Coils Over Conflict: spontaneous photo

^ A spontaneous photo from a while back. I'll be back on track to regular updates as soon as I can; I have a lot of work to scan still!

The coils are from my necklace, hummingbird charm included. The background is the cover to Brain Drain 5.

Sketchbook_Brain Drain 5 Pgs. 27, 28, 31-36, 49: BRAINSICK concepts

Sketchbook_Brain Drain 5 Pg. 24

^ Rough sketches of Anne and Finch, including the chorus to "Pale Shelter" by Tears For Fears.

Sketchbook_Brain Drain 5 Cover, featuring Lily and Decay!

^ Cover to my current Utility sketchbook. Sketched in Non-Photo Blue Col-Erase, inked with Rapidograph technical pens (sizes 2 and 3) and a dip pen (Hunt 513EF nib) with Speedball Super Pigmented Acrylic Ink. Colored with Prismacolor markers, Sharpie, and white out.

The illustration was sealed with Liquitex Gloss Medium & Varnish Fluid Medium; it is tough yet elastic, and waterproofs the cover.

Paranoid's WIP model sheet / expression chart!

^ Rough layout of Paranoid's model sheet, which will include several expressions and facial studies (eyes, ears, nose, etc.). Not all expressions I've drawn are here, and some will be redrawn to be more on model.

Cheshire Cat update!

^ Drawn on tracing paper over the original sketch. I pronounced the angles in his design slightly, including a flattened head and chest.

Sketchbook_Brain Drain 5 Pages 11 - 23

^ More work for Advanced Concept Design - featuring revised Cheshire Cat and White Rabbit designs - as well as some Brainsick stuff for Senior Studio II. I attended Monday morning and got some of Paranoid's expressions down in marker and an HB Staedtler pencil (a la cleanup style model sheet). I've begun studies for Lily and will include similar expressions for her. Both Paranoid and Lily, as well as Finch, will have cleanup model sheets, complete with expressions and poses.

Many of Paranoid's expressions were referenced from dog photos, altered to fit his character. I will alter some of them so that they look more on-model.

Enjoyed some nostalgia after class on Monday: I sat in the cafe at Powell's, bought a delicious sandwich, and focused on 'inking' Paranoid's expressions for a couple hours or so. I spent much of my off-class time during my first several terms in Powell's, reading or drawing.

Spent today at school with my concept team and got some nice drawings completed for Cheshire Cat and White Rabbit. They're both a lot of fun to draw.

Start-off for Sketchbook_Brain Drain 5 (Colossus)!

^ More developmental work for the Cheshire Cat, as well as for the White Rabbit. I came up with thumbnails for both a human and anthropomorphic White Rabbit; as we want to keep a mystical air about the story, the White Rabbit will indeed be a white rabbit.

I kicked off Brain Drain 5 with a construction guide for Paranoid. I'm going to continue working on him tomorrow morning (later today...).