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Character Designs

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:13:00 +0000

Hi All, I finished another interesting assignment where I needed to create 3 different character designs: Strong, Male, Hero, Young, Female, Assassin, and Old, Feeble, Man. I repurposed a couple of ideas I had in the past and here they are! Colored in Painter with different techniques, I'm still not sure what I'm doing with it, but I like it a lot.

Enjoy!

First school post of the semester

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:08:00 +0000

Here it is! The assignment was to create a line drawing of a character(s) and color it in Photoshop. So I used a couple of characters from a story idea I came up with recently. I hadn't really rendered them fully as of yet, so it was fun to put them down in a final form.

Enjoy!

Class this Semester

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:46:00 +0000

Hi Everybody! This semester I'm taking a digital painting class, so I will shortly have some interesting Photoshop and later Painter projects to upload. I'm very excited to get into the nitty gritty, so far we've been practicing basic Photoshop tricks, but this week we start painting. I have a small character study and a Olympic postage stamp idea coming down the pike. More to follow.

New Job

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:31:00 +0000

Everyday now, my oldest boy has been asking me to make him a dinosaur drawing while I'm at work. He picks one from his dinosaur TV show (Dinotrain, it's cute) and waits for the results when I get home. Here is today's: Stygimoloch.

Enjoy,

Chinese Landscape

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:20:00 +0000

I can't believe I forgot to post this. I was at a nice Chinese restaurant for my dept. Xmas party and I had received my leftovers and we were all sitting around like idiots waiting on the off-chance that our VP would grace us with a speech. I had started doodling with my gel pen on the top of my carryout container, inspired by the art hanging in the restaurant. Here it is! I would draw then smear the ink, over and over to create the brushed look. The top one is actual size. BTW, I was the first person to leave. Right after I finished this to be exact!

Enjoy!

My First Watercolor and an Update

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:45:00 +0000

Hi all, I've been working on school steadily(next post, sculpture!), along with practicing comics and actually a lot of other stuff I should scan and post up here. Anyhoo, the point is, I did a nifty little watercolor for my wife to try out a new paint set I bought a few months ago that has been terrifying me. So I sucked it up and did a 4x6 painting of Disney's Wilderness Lodge(our favorite vacation spot). It was actually a cool time doing it, and I will look around for something else to try.

In other news, I "finished" my 5 page comic sampler and sent it to the only major publisher still accepting open submissions-Dark Horse. Well, they didn't reply so, I'm going to keep working and trying some new things. Or in this case an old thing. I picked back up on my work on Tharn's Warcraft story. Follow the Grym Tiding's link to the right to check out the newest addition. I decided to put it out in easy to digest strips rather than trying to bang out pages at a time. Instead of making excuses not to work, I'm trying to make it easier TO work. So far so good. Keep moving forward mule. Yah Mule!

Enjoy,

Holy Cow! It's page 5!!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:48:00 +0000

Yes, yes, I've finally managed to drag 5 pages of comic-y goodness into existence. Next step is to start showing it around. I've started some research into who I need to talk to and what I need to present, so I will be busy putting together PDFs and brief synopsisesiess...however it's plural! I'm excited, but mostly frightened. Wish me luck!

This week's assignment

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:41:00 +0000

This is my assignment from last week, which was a layout featuring 2 point perspective. In all these assignments I try to make the perspective-y stuff secondary to whatever is going on, I dunno, I just like the human element and they don't have a lot of corners! This week I will have to put in all the tones and shadows with my grey markers, which I've gotten pretty comfortable with. They ain't so bad! Anyhoo, in the scene the young speedster has wrapped his '63 Austin Healey around the tree and the farm guy is pulling him from the wreckage. I did something fun with the car: I got some reference shots and drew one in the position I would need it in the layout. Then I tracing papered over it all the wreckage, then I applied that to the layout and used my microns over THAT layer! It took a while, but man, I'm happy with the results!

Enjoy!

EDIT: Hey hey! Here is the finished version, markered and ready to roll. In the end I went in a completely different direction then I intended from the beginning. Please, continue to...

Enjoy!

Another Page!!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:33:00 +0000

Wow, how about that? I haven't totally given up on my latest project, going so far as making yet another page! I took the opportunity to redraw a lot of the panels in this one, and in every case I improved them. I'm definitely getting better, but I'm not there yet.

Enjoy!

More from the Sketchbook!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Um, yeah, the title says it all...

Sketchbook Posts

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:17:00 +0000

Ok, I scanned in a ton of sketchbook pages the other day, and I thought I'd start the ball rolling. I will post them 10 or so at a time until I run out. At the very least, it can provide some good content filler.

School work!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:46:00 +0000

I'm sure you noticed on your calendars that the Fall semester has begun, so without further adoo-doo, here is my...INTERESTING SCHOOLWORK POST!!!... First in the series. This semester, I'm only taking one class, that being Perspective.

Enjoy!

More pages!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:42:00 +0000

Hi Everybody, I've been working still, just not posting. Here are the inks for pages 2 and 3, I'm coloring 1, and still laying out 4. Otherwise, School has started again, I have Perspective this semester, so expect some Isometrics soon and some architecture later. Perhaps, I will have other surprises as well, like if I ever get off my ass and scan some sketchbook pages, got lots there. Anyhoo, enjoy and I'll see you soon!

PS. I may replace some of the pics on these pages, a couple are kinda bugging me.

Thank You Gift

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:45:00 +0000

My Little boy just had his 3rd birthday, and the local volunteer fire station was nice enough to set up a tour of the station and all the trucks. As a thank you, I did a pen and ink of their station house. It's 14" x 11" and I framed it up for them. I think I'm going to start talking around town about starting this as a service for some extra cake. I'd like to do our newly remodeled Library next...

Enjoy!

Still more!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:53:00 +0000

I've also been practicing on some comic pages to try and improve and heck, come up with a style. Either way, I'm really enjoying it. This is the first couple pages of my practice piece. The story doesn't necessarily go anywhere now, but it could. I'll probably just use it for a portfolio piece. BTW, the bottom left image on page 2 is being swapped out, it's too weak.

Enjoy!

Back again

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:47:00 +0000

Well, school is out for the summer, and I can start posting stuff again. Man I'm lazy! Anyhoo, first up is a special sketch I did for my little buddy. He loves fire trucks (I think all little boys do) and I was in Boston for the HOW design conference (it was awesome! I had never been to a trade show thingee before) and I was taking a break. Outside the conf. center was this really cool old fire house and I thought Bear would love it. So, I busted out the sketchbook and did this:

BTW, I have more cool stuff to post from my sketches, bear with me.

More Character Design!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:36:00 +0000

Ok, here's more of what everyone's been clamoring for! More of my character sketches from my upcoming comic project! Included is further practice with Red, some Rosa ideas, Charlie and a couple of other police officers. I'm still trying to get to a point where I can repeat Red and the others without having them all look like different people.

Enjoy!

Christmas Card

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:50:00 +0000

Ok, here comes a flurry of posts! This is a combination Xmas and Moving card I did for a co-worker who had relocated to NYC. She wanted to reference both themes, therefore, Ice Skating, in Central Park! There was also a greeting and address info on the inside.

Enjoy!

Oh my god, I am such a slacker

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:16:00 +0000

Hi Everybody! I have been slaving away on school and I haven't posted anything of any substance in forever! Well, you're patience has paid off, included is my favorite pieces from my classes this semester. These are all from my Analysis of Form class, (my other class was Creative Writing) and are charcoal or pen.
I really enjoyed both classes this year, working with charcoal was nerve-wracking. I kept worrying that I would mess it up. In the end tho, I would be tired and happy.

Enjoy!

My Summer Project

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:59:00 +0000

Wow, two in one day! This next one is a quick sketch I did at work as a concept pic. This grumpy fella is going to be the main character in my new comic project that I will start this summer. Once I finish the intro for Grym Tidings, which I'm still working on, and there isn't actually all that much left to go. Enjoy!

PS-I've added a few more sketches of the character for updates, and I've started writing this out as well.

School work

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:53:00 +0000

Hi All,

Well, it's nice to be back in the flow of things! Here is the rough for my Color class final project. I would post the painting itself, but I need to photograph it because it's too big to scan. I will post it later. Enjoy!

I'm back!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:58:00 +0000

Hello Everybody! I'm back finally, school's over, I got straight A's, and I'm back to post the latest. I will post some interesting stuff from Class (Color & Design) as well, so that will be coming up soon as well. In the meantime, here is a recent commission for my young nephew Matt. He requested a fight scene between a Jedi with a dual-bladed lightsaber, Darth Vader, and a giant, cake-making droid. Without further ado...

Here ya go...

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:32:00 +0000

Well, I'm finally posting something again! I'm still overloaded, and digging, but the least I can do is drop something for y'all to look at. Here is the pencils for page 4 of my Grym Tidings WoW comic. I'm just starting the inks so hopefully I will finish that soon inbetween my school and freelance.

Enjoy!

Help!

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:31:00 +0000

Sorry everybody! I've been overloaded with my job and school and freelance, that I haven't had a chance to even think about posting anything, let alone creating for enjoyment. I did finish the pencils for page 4 of Grym Tidings, so I will have something to show soon enough. Maybe I will post that here, along with page 3, and save the other site for the finished pages. Sound good! See you soon!

New Illustration from Work

noreply@blogger.com (RocknOats) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:44:00 +0000

Hi all, I've been busy plugging away with my freelance project(will post examples after I've finished) and my comic, as well as starting school last week! To my surprise, my day job produced the most interesting work of the past week! I was given a job to produce a full color sponsor ad for a charity ball and they asked for one of our run of the mill photo ads with the logo and a blurb about how supportive we are, and I had an idea for something more. Well, here's the illo alone, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to reproduce the complete ad, but there is some fancy cursive text in the upper right, with the logos just beneath, in white.

Enjoy!