Roll Fortitude

1st character assignment at school

2012-01-19T01:24:00.004-05:00

No idea why this text is underlined. I can't make it stop. Deal with it.

My assignment:

Design a character suitable for living in a Sci-Fi, space themed environment. Research and collect images that support your character design ideas.

The result? A cyber-punk bounty hunter.

Sketches from December. Mostly frogs.

2011-12-29T11:05:00.002-05:00

Sketch night and coffee time

2011-11-10T16:14:00.003-05:00

Krelle parkour poses

2011-10-14T13:50:00.001-05:00

Museum sketches!

2011-09-13T21:03:00.001-05:00

Pinup Fairy

2011-08-30T16:57:00.002-05:00

Trying out more colouring stuff in photoshop.

Getting a bit better.

2011-08-16T22:12:00.003-05:00

Found a fine-tipped marker that I like, drew and scanned these in and painted them in photoshop. Starting to feel better with the colouring, but still very slow.

First thing coloured on the Cintiq

2011-08-16T22:06:00.003-05:00

Kitty is sick.

2011-07-18T09:17:00.002-05:00

Reinhardt, Overworked and underpaid

2011-07-14T15:40:00.001-05:00

Judas, Overclocked and underworked.

2011-07-14T12:17:00.001-05:00

Alien Puppy

2011-07-14T10:19:00.002-05:00

Because sometimes you promise someone something. And it's a puppy.

Robot birds from Sketch Night at the college.

2011-06-24T16:01:00.005-05:00

Been a long time since I have been to Sketch Night at the college, I'm thinking of getting back into it, just to get a couple hours of sketching in regularly. Gotta keep that in shape, too.

Meetings are good for doodles.

2011-06-20T15:48:00.002-05:00

Sketch bots!

2011-05-04T21:43:00.002-05:00

Remember to always bring a sketchbook, in case, say, you end up sharing a computer or your director is in Toronto!

Approved Krelle

2011-04-25T20:35:00.002-05:00

She's a half-dead underweight borderline sociopath with bad friends and a mysterious past, say "Hello!" to Krelle!

'Sites character design

2011-04-09T01:10:00.003-05:00

Character designs for a webcomic that will be written by my sister, Kathleen, and myself. Here is first batch of sketches of Krelle, and one of her and Nerrok in a sweet bike.

Tannery workers and goons.

2011-04-09T01:09:00.000-05:00

Joseph "Longblade", Cal and Giska, and the Tabercat.

2011-04-09T01:04:00.001-05:00

Hakk and Ivar

2011-04-09T00:50:00.002-05:00

Doodley bits!

2011-04-05T20:49:00.001-05:00

Evil takes a day off

2010-08-05T14:56:00.001-05:00

Star Wars

2010-08-05T14:39:00.003-05:00

Just some characters from my Star Wars d20 game. I'm the buggy-looking guy in the middle.

I didn't update. But now I do! sketching time!

2010-06-29T23:35:00.002-05:00

Monsters I drew. I named them Moblins and made them in Spore. They are wicked-cool.

The blue guy well... he's a special kind of special.

Last of school stuff

2010-05-10T06:23:00.002-05:00

Life drawing and a demo reel, last things I worked on at Algonquin.

Sketches and bunnies!

2010-04-19T22:23:00.002-05:00

Bike wraith.

2010-04-08T20:24:00.002-05:00

See, if they did it my way, those hobbits would never have made it to Bree.

Life drawing and Hook

2010-04-04T15:27:00.004-05:00

Some of my last life drawing for this year, a couple gestures on construction paper and a page of me trying to learn Captain Hook's model. Tricky, what with head being built like a fat banana.

Sketcheeeeeez...

2010-03-25T10:50:00.004-05:00

Re-drawing

2010-03-06T20:34:00.001-05:00

Old sketches revisted. Hopefully going into Fine Tooning.

Onwards to Science!

2010-02-11T18:45:00.001-05:00

Pan layouts

2010-02-07T16:47:00.004-05:00

A vertical pan through a venetian-kind of city with an airship up top, and a horizontal pan across a beach.

Second batch of Christmas presents

2010-01-11T07:17:00.004-05:00

Captain Olleander d'Lyrander, CEO / CFO of the Aberrant Shipping Company, Coin Lord of Stormreach, Harbringer of Doom, and Melech, half-demon samurai with a sabertooth-skull mask and a heart of gold.

Christmas presents

2010-01-11T07:13:00.002-05:00

Characters from a long running D&D campaign. Lochland Shmochland the crazy and undead warlock, and Riva the shifter warden.

Hatchling drawings!

2009-12-25T09:59:00.002-05:00

We were using nu-[astel to draw the model in life drawing class, and then our teacher told us to draw our film character in the model's pose. I had a baby sea turtle to do, but it actually worked out ok.

More 1 minute gestures

2009-12-25T09:58:00.002-05:00

life drawing blocking studies

2009-12-13T19:06:00.001-05:00

Life drawing

2009-12-13T19:03:00.001-05:00

1 minute gestures

2009-12-13T19:02:00.002-05:00

Life drawing, mid tonal shading

2009-12-13T18:59:00.001-05:00

Drapery study

2009-11-21T00:14:00.001-05:00

I'm digging the drapery so far. unfortunately, I did this on on printing paper instead of nicer, smoother paper and the grain shows through a bit. Something to avoid in the future.

Life drawing

2009-11-15T15:33:00.004-05:00

One 20 minute, 2 one minute and an hour long drapery study. Thankfully, no drapery in my film, but still really neat to learn about.

Shell shock backgrounds

2009-10-28T13:04:00.001-05:00

These may still change, but this is what I've got so far. Thanks Cassie for the template!

harmony assignment, the switch flip!

2009-10-28T13:01:00.002-05:00

Had to have Doris the mummy walk in, see the switch, react, approach it, consider it, flip it. Her mood, attitude, actions and whatever happened after was up to us.

Opening panoramic shot of AWESOME!

2009-10-21T11:23:00.003-05:00

Count Edward von Emo Jr.

2009-10-16T12:07:00.002-05:00

He is taken by surprise getting a cafe-mocha!

A baby turtle I did NOT design.

2009-09-29T17:29:00.002-05:00

Experimental Farm sketches 1

2009-09-26T23:13:00.002-05:00

Experimental Farm sketches 2

2009-09-26T23:11:00.002-05:00

Experimental Farm sketches 3

2009-09-26T23:09:00.001-05:00

"Hatched" layout thumbnails

2009-09-26T23:07:00.001-05:00

Sketch night doodles

2009-09-26T23:06:00.002-05:00

I drew an imp.

2009-08-10T16:58:00.001-05:00

Anna Snow

2009-07-29T11:00:00.002-05:00

The one under my bed has long spindly arms and a face like a grey alien. The one in my closet only has eyes.

Magill Foote

2009-07-29T10:58:00.001-05:00

Martin Duncan

Eric Rochon

2009-07-29T10:57:00.002-05:00

The monster under my bed is pretty chill. His name is Dave and he likes coloring books. The one in my closet is blatantly flamboyant... so he stays in.

Ian Cantello

2009-07-29T10:55:00.001-05:00

A golem constructed of empty camera and PC hardware boxes.

Kathleen Biard - Dustbunnies.

2009-07-29T10:52:00.001-05:00

Sophie

2009-07-24T17:27:00.004-05:00

Burgle works tech support part-time and complains about the shortage of chinese take-out.

Sketch night doodles...

2009-07-07T22:45:00.002-05:00

New character designs

2009-07-02T19:20:00.003-05:00

I drew the characters my sister and I play in D&D, So much fun. Also tried some simplified cartoony characters. I have a hard time simplifying anatomy, and figuring out what I can leave out, so these are good practice.

Overdue sketches

2009-07-02T19:17:00.002-05:00

Just a couple robots, Going to try and colour the "No-Crossing Bot".

more sketching

2009-05-06T18:37:00.002-05:00

I think some of my favourite drawings come out when someone starts a sentence with "I bet that you can't draw a ..." eg. kung fu crocodile or a Godfather Jellyfish.

Sketches!

2009-04-29T20:03:00.002-05:00

Playing around with some colouring pencils and a brush pen... I like the dark lines but it is impossible to do a fast line with the brush, so I'll think I'll try sketching with a sharpie marker next time.

Harmony 2d computer animation

2009-04-28T21:10:00.002-05:00

Given the sound byte and the characters, and off we go!

11 second club... for March.

2009-04-25T10:54:00.002-05:00

So it's a month late. Many extensions, revisions and revisions later, I think It's lookin' pretty good. Definately learned a lot putting this one together, and that's the point, right?

Now THAT'S muscle.

2009-04-16T09:11:00.003-05:00

G'Morg 5 way Rotation

2009-04-12T20:51:00.002-05:00

G'Morg 5 way skeleton rotation

2009-04-12T20:46:00.006-05:00

G'morg Final

2009-04-01T18:14:00.002-05:00

And here he is. going to be a 5 pose rotation - body and skeleton - as well as a more detailed muscle study coming soon.

And yet more...

2009-03-18T22:30:00.002-05:00

Zeroing in on my character now... I really like number 7, but I gotta wait and see what the prof thinks.

More variations on a theme!

2009-03-17T22:11:00.002-05:00

When a drawing isn't working yet, you do more drawings. Here are more.

We call this variation on a theme.

2009-03-12T23:25:00.001-05:00

I have a thick, wormy upper body approved, but I needed a new, better head design and some legs. Possibly some hands, but not human or t-rex hands.

Second round of thumbs

2009-03-10T21:26:00.002-05:00

So far, 16 is my favourite, and while I AM gonna be doing the wormy guy, I need a new head and better lower body. I kinda like the vestigal feet, but I am going to have to find something better. I did other versions of the robot too, but I like the alien more.

Character designs / sketches

2009-03-07T01:17:00.000-05:00

We were supposed to be creative. Don't blame me!

Lip sync

2009-02-22T12:12:00.001-05:00

Sketches

2009-02-22T12:10:00.003-05:00

I started sketching right before I go to sleep, apparantly, it's a great time for me to throw down some ideas that have been bouncing around, with or without me knowing about them.

Wendy drumming - music sound sync!

2009-01-28T20:52:00.007-05:00

Aberrant model sheet

2009-01-27T01:48:00.002-05:00

The Aberrant - Airship for the discerning pirate

2009-01-25T17:17:00.002-05:00

a few of my better thumbnail sketches (8 out of 32) and my rough for my flying vehicle assignment for Design.

New Toy!

2009-01-04T20:18:00.002-05:00

Here is my new work station. Thanks to Kathleen for the disk, Dad for the table, parts and labour, and to Sarah and Peter for the use of the garage + tools. Yay for family effort!

Animation final and bonus track.

2008-12-26T12:46:00.003-05:00

This here is the final assignment. We had to have Wendy hear a sound off-screen, turn to see what caused it, then react appropriately. Below is my bonus track. I handed in the cleaned-up version and still had some time before it was due, so I tried to see if I could animate something in just a couple hours. This bit would make more sense if the background were more visible: it is a sc-fi lab with aliens (from the Alien series) in vats along the wall.

Animation videos!

2008-12-26T12:37:00.004-05:00

Just realised that I could post videos up here. Narf. Here are my walk cycle with the robot, Sprocket, and my jump-rope assignment with Wendy from earlier this year.

Emotion studies from drama class

2008-12-08T19:42:00.002-05:00

Drawn from people in my class or movies / T.V.

Miscellaneous

2008-12-07T03:47:00.001-05:00

2008-12-07T03:45:00.001-05:00

Sketchbook assignment - nature

2008-12-07T03:41:00.002-05:00

Rough/clean, final version of my Funhouse/Roller Coaster themed Haunted House

2008-11-18T21:07:00.002-05:00

Haunted House thumbnails

2008-11-18T21:05:00.002-05:00

Layout madness!

2008-09-24T19:33:00.002-05:00

A sketch I did sort of for my nephew, who likes to play Bantha. Also, three layouts. The crazy tower was an assignment I just submitted (wish I had balanced out the composition a bit more, but I was happy with my bricks!) the other two, which I just got back, are from the spring.

Umad finds a hat.

2008-09-01T13:29:00.002-05:00

Wow fanart for my sis, from scan to finished product.

2008-09-01T13:27:00.001-05:00

Haunted house interior

2008-09-01T13:26:00.001-05:00

Characters sketched this summer

2008-09-01T13:24:00.004-05:00

Captain Crabbit, who has a question, and Alligator-Bear-Cat (for Kenj) a Platypus-cyborg-samurai (they said it couldn't be done!) and a cranky crocodile playing golf.

Doodles

2008-09-01T13:08:00.001-05:00

Giant sea turtle skeleton from Museum of Nature

2008-07-05T12:11:00.001-05:00

This thing is the size of a U-Haul cube van and took seven hours to finish.

Characters from sketch nights at school + saturday classes

2008-07-05T12:09:00.002-05:00

Quick sketches and doodles

2008-07-05T12:07:00.001-05:00

One line drawings, 2 and 4 minutes

2008-07-05T12:06:00.002-05:00

Life drawing this summer

2008-07-05T12:02:00.003-05:00

The shaded drawing took an hour, the purple one five minutes, and the bottom two were fifteen minutes each. It is great to be able to get the information of a pose and the proportions down this fast, even if it is still rough. Thanks to my teachers for the help!