Bats

I recently finished a 30 day trip to the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.  We did a lot of exploring of Mayan temple sites including one called Calakmul.  This particular temple site is still very much surrounded by the jungle.  There is only one road that leads in to Calakmul  from the main highway, and it takes an hour to drive in to reach it once you start in.  Anyways, there's a lot of wild life there:  Howler monkeys, Spider monkeys, Tucans, and lots of bats.  While we were in this jungle area, we made a trip to see a cave that is home to what has to be millions of bats.  During the evening, which is their active feeding time, we watched as what started out as a trickle of some bats turned into a huge swirling swarm of what looked like a tornado of bats rising into the air as they exited the cave.  This went on for an awesome half hour!

Anyways, I brought along a small sketch book and did a couple sketches of some bats.  I did these while we were traveling on a bus from Tulum to Valladolid.  They're a little goofy and certainly not accurate, but they were fun to do.

 

even yet more sketches...

here's some more sketches. these were originally printed in the Meathaus Sketchbook go for the gold along with a some of the stuff i posted here a while ago.

I've noticed that something i tend to draw alot is little people inside of people, or people using animal heads as hats. when i doodle and don't think about it it's something that i draw over and over again.

here are some post its with the same theme.

eventually I'd like to do something with this idea. a story or animation but I'm not quite sure what it's all about yet so that remains to be a project for the future.

-a

characters..

I drew the top two images on opposite sides of the same piece of paper, and the bottom image is about this one scene in h.g. wells' "country of the blind" : "

Hi all! here's my first post - I painted it with printer toner mixed into acrylic medium and charcoal. It's part of this animation/comic book i'm trying to make about Durga; you can check out the rest of the story (in progress) here :)

the tunnel

this is the title page for a new short story i'm working on called....well, the tunnel.
i haven't designed the main characters yet which is why the car part of the drawing isn't finished.

-a

Brock vs one ton 21 colors

could of spent more time on background but i just wanted to get it done.

WOLFMAN SUBMISSIONS

Now don't be mad at me, but I thought this was the best venue to post this.
AICN & Universal Have A WOLFMAN contest going on...

CLICK HERE

AND OBVIOUSLY POST THEM HERE AS WELL FOR ALL OF US TO MARVEL OVER.

Cyan Sea

I've had this color scheme in my head for a few months now. And I wanted to actually do something with it. Originally, I had had a dream in which I was walking across this cyan sea on a high, sheer, and magenta land bridge on which there were patches of violet grass. That said, I didn't dream of any blue fauns, but I thought he fit nicely into this. . .Disney Princesses color scheme I farted out of my brain. I think it's safe to say that the next thing I illustrate is going to be horrifyingly violent. . .or maybe just smutty. I don't know, but I feel way too warm and fuzzy after making this. It's weird. :P Honestly I try to see it while keeping in mind the music I listened too through it's entire creation. Basically, LOTS of Animal Collective. I think I had their entire discography on continuous loop. So look at this less as children's book material and more as that one time when you were tripping balls! :P

So, I mentioned Animal Collective had alot to do with how this one came out. I specifically hold this song responsible, it's called: "The Purple Bottle" and it's an adorable love song, easily one of my favorite songs by the band. There's so much going on in it to make it sound the way it does, I kind of like picturing it being played by lots of little creatures in classic cartoon fashion. But there it is, an explanation. :P

Brock vs one ton 21

colors to come soon, and a background.

yakkin it up!

Here is a random sketch that I liked of a monster for no reason other than fun:



And here is a sketch from a story that I’ve been formulating in my mind about human vs machine decision making. Here I am just playing around with future worlds. I think that it’s a bit odd to think that humans will be comfortable living in big cold shell-like ships. I think that would last for about ten seconds and then people would start dreaming about the sun and plants and earth tones, comforting things. Why wouldn’t we expect a future world to be more comfortable than the one that we are living in now? Anyways, it needs work, and I’ll do some more iterations, most likely after the robot story.

Here's this, not really done but i think its time to post...Luca you were right about the colors, thanks. Please crit, I want to make this better.

something something feet...

some sketches i wana color and ink digitally. but my fucking scanner does not work at home and I gota give up the wacom I've been using so this may take a few months...

more sketches...

more new sketchbook stuff. the first one i might end up turning into a more finished piece.




-a

a speculative fiction

After the breakdown of the Copenhagen talks, which spiraled into a hard fought consensus to more or less keep doing the same thing, I think we can all agree that this image is a fairly accurate, if a bit conservative, representation of what the near future holds for us higher apes.

new...

just got a new sketchbook. here's some of my new sketches.

-a

Behold, the word made flesh!

I did this over the holiday, I was really feeling that christmas spirit! It came to me one morning while reading the "life" section in the fresno bee (which I assure you has as it's mascot only the most adorable of cartoon bees!). In between articles about beating out that holiday stress and abundant commentary about the fact that winter is indeed cold, I was suddenly inspired! I give you the result:

warmups!

i want to see more art here!

here is a page from my warmups, 30 sec life drawing with ink on paper





you can get 3d models here:
http://www.posemaniacs.com/?pagename=thirtysecond

anyone know where i can find an animal equivalent to this?

frost!

Here's another I've fiddled with here and there. Meh, I think that I lost most of the composition at one point, so here it is I'm done.

Its abstract as shit. the howling woman warrior symbolizes my hatred for everyone in the world named Jared, the red is pasta sauce showing my distain for italian Ristainos and Lucas everywhere. The green ogre is Tony's grinch. The snowy setting depicts the heartless, chilling Carter-esque philosophy.



Can you guess the medium? ITS DIGITAL YOU IDIOT!

Also! Download these pdfs here and learn something!
http://onanimation.com/?p=2119

My Grinch

Here's a quick sketch I did at home.  It's my attempt at the Grinch.

And, here's a quick coloring pass. 

Happy Holidays Space Yaks!

Murbella

"This is the end of you anxious one, and little loss to the universe"
One Hormu-style kick for them to recognize. The questioner lay dead on the ground.

This is from the Dune series written by Frank Herbert which I think is genius. Its a book and I know that most of you can't read, so this might be considered bragging. Anyways, its a cool part in the books and I thought I would share. Happy Holidays!