I'm currently working on a project designing a skateboarding cow for a dairy producer. It's still being refined but this is my favorite sketch so far. It has to be two-color (black and blue). The client thinks the cow looks too old--I can see that--and they don't like the pose. So back to the drawing board....
I can't say what these are for yet, but I've been hired to design some characters for an upcoming project. Here's two of them: A rapping duck and a German apple strudel. (Now I've got you curious, don't I?)...
I love sketching and try and take a sketchbook with me wherever I go, always striving to improve my drawing skills. It's true what they say, there aren't any shortcuts to artistic excellence. There's only one long, winding road called Practice. Every time I start thinking I've "arrived" as an artist, I look at the work of...
This has been around for a while, but it's still a great link. In October 2002 California State Polytechnic University Pomona filmed a presentation by Disney character design supervisor Chen Yi Chang (Batman, Mulan, Tarzan). For over two hours Chang gives a multimedia discusssion covering the basics of good character design and technique. Then he reviewed student's work...
