Saturday, December 19, 2009

Ngbende Girl

Whilst doing research for my Baba Yaga project i came across this image of a Ngbende girl from the northern congo. The Rafia grass visors are used to conceal their juvenille identity untill the ritual is done when they are reborn as a woman. So i drew it.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Babayaga (6)

Here is the final design for babayaga herself and also the color comps i did before i painted her




Sunday, November 29, 2009

Drawing for Film (3)

Here is the other character from the bluebeard story. In the begining i was still sticking close to my normal way of drawing but i loosened up a bit afterwards.



Drawing for Film (2)

Here's a second attempt at the bluebeard character. i think its a little better.

Drawing for Film (1)

Some stuff from my Drawing for film class. im doing the story "Bluebeard." this class really takes me out of my comfort zone. im drawing in a way iv never done before so its really uncomfortable to me. but im learnin a hell lot. here's my first attempt.



Babayaga (4) thumbnails and Action sheets

Here are some action sheets i did for the girl character design.


more action!




Saturday, November 28, 2009

Babayaga (3)

Continuing my babayaga project. here is a breakdown of the girl characters head. how the hair bundles attach to the head and a little breakdown of the hair ornaments



expression sheet!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Babayaga (2) Girl final design

here is my final design of the girl from the babayaga story along with the color comps i did for it. i decided to make my design coincide more with African traditional clothing.





Babayaga adaptation project (1) rejected design

been really busy this semester and i finally found some time to upload some stuff. here is a rejected character design i did. i scrapped it because it didnt fit with the overall theme that i was going for. i based the design on the hanbok. oh, and this is supposed to be design to be adapted into a game.


here are some color comps


the final design drawing with the clothing breakdown

Friday, October 30, 2009

Sketchbook!

Some sketches from my sketchbook

Drawing of sick Justina playing the DS


sketch of my classmates


some animal drawings with a red pencil


more animal drawings. There's just something cool bout owls.


sketchin at Borders

Monday, October 12, 2009

New York/Philly Trip sketches

Some sketches that I did when i went to Philly and New york


On the train from Philly to New york. with Justina staring outside the window


hostels in New york are freakin TINY!


sketching at a border in Wall Street.


sketches of done in the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Me and Justina joined a workshop at the Society of Illustrators!







Plane ride on the way back to SF. Justina playing the DS

more sketchy!

A bunch of more sketches from my sketchbook

some dancers


nude model


i love aaaaaliiiieeeennnnss!!!


some 30 second drawings with a dragon. dragons are cool. . .


















first day of school life drawing



sketchy sketchy!




more doodles of my classmates



doodle of my workstation. haha. its kinda messy



my jacket and some dude from my class



my little table in the middle of my room complete.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Caelum Pages

Pages from my comics class of my Caelum story. Pencils only.

Page 1


Page 2


Page 3


Page 4


Page 5


Page 6