One of my favorite online artist / professional animation artist and comic book people is Rebecca Dart. I’m really into her most recent project: Battle Kittens.

Looks like I unconsciously channeled my inner Chris Sanders. My son and I stayed up late last night watching Lilo and Stitch, one of our favorites.

Grad School Break Time Waster: Avengers Edition 3.
Here are the colors. Sorry he’s not gender-bent or kissing a dude or something. And I actually got all the feels for Natasha and Bruce, rather than Hawkeye. That’s probably because I just like those two actors / characters more though.

I could keep monkey-ing with this forever, but I’ve done what I set out to do.

Here are the darker shadows, highlights, and more texture. I’m going to keep the background characters / elements really rough. Color is next!

Grad School Break Time Waster: Avengers Edition
Here are the basic shadows, and a little texturing.

My hulk doesn’t wear pants, because I think it’s kind of dumb that he does. I mean, can you imagine how tight and uncomfortable Mark Rufallo’s size 30 (I’m guessing) pants are when you’ve suddenly gone Hulk and your waist is three times its normal size? Seriously.

Grad School Break Time Waster: Avengers Edition
Starting a Digital Painting. Here is the sketch. I’ll put up a grey-tone progress, and then a grey tone final, and then a color final as well. Shortly. Shortly.

A tale of pygmy flying hippos or a storyboard final based loosely on the loose idea I have kicking around for a thesis. Character designs not finalized. Below you have my rough presentation sketches, presentation board pitches, presentation board revisions with color, production board first pitch and revised pitch based on my instructor’s feedback. Some of the changes to the production board I wasn’t in total agreement with, but I think there is a happy medium where I could combine shots from both the first pass and revisions, plus some new stuff, and get what I have in the myst of my brains. This is just the first few shots, the film would be much much longer past this point.

Trying to jump-start the creative juices so I can do something during the month of break between grad school. Having a hard time doing it though. Have a naked chick, with a skull on her face.

A sample page of a storyboard about a drug deal that goes bad. Click through to see in its entirety.

Magic is real.

In the ancient past I used to do the webcomics. This is a reimagining of Skanky Sally, lead singer of the band The Skankettes, and love interest of Dinosaur, from Alien and Dinosaur Rock Out, one of several unpopular titles I did.

Ah, the halcyon days of my early twenties. Her hair is based off of Scarlett Johanssononenons from the Avengers, since my tumblr dash is full of people’s drawings of her. Originally Sally had a mullet because I couldn’t draw hair and didn’t realize you could just get reference. Ha.