Ron Pucherelli

I really enjoyed the blocking of this painting.

hello animation

Richard Williams came by the studio yesterday. One of the examples he showed were of characters saying hello. I did this little test of my own last night for fun.

10-28-08 Figure Drawing

I wasn't really into it this session. 10 mins I think.

10-21-08 Figure Drawing

Ran out of battery and had to use real materials. I think it was about 15 mins.



Took the drawing, adjusted some proportions, and tried coloring it.

Dave Torres

A painting of Dave Torres from another Phil To photo.

Guillermo Careaga

I based this painting of Guillermo Careaga off of a photo Phil To took.

Dog portrait

I think in 2002 I was commissioned for a dog portrait. I was asked to paint their other dog Lucy this year.

10-14-08 figure drawing

Just a quick 5 minute sketch.

Old Lady Drawings

Some doodles of the other lady in the story.

Red Dude

This guy looks like he hangs out in playgrounds. ew.

Green Dog

A sketch of a dog.

Wrestler

I got some free 70's home design books from the library and painted a wrestler into one of the pictures.

Caricature

A caricature of Jason Schleifer as a super villain.

Old Lady Drawings

Old lady sketches from a story idea I've been dawdling with for a while.

09-30-08 Figure Drawings

3, 5, and 10 minute poses.

09-09-08 Figure Drawings

A costumed model I got bored of quickly. 1s and 2s.

09-02-08 Figure Drawings

I tried using my computer at figure drawing. Its going to take some getting used to.

I think 1, 2, and 3 minute poses.

09-23-08 figure drawings

1s, 2s, and a 5 minute pose.

NDS paintings

Most of these were sketched while Heather was in stores. Probably at the most- 20 mins, at the least- 3 mins. On the nintendo ds using Colors!. In somewhat chronological order from december.

Bon Voyage Drawing

from left to right: Ludovic Bouancheau, Nico Chauvelot, Julien Bocabeille, and Max Maleo

06-17-08 figure painting

from the acrylic figure painting class. Around 2 hours I think.

Flash Gordon in Ronald Searle style

Flash Gordon














Ming the Merciless

Figure Painting

These are from the start of figure painting class these past two Tuesdays. The acrylics are 20, 40, and 20 mins. The cloth study was I think 20 mins and in conte.

Doodle Drawings

Oliver Twist designs

Here are my character designs for Oliver, Fagin, and Sikes from Dicken's Oliver Twist.

work caricatures

This is the wall outside my desk. I'm slowly filling it with drawings of co-workers.








































































































































































































And here I drew my struggle to do one pullup.



And Mark Behm's drawing of me.

Drummer boy

Here's a painting sketch I did during downtime last week of an old toy.

random digital doodles

A few new year paintings

It's been a while, and will probably be another while until the next post.

This was the first one of the new year I think. The arms were seriously out of proportion so I fixed them digitally.

























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I took these cool busts of composers from Heather. This started as a full color exercise, but I liked how the drawing was going so left in monochromatic.

























Believe it or not, this is the THIRD standing pose in a year of painting. I'd prefer more, but the models say its hard work. And this is the first pose lit from below, and will probably be the last. It wasn't that great a picture from any other angle than straight on.



























I fixed the proportions of the legs and played with the colors. I should start simplifying my shadows to one or two colors, but i see more temperature variations in the shadows than in the light side.

11.15.06 Figure Painting

Oil on canvas 10x8

11.08.06 Figure Painting.

I knew a teacher who predominately used orange and green for his figure paintings. I've tried to avoid that color combo, even though most of the models were so tan their skin was orange. Nevertheless, this painting required it.

I'm slowly getting through "The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri. I've never been sure if his name is pronounced "hen-ree", "hen-ri", or "on-ree" but wikipedia clears it up: Robert Earl Henri (pronounced to rhyme with "buckeye"). Its a very good book so far, and I recommend it to all artists or enthusiasts.

Animation Desk

My latest animation related project or latest excuse for not doing an actual animation project. I took the top off a small computer desk, cut some scrap wood into a base, and tried to jerry-rig some type of pneumatic support with two door closers. I was going to build a serious light setup, but after pricing out all the little bits, it was cheaper to use a work lamp and this cool little dimmer plug. It's a little wobbly, but I spent less than $50 and the light, dimmer, and desk can be used for other projects. Maybe now that all my excuses have run out, I'll actually do a 2d scene!

10.10-10.17.06 Figure Painting

This first one was 1 hour, the next two were 2-3 hours.