Storyboarding Class Week 3

We're past the 3 week point in class and it's still going great.  This past assignment was to either write a short script between 2 characters OR draw beat boards for something you did last summer or a childhood memory.  I opted for the childhood memory route and handed these in.  They probably don't need the generic descriptions I put on them but I'm fairly happy with how they turned out (considering I cranked them out over 2 short nights.)  Enjoy.

*and here's a bonus sketch of my girlfriend, Erin.  she had a long day at work and...well, this happened...

Storyboarding class - Week 2

So as I mentioned before I'm currently taking Steven Macleod's Storyboarding for feature animation class over on CGMA.  We're 3 weeks in and I'm loving it.  Steven is a great guy and his class has so much information in it.  I haven't taken notes like this since I was in art history back at ISU.  Anyways I thought I'd share the homework assignment for week 2, in which we were tasked with creating five original "gag" drawings.  A lot of what we just covered in the lecture had to do with the power of a single image and what makes for an interesting gag drawing.  Awesome stuff.  Steven even went over some of the stuff he learned from Matthew Luhn while at Pixar.  Again, awesome stuff.  So take a look at these and stay tuned for my next update from class.
-B

Out on the town

Went out to eat the other night for a b-day party and saw some interesting peeps.  At the restaurant we ate at there was this Mom and daughter right across from us.  The girl was just staring at her phone and the Mom was just staring at the daughter.  Made me laugh.  And then after that we went to a bar that bills itself as "30 and over" kind of place.  There was this older guy there who was out on the prowl and kept asking all of the women to dance.  The guy was quite the character and just begging to be drawn.

And yes, the line in quotes was the actual line I overheard him use.  Funny.

Saga inks

Here's the inks for the pin-up I put up the other day.  Digital inking is a tricky beast.

I Can't Smell My Eyes!

I'm excited to show this next image off.  It's an idea for a children's book that I've had for a while now and I've just finished putting together some dummy images together for it.  My hope is to show it off to some publishers and editors and see if it has any traction.  Let's just say that the story centers around a little boy, Miles, who gets a crazy idea in his head and sees how far he can take it.

This image also represents my first real jump into digital painting which is both scary and rewarding at the same time.  It sure is nice painting and not having a mess to clean up afterwards.  I have 2 other ideas that I really want to make into dummy-books so I'll start work on those soon.

There's a reason the last image doesn't have any text, but hopefully you'll figure that out when you read the book someday (fingers crossed)