Sketches from the school year

These are some sketches I did during my second semester of college. One of the best things about going to Ringling is being able to learn from your peers. I go to school with some effin' AWESOME artists, and it's so much fun to look at all their different art styles.

The last page was drawn at the question and answer session with Don Hahn during the Sarasota Film Festival. That was probably the highlight of my year! Don Hahn is the producer of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the associate producer of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Basically, he produced some of the movies that made me want to be an animator! He talked about the need to take risks, and he said that one of the reasons he loved college students is because they aren't blinded by limitations. Afterwards, he signed my sketchbook and drew a little picture of himself in the lower right corner!

I miss Ringling so much.

Flour Sack Animation

in my Traditional Animation 1 class we worked on animating flour sacks. I might post more animations later, like my character jump and my walk cycle. Now that my first year is over, I'm pretty happy with what I've accomplished. It's gonna be a bit of a struggle to force myself to draw from life every day. I'll definitely draw dumb things, but I should probably try to improve my drawing skills instead of drawing the same dumb stuff I always draw. Yay summer!

Wesley the Pompous Flamingo

Something else I did 1st semester

Semester 1: Done

So by the end of this week, I'll be done with my first semester of college! Here's some artwork that I did during the semester.

These are projects from my 3D class. We had to make a skeleton out of wire, and we had to make a toy. My toy was a paper doll thing, so it's only sort of 3D.

This is drawing class stuff. I really didn't like drawing class, so that's why there's only two pictures.

These are a few of my figure drawings. When I get my portfolio back, I'll probably post more. The cartoony ones were for a character design project in that class. We had to take a pose and create a "character" using that pose.