Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone!

Thanks for stopping by.

Mr. Monkey

This is how I feel when I don't know what I want to draw...

Smurf sketches

Playing around with some Smurf designs.

Graduation AM

Woohoo! Our graduation ceremony for Animation Mentor is in January.

Night Cap

This week I attempted a piece for the ten second club but didn't make it by the deadline... I was a day late. Ah well... the reason behind tackling this piece was to take a step away from my short film to refresh. I've been looking at the same characters and ideas for so long I needed a small breath of fresh air. I'm going to refine and clean this piece up a little bit more then I'm back off to my film.

Edit: Ha ha! I tried submitting it anyway and it went through... hopefully it'll still be accepted? We'll see.

Wrestling

Something I sketched up while eating pizza at my sister's house last night. This big guy has no sense of balance...

And this little guy has no sense at all... poor guy.

Scarecrow

Last topic before finishing Animation Mentor was scarecrow come to life. Since this is the last week before I finish AM, I won't have anymore access to the student forums... but there will be an alumni forum for graduates. Woohoo! ;) There's also a great weekly sketch blog called Outsider Art Club. If you wanna' get in with some talented guys, I recommend contributing if you've got the time. Some nice inspiration from that spot.

Give me an AM!

AM Weekly Sketch was Cheerleader this week.

Happy Anniversary Jasmin!

Yesterday was my one year wedding anniversary! So we threw a barbecue and invited a few people to celebrate. We had a ton of fun so thanks for comin' and spendin' some time with us of ya' did. Next time we'll use a propaine grill (which our landlord just mentioned that they had in the garage that they don't mind us using... great, huh!?)... so next time we won't have anyone's hands burst into flames from picking up the loose grill rack that kept falling into the charcoal. Heh! He's alright though. :) ... it sure didn't effect his bag-tossing in 'cornhole'.

Anyway, here's the anniversary card that I drew for Jasmin.

It hasn't even felt like it's been a year. It felt like we were planning for the wedding just a few days ago.

Jasmin really liked the pencil version of the sketch so I decided to post that up as well. Sorry I didn't draw the feet... I was actually thinking of cutting us off above the knees but I was actually happy with how her legs ended up so I kept them in the frame.

Sketch theme this week was to design some mariachis so I drew these guys up before I went to sleep. Could have probably varied things up a bit... especially the curly 'bigote' under his nose. Also could have played with different sizes for the hat. Maybe some tiny ones... was fun sketching these caballeros though.

This is a pretty late one... this was for the sketch thread last week on the Animation Mentor forums. The theme was garbage man and Jasmin gave me a nice idea to incorporate the 'One man's junk is another man's treasure' idea. I don't know who'd throw away a perfectly good ink marker anyway... who WOULDN'T treasure that??? ;P

Thanks fer stoppin' by!

Memory

Takin' a little break for a small sketch. :)

Customer Support

AM Weekly Sketch was customer support. My short film is in full production ;) so I didn't have much time to spend on sketchin' this week. Gotta' keep drawing though.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cuatro

AM Sketch:Musician
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I had some fun playin' around with this guy. I tried incorporating a sense of rhythm in the lines with him to stay consistent with the theme of this week's topic. I also tried to give it some boricua culture with the cuatro, the ruffled shirt and the hat but I don't think it's coming across very well... maybe if I removed the feather... I'll try to do some more sketches if I have some extra time from my short.

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Also if you didn't notice, it's very Hirschfeld influenced... :P
Keep drawing and learning!