End of Spring 15' Semester

I lucked out and found a refurbished "hand-crank" pencil sharpener online. This means Derwent Drawing pencils are back in play! It takes some serious hardware to sharpen those bastards, but it's worth it.

I noticed with these tools, the line they create is REALLY dark. Without consistent attention to line weight, a pose can be ruined pretty easily. Eventually I learned to scribble a bit in the corner of the page, breaking in the pencil tip before each pose.

Back to Newsprint

Apparently I'm improving! Of course at AAU, all you have to do to cut that feeling short is peek at the next guy's easel...@#$%... 

I've almost narrowed down my tools to a back-and-forth between prismacolor black/ indigo/ brown and 8B graphite. Graphite is fast (to a fault), and helps with the really reeeally short poses. 

Still Training

Pretty much from here until I get a new A3 scanner, I'm going to have to ditch the 11X14 Sketchbooks for printer paper. Or possibly the next sketchbook size down. Scanning large images just became a major pain. Anyways, enjoy.

R&D

Slowly letting go of construction as I get more comfortable. Next semester will probably be the "line weight" semester... 

Bruce Timm & WB Animation. Middle figs by me.

More Training

Fall sketches from the Quickstudies workshop @ the Powell building. Workshops have been really good for keeping me sane and focused during those long weeks.

I had a "stoner theory", semesters earlier, to focus on construction to more efficiently find the gesture/ anatomy/ proportions. I miiiiight be getting closer to paydirt. Time will tell.

Updating my Life Drawings

 Behold, the fastest, most frequently updated portion of my portfolio. Definitely not the last update. I have a whole other sketchbook to kill, scan, and sift through haha.

Rough Groupshot (Costumed)

Trying to see how they all look as a group. I seem to have approximated the perspective pretty well (each is a separate drawing), though edits will be made during cleanup. Alsooo...more early development bits!

Sizing chart. Looks like Zach is the "heavy" in this team.