red panda love

i looove red pandas. i want to have a red panda farm where they can frolic and be adorable.

i see lots of photos of red pandas sticking their tongues out. surely they would like popsicles, right? i really like how these came out. i've been wanting to animate red pandas for a long time now. maybe i can do something with this little guy..

Jewel doodle

she gets mad at me for neglecting her and forces her way into my sketchbook.

vesta doodle

hi blog. still here, just not a lot of time for arts right now.

evening doodle of my kitty, Vesta.

11 Second Club - character design

I got really excited when I heard this month's 11 second club clip and immediately started brainstorming how to reinterpret it. I think a lot of times when you know the source material it can be harder to break away to do something different since you already have that preconceived idea of what the actor is doing.

Anyway, after a few scrapped ideas I came to this. I haven't even started boarding yet so the design might change a little, but overall I like her. I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew with her design. I have to keep reminding myself that it's February so I don't have quite as many days as usual.

Back to character design

does this thing still work? been a few months since i've posted anything -_-

and speaking of being a while, it's been waaaay too long since i did some drawing, so i decided to dive back into trying to get this damn lady designed.

kinda like where these are going..she's a little older which i think works better with the story. playing some with colors, too.

the quest for the perfect character design..

I've got this idea for a short but I keep getting stuck on the character designs. She's...kind of a wannabe princess, but I think most of the drawings I've done of her make her look far too young. Before I had much of the story down i did these designs which i was happy with at the time but, once i started fleshing out the story, i think she's too young.

(done back in 2008)

After some time away from the project, I really hit the story side harder, fleshing it out and doing some ruf boards. After that I took another stab at the design. None of them really jumped out at me. Also I started watching Princess & the Frog towards the end of doing these (the ones on the left were actually last) and I think it's funny how much the designs loosened up.

 (April 2010)

I tried again today, this time with a much more traditional Disney-ish look to her. I like how she turned out but I still think she looks too young :/ Maybe I'll try playing it out and see if it's really as off as I think it is. Even if I don't use her for that, I still think it's a cute design :D

character design exploration

did some sketching last night, working on character designs for the comic i want to do. still exploring a style and design and all that, but i like how most of this came out.

The Internet Wins

I held out for so long, but the internet has finally broken my will. After surviving so long on only a portfolio page and a deviantart account, I have fallen to the will of blogger. I figure here I can not only post my own art, but scrapbook other fun and exciting things and inspire me.

I am a freelance animator and amateur comic artist and sculptor. All of these things I will share with you! You are so lucky!

So let's bust through the lack of things posted by me throwing a bunch of things down here that i've done over the past year or two.

I hope we will be good friends, internets!