Fran Krause

Just a quick flash animation I did in digital methods.  First time using Flash and I gotta admit it was pretty fun.  I animated Fran Krause punching out a cowboy. 

Quick disclaimer, I wasn't really trying to do things right so don't bash me for the animation flaws.  It was just a test lol.

Apparently... I'm known for my frown

Color and Design work!

Self portraits.

It was fun to paint.  Which was probably why I did that more than anything else.  One of the few times where I had the opportunity to try painting so I jumped on it.

I really wish I had more time to teach myself painting because it really feels like I'd have a lot of fun doing this.  Maybe I'll try and take a class in the summer or something.

So here it is.  Me drawing Me.  

On a side note, I actually had a hard time keeping a straight face while doing these... too serious for me.

But as the title says... everyone in class agreed I have a default frown face.  I smile a lot, honest to God!  But apparently people only remember me when i frown lol.  I'm gonna need to work on that... maybe get better PR 

I'll post some animations tests soon.  It's gonna take a bit because apparently nobody does it in pencil and paper anymore

Calvin and Hobbes!

Here's some more character design. :) 
This week's assignment was to design some characters based off Calvin and Hobbes.

People say I ended up just drawing myself as a little kid.
Not as many drawings this week but it was still fun.  Funny how the classes I struggle with seem to be the only ones that I post about here. *cough*characterdesign*cough*

I have no clever title

This week's Character Design class assignment.  Create characters in a Tim Burton-ish style.

I don't think Character Design is my calling haha

BIRD

Last week's character design HW. Design characters that are kind of like ostriches and emus but not really since they're cartoons and realistic emus are kind of boring.

shhtuff.

yep... just a bunch of stuff from life drawing.  I gotta say I'm loving the models here.

life drawing here is nuts.  The models are amazing and can pull off ridiculous poses that others I've had in Illinois could never do.  And they've got costumes.  We've usually got about 5-10 tops to capture the figure and while doing it we have to try and incorporate layout design, character design, and story.  Honestly, it's almost too much for my tiny self taught head to absorb.

But here they are.  I believe these are a couple of the better ones from the past 3 sessions.  The quality may be a bit low and the images may be a bit distorted and curved because of how I took the pictures.  Sorry.

crayons

a couple from the structural/anatomy part of class.

I got a bit bored.  So I gave the lady an AK

Also, check out Toniko's blog if you haven't already.  He's a friend of mine who's been to Sheridan as well and he's just uploaded a massive amount of work from class as well.  He's got a very distinct style and he talks about the difference between Sheridan and CalArts in terms of figure drawing.  It's an interesting point of view he's got that isn't very common I'd imagine and his stuff is most definitely worth taking a look at.  I know I always feel like an amateur when I see his stuff during drawing breaks.

He's awesome for sure.  Toniko's Blog

Treeeeeees

Pretty much all my Color and Design projects have been trees.  I can just picture my final semester portfolio.  And the teacher's face when she realizes she's looking at perhaps dozens upon dozens of trees.

:/

yes, so it's been a month or so at CalArts now! And all I gotta say is that there's a disgusting amount of talent here.

Lots of work and lots of procrastinating makes a very bad combo I must admit.

anyways, not having a laptop makes going online quite difficult. Which might actually be a good thing since I'd probably be even worse off if I had easy access to the internet. I've decided to try and post somewhat regularly here. Even if I don't like my work. Maybe showing it more will make me care about my assignments more haha. Sounds like a really dumb thing since people would apparently kill to be where I am but it's hard to care about some of these intro assignments.

but yesh, don't expect glorious art from me. Go to the other CA students haha. They're amazing. Makes me wonder how I'm here.

but enough self wallowing. Be back soon. I'll upload some stuff from last week or something.

Here to fill up some space is a little doodle of my CG Animation teacher Lee Gramling :)

taking up space on your dashboard

mentally not even present anymore. off in lala land.

random nothingness is all that's in my head now. hardly epic but enough to distract me.

I wonder if this is a bad thing. I know it's happened before but can't recall when and what happened.

listening to some jams and just existing for now :/

can't wait for school to start! :D

CalArts schedule

well.... I figured I should post this up since I got nothing better to do. I have a ton of classes :/

I only know the studio classes are set in stone, the other classes I registered for I'm not sure about yet. But right now... all I can say is holy cow, lots of class time lol.

Monday

9am-12pm
Digital Methods (Frank Krause) super excited!

1pm-4pm
2D Animation I (Scott Wright) super excited!

7pm-10pm
Character Design (Rik Maki) super excited!

Tuesday

9am-12pm
Color and Design I (Brooke Keesling) super excited!

1pm-4pm
CG Foundation I (Andrew Bac) super excited!

7pm-10pm
CG Character Animation (Lee Gramling) super excited!

Wednesday

10am-1pm
Intro to Postmodernism (Janet Sarbanes) meh... lol

1pm-4pm
What is Philosophy? (Adam Berg) dunno how I'll get to this one on time if I stick with it. But if I have to take another class, this is the one.

Thursday

7pm-10pm
Story I (David and Jennifer Skelly) super excited!

Friday

9am-4pm
Life Drawing I (Steven Brown) brutal... 7 hours of figure drawing lol



so... yep. I'm pretty much excited just to be going. even more excited for the studio classes. Not too thrilled about having to take critical studies. I got some transfer credit but only enough to cover about half of the units required for graduation. Not saying I plan on staying all 4 years *Cough*ifigetanawesomejob*cough*. What irritates me is that my calculus credits didn't transfer which means... i'm gonna have to take math. and that seriously pisses me off. I thought I got rid of that garbage in high school.

hmm... gravity seems to be especially weak today

heh... he looks a bit confused.

hashing out rough ideas for a short. incorporating them into sketches without the pressure of being perfect. I figure I'll get the hang of things sooner or later with enough practice

Palate Cleanser

Ahh... trying to learn photoshop and animate using flash. And failing at them both. But to be fair, it's not the programs' fault lol.

So while I pull my hair out and claw my eyeballs, here's a nice little video I'd like to share that I never get sick of :)

orfeu TRAILER_1 from nelson boles on Vimeo.

one of the many things that gives me an art boner

I hate photoshop

Because I'm new and suck at it.



But one day I'll get better and we'll be best friends

Huzzah!

I finally got off my lazy butt and decided to start a new blog! I'm gonna try draw a lot more so I can post stuff more often blah bblah blargh.

Tried making my own header thing like all the cool kids... not sure about it so it might change.