Final project for the Intro. to Animation class I took last semester.

Last week's class sketching assignment was to create a pirate, a cowboy, and an astronaut, with one of them being female. So I drew a communist space pirate, a robot cowboy, and an astronaut taking her astrochihuahua for a spacewalk.

A selection of gesture drawings from January and the beginning of February. I started with a micro-point Uniball and switched to a Pitt brush pen later on. Drawing time ranges from 30 seconds to 2 minutes.

It's been a while since my last sketch book post, so here's a few sketches between August and now.

Concept art for "Bridges of the Mertynn"

Watercolor on resume paper.

Low-bandwidth YouTube version

I recorded my trip from Utah to California taking one picture every 10-11 seconds, minus about an hour of travel before Winnamucca when I could change the battery. There are about 2970 pictures in all, played at 24 frames-per-second.

I've had this sitting on my hard drive since December 2007. This was made for an illustration class for a story about a Mayan princess. It's theoretically unfinished, since there were supposed to be people in the background which never got put in.

I've reconsidered the current need for large file uploads. I'll figure that out after the rest of the site is working off the new website system I'm programming. For now I'll just be using a workaround for uploading the occasional file larger than 8 megabytes.

This is a time-lapse video of part of my trip from California to Utah, compiled from 2036 pictures from a digital camera mounted on the passenger-side sun visor of my car. It isn't the entire trip, since my camera's batteries kept dieing and the camera's power jack input doesn't seem to work at all. Batteries are a pain to change when the battery compartment is covered by one of the zip ties holding the camera in place.

The next time I try this I will be mounting my tripod to a part of the car and sticking the camera on that. I don't know why I didn't think of it the first time through. Also, I'll need more batteries.

Some of the better drawings from my sketchbook from last month. Most are from a weekly drawing session in Sacramento that I have been going to.

This was from a project at the web design firm I was working at. This was one of the rejected designs, as it was "too cartoony." The client eventually went with a crappy logo with stock photos slapped in. Apparently that was what they had wanted, even though they had specifically asked for something "cartoony."