Storyboards

I'm currently in the process of putting together a flatbook and recently realized that all the examples of storyboards I've done are all sketchy and unimpressive to look at. So to fix this I took some boards for my senior film and added color and re-worked the layouts to make them read clearer.



In the next few days I'll definitely be putting up more portfolio-related stuff, so I suspect there will be more boards, sketches, etc to come.

Commission comprete

Just an update, since I uploaded the lineart a few days ago:



It's been a while since I drew such an anime-like character, but it really provided a nice break from all the school work. Also, I've really fallen in love with pink shadows. So much fun!

Commish

Here is another $15 commission I'm working on. This is just the line-art, but you can tell already that she's adorable * ^_^ *



I've been kept pretty busy with school-work, hence the infrequent updates, but I assure you I'm doing a lot of drawing. By Monday I'll have a little animated exercise to post too, so that should be pretty exciting.

Back to school

My first assignment of the quarter:



Our class had to design/develop one out of a list of 4 iconic figures: Rumplestiltzkin, Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, or Sherlock Holmes and then work with him/her for the rest of the quarter. Hopefully I'll have clips of my Cleo animated and doing exciting things in the near future.

Progress...

...Of a commission I'm working on. This is only the lineart; the color will come once I get approval from the commissioner. I'm having such a fun time with the character since she's so adorable!

faster, faster!

I'm starting to pick up the habit of laying down really minimal gestures on paper and then moving straight into inking/coloring on the computer in an effort to save time but also because I always want to be coloring ASAP. Mostly the latter.

Sketch:


Color:


I also like having the freedom to mess with the drawing in the inking stage; I feel less constricted with my looser sketches. For those of you who illustrate digitally, how do you like to go from beginning to end?

Dump

Sketch dump, that is.



These should all be from February, I think. I've started leaving my pencil sketches really rough and going straight into inking in photoshop from there (the Burlesque girls are relatively detailed, but...), so it's interesting to see how different these look cleaned up.