Monday 15 November 2010

Tea cup!


Exploring tones on a tea cup.

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Top Dogz Update!

To cemorate 3 years of my comic, I decided to add a new character. He won't be a main one, but a side one, like PC Carter, Battenburg and Debra the Shop Keeper who I should really use more :(
And here he is!
















Introducing Officer Dylan Green! A happy go-lucky corgi who has always wanted to be a police man and fight crime!
Unfortunately, contradicting his child hood vision of chatching a shifty robber with a bag marked "loot" and being crowned hero of the town, being an actual police man is not all it's cracked up to be. Despite this, his enthusiasm pushes him on, always trying to chase the bad guy....shame about the short legs :C

Gonna do an arc with this guy to introduce him and this time I WILL FINISH IT

Don't forget to view the comic at it's home site here:
http://topdogz.smackjeeves.com/comics/1031172/cop-out/

Monday 1 November 2010

So halloween has been and gone, I didn't go Trick or Treating, apparently adults aren't allowed to....even though we'd be more creative and have better costumes but WHATEVER, still managed to get some sweets from some other kids :)


Here's a Halloweeny picture to keep to the theme, found this drawing I did a week or so ago and decided to spruce it up for Halloween!
Also been playing around with actionscript on Flash, made a drawing pad featuring my online persona. Follow this link here to have a little play on it http://fav.me/d31w4t8
For those who are not familiar with my persona, here is a model sheet of him.


Screw Ball Model Sheet by ~Daztoons on deviantART

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Top Dogz updated!

Need to use this blog more, haha, haven't since February aaaargh!

I thought I'd start with recent stuff, started University (that one is a big one!), been working and improving my illustrations and cartoons a lot!
One thing you might be interested in is my web comic, Top Dogz Which I (try to) update weekly.
Here's the latest one http://www.smackjeeves.com/profile.php?id=26034 be sure to read through all of them, and I hope you like them :)

Sunday 14 February 2010

"We will love them on the beaches, we will love them on the shore, but we will never love them with cheesey Valentines day gifts and soppy love movies!" the speech given by Winston Churchill on V-day *shot*



Happy Valentines Day everyone, I hope you spent time with loved ones, whether it was a partner or friends :)

In unrelated news, I've been doing sketches all today in preparation for my first animation workshop which I will be attending at my college tomorrow, I'm really hoping to learn a lot from the professionals :D I'll be sure to take photos and post what I get up to!

Thursday 4 February 2010

Animated Animal Alphabet and Wolfie and the Dragon

Want to know what I've been up to cartoon-wise recently? No? But I bet you're curious just a little bit now huh? ...still no? Then go to hell >:C

But before you go to hell, I figured I'd show you what's been eating up most of my time, other than college of course!

This is a project for college where I am to create an A-Z of what ever I like; I chose animals and chose to make it into an animation. I call it, the Animated Animal Alphabet, pretty catchy huh? :D

Of course, my knowledge of animals is limited, but thanks to the kind (and weird) folks of Furaffinity, I quickly had a list of animals from A - Z and soon I was putting it together. Here are just a few that I've made so far!

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My time is limited, and so are my animation skills, so although I tried keeping the details true
to the animals, I had to make some minor changes so that they'd be easier to animate
(like I removed a lot of the tentacles because otherwise it'd just get too complicated!)
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Wolfie and the Dragon


This is a commission for a friend of mine on FA, he's asked for his character to solve a dragon problem, in a short cartoon and said that's it...I can do it any way I like...YES XD

Of course It'll be mostly Frame by Frame, here is what I've done so far :)

Photobucket We start off with a panning shot across a series of posters and news paper cut-outs, that tell us the basis of the story. A dragon is terroising the city, a wolf steps in to help, he fails and he is forced to flee into a cave outside the city by the dragon. There he observes the arrogant beast and plans his last and final attack. The panning ends with us seeing a battered Wolfie drawing up his new plans.
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Things aren't going so well for him.
There were a lot of things that were new to me, like animating paper being screwed up, a lot of paper was screwed up by me to get the feeling just right.
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Frame by frame goodness!

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This is Denver, the bastard...er...antagonist of the show. I really enjoy making expressions for this guy, mainly because he's my own design and creation, where as Woflie isn't. But I enjoyed animating them both!

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I figured a normal walk wouldn't do for this character, I wanted to show just how much of a basta...antagonist he was, just by how he approached his next target - a factory. Every movement Denver does is over the top, it means more animating, but I really don't mind.

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Even just stopping himself in his walk was more than just stopping, I wanted it to be exaggerated!
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Lots of stretching was used to emphasise movement!
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I wanted to portray this guy as an exaggerator, an arrogant bully that dramatises everything, like in this last shot
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Well I hope you enjoyed this longer than usual post, I just thought it would be something nice to share with you :) You should expect both of these to be finished this year, More screen shots will be posted though, so keep your eyes peeled!

Tuesday 2 February 2010

Hi how are you? :)

Out of the 5 Universities that I applied to, one has gotten back to me to say they want me in for an interview YAY!

I'm currently putting together a portfolio for it, I hope I get accepted, because, otherwise, I'm out of options XD ; It's on the 16th!

I'm sorry for the lack of (decent) art lately, I've been swamped with college work and various other stressful things, and I can never draw when in that kind of mood. :C

BUT

I did manage to draw this:

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Sorry to the people who are offended by drunk cartoons :(

Was working with brush pens again, I think I will colour this soon :D

My lecturer also liked some of my New York photos and suggested that I should frame them and sell them, so I'm also doing that. Would anyone be interested in buying some artsy photos? =D

If you want to see some of them, here they are! Don't forget I took 971 photos, so feel free to contact me if you want to see any more xD

I'm also getting a book I made a year ago published too, more on this, as this develops :)

Saturday 23 January 2010

New character approaches!

I can't believe I forgot to post this!
I drew these just after midnight on new year's eve. After the party I returned to my hotel room and started watching some movie with Robert De Niro in, and I had such an itch to draw.

That's when I noticed the complimentary note pad and pen on the desk, and I immediately got to work on this fella.

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I call it a bangaroo, mainly because me and my sister's boyfriend concluded that it looked like a cross between a bear and kangaroo. Though it's a lot smaller than both of those animals xD

It's more of a screw ball character really, he's tiny and completely twisted!


The species name might not stick, if you have any better ideas, go ahead and let me know :)

Reference sheet coming soon!


I also played around with the smooth setting on the paint brush tool in Flash, look I drew a dog to prove it :P

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I was also cutting up the silhouette of the dog and though it would make an interesting drop shadow xD