Week 6ish- Group Updates

I'm out of town for the week, and too busy to think up a sketch topic.
This week, I propose we show some of the other projects we've all been working on. Show us something impressive. Also, maybe some other people would like to suggest sketch week topics. I promise I won't be terribly judgmental.

Week 5 Walk Cycle

It's a guy with a peg leg. That's not terribly amazing, I admit, but it's an idea that's been kicking around in my head for a while.

Week 5

This week I thought I'd try something different. I propose a two week challange. Why this extra time? Because animation, that's why. I'm going to try and animate a walk cycles that doesn't follow the typical human walk pattern. Maybe someone with a pronounced limp, maybe something with more than two legs. Walk cycles are supposed to be impressive to people hiring animators. I figure they must see about a million of them a day, since I'm sure a lot of people have heard the same thing I have. Maybe something beyond "human being walking forward at a moderate pace" will be interesting.

Venture Bros

Two parts of the same thing. See if you can tell where the big looming head will go!

This is still pretty rough, but I think it has some potential. I need to look at some references before I move on. See how terrible my reference-less Hunter Gathers is in the second picture? I think I'm gonna try some big heavy Frank Miller style black and red for the final image, with more texture than I use. I'm still trying to figure out how to bring out the highlights...

Venture Brothers Again

Quick/rough attempt before I go to bed. Dr. Girlfriend is way harder to paint.

Venture Brothers

Hell yeah, nerding it up in here! Also thank you for reminding me the new season had started. I had completely missed that somehow.

Folklore - Jezinka sketch

Damn, I almost forgot about this topic. Well, after like five minutes of Google searching I found a disturbing and awesome Slavic folktale about these "Jezinkas" which charm people into falling asleep then rip out their eyeballs:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/sfs/sfs08.htm

My idea was to do a sort of collage of the goatherder boy, with the Jezinkas in the background trees offering their various objects, some thorns, maybe the eye-less old man... but actually planning all that out with decent composition was taking forever, so I just did this quicker sketch for tonight. Once again, I'd like to do a more completed work based on this. Crazy folklore is a goldmine of inspiration.

Things I'm not happy with - the hand of course, and an overall... Disney-ish quality to the linework.

Week 4- Venture Bros

Venture Bros Season 3 started last night. Venture Bros has consistently been one of my inspirations, particularly in my preposterous character design and animating endeavors. The fact they can make so much show with so little is astonishing. I'm going to be a huge nerd and do Venture Bros fan art. Won't you join me?

Folk Lore

I started doing sort of a Babba Yagga Chicken shack, but that wasn't working out. Somehow, this was the end result. I've kinda been kicking around this design in my head for a while. It's the rough sketch. It might be based on these stories about Finnish Troll/ghost things with deer skull heads. I might have just fabricated that. I'd like to make the things around the skull more ghost-ish. The pencil sketch of the deer skull is actually pretty good. I might try to ink it by hand.