Rabbit Egg

Here's my rabbit egg model. I couldn't quite get it to match the PB cartoon egg, but I like  it anyway and it's good for drawing practice:

PB Egg Fun

Preston Blair Egg Face

I made a model of P.B.'s egg face. I plan to make the bunny egg (on the same page) next. It's fun drawing from a real life object. Here the stuff I made it from:

You can just mould it into the shape you want, leave it for a few days to harden and then draw on it. Here are some pictures of the final egg:

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Hopefully some other people doing this exercise will find these photos useful ;)

yay, Col erase pencils

I finally found some col erase pencils locally. They're a store brand but seem to do the job :)

 Here's some preston blair pics I tried with them (not particularly accurate):

More practice

I've been focussing mainly on Vilppu's life drawing book the last couple of weeks (and also a few drawings from a Don Bluth Video). I did do some more Blair / 40s practice yesterday though:

I defintely noticed some things with the overlays that I didn't notice before hand.
They include:

• too stretched on the coy pic
• eye ear and nose misplaced on the Knocked out
• nose and tounge out further on the contempt
• smaller chin and longer mouth on the angry
• right eye way too out and straight on the awe
• mouth more right on the surprized ones

The smile one was pretty close.

I also did some more in pencil, which I prefer to my cintiq:

Finally Here are a couple of attempts at Tom on my Cintiq. It came out better the second time. I'm not sure about the digital inking attempt though.

Lesson 8

This is the final John K exercise I will do for a while. It's great I've atempted all of John K's original 9 lessons,which originally you could show to try enter the cartoon college blog. I could try to do that but there is plenty more from his blog for me to do anyway. Plus, I could do many more drawings for these attempted lessons using existing drawings and overlayed notes.

January will be figure drawing month for me. I have classes to go to as well as Glen Vilppu DVDs. Doug Campton's lesson notes from his Karmatoons site look like fun too. I may post some of my stuff regarding this on my other blog occasionally.

Anyway, here are my attempts at the dogs (with and without overlays).

Generic 40s studies

Here are some generic 40s studies I have been doing.