Thursday, November 16, 2006

More animal assignment

Even though I'm constantly trying to stretch myself stylistically with drawings, I hardly ever wander outside my norm when putting down color. Here's a partially-successful attempt to do something a tiny bit different.

14 comments:

Joe said...

I really like the contrast of scale between the shell and the crab. The blue-green gradient is nice too.

Mark Behm said...

Fun. Feels like a cool relief sculpture. Or like fridge magnets.

S.T. Lewis said...

"Partially successful?" What? The only thing I don't like about it is that I can't do anything like it. You're a talented man, Sam.

Tyler (characters N' sketches) said...

like Joe's everyone loved your designs too!!!

i love the large medium and small of the alligator!!!


super great stufff, time to post the next one

Michael said...

You have some great stuff in this blog.
def a bookmark

Goro said...

great work love the characters below as well! awesome blog

Taylor Krahenbuhl said...

nice textures on this piece, i love it. It cracks me up to see the size difference of the two.

Sebastien Gallego said...

Beautifull Sam! Crabs are fun to draw aren't they?! :)

Did you paint the little dots on him by hand?

Sam Nielson said...

Thanks for the kind comments.
Sebastien: Used a paper texture I had at various sizes and using the square chalk. I then painted little shadows under each of the larger ones.

sarah said...

Very nice and clean. The little crab design is very expressive too :)

S.D. said...

Very funny! Design and textures are wonderful, great work :)

Anonymous said...

Hey Sam!

Saw this one in class. LOVED it. How did you make it look like layers of paper?

marcobucci said...

Love this! Really has a dimensional feel to it. Those subtle texture areas, like the bumps on the crab, are pure eye candy!

Ryan Wood said...

I love the texture-y stuff on the shell, good stuff Sam!