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This is EYVIND EARLE.

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Cleanup below drawings.

Use friskets to create BGs using markers that bleed. Use paper as friskets to capture some of that bleed in the BG to see what happens.]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:39:52 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1084827 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1082062
My Drawing
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Merged Comparison with Original
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Here is the construction compared with the original:

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This is my first construction study, by eye, drawn from my monitor. It is very messy, a lot of editing, and the Bugs character is too short. The bear character has the best structure, but still there are miscalculations. I will try something easier next time. The challenge was definitely there and this exercise taught me a lot about 'looking'. I also learned Bugs Bunny is deceptively difficult to draw on your first go.]]> Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:54:36 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1077888 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1016528 Clearly I also need to work on digital painting

OK here's something that started with a sketch in my Swedish grammar book, to looseyloose sketching in Illustrator blah blah..

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I just want to churn these suckers out now.]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:09:28 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1016528 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1013162
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I am currently scanning away on all of my sketchpads, deciding what should be highlighted here if anything. If you feel the need, the above URL is where they're currently residing. Don't even knock, just walk right through the front door, help yourself to a cold one and check 'em out.]]> Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:21:00 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1013161 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1013160 Some quick ideas before I goto bed at 6am
Flash animation where the background is loading like an interlaced .gif, or large image files ca. 1994.
Painting of objects where the shadows mimic low-res shadows usually found in low polygon renderings -- bit-mapped and artifacts.]]> Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:20:59 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1013160 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1006233
OKAY KIDDIES?? OKAYYYY??? Also its Christmas and New Years so what can you do?]]> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:36:16 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/1006233 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/976673
Now: Xfer-ing drawings from cell phone. Puh.]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:11:32 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/976673 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/963102 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:49:14 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/963102 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/950543 Just a reminder of what an actual Musk Ox looks like.

I recently read a blog post by John K here: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/02/being-enslaved-to-someone-elses-style.html
about being a slave to someone else's style. He names T.S. Sullivant, widely recognized as the father of cartooning, (citation: http://www.animationarchive.org/2007/03/biography-father-of-cartooning-t-s.html) as the source from which Disney emulated, to which most cartoonists and animators emulate. John K celebrates Sullivant, who actually went and practiced observing the real animal, chose elements that seemed not only visually interesting, but what could best express emotion.

John K then continues on about how the practice of animation is devolving into copying style from 4th, 5th, 6th generation of a copy of Sullivant's cats, for instance. OR 2nd, 3rd generation copies of Disney's deer or bunnies. I can see his point and now look to my own design of the musk ox.

Perhaps I am having problems designing my Musk Ox not only because my animal anatomy needs practice, but there was also no 'Disney blueprint'. So I post now what a real musk ox looks like. I will find what on the animal is visually interesting, and continue from there.

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Some points: The animal's fur is the most expressive part of the animal to me, yet what I'm having most difficulties expressing. I've been falling into the trap of attempting to render each individual strand of fur. I ask, how can I convey the fluffiness AND the wonders of the turbulence in the direction of fur strands around the body while keeping it simple, drawn with energy?]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:38:42 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/950543 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/950542 Fur Turbulence

I am looking to wind and wave maps to emulate a direction for the musk ox's fur.

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The idea came to me to create mini stories of each character, told only visually, to provide a small background behind the character. The first one that came to mind was the zookeeper, who used to be a hunter, but in his old age finds hunting the animal alive to be more suitable. Well, more economical really because he can pull funds from the zoo, not his own purse, to execute the 'hunt' so to speak. Often he gets flashbacks of hunting animals with the intent for trophies and the first mini story will convey this conquest of his.]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:38:41 -0800 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/950541 http://virb.com/75915033056505/posts/text/945927
I was also toying with the idea of using actual bread crumbs and jelly splatters as visual aids for the 'breadcrumb navigation'.

UPDATE: Looking at this shrinked shows me the 'Feedback' link needs to be a darker color than yellow.

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There is no real action line here, but I like how our character is developing, albeit slowly.

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