once I moved to California I had to draw on some broken down desks, animate on some of the worst tables with my elbows touching each other, and sometimes drawing on the floor hunched over. Dont get me wrong, its nice to draw on the floor sometimes.. it reminds me of my childhood, but .. after a while the old age kicks in and your back is not the same. Anyway..its about time! I finally have a place to work and call my own. My favorite room in the house. Call me crazy but I like to work on my own stuff. Its a balancing act I suppose. You have to try not to burn yourself out, but you'll sleep good!
bad pictures.. need to continue refining the legs, feet, and hands. working on muscle implied muscle structure and trying to avoid making a comic book sculpt
need to decide what hand style will work as well as facial construction. Using more of a quick style hand will lend itself useful when drawing become smaller. That will keep the style consistent. This hand style is becoming a little more "chunky". lets try to do another test and compare the three and decide from there.
After a long 2006-2007 I began to look at life a little differently. I know everyone loses family members and goes through the stress of sickness and various other issues and we all have that hard time of balancing certain aspects of dealing with it. These things made me look at how my art has helped my people, my family, my peers, or anyone that may have met me in passing. I really do not think that I have made an impact on this world with what I do. Not EVEN a dent. During a time of stress, my brother told me that a lot of people from my old neighborhood in New Jersey and Philly looked up to me. He said that "you made it out and you should be proud...I can speak about my brother with pride." I thought to my self "Damn...I didn't do anything to give back" Yeah I have helped my family, but what about the grand scheme. 2008 is the beginning of something different. I dropped the work on my short and began research for a Graphic Novel that is based on the history of certain American figures. One of the reasons I started drawing as a kid was an interest in comic books. I was fueled by the super fictional characters but as I have grown I have learned to recognize the real heros and how there stories are even more interesting than made up realities. Time to move forward, time to change, time to build, and no time to chase yesterday because you will miss tomorrow.
these are some thumbnails for an animation that I was about to start, but production got switched around a bit. I guess a lot of these posts are for my family back east since a lot of what I do seems to be a mystery to them sometimes. The way this one was going to play out was...the character walks in from screen right then begins to address the camera. I cant really post what he is saying...
here is my small contribution to Team Fortress 2. With the help of my other team members, I was able to direct this short segment introducing the Demoman. I hope you dig it!
