Caricature

Hooray for caricatures!  I wasn't sure I would be any good at caricatures when I first started drawing them, because I couldn't decide how to accurately exaggerate a person's face and still make the drawing look like them.  I guess it all comes with practice practice practice (and a few hints and tricks).  Here's another one for the Drawing Jam!

Age Progression Lion

Something I really need to get out of the habit of doing is taking pictures with my phone to use for drawings… or just do a better job cleaning them up in photoshop.  Anyway… lion.  Having a friend who is constantly asking to role play can really come in handy, because that's where this character came from.  She doesn't have a name or anything yet, I most often like to get an idea of what the character looks like before I fill in the information.  Here's one for the drawing jam.

Alan Toucan Rickman

Alan Toucan finally got some colour!  I early ever used to put colour on drawings, so I'm really excited to get the know-how in upcoming semesters...

Lineless

While I was adding colour to my characters, I would hide the line work layer to see what they looked like, and to re-select a colour to continue colouring with.  I thought they looked neat without the lines (and you can see the real colour without the scratchy pencil lines on top).

Windsor McCay

One of my class projects was to create a piece of artwork in the style of Windsor McCay.  I drew it in various shades of blue on animation paper, making my final lines from the darkest blue.  I scanned it in, and played around with the levels and brightness/contrast setting until it gave me a clean line work.  I set that layer to multiply, and coloured underneath with blues reds and yellows.  I put in a paper texture over top of both colour and line work (also set to multiply), and turned down the opacity to dull down the brighter colours, and add a tea-stained effect.

Cameron and Skipper

Shenanigans!

Grease Monkey Skipper

Skipper is the second of two anthro characters for class.  He's a Lion Tamarin monkey who works at the same garage as Kaylen and Cameron.  He does more of the detailed work like wiring and car washing.  He likes to pester Cameron a lot.

Grease Monkey Cameron

This is the first of two anthropomorphic characters I'm making up for class.  This is Cameron, a black howler monkey who works with Kaylen at the garage.  He likes to listen to heavy metal/hard rock/ intense music, and he plays an electric guitar in his spare time.