Pigeons

I met this girl last weekend who said she had an idea for a cartoon. Being an animator I was all ears. The Premise is they live in New York and each pigeon represents a different Burroughs. So I came up with a few sketches. I don't know which one represent different Burroughs but that will be figured out in time.Okay so this first one was so I could get some idea what drawing a birds face in a cartoonish matter would be like. I'm not exactly sure this one looks like a pigeon though.

Okay so this one is a bird in flight. Once again I'm not sure if this is actually what a pigeon looks like in flight or if I just made it up. The next couple sketches really look like pigeons though.Alright I feel like this on is actually taking on pigeon form as well as looks like he's from New York. He's reading the Times and is starting to get that look.Alright this is the last of my pigeon sketches. These two are engaged in a conversation. I really like the two of them because the almost have human characteristics. While creating these sketches I couldn't help but wonder how animation studios such as Disney and Pixar are so good at making animals have human characteristics. I'm really pleased that I've started getting there with these sketches. Now whether or not I end up making this cartoon I don't know, but it was a lot of fun drawing these birds.

It Continues

Well here is my next drawing in my book. I really like how this one ended up. I know in my last post I said I would be drawing every day. I have been doing that but I think the blog is going to be a few days behind. I've been taking time to ink and color these last few. Oh yeah, there's also a third drawing in my book that I probably wont be posting. What I did was take some sketches, and I mean real sketchy sketches. I tried to make a composition out of them. It didn't work out to well. All in all I'm feeling pretty good about my daily drawing regiment. I hope if anyone is reading this they enjoy what I'm doing. At the very least I'll have some cool books by the end of this.

My New Years Resolution

I know it's a little early to be making my resolutions, but this is a good one. I have a couple nice hard bound sketchbooks. For my early resolution I'm going to draw something in them every day. The drawings don't have to be to the extent this one is. As long as I'm drawing everyday I'll be happy. It's my goal to fill up my books. That way people can flip through and enjoy my drawings. As well this blog will be blowing up with new material.

The Thing?

I don't know what this guy is supposed to be, but I drew him and I think he's pretty cool looking. I've been doing little character sketches like this lately. I'm going to try to update this blog more often than I have been in the past. I live in NYC now so I'm sure I'll have things to say, photographs to share and of course drawings. So if you actually check out my blog from time to time, keep it up because there's more material on the way.

No CIty Animation

This is the text based intermission animation I created for our play. There are two different versions of this animation one for the first weekend (Nov 1st & 2nd) and one for the second weekend (Nov 7th & 8th) It had to be slightly changed due to the election. There's a small section about voting. I'm only going to put the pre election one up. I think it's funnier.

The second weekends version had a picture of Obama instead of Bush. Otherwise it's the same thing. Lastly I would like you all to know I put this together in about a week and a half. It may in fact be the cheesiest animation I've ever done, and all my animations are cheesy.

What I do at work

I work at a place the does special effects for television commercials. A girl I work with named Ariana and I have been drawing all over the receptionists calender during the month of October. I think a few other people have drawn on this as well but mostly the two of us. Hopefully I put a new one of these up every month.

No City Fliers

These are a couple fliers I put together for a play called No City. If you live in or around New York City you should come check it out. All the information is on the fliers. It's going to be a great show. I also have a animated intermission that will appear in the show. That will be up here later this week.

Smokes & Food

I am currently working on an intermission animation for a play. It's pretty much going to be like an old time intermission with little advertisements here and there. As the intermission goes along the ads will be for worse and worse things. It's going to start out with ads for snacks then cigarettes till eventually it's advertising heroin or something. These are my first 2 spots. There going to be put on backgrounds with text saying things like "Eat some snacks" "smoke smooth mentol cigarettes, ohhhh what a taste" and "Heroin it'll change your life". It's satire.

Some Random Sketches & Drawings

Cows Smell Bad

So I live in New York City now and due to the new job (which is an artistic job) I haven't been drawing much lately. I started feeling bad about it, so I'm getting back into the swing of things again. So here's my first new post in almost 2 months. If you actually ever check my blog keep it up because I'm going to make an effort to keep posting new drawings.