Drawings and an exercise

 Using a photo ref from the Sartorialist, I tried approaching the drawing different ways, thinking about either shape, construction, or gesture.

Drawings

Character design homework - fantasy creatures

Two centaurs, an elf, and a troll
Assignment was to design in our style then a style we were not comfortable with

Most recent drawings

Random doodles

Story assignment

Doodles

Character design week 2

Pig redesign from first week and turn arounds

Week 1 Character Design and 2D Animation

3 pigs for character design

Bunny and throne design for 2d animation

Second year at Calarts - My one week film

https://vimeo.com/183648650

Character design week 12

Films are done and it's back to homework! This week our assignment was to design characters based on the style of 3 other artists - mine are Shiyoon Kim, Jules Rigolle, and Claire Keane. My theme was people of Chicago K-town, reference images from I am Chicago website.

Lyra doodle

Lyra

Character design week 7 - Mrs Coulter

Assignment - Design character from written description. I chose Mrs. Coulter from His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

Enstin's bday drawing

I drew this bunny for my friend Enstin's birthday!

REDRAWS

Trying to draw an ogre again after last weeks rather terrible character design homework. I need to work on my anatomy! And my shapes.

The drawing on the left I did from a model in 2013 - wanted to try and redraw it to see if I've gotten better (~2.5 years later).

Ogres

Doodle for my friend Andrew's birthday

My version of anime

Zootopia Nick doodle

One more doodle

Judy Hopps!!!

Today Zootopia was screened at Calarts and the co-director Rich Moore came to speak with and encourage us. The movie was amazing and I feel so privileged to be able to go to this school and pursue animation!

Heres a quick Judy Hopps doodle~

More late night doodles

To take a break from my film... DOODLES

Drawings for my film

A grandma and a hydra

Cowboy doodle

For fun

A silly comic for my friend Frank!

WEEK 5 Character Design - part 2 - NERDS

Assignment part 2: characters based on a theme with the construction breakdown

The theme I chose was nerdy middle schoolers!

Construction breakdowns:

WEEK 5 character design hw - part 1

This weeks character design homework part 1: break down construction of other character designs, reconstruct them in different views/poses

Character design week 4 - Rabbits

Assignment was to design animal of our choice based on simple shapes

Wheeee

Late night doodles

Doodling girls

2D animation - picking up heavy object

Week 3 Character Design homework part 2

Design an existing character - I chose Snape

Week 3 Character Design homework - part 1

This homework took a very very long time.

Assignment: page each of eyes, noses, mouths, ears realistic then cartoony

+ 1 min/2 min gestures