Our Sad Sun

Here is a quick concept I did of our sad sun.... powerful and loving, but in the end he must die, and so must the life he helped to birth. 

Inspired by "How the Universe Works". Images provided by the internets. (no i didn't paint this (it only took 20 minutes) its mostly photo collage with some small painting tweaks to quickly express something)

Wizard of OZ concept painting on Odosketch

Here's my first color sketch on Odosketch.com. It was fun! I did this from my head just randomly. I love working within odosketches limits, I think it helps you learn. Obviously this is Wizard of OZ.
(This may load REALLY slow on slow internet connections....it shows the painting as I go, so it isnt just the final, so if you dont see an image, just wait, or go do something more constructive :) )

My Little Brother... another quick sketch on odosketch.com

This is my little brother... best brother ever :) Drew this around lunch time today on odosketch.com

Another Jerboa Character Design ... on Odosketch

Lately I LOVE using odosketch.com . I post some of the drawings to facebook, but in case you don't follow me there, here is one of my favorites below. Watch it here, or if it doesn't load.... Stop by my Odosketch page for more! http://sketch.odopod.com/users/86459.

 I'll keep on drawing there until it bores me :)

Jerboa!

So today I randomly found a pic of the cutest little creature! It's called a "long eared jerboa", and he's so stinkin' cute that I had to draw him/her! I did a drawing based on one of the photos, kept the same pose, taking liberties with the character design but trying to stay a little more realistic.

I might do another one, but REALLY push it to cartoony. That's the best thing about character design to me... you can take one reference photo or idea and do endless variations of design with it, all with varying degrees of personality.

 If you like rodents I hope you like this :)

A Long way to go...

Quick visual development sketch of a new character in an animated story of mine. This is the first time I've drawn him (the big "bear" guy), so Im sure he'll some as I narrow his character and adjust the design to fit :)... I threw in some environment and my other character to help get a feel for him in context.

Small Animation Visual Development Scene

This is a small visual development painting from a project I am working on in my brain all the time, and on paper when I get the chance. I took the chance to paint in Sketchbook Pro as I don't use it as much as Id like, and I like to stray from my comfort zone when I can and constantly learn. I hope you enjoy this tiny piece of my world! (I do mean tiny, this is 100% the size of the final, great way to keep from getting overly detailed and focusing on what matters to communicate an idea, try it!) :)

Hurley.... from Life on Nintendo DS "Colors!"

This is my boy Hurley! He fell asleep for about 20 minutes, so I took the chance to paint him before he woke up. It was late in the day and overcast. This is another digital sketch from life on my Nintendo DS using "Colors!"

Character Design of Rodent guy, thing...

I love seeing other people's processes, so i thought I'd show a wink of mine... though it makes me feel naked! This is a character design in a long line of characters for one of my many unmade story ideas. I did some rough sketches first, The first clean up sketch is on the left... it was too stiff for me, it lost the gesture and life so drew him again fixing what stunk about the first drawing.. liked it MUCH better, so then I painted that one in Photoshop. :)

... yet another work buddy

Had to post something as I realized its been a while! This is Terence :) Painted in Photoshop.