Monday, November 30, 2009

Rhythm

When I was a kid I saw one little example in the illusion of life. It said to use rhythm, straight vs curves, and vary your shapes. Even if you have horrible proportions, your drawings will still look pretty if you use these basic rules.





Saturday, November 28, 2009

More progress on witch comic


this comic is moving along. This story was written by my good friend Howard Shum.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Bastion 7




There is a chance I might do a bastion 7 short comic for Cheeks (http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/) I did some sketches for fun

Friday, November 20, 2009

What is gesture?




A lot of people have a lot of different ideas when it comes to gesture. I'm not going to be arrogant and say this is the best approach. the truth is, you should just take the approach that is the most enjoyable to you. For me, I like to find a nice simple shape that all the lumps sit on and flow into.

Ref from: http://characterdesigns.com/

Yellow shirt

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

grey girls

how to "construct" the figure


Here is the approach I use to construct the figure. For this demo I left out the "gesture" stage. In step 2, you just have to make sure your overlaps of the contour reinforce the direction of the form.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009

Saturday, November 14, 2009

color/style study




I'm playing around with the style and color of this kid

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

demo 2





Here are some helpful tips

Wednesday, November 4, 2009