Griffin Progress

Griffin sketch

Hi all. It's been some time since Ive posted. Im still working as an illustrator for this start up and things are good. But with sewing and all I figured it was time to get back to doing some illustrations.

I can't get griffins out of my head. I can't, so I'm going to do a series of them. I have a story in my head about them, and we will see how that goes, but for now, I'm going to be doing this series in Illustrator, like my first griffin image.

I'll talk to you later.

Where have I been?

Working full time! It's been awesome, and is still being awesome. I'm in charge of a series of online e-courses, tutorials, whatever you wan to call them, and I have a team of 4 people under me.

The courses are all animated in Flash, mostly elaborate animatics, and then tweaked. There is some full animation in it, but that's mainly one character.

It's been exciting, and we are wrapping up our first full course in a day or two. *whew*!

This was just an update. I'll be back to illustrations and my own work soon enough.

Thanks!

Fan Art: Tygra

Tygra is my favorite Thundercat. I think it's because he is the most like how I envisioned him. I always saw him in his prime, about 30-35. Mature, strong, smart. Just like the cartoon.

My first sketch on the back of a receipt.

Second Sketch

Final Sketch

Next I place him in illustrator.

Kevin and the Griffin

The second sketch.

Kevin and the Griffin

Eight year old Kevin lives with his mother, the super of an eight story brownstone in New York. The building was erected in the late 1800s, and as his mother was overseeing some renovations in the basement, a bricked up office was discovered. Decades of flooding ruined everything inside the hidden room, but Kevin found a rusted locket that he chose to keep.

One night while he as playing on the roof, he dropped the locket and out spilled a bright light. A whoosh of air circled him and on the ledge appeared a griffin. Needless to say he was a tad freaked out.

This is sort of a concept sketch for a story that seems to be appearing in my head. I wanted to get it out on paper before I forgot any details. 

The griffin isn't a pet, though at first Kevin thinks of him that way. Early communication is stunted at best and the beast gets irritated with the boy, but he does not seem to want to leave him alone. That and the griffin has a thing for almonds, something Kevin seems to always carry around with him.

Origin of Love progress

This is a project I have been working on since grad school. It was never a grad school project, but I wanted to do an animation to Rufus Wainwright's version of Origin of Love. I have great visuals for it. I'm working on a sequence with Thor now, and have been gutting it to get in some more feeling. I'm liking how it's going, but with all 2D, especially if you are doing it alone, it's slow going.