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Life Class

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Published on August 31, 2011, by in Life Drawing.

At the end of last year I went to my first life drawing class in nearly 6 years. Here is some of the pics from the class, all of the poses are mostly 30 seconds to 2 minutes long. As you can see they are mostly gesture, blind or wrong hand! Hopefully we will be setting up some

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Another random post of faces, in all kinds of places!

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Published on August 31, 2011, by in Sketches.

So the scanner is still broken! This is a problem right? NOPE! In fact, I think it is a whole lot easier and quicker to take pics from my iPhone. So as I sit here at my desk watching edits and waiting on renders, I grab some random pages from either a sketchbook or from

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My weekly dose of doodles!

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Published on August 24, 2011, by in Sketches.

Here is some more random sketchbook pages. Unfortunately my scanner has gone down so I had to use my iphone! As I get through most of these random sketches I hope to pick a subject and get some more structure to my personal work. Although saying that, I do have to deal with the structure

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Tea Doodles

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Published on August 19, 2011, by in Sketches.

I started to do these little doodles over a tea ring at lunchtime three or four months ago, my aim was to do one a day for as long as I could. All was going well until production on WYN season 2 started, now lunchtime is a thing of the past! I only got to

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A flurry of scanning!

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Published on August 12, 2011, by in Sketches.

Some random sketchbook pages and scraps of paper that I found on the top of the pile of papers in the first drawer at my desk. Be warned. I have three full drawers of sketches and doodles! I don’t always use sketchbooks, so you will see random pages with all kinds of random doodles on them,

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Inspired by #002

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Published on August 12, 2011, by in Inspiration.

Here we go again, another post on all those people who inspire me to keep on pushing forward artistically. First up is Jerrod Maruyama, this guy has bags of appeal in his work and his palettes are amazing. Check out his website to see for yourself. http://www.jmaruyama.com/ Jerrod is also the art director for the

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More old sketchbook pages

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Published on August 10, 2011, by in Sketches.

Here is some random sketchbook pages. The one with the eagles chasing a hare is from watching National Geographic channel while sitting on the plane to China. The other page was from a day I spent in the Forbidden City, it was such a great day, I only wish I had more time. I have

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Woof! These are some old designs that never got used.

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Published on August 10, 2011, by in Character Designs.

These are for a show that is in preproduction, I did them earlier this year. They are just rough but they helped me get to a finished design that I can’t show just yet.

 

An old sketchbook page

 

Crag and Pearl

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Published on August 9, 2011, by in Character Designs.

These characters are from a story I am trying to develop, so far I have a work in progress treatment. Thrown together by a storm, two lost mythological characters and a sailor far from home stumble upon a runaway kid. I don’t want to go into to it to much at this stage, as it is

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