A smattering of latest sketches, from Getty Villa sculpture to café patrons in Culver City. Excuse the filters...I've discovered snapping sketches with my phone is much faster than scanning!

Moar sketches....

Here's a dump from sketches in the last month, while I've been working as a rigging intern at Sony Imageworks. Though they look pretty rando, some (more than others) have a bit of reasoning and speculation put into their imaginary species design. Then there's the occasional sketch of something that actually exists.

...For example, the lion-with-horns abomination started out as just a lion with massive shoulder/neck region. However, it's functionally pointless--that would just slow it down as a predator, and what's the point behind such enormous neck muscles anyway? Cattle, deer, and sheep (think mountain/bighorn sheep) have especially solid neck/shoulder regions, to absorb shock and lend strength to when they lock horns and bash heads. So I plopped some horns on this guy, and say that when mating season swings around, this is how they fight over mates--charging, ramming, and grabbling each other with their enormous horns (and occasionally, teeth). Unlike the normal lion, then, they also have less to worry about with bigger prey; e.g. the dreaded water buffalo, which is more than a match for a pride of hungry lions. This guy is ideally a good bit larger than your standard lion, and will take down much larger (and slower) prey by ramming and knocking them off balance, before doing the usual lion thing of biting down on its throat and strangling it. And, worst case scenario, it scavenges the kill from smaller predators, like most resourceful, lumbering brutes tend to do. (As for the gorilla thing, well, fuck it...I just decided it was mutated and very, very angry...) What? /rant of a converted biology major...

Haven't updated in a while, latest sketches:

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Updates!

Updates from these last couple months, in John Hendrix's sketchbook class.

Sketch Dump

Have finally caught up to scanning in the random doodles and sketches of the last couple months. In class doodles, figure work from this past fall, and quick drawings of a flock (or murder, if you will) of crows perched obligingly outside my window.

Finally, eventually...

...an update! Need to get in the habit of actually putting my work online, and more sketches here. Sooo excited to have gotten an internship at Pixar, at their Technical Undergraduate Program! In light of the month-long countdown to Emeryville, and the absolutely frightening amount of skill overflowing from their internship program, I've pledged to crank out extra drawing practice. Instead of kicking around a soccer ball and counting down the days til the World Cup, I'll be madly churning out digital sketches and reading up on 3d software. While the World Cup countdown widget ticks away on my desktop. And I juggle/dribble around the furniture, whenever my contacts threaten to dry up from staring at my screen.

My first, brief (~45 min) product of a sketch session. Might I add, www.scott-eaton.com is a great anatomy site for artists.