tarkus injecting each other with Senescence, a substance which allows them to age in their own dimension and not in the current dimension they're in, since time moves at different speeds behind different portals. This whole page from my comic.

Page Two: Two pots my sister made in high school ceramics class. I was explaining them to different people and did not have them with me, so I drew them from memory. The first is a pot that actually collapsed, but she decided to give it to me for Christmas anyway. Reminds myself of me.
Russian doctor, a character my friend invented, who I am incorporating into my web comic.
Ecrus...being Ecrus. Lots of shirtless men in this one. I apologize.
Or do I?
A sketch of my friend Haile. The folds in her skirt were particularly fun to draw, as was her wavy hair.

Spread #9

Page one: Failed attempt at Samir, Shibuki panel planning, Rem with his agent Spicy, and Shibuki (he's a vampire).
Page two: Concept sketches of Mr. Arm from HMS Crock Doctor: http://hmscdrcomic.wordpress.com/

Spread #8

Yeeeeaaaahh...sorry 'bout that. I seem to be rather behind on my spreads.
Page one: panel planning, Clive and Remfield drunk, full-body portrait of Remfield.
Page two: Shibuki, Jez, Clive pulling the lever ("WRONG LEVERRR!!!")

Spread #7

Page one: Shibuki from my web comic, 'Teller and Valen, my friend's characters, more of Ecrus.
Page two: Shibuki, more of Ecrus (sorry), young Clive, and a silhouette/body shape experiment where I had a friend guess which of my characters was which according to body shape and posture. She got almost all of them right. She knows too much.

Walk Cycle

My character Remfield from my web comic HMS Crock Doctor. The tails of his jacket and his smoke are moving too quickly for the speed he's going at, and I can't say there's wind, because his hair isn't affected. I'm gonna say...it's magic.

Miranda the Giraffe Lady

For a limited time only, see the amazing giraffe woman grow a neck TWICE as long as a normal human's neck!!!

Spread #6

Page one: Friends, Farsi lessons, racist drawing by one of my friends of one of my friends (is it still racist if he liked it?), and that same friend as a bunny.

Page two: A new character I made for my comic. His name is Spicy. He's Remfield's agent and he looks, as my friend put it, "Arab as shit." I hadn't intended any specific ethnicity for him; I just drew him. I guess he wants to be Arab as shit. Other characters, and Clive again. He always shows up places.

A more cat-like approach

...to the subject of tails.

Spread #5

More of Clive and Shibuki. They are characters from my web comic "HMS Crock Doctor." I've been drawing them a lot lately. I promise I'll move on to other subjects...later.

On my own

It's shitty...but this is...really fun. I can't stop myself.

The levitating Buddha of cats

Can challenge the Great Sage, equal of Heaven.

Spread #4 (contains a rather perturbed cat)

Page 1: Failed attempts at drawing my sister, Clive from my web comic in the corner being English and footless.
Page 2: My design for our next animation project (cat waggin' its tail), Ecrus from my web comic, Leporello from Mozart's "Don Giovanni" explaining to one of his master's ex-lovers that she really wasn't all that special, and Papageno from Mozart's "Die Zauberfloete" ("The Magic Flute") with his own personal "Fuck you" towards die Eingeweiten.

I am the ball

Oh, do you want to bounce me? I am the ball.
Done in class 24 Jan. 2011.

Spread #3

Girls at my sister's birthday party, my brother with a nerf gun, my mom's friend Russ making the evil eye, my mom (who somehow always gets stuck babysitting other people's dogs), and stupid pigeons. And a cat. My cat. He kept moving.

A mash-up of Akira:

This needs to be viewed full screen.
This is a short video of a mash-up of scenes from Akira, a crazy Japanese animated film (1988). LOOK AT THE BACKGROUNDS!!! SO MUCH DETAIL!!! Anyway, it's disturbingly awesome and it will stay with you a long time, this film. Also, the soundtrack is kickass.
WATCH IN FULL SCREEN.

Spread #2

I drew some of my friends this weekend. One was sleep-talking.

"Sketchbook" Quotes:

"No one else in the universe would have drawn it quite like you." (pg. 15)

"Mountains stand erect, lean, lie down, sprawl, and spill out onto valleys in alluvial forms. Trees loom, twist in agonized or humorous gestures; they stand erect, stretch, lean; some are tired, some perky, some bear fruit or flower, which in itself is a gesture...Vehicles have gestures of their own. Some cars seem to slink along, some move proudly. Some are raised way up on springs - look like they're holding up their skirts so they can cross a stream...They're as different from each other as a farmer is from an office worker; or a military man is from a hobo. Don't sketch...as if you were doing a Ford ad - go for their personalities, their gesture." (pg. 17-18)

Spread #1

From one of my sketchbooks; the first page is of a character I had in a novel series I was writing, which failed, so I then placed him into my web comic "HMS Crock Doctor" as the villain. Second page I had my friend pose for me in all the poses except the one with the naked man and the bowl. Based on her poses I developed characters that fit the body language. That's why the male jester has child-bearing hips.

An excerpt from Pink Floyd's "The Wall":

As the assignment was to post an animated sequence we particularly liked, I was tempted to post either the final fight scene from Bones Studio's Sword of the Stranger (2007) or "Hellfire" from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), but nothing was as jaw-dropping to me as when I saw the last part of the "Empty Spaces" animated sequence in The Wall (1982).

Holy shit. When the face stretches and breaks out in disease, and the abstract figure of a woman morphs from that and then everything starts morphing and...wow. What especially blew me away was the amount of detail in every frame. Every line is exactly where it should be.

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS.