Gair Saku

Came to a conclusion on a (somewhat) final design for Gair, finally. There are still some things I want to tweak about his design, but I was kind of cornered into a situation where time was running out and I had no choice but to choose one that I had already drawn.

The final boards!

These were some more sketches I did before deciding the final design.

Animal Caricature Project

This was a small project I did for Character Design, before my actual final was due.

This was an animal caricature project I did for class. This is Ian McKellen as a koala.

Some doodles I did before the model sheet.

And here are some Looney Toons gestures.

Buttons the Bird

For my final in Storyboarding class, we had to create a story based off of Ohio History and pitch it to the class using a series of beat boards. I chose to create a story about a bird named Buttons, who meets a bird named Martha.

500th Post! (I'm alive)

Well my blog's been going for a few years now and I finally reached 500. I would have loved to include a much larger post, but I've been pretty swamped with finals. Even if there haven't been updates recently, that just means there will be a large amount of updates in the next few days. I've been doing lots of work for my finals, so that will all be ready to post in the next few days.

This was a Secret Santa gift I did for Synclaire Kaptur. She requested Baymax, so this was a lot of fun to draw! :)

And these were some little Christmas presents I did for a few of my friends. I drew some of their original characters, or favorite existing characters.

Characters Through Time

The past couple of projects have involved lots of costume variations. So I chose to work with Izumi and Haru, since I haven't really developed them as much as some of my other characters. Plus my final is developing Gair, so I figured it would be a nice little teaser to start to introduce Haru.

This is Izumi, in 10 different time periods.

And this is Izumi with Haru.

Some Color Variations of Haru.

And here's his final model sheet.

These were some initial sketches I did of Haru.

End of Thanksgiving Break

So this was the first year (since I've been at CCAD at least) that I actually wound down and took a break during Thanksgiving, instead of stressing the entire time about not getting any of my finals done. I figured this is the time to really get sleep, relax, and just re-charge before heading straight-forward into the last two weeks. I'm already planning to get little to no sleep during finals, so I wanted to take this weekend to really get a lot of sleep in preparation.

 

Some fun events I did with my brother. We drew each others' characters based on certain prompts (drawing "as" our characters as well). I drew these on printer paper and used markers, to really go a little out of my comfort zone. So that was a ton of fun!

Buttons and Martha

I decided for my Storyboarding final to create a story about two birds who become friends, but it ends in a tragedy. I am doing a few beat boards to describe the story, and so far I have some beat board sketches. These may change by the end, but here are my initial ideas: