Jerk

This guy is a grade-a jerk. 

Complimenting him wins bonus friendship.

A for fun piece, also to see how rusty I am at anatomy.

Pretty rusty :(

Birds

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

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/

Borderlands 2

Between electives and being on top of film work, i've been able to set time aside to enjoy Borderlands 2, and i've been enjoying it immensely! If you're thinking about picking it up, I highly recommend playing the first game, while not entirely necessary, I think you'll understand more and overall get a deeper understanding and appreciation for everything in the second game.

Anyway, our internet has been out for about a week, thankfully it's back now but I created some critters that I thought would be cool to see in the Borderlands universe. Allow me to introduce you to them!


Species: Unknown - Have yet to be given a name.

  

Found in caves, this creature blends with the surroundings by digging themselves a nook, sitting still, and waiting.

These creatures eat a lot, their tongues are much like frogs and can snap out at any moment and for a long distance. The tongue itself is covered in a very thick mucus that causes corrosive damage if it catches prey. Not knowing when to stop eating, they often have swollen throats full of loot. The upper jaw has several rows of hooked back teeth, a death sentence for anyone who can't get away by the time its tongue drags you in.

Their main diet consists of scags or spiderants, however, since humans started to move into the caves for refuge, it has been easier to snag a meal and has contributed to their exponential growth in size. Originally, this creature could easily swallow only younger creatures, but have been growing to sizes comparable to the light runner vehicles.

If you stumble upon this beast, it is dangerous to take on by yourself. The tongue can be eventually broken by multiple melee hits and is highly resistant to corrosive. Critical area would be the throat, but considering how much these guys eat, be prepared for anything when it bursts open!

Species: Charger

  

Found in the Highlands, Chargers can be found in herds of 2 - 4 with perhaps a few adolescents. At a distance these creatures are no threat, but if engaged they will scatter and regroup to charge. Their heads and necks are protected by strong plates, so it's best to shoot them in their flanks. Like scags, if they challenge you by exposing their open mouths, that is where you'll find the critical area.

Their claws are flat on the ends so they can easily traverse grassy and rocky terrains without sacrificing speed. Chargers have long thick horns on their bottom jaw, when charging they'll often throw their heads back once they make contact, and the horns throw their opponents away from them. This gives the Chargers time to regroup and attack again.

Generally, there is one leader to the herd, often times it'll be coloured different. If the leader is taken down first, the rest of the herd will not attack collectively, and are generally easier to take down.

Chargers feed on stalkers and threshers, which is why they travel in herds. It's easier to take one of these creatures down as a whole than if solo.

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' 

Switching

For life drawing we had to create four characters based off of costumed drawings we've done in class. Now, I can draw people but i'm more inclined to draw animals just cause I enjoy that more so I was trying to think of a way to make this assignment more fun to work on.

Enjoy the result!

Heroes and Villians

So the assignment was basically take three of your life drawings and create three characters (specifically heroes and villians) and put them in a pose from your lifedrawing. The characters were hinted to be designed more 'animatable' buuuut... I went the detailed route. 

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...

Walk 'n Run with Laughter

I forgot to post my two characters for my walk and run animation! Emslie liked my characters and I kinda did at first... at first. It wasn't until I started animating I realized how much I hated them. Alas, here are two highland dancers for you.

 

 

Below is our most recent assignment, expression change. It's pretty self explanatory, really though, I tell you, it took me several times to get the faces right. I'm not confident in drawing people, it doesn't come easy but I think I didn't do too bad for this assignment.

 

Didn't realize till after but he makes me think of the comic book guy from The Simpsons. 

Completely unintentional I promise!

Faces

Here, have some faces.

Weight Life and Toss

This is the character I have decided to do for the weight lift and toss, I will have the animation to go with it within the next two weeks!

I'm still alive, year 2

That's right, onto year 2 and another year of updates! I'm on week two now and it's hectic at first but i'm starting to get my bearings straight and working on assignments. I don't have too much to show you but here are a few doodles from my sketchbook. A fat sloth and some people :)
OH as well as a commission I did recently for someone over on Deviant Art.

I'd also like to add that I have updated my website! You can check it out here: http://laurasloan.net

Character Pack

Character Timeline

So we were to design a character and put it through the baby, child, teen, adult, and senior age of its life. I enjoyed the assignment, though I had the most trouble getting satisfied with the teen stage so I redrew her several times before deciding on her final pose.

In Sequence

For character design we had to create a character who would find an object, interact with it and have a result. Here I made a gecko of no specific breed, enjoy!

 

Long post is loooooong.