Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
thingamababy sketches
Argh! Haphazard sketches abound — sorry, really sorry. Posting day’s sketches, keep this train moving.
Don’t fret just yet, I always assume 50 sketches to winnow down what we don’t like…
Note: We're cleaning up the Photo Galleries; please excuse the messy layout it'll be better soon. - Mgmt.
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Hmmmm... the hair, oh and the lines... shoot. Plenty of room for improvement.
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Added a larger version of this to the projects section (Thingamaproject Art 'n Concepts), shows corner of site -- with fan art as background ('ve just thrown a few sketches hither and yon as examples). Note the colors are toned down a smidgeon too. OK, the background is bright, I grant you this.
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Found an old Better Homes & Gardens illustration that had a crazy subtle, yet hupnotic paper texture, so created a tile from it. Then -- what to do with it? Well, a cut-out version of #37. Has very slight drop-shadows -- visible on large 5x5 inch one -- that really sells the paper cut-out effect.
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this -- i prefer this, but Ludlow hates it... that old 'yeah, but he's possessed' argument. Lightened this one, too.
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need a break from bezier curves -- Illustrator, for hair etc, seems to be causing me fits, so back to Photoshop and Nagel Series Brushes
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Looks like an old baby pic of mine
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Not a huge improvement -- the hair, 'tis killing me
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Hmmm. not happy with this. Aged the kid a bit, looks like a little boy going trick or treating as Nora. It's the ears. Fix. Now.
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replace factory-accident mangled earlier 'pick me up' hands
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Just noticed how gerber-baby this is. too bad
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Note to self: don't draw directly in the spine... there's enough paper, menus, receipts, etc, to go 'round
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So the idea: kids pushing letters into place, pulling them in wagons, etc.
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large kid -- too old, but on to something with the upper little one
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like this -- unusable given pose, dutch angles are fine, but positioning is off. Shesh -- should remember to put a clean page underneath when scanning -- thin pad = bad bleed-through
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the shirley temple/annie hair thing... argh
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more 'pick me up'
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happy hopper -- no leaky-pen stuff
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Forgot to ask about style -- pencil? watercolor? vector (like Devil Boy)? chalky? Painterly?
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These are 'leaky pen' style, just like 'Sitting TV Boy'
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Playing with inked version
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Too 'of the moment'? Seems all children's books illustrators have gone the way of Ryden -- this I'd credit Michael Slack, a gentler Jimmy Pickering. Doodle this directly in Photoshop
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Kid leaving the noodle house just as we arrived.
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More kids sitting in pee
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Instead of paying attention during meetings -- did these
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Pre-Scientology Travolta?
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Stubby body
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Gadzooks, looks like American in Paris hoofer number -- all of 'em
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Liking this kid
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The 'please pick me up, mister' pose
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Very Calvin and Hobbes in the eyes
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Like this kid, too
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Looks Gerald McBoing Boing-esque
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did this during our 'hey, we're locking down the site, 72 hour code freeze'
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