Warm-up

Here's a collection of warm-ups done before work. The drawings are in chronological order. At first I thought about just drawing only black and white sketches but when I realized that I can do that under 3 - 5 minutes, I thought of trying to paint over the sketches. I don't paint that much at all so I thought it would be nice to practice it during warm-ups. 

There are lots of ups and downs in these sketches. You can tell when I knew exactly what I was drawing and when I was struggling. I learned that one of my bad manners is that I keep drawing way too many details even though it isn't really needed. This happens especially with simple subjects where details are not necessary. I have to avoid this because that's often my downfall in my drawings. Pay more attention, observe and keep things simple. 

Photo references from Google were used in all of them.

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15(?) min

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15 - 20 min

20 min

10 min

20 min

20 min

20 min (my favorite, and a proof that anger is the best motivator)

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The blog will be on hiatus for the next 3 weeks so don't expect anything new for a while!

Swirls

Some sticker designs that I have been making. Planning to print them and give them as souvenirs for few people in December.

Too many birthdays

Birthday cards. Colours may vary from the originals and the lighting isn't the best in all photos. I apologize for that!

There was two more cards but I never managed to take photo of them.

Doodles

A break at work

Everytime when I have nothing to do at work (which is very, very rare!), I try to sketch something on my sketchbook. I haven't been able to draw animals for a long time so the sketches are a bit rusty. Most of them are missing life and dynamic poses. I'll work on that next year.

Explanation for the last picture: If you flip the giraffe's face, you will notice that the face looks kinda undeformed. The drawing should always look "right" when you flip it. It's a good way to notice mistakes and try to balance the drawing.

It's refreshing but also strange to see how open the artists are at my workplace. They are curious and more than happy to show their own paintings and sketches. I'm still very shy when it comes showing my sketches to my co-workers. They are so talented that my drawings are nothing compared to theirs. The lineart, the colours, the use of enviroment in their art.. I can't compete with that.

Maybe one day I will be as good as they are. One day..

"So, this parrot goes to a bar... with a lion.."

I think I'm slowly getting better at these.

I still haven't found a style that pleases me. The parrot is too complicated and the lion has way too much similarities with Brittney Lee's artwork (she's amazing, I''m telling you!). Let's see what I can do next time.

 And some close-ups..

Rejected keyframe, Part 2

Guess what? I didn't have to buy a new computer! All I had to do was to update Windows! Whooo!

To celebrate this I give you more rejected keyframes! Neat, huh?!

Rejected keyframe

Here's an old keyframe of a scene that I am animating for my showreel. The scene went through many changes and in the end this picture, which was supposed to be the first frame, was taken away. As a drawing it looks nice but it just didn't fit in with the other frames.

Mean giraffes and happy parrots

I read Katie's blog (her comics are great!) and apparently there was a day called "World wide sketch crawl" day. And no one told me about it.

Sketches from my previous sketchbook. Yes, I got a new one.

Something is going on between those two.

There was a commercial brake on TV and I thought I could draw some people. It was a mistake.

 I drew some giraffes. THRICE.

These are the most colourful pages in my sketchbook. And pretty childish too. I used reference for the parrots on the right. I used this and this.

Playing around the the design.

And now, some lions!

 And now it's time to watch some Conan!

Moleskine sketchbook attack!

Oh boy.. I left my other sketchbook at home, so I can only show what sketches I have done on my new sketchbook.

So, here you go! Bunch of sketches that I made during Holidays! These are the ones that I like or at least look enough to be here. Let the madness begin!

Long time ago, I really didn't like to draw animals with human clothing. I don't even know why. But now, after watching Alfred J. Kwak (which is an incredible show!), I don't find it so bad anymore. Okay, sometimes I find it bad but only if it is done horribly.

 

Took reference from a random google picture.

Umm.. yes. Cats. LOTS OF THEM. Or, at least heads.

 Ignore the silhouettes.

There is two things that I find hard when I am drawing tigers:

1. They always end up looking like lions from The Lion King

2. That fur on the cheeks (or as I like to say, muttonchops).

What on earth is that dolphin doing there?

 

If this picture only had energy and movement, this would be very nice!

Very quick and poorly done studies.

I didn't use reference when I did this so there are some mistakes.

I really like the flow in this one. 

There's something in this giraffe that makes me think of Jafar. It must be the eyes..

 It has been a year when I drew this otter character. He/She is from my first animated short.

More otters..

My dog likes to sleep on my mother's shoe.

More!

And more!

I wanted to make a self-portrait but there was too many things going on at the moment, that I couldn't really focus. As a self-portrait this isn't good at all, but if you think it just a random sketch, then.. it is quite alright.

There!