Birdy and the Beast

The lastest thing I have done are these quick key sketches from the Birdy and Beast 1944 Tweety short. I've also done some other things which I havent posted but this will do for now. I'll go back to scanning for next time:

 

  

 

 

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).