OUT WITH THE OLD

After six years my old tablet finally kicked the bucket. Since it was right around Christmas I decided it was high time to get a new one. I had my eye on Wacom's Intuous and now that I own one... man, is it nice!

I painted this green fellow during a "let's try out the new tablet" session. The Intuous has way more levels of Pressure Sensitivity than my old one did which results in more control (Apparently technology moves forward over a span of six years)! I'm really excited to use this new tablet on future projects.

~Chris

SHAPE BOX

One exercise I really enjoy doing is creating a box, filling it with random shapes, and then seeing what they evolve into.

~Chris

LINE ART

11 Second Club, December 2009

Here's a fun piece I've been working on for the 11 Second Club's Dec. 2009 competition. I've been studying up on storyboarding recently and I wanted to put my knowledge to the test.

I would have just embedded the videos here on the page except they get cut off by my blog's layout and I can't figure out how to modify it. I really like this template, too, so I stubbornly don't want to change it.

~Chris

Just For Laughs: Gags

Bumpy Ride

Poor Posture

Reference is useful

I've been trying to visualize a character of mine for a while now. He's a young boy and the setting is the late 1800s. I got a book from the Library called "Children's Clothing of the 1800s" which helped out immensely. The image on the left is drawn from the book, and the image on the right is my treatment of the character.

~Chris

A Morning Stroll

Hey man, remember the 80s?

HE'S GOT A KNIFE!

Old favourites revisted

In my quest to create a new design portfolio I've gone back to some designs I did a few years ago for a game we were working on in India. I really enjoyed drawing the characters back then, but I wanted to see what else I could do with them from a fresh perspective. These are all new drawings. I was watching some great design videos on youtube by a guy named Jason Chan and I really liked how he put three or four characters side by side, all slightly contrasting one another. I still have some rendering work to do on the left-hand side character but I wanted to post this, as I'm pretty happy with it so far.

This is all drawn directly into Photoshop on a Wacom Tablet.

~Chris