Birds

On my way to work, I saw a Cardinal and had this idea spring to mind. Bird dragons? I guess so!

Inner Animal

I decided to take three of the main characters from Borderlands, and try to match their personalities to the animals most fitting.
I left out Zer0 intentionally, he has a lot of personality for sure, but since his face is obscured I don't want to try and put a face to a character that doesn't have one.

Last Week

Getting ready!

Creature List

In my spare time I like to create creatures and make them seem real by thinking of habitats, hunting patterns, behaviors and so on. Well I decided why not take this one step further, polish my creations and put them on a blog where I can share them?

So I did just that, although it takes a lot of time so I only have one creature at the moment. I found this incredibly fun to sit and think about how I want this creature to behave and so forth, it's also great to work on in spare time.

I think for now i'm going to sort creations by 'type' under labels, but i'm not sure what is really the most effective. For now it works!

Anyhow please check it out at: http://creaturelist.blogspot.ca/

SHARK WEEK

 

This shark is too cute. 

Summer Update

Wow, apart from the post about Alison Theus, I am months behind on an update...

Oh jeez... Well I apologize for that, I have been working on a little bit of art between working and living life. See below for the details!

 

Mike and I love Corgi's. So I DREW one.

 

I think the person was just joking when they told me to draw this.

Then I drew it, and it became real.

 

Somewhere in my blog i'm sure I mentioned my family loves them

miniature daschunds. I think they're absolutely adorable, but when there

is food around... it just has to be illustrated.

 

Caracal and a Secretary Bird. it's not really all that great of a combo

if you look at it, but with the Secretary's stabbing leg power and the Caracal's 

springy jumping capabilities... it had to be done.

 

A commission for 'Rooth R'agon' 

Overdue Update

Heeeey it's been awhile hasn't it?
School has been nice and busy lately with preparing for our summer internships, I have applied to a few places but we'll see if I hear back! *crosses fingers*
Anyhow here are some drawings of tigers, and my attempt at line-less digital painting. As well, I brought my Botany for the Artist book to school and was inspired by the beautiful renderings to create critters based off of a pitcher plant, a pinecone, and various types of fungi.
Enjoy!

 

So I felt like drawing a sea horse dragon hybrid and thought of some fun facts to go along with him, so here we go... This sea dragon acts much like a typical sea horse, but is about the size of a Great White. Using its tail, it will grasp rocks and thanks to the spikes, it can hang onto the most slippery of surfaces. Despite its size, the sea dragon feeds on only small fish and octopi. When faced with another sea dragon or predator, the boney plates on its chest open to reveal a swollen, bright red belly with black markings. This feature is likely to frighten attackers or impress a female.

 

A wyvern and a harpy

 

This guy is based off a pinecone and here is a little bit about my design decisions.

I gave it chunky, curved claws so it would be able to dig up bugs, bulbs, and any vegetable gardens it comes across. This medium dog-sized critter has boney plates that are almost like a mane. When relaxed the plates are flattened but when threatened, they stand on end and flare out like a shield. If the attacker doesn't get the message the pinecone critter will rattle the plates along its neck or attack with its tail.

 

To the left is a fungi critter that lives in deep forests (think rainforests of British Columbia) or wet caves as it can't survive in direct sunlight. It likes to spend its days sleeping and soaking up moisture, and when it's not lazing like a sloth, it feeds off algae by still waters or off trees. This creature will move away from any threat it hears, but if cornered, parts of its body will combust and throw a spore cloud out at the attacker, giving the creature time to escape. This could choke the attacker, but if they survive they will be sick for a couple days until the spores are out of their system. 

To the right is a creature that acts just like a pitcher plant. Using its bright tongue it lures in small nectar feeding birds and bugs. Using its long serpentine body, this creature hangs from branches and thanks to its wings, it's able to relocate to new areas. This creature will try to travel as little as possible as it can't defend itself from predators.

 

And last but not least... Tigers!! Just playing around with designs, and below is my attempt at line-less photoshop work. I think i'll have another go at line-less work during this long weekend, it was fun and challenging. 

Personalities of the Royal

So we just went to the Royal Winter Fair and this year we had to draw the animals and capture their personalities, which made it super fun and relaxing.

 

 

Also my recent Heroes and Villians project caught the attention of The Wandering Men and I coloured up the bugs for their use :)

Animal sketches!

I love to draw horses, their figures are so elegant but strong. You can pull off some fun personalities too!

I also love owls, just because they are aaaadorable!

 

And some sketches for your enjoyment

Muzzle & Beak Animation (and more)

Here you go folks:

Lip Sync: Very fun

Human Dialogue: He shrinks :(

Muzzle and Beak Lip Sync: The first two are just line tests of the characters separately, the last being the final composition.

Muzzle and Beak Design

Our first assignment for semester two, a muzzle and beak character design. I decided to go with a Canadian theme and chose a Canadian Bobcat and a Cardinal. The Cardinal can't sing, and the Bobcat is vegetarian so neither of them seem to have any luck with the ladies. Below are some of my preliminary workings of the characters and instead of working from memory of the animals, I used reference which definitely helped in the Cardinals design.

 

And final work...

A horse

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.
He's always on a steady course.
Talk to Mr. Ed.

People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day
But Mister Ed will never speak unless he has something to say.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse.
You never heard of a talking horse?

Well listen to this.

I am Mister Ed.

My Friends in the Animal Kingdom

"If you wanted to be any animal, what would it be?"

My friends in real life, most of them I grew up with, some are random internet pals. 

I think a lot of them don't look like who they're supposed to be because it's not really the animal I would choose to represent them, though I figured it would be more fun for them to choose what animal they would be :)

 

 

A New Piece

Spent perhaps six hours on this guy for the Wandering Men. I quite enjoyed this guy, I hope you do too!
Edit: Also just noticed a couple sloppy spots by it's tooth and has been fixed on the original but i'll keep this upload here. I need to head to bed before I update this picture :P

Royal Winter Fair

So every year the animation students go to the Royal Winter Fair, this year, 2nd and 1st years went on a Friday, where we are to draw three pages with 6 drawings each of short gestural drawings, so anywhere between 30 seconds to 5 minute drawings, as well as three pages with two drawings each of detailed observational drawings which should take about 10 - 20 minutes. It was quite a fun trip, Mike came along with me, though unfortunately he was hit hard with allergies (and the flu a day later). So here are my drawings! My friend had gone to extra life today and informed me a page of my drawings are on display, it's quite pleasing to hear, i'll just have to wait until tomorrow to see which page it is!