SPORTS MUGS!!!

So this is for a "licensing" assignment.  Essentially we were supposed to create four products that we can hypothetically sell to someone for a flat price and then say "GIVE ME 15% OF THOSE PROFITS!!!" or something to that effect.  I got in a little over my head and did two characters per product and I ended up spending A LOT of time in the illustration lab.  When I saw the finished product, I felt it was worth the effort.  Each side by side mug is supposed to be only one mug--just showing both sides.  Each mug sort of tells a story, if you want to think of it that way.  Enjoy!

NHL IS BACK!!!

Well, the NHL saved at least a bit of its season, and I'm pretty pumped about it.  I would like to think that all the NHL 11 I played over Christmas break with my brother and brother-in-law had something to do with that.  Here is my little drawing I did and finished in photoshop.  Wait, what?  He's wearing Stars colors?  Hmm, that's weird.  Enjoy!

Final GIF

So for my final project in one of my classes I have to do an animated GIF of one of my characters.  Here is Jed Garvey: Zombie Hunter.

Zombie Hunters

So I'm working on one of my finals.  I'll skip the details on what it entails, but here are two of the characters:

Jed Garvey and Eric Hadley

What I've Been Doing Lately

So I haven't posted anything from my school assignments, not sure why, but I'll continue with that trend today.  Here are a few of the things I've done recently.

I've started cartooning like this lately; since everyone has the ame basic face you really have to pick out certain characteristics to get across who it is.

The plumber for the Regency.  

Spiderman--trying out a new style.

Animals!

So the class assignment this time was to do an animal caricature.  Super fun, and I think next week will be more or less the same so I'm pretty pumped.  My final idea is on top, but I shall include a few other sketches I did.

New Beginnings!

New is always nice.  Well, I guess that's not always true, but it is when new is better.  This is my new prized possession (I originally wrote my new baby, but now that I actually have a baby I will never again put anything on the same level as an actual child):

A SCANNER!!!  I have been very fortunate to have free access to the scanner at the place I work, and while I am extremely grateful for that, I am also grateful to have one specifically for my art.  Scanning can be finicky and wreak or shades and colors--but I am putting that all behind me.  Early Christmas to me!  Here is a sample scan; it is straight from the scanner, no adjustments or edits made:

Like looking right at my sketchbook.  World: Rocked.

My first GIF

So we had an assignment to do an animated GIF (essentially a 2D animation on loop).  I had only previously done hand drawn animations and they are the WORST.  I do not like drawing every single frame or drawing hundreds of pictures for 20 seconds of animation.  But I have seen the light!!!  For this assignment we were to do the drawing on the computer.  What would have taken me I don't know how many hours I took down to about one.  Very exciting.  Here is the design for my character:

AND HERE IS THE GIF:

Caricatures

So for one of my classes we are focusing on caricatures right now and we were told to do one male and one female celebrity.  For no specific reason I chose these two:

p.s. The colors were hard to get right on the computer.

"H"

This was a class assignment, which is why it's in graphite--I wouldn't have chose graphite to do an art piece except now I might be more prone to do so.  The object was to choose a letter and draw 4 things that started with said letter.  I chose a sports theme and in case it's a bit obscure mine are: hook shot, Heisman, hockey mask, and home run.