Some more sketches

Here's a quick sketch of Kanan Jarrus from the Star Wars Rebels Cartoon, something I've enjoyed quite a bit over the last year.

Followed by the first test sketch I've ever done with Manga Studio 4, so far I'm liking it but still need to familiarize myself with it. The piece above was with Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 which I'm much more comfortable with (and yes my cpu is starting to show it's age).

I'll be posting some traditional media stuff soon as I'll be documenting several years worth of drawings this coming week.

More Power Puff weirdness...

Yes, it's time for another visit from those little darlings from Townsville...
( as usual these are construction demos for storyboarding from my class )

...Blossom has degenerated into a buck toothed moron...

...Bubbles has taken to the latest fads in young adult fiction...

...and is having some anger control issues as a result...

...and Buttercup is studying abroad this term.

Also Blackhead Blossom from the Atomically Acne Fueled Power Pus Girls has news...

...it's that she thinks you're filth, hates the world, will rule us all...


...and WILL stab you to accomplish her goals.

I hope this is weird enough to fill the gap between posts. This school term has been kicking my butt! Go over to ...sketchyscribbles... , KNIVES OUT! or The Godbots Must Be Stopped to see that I haven't been totally slumming it.

Power Puff Girls! with a brief cameo from the Power Pus Girls

You're probably wondering why on earth I'm posting PowerPuff Girls artwork, there is an explanation, I assure you. I've been using their model sheets along with a loose script that I wrote in my storyboarding class to introduce the mechanics of animation storyboarding. While I have students who are animation majors, I also have a lot of students who aren't and the PowerPuff Girls are simple enough that they don't scare non-cartoonists off. These drawings were just quick demos on constructing the forms by drawing them through for storyboards. I don't have them worry about being "On-Model" too much but rather to concentrate on hook-ups key framing and visual logic.

BUBBLES!

I always round these characters out a lot more than the model sheets by making their bodies these cone forms and not triangles. I understand the reason for the flatness under the production constraints of the show...but I'm not beholden to that.

The students get the chance to design evil versions of the PowerPuff Girls that they fight in the script (I'm pretty sure they actually did this on the show). I can't believe that none of them have ever hit the comedic paydirt of the atomically acne fueled POWER PUS GIRLS!

..holiday drawings..

Stewie, as Jack Sparrow, having worked on those family guy comics, Stewie is the one everybody wants a sketch of, so I do him as different characters, this one was a request...
Pinky and the Brain , just as themselves

Normally, I don't do that many licensed cartoon commissions, but for the fans in the family I always make an exception...these are both for my sister and brother in laws..