Wednesday Caricatures

I decided to try my hand at caricatures again. I'm working at being better at them, and I think there's a definite improvement over what I used to be able to do. I also found out that if you go too overboard with the shading they end up looking like wanted sign posters more than you'd want.
Done from the Wednesday the 25th issue of the Chicago Tribune, I think. Some are people from the train.

Beer on the Sun

This is the first water color painting I've done in almost a decade. My lady convinced me to try it, since it cost me about 15 dollars to get a set up for it. I figured it would be good to add to my arsenal for my portfolio.
NATURALLY my first subject was Col. Zap Rowsdower from the Final Sacrifice.

styles clash

I'm trying to work through how I want this character to look in my portfolio, as the original style wasn't very appealing. While I can appreciate some of the plain-styled cartoons (like Metalocolypse as an example) I kind of want to do some more animeish as that IS what this was referencing originally.

Final line Run

So my feed scanner's feed is being very angry with me for some reason. I think a piece may have mysteriously gone missing? So I had to scan each page of this individually, which wasn't as bad as I thought it would have been.
THAT SAID, ToonBoom did not include an easy or intuitive way to scan and use paper animation on the non-pro version of Animate. And this is user error, but I had a hard time lining this up to cycle correctly, so I put it in spread out like this.

Rough Elbow

I worked on this for pretty long today. The run mostly. The elbow at the end was pretty quick to do. I can't wait to put this into context.

Fresh kicks

OK, so I decided to post this because my eyes are hurting from working on it. I don't know how long I worked on it, all I know is that I listened to Pet Sounds A LOT of times while doing so.

The animation is facing reverse direction because I was trying to set it up for final lining, but I think I might have to make another pass at it. I need to accentuate the little hop at the end, but I think I came pretty close to keeping proportions. Maybe?

Also this is from a webcam and strung together in Flash. Not a bad replacement for a lunchbox, I'd say!

This will be my greatest, and so far only, adventure yet!

Has anyone ever gotten the feeling, even when you've done a lot in a day, that you could have done more? Don't you hate that?
Anyway, this is a redesign of Spry the pig. He's actually fairly similar to how he was, except I altered how his basic shapes go together. I also figured out exactly what kind of pig he was (American Yorkshire), as well as what his last name was (Gullenburst, after Gullinbursti, a golden pig from Nordic mythology. It was either that or VanSusser, after his genus. I'm still a little torn, actually. Originally it was L'Sausage.).
I also wanted to give this a pretentious and overly long title. If/when I make it it will likely be an indie film, so I might as well start being pretentious about it now. I'll also have to take characters that I currently acting like people do (stupid, impulsive people at least), and make them unbearably quirky. And I'll have to have someone die. And then the family all gets together at the end. It'll be like a Wes Anderson film with anthropomorphic animals instead of a zoo heist comedy. You know, for kids.

I'm not the kind of person who feels like they should put watermarks all over everything, but it goes without saying that all my animations and drawings are copyright to me unless otherwise noted.

Got a mimeograph from 1942

It was from Colgate, and they wanted a banner ad made out of an advertisement that was published in the August 17th, 1942 edition of Life Magazine.

I wonder how they knew what banner ads were.

choices, choices, choices

I can't figure out which one I want to put in my portfolio, but I'm definitely considering B.