Right Brain

2008-09-29T19:59:00.000-07:00

If your name is Rhiannon...
Here's my travel blog...

2008-08-31T11:48:00.000-07:00

I can post poems here too, I've decided.
Inspired by Dorothy Parker:

Is it because I take no pause
To say the world has rigid laws
Which govern every flow'ring plant
And guide the actions of each ant
That I see things so lit'rally
And so am bad at poetry?

Is it because I want to say
I have imperfect DNA
Which, while useful in the field of math,
Doth guide me down a log'cal path,
That I find analysis a chore
And so am bad with metaphor?

Is it because I think it true
That today's sky is just as blue
As billions that have come before
And will be such for billions more
That I don't see a point to sit
And write a poem about it?

2008-08-25T17:30:00.000-07:00

Two people who are proud of our ape heritage!

2007-09-10T18:46:00.000-07:00

I've been drawing, but barely anything worth posting.

More cartoon practice (Using tablet this time):

Some rushed charicatures:

And just to show that I'm not too old for the old pencil and paper combo - a sketch. (The preview is much smaller than the full version, so I recommend clicking it to see it.)

2007-01-19T22:47:00.000-08:00

Not a real drawing, but something I whipped up recently. For years, I've been occasionally making games of 3d tic-tac-toe involving large, complex boards. Now, I've invented a simple, one-board version that has the same effect, but is easier to play and read. Hopefully the rules are clear. Try it. See if it's any fun. It might not be.

2007-01-13T16:37:00.000-08:00

Here's what I'm working on now. Soon there'll be a body too, I just wanted to post the work in progress.

2007-01-01T23:59:00.000-08:00

Staying home and drawing is much better than having New Year's plans.
Took my time on this one.

2006-12-31T18:39:00.000-08:00

Another old sketch.
Not like I got any New Year's party to go to.

2006-12-31T18:12:00.000-08:00

More tablet fun.

2006-12-29T19:40:00.000-08:00

Clearly, I haven't posted anything in a long time. School makes it such that I cannot justify spending a lot of time drawing and posting stuff. After all, drawing is not what I do.

I got a tablet for my computer for Christmas, which will streamline the process of me drawing and subsequently having stuff to post.

This is the first drawing done on the tablet. It's based on an old golden book illustration (Courtesy of the Animation Archive). The colours are way off from the original, and so are some of the proportions. I just wanted to test drive the tablet and do a drawing fast.

2006-07-30T23:21:00.000-07:00

More tragic rabbit failures.
Getting closer.

2006-07-29T14:02:00.000-07:00

More head construction (with notes). Still not good enough. Again, Preston Blair's are on the right.
I see improvement, but I'm not yet satisfied.

2006-07-28T23:16:00.000-07:00

More head construction drawings. I don't feel like they're strong enough yet for me to move on to the next lesson. Must practice. (The drawings on top are repeats from last post. Didn't bother to crop them out.)

The drawing on the right is the original drawing, from Preston Blair's book (2nd Ed). Clearly, mine is too long in the snout, too small in the cranium, and too weird in the tongue, among other things.
Must practice.

2006-07-24T22:24:00.000-07:00

I re-drew some of the heads from John K.'s animation lesson blog. A bit better now.

2006-07-24T10:55:00.000-07:00

Some John K. animation lesson stuff.
These are all terrible and rushed, so I'm probably going to do the exercise over again.

That beefy guy is the worst. I hate it.

2006-07-23T22:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I bought me a killer scanner/printer that I plan to use to do some animation tests in the upcoming future, since animating is fun apparently. I decided to use it now though for uploading some drawings I've done of late. My trip to Europe combined with John K.'s blog has really put me on a drawing kick.
Keep in mind, please, that my only training is a lifetime of doodling through boring classes and lectures. I know my skill is lacking, but it's only been a few weeks since I decided to take it a little more seriously and really learn some fundamentals.

This is a fountain in Luxemburg Gardens in Paris. It's a cyclops, though you can't tell from my drawing, since I didn't even notice it was a cyclops while I was drawing it.

Here's the best drawing (of four) that I did while in Paris. It's also a statue in Luxemburg Gardens. Laure de Noves.

This is from a few weeks later, after reading John K.'s blog and getting interested in cartooning.
I post these early bad drawings so that a progression can be seen. I was mostly emphasizing hands here, since I feel like they're one of my greater weaknesses.

The dark face here is one of the better toons I've done. I say this because it most resembles exactly what I had in mind before drawing it. I'm trying to get better at drawing people insanely mad. The eyes are crappy. I'm really bored with the cartoon eyes I'm drawing.

Seriously, what are the options with cartoon eyes?
The big circle with a little dot is driving me nuts. It's too Simpsons.
The donkey, by the way, is wearing a primitive pedometer.

I'll regularly post stuff. The idea is that an improvement will be seen in quality of work produced. I'll mostly be doing cartoon stuff for the next little while, most likely.