Saw this on the Drawn! blog. I don't know if they even make Sugar Crisp cereal anymore, but for a character designer like me its fascinating to see how the cereal's mascot has changed over the years. (The link takes you to a blog by Dan Goodsell.)...
"John K" (short for Kricfalusi) is the creator of Ren and Stimpy, and a prolific blogger. I'm not a big fan of Ren and Stimpy, and John's abstract drawing style (shown above) doesn't really appeal to me. But his blog is terrific! His posts about art, animation, and cartooning are very thoughtful and filled with great images and clips that...
As my regular blog readers know, I'm taking a character design class online from Stephen Silver over at schoolism.com. This week's assignment was to do rough turnarounds of our character. In animation, once a character design is approved the next step is to create "turnaround" drawings. The purpose is to make sure the storybaord artists, animators, and/or computer modellers can...
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As mentioned before, I'm taking a character design class online from Stephen Silver over at schoolism.com. It's great curriculum and I'm learning a lot. This week's lesson was on clean-up and inking. Our assignment was to choose one design from our "Jeckyll and Hyde" work and ink it up. Inking is not my strong point, especially digital inking on the...
I've created a new category for my posts called "Character Design". It's more specific and than just "Artwork" or "Illustration". This category is for resources, articles, and artwork that was created specifically in the process of designing a character, either for myself or for a client. Hopefully this will make navigating my blog a little easier. I never used the categories...
