Meager offering

Sorry for so few posts lately. I've been extremely busy at work, and we've been in the process of moving at home (we've actually been in the new house for a couple weeks now, but there are always so many projects after you move).

I could only dedicate ten minutes to the figure drawing session this morning, but the model had such an awesome face I just had to exaggerate it a little.

A tribute. . .

. . .to my favorite faces on our local NBA team. I wanted to spend more time refining the likenesses, but I decided I'd better finish it quick since the Jazz aren't looking so great against the Lakers right now. The players depicted here are (left to right) Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur, Andrei Kirilenko, and Deron Williams. I thought Deron's likeness would be easier to capture because he looks like a baby monkey, but he ended up being the hardest one---I'm still not happy with how he turned out.

War Machine

A quick image for the Avalanche blog. I would like to spend more time on this, maybe later.

Choo-choo-chrain

A collaboration with my five-year-old son, Abraham.

Friday drawing session

This one was turning out pretty good, I just ran out of time. This was about 90 minutes, all digital.

Cinderella: Stepsister "Skinny"

In Prokofiev's Ballet, the stepsisters are described as clumsy and ugly, but not necessarily as wicked, and in the end Cinderella forgives them of all their selfish treatment of her. So when I was designing this (the eldest) stepsister, I was trying to think of a personality that would make her an understandable character---a girl who has some beauty, but does not feel that she is pretty, so she hides her self-consciousness behind a mask of pride and petty obsession with appearance. She would wear too much makeup, gaudy dresses, and bare too much skin---all with the intention of beauty, but in the end making her appearance ugly. I figure most of her attitudes would be a result of spoiling and petty influence of her mother.

I like her character design, but I'm still not sure about the colors or the dress.

Drawing session and Ace in Action concept

I was experimenting with color in this morning's drawing session, but I could never get the skin tones to work quite right. I feel okay about the picture anyway, but just in case it's not enough I'll include some conceptual development from Chicken Little: Ace in Action. This was the original design for Abby's fighter, before they changed it to a hovercraft. I wanted her ship to mix the trendy feminine Volkswagon Beetle-esque look with the military purpose of her fighter.