More Life Drawing and a Boxer

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These are from yesterday's session at TSA. I'm totally swamped with this boarding project but I can always hear the words of my first year life drawing teacher Joe Park, "life drawing is the beginning and the end". I didn't understand his particular approach to and philosophy about life drawing in the beginning but now it's starting to make a lot more sense. Funny how that works. :)

The last one is a pen sketch of a boxer design that I've been playing with.

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IRON CHEF: "Fry Harder"

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Just another quick commuter sketch done on the train today. Inspired by an Iron Chef poster.

"Yippie Kay Ye [censored]"

Work has been crazy busy, but expect a massive update very shortly with a large storyboarding project that I'm feverishly at work on.

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Commuter Sketches

One thing that I actually enjoy doing each day is waiting about 20 minutes for my bus to come take me home. That's because it's a great opportunity to do a location study. I'm probably the only person dreading inevitable arrival of the bus because I'm scribbling furiously trying to capture the mood of the particular environment. These are some from this week:
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Wash Your Hands!

These are some rough story sketches that I did during a group meeting for a class film project earlier this semester. The story centers around a young kid who discovers why it is very important to wash your hands when you finish in the bathroom. Fun stuff! -CB.

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Some recent studies from this weekend at TSA and from last semester.
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Sequentials and Compositions from last semester.

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These are some of my favourite boarding assignments from last semester:

The first is a series of required shots of a man getting into a taxi. As you can see, I thought a monster would be much more interesting.

The second is a composition and storytelling exercise we did with similar elements (in this case squirrels and an acorn) with different story situations.


The third is an animatic based on one of our later assignments. We were just given a prescribed action and shot list. The action of an exploding building and two people running in, reminded me of the Incredibles, so I took Mr. Incredible and Frozone and worked the assignment into a complete Flash animatic.

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Armageddon's Children: Final #1

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Here's the final version. The original blue rough is pretty loose and as I was going, I realized that I could make the composition tighter by shifting some of the elements and the cropping of the border. This was done in PS. The rest was done in Painter 9. This is my first time using the software and it's pretty daunting looking interface at first. But the workflow is very similar to photoshop and once you get the hang of where everything is, it is very straightforward. I am very much looking forward to the next one!

This scene is taken from the climax of the novel, where a giant centipede breaks into the underground home that these street kids are living in. The thirteen year old girl, named "Sparrow" protects her wheelchair-bound friend with only an electric prod to protect them.

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Armageddon's Children: WIP #1

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This is the first rough in a series of digital illustrations based on the awesome Terry Brooks' novel, Armageddon's Children. I just finished the book and like everything else TB touches, it's solid gold! I am really inspired by the work of Chris Appelhans. Really beautiful paintings on his site. I'm planning to do about 4 or 5 of my favourite scenes from the book. All done using Painter9, instead of Photoshop.

Paints for this to come on the 'morrow.

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"Mr. Blandings"

The second finished design in the cast of the Sir Charles Adventures assignment.

The barking space dog: "Mr. Blandings"

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BeetleJuice

One of my favourite cartoons (SketchbookPro).

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"Sir Charles"

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This is a cleaned up and painted character design that I used for an earlier storyboarding assignment. The sassy computer known as "Sir Charles". I chose to base the design on Charles Barkley for rather obvious reasons. I'm really working on trying to improve the quality of my digital painting work. I'm moving away from the rough 'colour sketch' style that I used last semester and trying for more finished pieces.

The rest of the cast is coming...

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Kim Possible (Sketchbookprostyle)

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In light of the possible (and highly probable) eventual industry shift to digital storyboarding, I've started doing more work with my tablet in SketchbookPro.

More to come...

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"Pencil Dreams" (Conceptual Sketches)

Here are some quick developmental sketches from a personal project I was working on during school.

The main concept revolved around visually describing the the creative process and the Artist's journey into himself and the strange world that he finds within.

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Branch-Man: Year Two

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That's right! We're back for another killer year. Had an awesome 9-day break! Woot! I just finished my first week and all my teachers are really awesome, so this year is looking fantastic!

But back to what I do on this blog, which is to post drawings, here are some quick ones that I've done in the last week or so:

Preliminary thumbnails for my animation lip sync assignment "Meow!"

In our first character design class, we were given 15 minutes to draw the character design that most inspired us. I chose Philly from Cannon Busters.

This one is the first part of a subway sketchbook series that I started based entirely on song titles.
This one is called "Cupid's Chokehold" (Gym Class Heroes)
The second one in this series is called "Combat Baby" (Metric)

That's it for now.
Branch-out.