Chimera Girl Run Poses

Several pages of me playing animator once again and trying to figure out how a quadruped gallop would work in human form. Not necessarily key frames or inbetweens either, just playing with shape silhouette dynamics while thinking in terms of of the next frame or pose if it were hand animated.

Don't remember where chronologically these drawings were made, but below is a letterbox beat board that got closest to a clean pose.

Beta Euthynus, reworked illustration

A reworked piece that was originally from... I'll say 2015, because why not. Reworked it again last November from scratch, and then reworked the character on the right just now. Redid the facial expression on both drawings entirely, reworked the bottom right pose a little. The original from several months back is on the Instagram account somewhere, for anyone wanting to dig through my old drawings to make the comparison and laugh. (Hell, the original Original is probably on the Blogspot account here somewhere.)

Sketches before the year ends

...Because tumblr's flipping out for some reason over showing images proper. From the past few months going back to Halloween:

Space Harrier comic pages and WIP cont'd

And the Space Harrier saga continues.

Some WIP pages and illustrations:

Beta Euthynus sketches illustrations and WIPs

Because Mr. Chris Palmer has really appealing shorthands for character faces.

Kaiju Redux

Goes without saying, another retake on an older piece from... I don't even remember anymore. Originally did these as an ode to Mr. Tom Perkins' art book. (Scroll down to about the 9th selection.)

(One of several digital drawovers on the original Colerase sketches.)

Boba Fett Youth

In honor of the long anticipated - by me - re-release of a favorite band from my misspent youth, Boba Fett...Youth.

Was listening to these guys well before the CalArts days, well before the animation hellhole days at Allan Hancock College... well before the internet. In short, these guys played, toured, recorded, and disbanded before art became my fulltime occupation, when "1337" still meant one thousand three hundred and thirty seven. And before corporate copyrights were as monolithic as they are now.

Anyhow, interesting punk band that had as many memorable progressive technical chops as they did endearing f*ck ups. And great album artwork to boot. Here's the link:

Boba Fett Youth - Punks In Vegas archive.

Highly recommend the full length LP, though the Rare and Unreleased has some notable tracks. Favorites include Crush Kill Destroy, Dress the Part, Big City Soup, Compromise, Shrug/Scumrider (treated as one song in my mind), and Everything's Fine, anthem for our group's countless nights on hilltops launching water balloons - or most anything else, not excluding fishing weights - at suburban housing tracts.

Indeed, Mr. Lucas and Williams, they do play the Imperial March in one of their songs. You're welcome.

Speaking of music and art, a work-in-progress that's been tooled with for the past few months. Inspired by several Rush songs (and yes, am going to list them now): Analog Kid, Red Barchetta, and The Body Electric.

Acheulean Wide Shot plus Works In Progress

Newer drawings of an old idea, from an old book, on even older subject material.

...Yes, that made perfect sense.

Dug up an old story idea after having gotten a couple of books illustrated by Zdeněk Burian. Fun stuff to look at if you're into the magic of primal stories and wildlife.

(Simplified color version, minus the filtered light in the background.)

And a couple of WIPs based off the same theme:

WIP

Like I said, plenty more where the previous came from.