Jowy Shenanigans 2/7/12

Nothing much is going on in terms of the jobs at the moment but I am trying to make an effort to continue sketching in the juxtaposing style I have i achieved in my last year university work 

(see pervious entries) 

who ever owns that car should get a doctor
FAST 

Just doing my Job watching that Camel 0-0

until next Post LATERS ; )

Jowy Shenanigans 30/6/12

doodle time

Jowy Shenanigans 29/6/12

This week is the final week to get the competition pieces I have been posting on about for the last two weeks ready for submission today before five. Now I got the first illustration done and added an overlay layer of colour to the tonal value because I felt for the subject matter its characters needed to look and feel vibrant despite how dark the backdrop got but I feel it brings out the characters better.

There are elements I would change in this but I think it’s at a good enough finish to submit to the competition that I hope gets my style recognized.

I had started making very good process on the second illustration in terms of tone but liked I ranted about on facebook a couple of days ago I lost all that PS work and only ended up with a small recording from screenflow to archive what could have been a strong piece. But considering time I doubt I will even get it up to the standard I had imagined it to be. Still I will send if off as a line art drawing if worst comes to worst  

anyway until next post LATERS ;) 

Change is indeed good

Now I usually would restrict myself from putting up some of my early or just rough work because I have a perfectionist mind set when it comes to character design or cartoons. If the design looks out of proportion or just ugly depending on the subject I leave it alone for more than a while. Which is exactly what I did with this tablet doodle I started back in 2010 but it never was as cute as I wanted and the deer just irritated me every time I tried to redo him partly cause I was too lazy to look up anatomy and movement of the creatures back then.

I am a real sucker for this type of character design that’s partly reason why I am a Brony (le sigh).

I don’t hate most of these early designs as I should they have some nice quirky merit to them

 Now today after finishing my illustration Crouse in university and altering my style and media the doodle is much more closer to how I imagined it to look like.  Its not perfect but I think it archived what I set out to do two years ago (Cute and innocent).

 I am a real sucker for that type of design that’s partly why I am a Brony (le sigh).

Its crony but true when I say practice makes prefect and you will never get exactly what you envision if you do not put that extra work in which is something I have leaned throughout my years the hard way sometimes still do. ^^;

until next post LATERS ;)

Jowy Shenanigans 27/6/12

Some tablet character stuff to keep you amused until i update on the competition pieces 

family resemblance ^^

SNOW yeah i was thinking about game of thrones at the time 

Until next post LATERS ;)

Three poses for a bunch of stripes

Titles get crazier every time i make a new post (almost)

The talent that is Mr Tom Bancroft has had a character mentor contest running on twitter and Deviant Art link so i had a go at it for fun something to practise my cartoon and character skills on  . not sure i can enter it but its better then not trying.


until next post LATERS ; )

Jowy Shenanigans 23/6/12

been quite the last two days on this brief sorry. Here is the polished line art for the first competition illustration as it stands. most likely changes will happen now I am on to the next phase of the work.

I am using as I do all of my digital art Photoshop CS3 using my wacom tablet, which I greatly enjoy (great for sketching and junk)

Today I started the tonal stage i prefer this method because I can work out more clearly where the light and dark parts are. Going to try and apply very dramatic lighting and shading. I am thinking of a Todd Schorr finish to the whole thing (if you do not know who he is Google him please)

Its amazing how dynamic cartoons can look after a little bit of shadow?

This is all for now on this project until next update LATERS ; )