Abandoned tower thing

Here's a creepy building study. I kind of slacked on my "Place of Evil" assignment. Thanks to all of you for your input. It gave me so many awesome ideas. Unfortunately I didn't give myself enough time to work through a good design process for them.

The Creative Process

Whenever I would see a great drawing or painting made by someone I would get so jealous, thinking, "man, they are so good. They can just pull out these drawings from scratch like it's nothing!" Little did I know how much practice, planning, and pre-work professionals put into their finalized pieces. In fact, I would go as far as saying that their work is so great because they put more effort into research and practice in order to achieve such amazing finished products. So here is a little bit into my creative process. It is not very professional, and it is pretty messy, but this is how I get from point A to point B in my process as of now.

You may recognize this little guy. A new assignment was to take this design and
turn it into a painted miniature design, keeping the theme connected somehow. If you
don't know what a painted miniature is, it's those little figurines you would find in comic shops
that those awesome middle aged men use to play their fantasy games. :)
Check out WarHammer on google and you will see.

So I thought I would make a warrior based off
a centipede and a snake, making it a bit more
realistic than my original design.
These are knowledge based studies of
elements I thought I would use.

From There I moved into creative studies, playing around
with different poses and possible structures of
my new guy. This is where I feel I am weak.
I wasn't able to come up with any strong ideas
to begin with

In a bit of a rush to turn my assignment in on time, I ended up creating this.
I was very dissatisfied with the result. It was very sloppy and the whole
time creating it, I was struggling to understand how I wanted the body to be posed
and how to make it read as something solid and believable.

Even though I had turned in my assignment, I was determined to redeem
myself by finding a way to better "see" what I really wanted and
figure out how I could create a suitable design. I recently
finished constructing an awesome sculpting wheel, so I busted
out the clay and made a simple figure to pose.
THIS CHANGED MY WORLD! I COULD SEE WHAT I WANTED!

And here is the final result. There are even some things
that i still want to change and improve on, but overall, this
design turned out so much better with all the pre work behind it.

In Perspective

This is an assignment on simple 2 point perspective. Our theme was some type of utility vehicle. I decided to go for the milk truck. There are some things that were pointed out that I need to change regarding the size of the windshield and some things, so I'll fix those and post up the new one later. Keep arting people :)

Port-Folio February

Ok so February is almost over, but I'm going to have this topic carry over because that is basically all that I'm doing with my life. I apply to the Animation program at the end of this semester and I am working on some new finished products to put in my application portfolio. This picture was an assignment in Drawing for Animation. The topic was a kid and his/her imaginary friend. Hope you enjoy and think back to when you had an imaginary friend of your own, unless you still have one...... which is fine..... for you.... :)

More Marker and Ink

Here's a few random drawings that I've done in my sketchbook and such in the past week or so. The sabertooths are from a small dino museum near campus. They let me try out their little dirt sculptor tool on a slab that had some bones in it in the back room! It was so much fun. I think that will be my alternate career choice. Dirt Sculpting!!

I made this for one of the students at work,
and I just noticed a bad tangent with the tail and back leg. Ah! :)

Another quick monster sketch for another student at work. 

Museums Rock! I could have stayed there all day.

A Charly Harper Emulation

This is an emulation assignment based on the work of Charly Harper. If you haven't heard of him, you should check out his work. He does very very simplified interpretations of animals almost to the point that they would fall apart as random shapes if he pushed it any further. He is amazing in the way he is able to keep it all together, though, and still make his designs readable, almost from first glance. Mine is a viper fish, slightly combined with some attributes of a lantern/angler fish. Our assignment was Deep Sea.

Check out some of Charly's stuff here: 

https://www.google.com/search?q=charley+harper+art&hl=en&safe=active&pwst=1&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=XogoT6OjDoSqiQKBtrSWAQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0

Monster In Your Closet

An assignment in my animation class to make a designer toy design with a "monster in my closet" theme. Based on feedback from friends on facebook I decided a centipede snake-like guy would be a good choice for creepy/scary. Sorry Adam it isn't female!