Spent some time scratching at my drawing pad as I had moments free during the day. Ended up with several random pages of rough stuff. Here is one page (I did a quick photoshop color on one element).
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| Random Doodlery |
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| Bit of color … |
This was a 3 minute sketch that sort of popped out and I tried a quick ink in Flash - about 3 minutes as well. Getting faster on the Wacom. Neatness is another issue.
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I liked the old bird and think I’m going to use this same sketch to play in Illustrator. Several of the job listing I checked out require it and my skills are barely more than using live trace.
| Doodle 1 - Old Bird
In the process of trying to find answers to my Illustrator question I found this excellent blog with Brian Denham’s Illustrator tutorials. Brian Denham’s Illustrator Blog Still messing with this in Illustrator -slllooowwww- but wanted to see some color so I did a quick paint job in Photoshop. Critiques appreciated. I know the feet are probably too clunky.
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Well, trying to get at least a little drawing in every day now that school is wrapped up. As I look at today’s offerings I guess they are more doodles than sketches. I didn’t start with an real idea of where they were going, and often just followed the lines until something started to emerge before making it whatever. Hopefully some value in this exercise though I had better spend some time on ‘real’ characters if I want to get better.
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Thoughts, ideas, suggestions …. ?
Well, graduation day is here - now I have to find a job somewhere in the animation industry. Hopefully I can get in at some level and work my way up. I’d love to get into Dreamworks, Disney/Pixar, Nickelodeon or Sony Image Works but anyplace where I can grow as an artist, make enough money to take care of my family and be involved in the story process in some way would be awesome. I am going to try to talk to some people from the aforementioned companies, get a brutal critique of my skills, and set a goal to do whatever I need to do, to improve my skills, so that in one year I am good enough to get hired at any of them.
Anyway, while waiting for Amy at Career Services I did a couple quick sketches …
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If you take the time to look at my stuff why not take a moment to critique? It really helps!
Here is a sketch based on one of my story ideas. I am going to ‘Flashify’ this as I need the practice and some portfolio pieces. If you are an employer in the Los Angeles area and have an entry level position for a guy like me I’d like to hear from you. Critiques are also appreciated as I’ll be graduating in a few weeks and all advice (except get another job ;) ) is welcome.
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I'm a 49 year old family guy who returned to school in 2005 to pursue a childhood dream of becoming an artist and writer. The first half of my life, I worked in many other fields, but at heart I have always been a storyteller, a creator and a dreamer. In May of 2007 I got my first creative job working as a digital artist at Animax Entertainment.
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