Playing with pastels

Found some time to mess around with pastels today. Really love working with color. I feel the more I work with it the more comfortable I'm getting with applying it and balancing them within an image.

First one's just pencil. Last two are pastels. Well...mostly...;)

Starting a new dialog test

Starting a new test for class. Here's the rough blocking. Got some good notes too!

When he died from Graham Ross on Vimeo.

Progress:

Here's where I am so far. Still need to finish splining and working on the mouth.

Falling Apart - IP from Graham Ross on Vimeo.

Birdy

And a doggy:

More sketches

Sketches

Please don't ask me to explain any of these! :)

More gerbil-like creatures

More exercises from class

Here's what I did for class this week.

A gear change:

Gear Change from Graham Ross on Vimeo.

And a weight shift:

Weight Shift from Graham Ross on Vimeo.

The gear change I got good notes on and I'm going to finish it up later.

Smile!

Some heads

Drew this guy on a Starbucks wrapper:



This guy was a little doodle I did in the corner of my sketchbook.

Things to Learn

Awesome animation. Note to self...

things to learn from Matt Edgar on Vimeo.

Happy Squirrel!

There's a real lack of squirrels out here in SF. Not like when I lived in Iowa City. Man it was like an epidemic there!

Happy Spring!

EDIT: adjusted the saturation a bit ;)

Round 46

Round 45

Round 44

Continuing with lift exercise

Trying to polish it up a bit, but focusing on the basics

Untitled from Graham Ross on Vimeo.

Round 43

Round 42 - POST #300!

Wow! 300 posts! Thought I'd celebrate by showing one of my first drawings vs. how I draw now.

NOW:



THEN:



Man! Seeing this really keeps me going!

Round 41

I finally took some photos from my figure drawing class. It's compiled from the past year and a half so they vary greatly. Might have to re-take some of them too as the lighting wasn't so hot. Anyways here we go!

Lifting Ecercise

I recently started taking an animation class at the school I teach at, the Academy of Art. Here's my first test for the class. I haven't gotten notes from the instructors yet so it may change. It was definitely a challenge!

Lifting Exercise from Graham Ross on Vimeo.