Day Three

Day 3's challenge is favourite food and whilst I'm partial to a nice steak I do have a sweet tooth.
So, today's drawing is Ice cream.

Day two

Today's challenge- Favourite animal.
I passed up drawing my pet dog when how could I resist drawing a Dinosaur!

30 day challenge

A friend posted a link to this online the other day and what better to flex the old drawing muscles and start off the month. I haven't done a meme in a while...Here's my day one...

A couple of Santa scenes

I finally got around to seeing "Santa's Apprentice" just before Christmas with my eldest daughter and we both enjoyed it. She was very delighted in seeing my name at the end and remembered several of the scenes that I had animated. It was a fun little film that we and everyone else in the cinema enjoyed.

Anyway I thought I'd share a little bit more of my time on the production. As I have previously mentioned, we animated this using Toon Boom software drawing digitally on tablet monitors thereby eliminating paper and the need to dash off every few hours and shoot a linetest. Here's a screen capture showing what the interface looked like and our digital lightbox.

This made it very easy working remotely as I was. I was able to easily export a movie clip of my scene and upload it for the Character lead and Director to view and critique.

And here's the linetests of a couple of my favourite scenes. This first one is my favourite.

And this one is my daughter's favourite scene

RIP Ronald Searle

It's a bit of a downer to start the year on, but revered Cartoonist and Illustrator Ronald Searle passed away at the end of last year.
His influence has been felt the world over but aspiring illustrators everywhere.
Plenty of others have said it better, so I'll just post a tribute to one of his best known creations, the "St Trinians" girls

Naughty or Nice?

A bit of Christmas Cheesecake for the Holiday season.
All the best, and may you all have a safe and Happy New Year's

Sketchdump

Donald Family Pic

This one's been on the to-do list for a few months, but I've been a bit busy with fulltime work, freelance and parenthood. My son's kinder teacher and her husband are big Disney fans and asked me a few months ago upon learning that I used to work for the House of Mouse if I could draw them a picture of Donald Duck and his family.
During my time at Disney I never actually drew Donald, the only classic character I touched was Mickey, but hey, I'm up for a challenge. It helps that I've got a nice collection of model packs from my time there and Donald and Daisy were amongst them. What I was surprised to learn was there's very little in the way of model sheets for the nephews.
Anyway, I've finished this pic just in time, as it's my son's last day of kinder for the year tomorrow. This should make a nice Chrissy present.
Here's the rough below for those who're interested. Initially roughed in pencil, then assembled in photoshop and a second pass done, before redrawing in pencil for the final piece. I did a little adjust on Daisy and Donald's heads in the final version above.