Salami Swami: Work In Progress

 

Another piece from my sketchbook during a lecture inflated to something usable.  

Moving to San Francisco, my R.Crumb influences show a bit more than I notice sometimes, which isn't necesarily bad.  

If only I could find some big assed girls to pose for me.

Finished piece here: Sun God June 18th 2010

500 Days Of Summer: Work In Progress

I really like exaggerating and strecthing forms.   It's a bad habit, but being in art school and having to measure every line before you make it gets tedious.  That and it's easy.

I did this the night after I saw 500 Days Of Summer.  Obviously I'm not pulling anything visual from the movie, but undeniably it was the impetus for the drawing.

Man, that girl was a jerk.

Work In Progress

I have a crummy computer, and I have an especially crummy computer for a 3d animation student.  However, I've been inking some pieces in illustrator for the past few weeks with hopes of access to a computer that could run photoshop to color them.

It doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon, and I'm tired of sitting on these.  Art has a very short shelf life of fondness in my brain.  So, I'm releasing them into the wild, with the work in progress tag.  

Once I get some dough, I'll update the links in vivid, mind altering, color.

Serious, like you won't believe it type of color.

One day.

Oh, and don't be too hard on the compositions, I like to add jaw dropping text after mind dropping color, so there's large chunks of negative space where they would be.

In the meantime, I always take pity donations.

Dr. Sketchy San Francisco: Featuring "The Diamond Daggers"

After much deliberation, and a sizable glass of bourbon,  I finally made it to Dr. Sketchy in SF.  I had a lot of doubts, considering how much I love the Cleveland group.  

I should have gone sooner!  Like most things in San Francisco, it's not nearly as much fun without my friends, but it accomplished what attracted me to Dr Sketchy in the first place.  

 Drawings supposed to be fun!  I think in a lot of ways I've forgotten that this semester, and I needed the breather.

 

Not to mention, I can't say I've ever had the opportunity to draw bearded ladies.

A Stick Figure In Perspective: Week One

This semester is all about the figure, figure drawing alongside figure modeling (in clay). It's the perfect time to hold myself to the fire, and finally learn to draw. The Academy Of Art offers a free life drawing workshop almost every day, so I'm hitting every one I can.

I thought it would be fun to follow openly.

I'm not posting every workshop I attend, just the highlights. Just enough to show progress (hopefully), and to silence anyone that thinks this is some sort of mystical gift.

I'm going to do this every week, using my Saturday figure drawing class as the bumpers, and showing the highlights in between.

I've got a lot of work to do.

(click on these guys to make em readable)





Comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Thanks.

RandyCrider@Gmail.com

Day In The Life

Shady Pines

More than a month of work, and more money than it ever should have cost, and my experimental animation final is done.

The credits are wrong for that reason.

My comic book running buddy: Mark Crnolatas wrote the thing like we always do, unfortunately it was over the phone instead of over cigars this time.

My girlfriend: Roxanne Anzelc made the costumes, and let me break her hair dryer while I dried the latex on the puppets.

As with most of my first semester at AAU, I really feel like I leveled up. Understanding the process soup to nuts now, I think I could put together something much better next time.

I don't think I will, though.

It's not so much the process (as much as I love spending ten hours on 30 seconds of animation) as it is the cost. I spent a lot of time in the art store for this project, spending money I don't have. It's really hard to justify props when you're wearing the same pair of jeans, and freezing without a hat. Stop motion is charming, but it rarely enhances the story you're trying to tell. This is the same reason I started inking digitally.

(nevermind that it's lots easier)

So, you'll for sure see A LOT more animation from me, it'll just be digital as much as I can help it.