Sharks and ladies

Oh man, recently I went with some friends to Dr. Sketchy's! Careful of that link, it's not... entirely safe for work. It's basically a place where artists can go and draw models that are far more interesting than the ones you typically get in school. It was actually the first time I've drawn a human from life in like... five years, so I was incredibly rusty, but I enjoyed myself.

These were my two favorites from the evening. I purposely went with a cartoonier style with these two pics, because the model was so cute and her outfits really seemed to lend themselves well to it.



... Yeah, I have nothing to say about that face to the left. I'm not sure what's going on there and I'm the one that drew it.



I do really want to go back to Dr. Sketchy's, but the problem is that it's always on a Monday night, when I typically want to get to bed early for the next day's work, and I live a good solid hour from Baltimore, driving.

Also, I am a tiny little suburbanite and Baltimore at night scares me a bit. Even when I went there with a group of friends, it was pretty scary. Then when we left Dr. Sketchy's, there was a POOL OF BLOOD on the sidewalk.

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Seriously. A pool of blood. That area of Baltimore is supposed to be fairly safe, and a friend of mine who lives there said that sort of thing never happens. (I would sincerely hope not.) It makes me wish there was a similar sort of life drawing gathering in my area.

In less bloodied news, another friend of mine has been toiling away on a screenplay that he hopes to see animated on TV one day. It's an impressive bit of work, do go see it.

I'm really fond of the character named Naur, and did a fast concept for him:



On the right you can see what kinds of sharks and shapes I was generally thinking about, along with what I remembered of the character's reclusive personality and what would be appropriate for a simplified 2D character design that would not make the animator's wrists fall off in the deepest grips of carpal tunnel. I admit that it was my own wrists that I was thinking of, because some other friends of mine (I swear I am not trying to make myself sound popular) want to get started on animating it ourselves, even roughly. I partially want to do it to keep my hand in with 2D animation, since I've only done 3D lately, and partially because I really do hope he can pitch this to a network one day.

More art to come soon, I've been in a doodly mood lately.