Model Sheets Addams Family

For my Illustration for Film and Animation class we were to reinvent and create three characters from the Addam's family. I chose Morticia, Gomez, and Lurch. They're supposed to be a younger couple, kind of trailer trashy. I was given critique to maybe make Morticia a little "trashier", but I'm not really sure how to go about that yet.

Lurch is the Dog, he's an old and tired dog that Gomez straps trays to in an attempt to have a free butler- Lurch puts up with it with some frustration :)

Concept Doodles

Spent today's class messing around and doodlin' ideas for my concept sketches/final pieces. Very rough and silly :)

Also! My buddies and I have started a group for ourselves entitled Ridiculously Sophisticated Concept Artists. We plan to pick topics and make us some purdy pictures based on said topics. Nothing is up yet, and knowing us it'll be a few days before one of us does anything, but heres the link just in case you wanna check it out:

Ridiculously Sophisticated Concept Artists

Sketches from the Field Museum

Nothin' too special here, just updating for the sake of updating.
Ken, Matt and I tried to go to the Shedd yesterday to draw the fishes. Unfortunately, that didn't work out, I have NEVER seen the Shedd so crowded. They were over capacity and wouldn't let people downstairs, it was insane.
We went to the Field Museum instead, which was pretty much deserted. I drew some dinos, which got very smudged while I was carrying the book around :(, and a few people and animals.

Flash Portrait

Hi guys!
I'm taking a flash course this semester! The first assignment was to make a self-portrait using the program, so here I am!

Christmas Loot

I can't believe I forgot to share my Christmas loot with everyone. This was an excellent year for loot- here's what I got!

Snow White on BluRay

Princess and the Frog Art Book

Dean Yeagle's Mandy DVD

Tarzan Collector's Edition DVDs

Dish Towels and Pot Holders! (Thanks Mom)

Hard-Cover Travel Sketch Book

Pastel Paper

GIANT Watercolor Moleskine

Tons of awesome pencils and brushes

Adam Hugh's Catwoman Statue

Bill Presing's Sketchbook from France!

Paper Dreams book

Sketch Pad

Pink Plaid Flats

HUGE set of Pastels

The Art of the Disney Princess

PowerPad

Robot Backpack

My first easel! :D

Awesome loot from my wonderful family and Kenny

Lacey

A friend requested this some time ago as her prize for screen capturing my 30,000th pageview on DeviantART... some 6,000 pageviews later I finally got to this, haha

So here is a pinup portrait of the lovely Miss. Lacey Pierson

New Years Resolutions and Sketch Dump

My new years resolution: draw more, learn pastels.

My parents got me an amazing set of Prismacolor pastels for Christmas, they are wonderful. I've never tried pastels before, so this is all very new to me. Heres my first attempt, a quick portrait of my dog, Missy. I learned a valuable lesson: don't get too excited, sketch first, or you get an out of proportion pup. But strangely shaped dogs aside, it was a lot of fun trying these out and I'm excited to try more. I'm considering taking a pastel class at a local art studio, could be fun, we'll see!

Also below are sketches of people at JFK and Burlington airports from last week. Below that are "master sketches" of Disney's Tarzan- these are not my original poses, they are just copies that I did of pre-existing work to warm up. And last are a few doodles of tree branches with snow, I thought it was kind of fun

More stuff soon!