Mad Doodles!
Dec. 1st, 2006 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaThe last week I've been watching cartoons and drawing from them or drawing in the style of them. Definitely starting to have an effect on my artwork, and in a good way!
Here's some recent stuff from my sketchbook that I liked enough to ink and scan.
The dopey horse, beaver, and catapillar are pretty directly inspired by the cartoons I was watching. The peppy squirrel a little less so, but still definitely influenced. Angry-man I drew in response to something Stacey said tho I forgot the context now. The little wiggly hairs on his head make me giggle.
The ring-tailed snail thing is the fault of Nickelodeon. When I was sick I was watching cartoons and they said, "What would Gary from Spongebob and from Avatar look like if they were mixed together?" and I drew this quickly before the show came back and they showed their version. I liked mine a lot better. :)
Today in my animal drawing for animation class, we began talking about fanciful beasts and combining animals and proportions. First creature up was a gryphon. But the instructor didn't have references for an eagle when trying to just us bone structure, just a chicken, but to me, this idea was FAR better than a gryphon. While everyone else was drawing eagles-lion chimeras, I went to work on a turkey-gryphon! I think it looks more convincing and flight-worthy than most gryphons I've ever seen.
Next he showed us a book titled, 'Insanely Twisted Rabbits' (which I ordered a used copy of later off amazon because I really liked it) That partially inspired the two freaky little monster-things beneath the turkeygryph. then we moved in to completely made-up animals and stylization (the two horse-like creatures next to the piano-beast). My next class that evening was of course piano class. :)
That's it for now tho. Way past bedtime. :) Nini! :)
Here's some recent stuff from my sketchbook that I liked enough to ink and scan.
The dopey horse, beaver, and catapillar are pretty directly inspired by the cartoons I was watching. The peppy squirrel a little less so, but still definitely influenced. Angry-man I drew in response to something Stacey said tho I forgot the context now. The little wiggly hairs on his head make me giggle.
The ring-tailed snail thing is the fault of Nickelodeon. When I was sick I was watching cartoons and they said, "What would Gary from Spongebob and
Today in my animal drawing for animation class, we began talking about fanciful beasts and combining animals and proportions. First creature up was a gryphon. But the instructor didn't have references for an eagle when trying to just us bone structure, just a chicken, but to me, this idea was FAR better than a gryphon. While everyone else was drawing eagles-lion chimeras, I went to work on a turkey-gryphon! I think it looks more convincing and flight-worthy than most gryphons I've ever seen.
Next he showed us a book titled, 'Insanely Twisted Rabbits' (which I ordered a used copy of later off amazon because I really liked it) That partially inspired the two freaky little monster-things beneath the turkeygryph. then we moved in to completely made-up animals and stylization (the two horse-like creatures next to the piano-beast). My next class that evening was of course piano class. :)
That's it for now tho. Way past bedtime. :) Nini! :)
