Waiter, knight, and... craziness

Some things. I'm taking the train down to the bay area tomorrow. I haven't got a car, and so when I want to go down there I always take the train... I actually prefer it to driving, because I can't look out the window or draw while I'm driving. The motion of the train sometimes jogs your hand, but there's all sorts of cool things to see out the window, which makes up for it.

Flying monkey...

This guy is from a seed of a story that's kicking around in my head, one of those seeds that refuses to germinate and instead just sits there, with two elements, like "dreamland + competition" and refuses to develop any further than that. I guess all I can do is keep drawing, keep thinking, and hope the story idea likes some of the things I come up with enough to fit with them...

Anyway. Kangaroo-baboon-man with wings. A must for any story.

Spacekids

So I was sitting at my computer today, and I started telling myself a story aloud, which I haven't done since I was four years old and my main interest was narrating the continuing adventures of Dorothy, Trot, and The Scarecrow. I didn't know what it was about except for a dog in outer space, and it turned into a really neat story and now I'm all bummed because if I was returning to CalArts I would have my film, right there. Bam.

I was trying to pitch to myself, because pitching is something a story artist has to be able to do, to get people pumped up about the story sequence and to tell it and make them ask, "WHAT NEXT??"
So woot, I've got this story and all it needs is to be paneled out. Coming soon... once I finish the storyboard that I'm actually being paid to do.

So here are some weeeeeird colors.

Colors

Here's the window drawing in color, and another couple of them...

Not exactly a storyboard

It is a part of a story, but this is one of a series of thumbnails I did for bigger paintings (to take to this level of finish - well, if I can call that finish) just to focus on framing and composition, how color and saturation direct your eye... trying to make things all cinematic-like. I'll post the final when I get it done.

It's kind of depressing when you find that the figures you're struggling with are those of your own species, but you can handle, say, cats and horses just fine. I need to make it out to life drawing next week (if only it weren't a half hour bus commute each way, plus a scenic walk of seven blocks through downtown Sacramento), so that the betrayal of my species goes no further.