Our teacher’s prompt for a character was simply “American Hero”. My interpretation was a female soldier who has a prosthetic leg from her service. Despite this, she is still happy and ready to serve in any capacity that she can! My first design I was not content with so […]
The prompt for Face-off Friday was to create a mascot with a prop and one article of clothing. I had recently attended Animation Y’all, a brand new animation expo in Nashville, Tennessee so I decided to design a mascot for the conference. On the drive, I noticed a lot of
The third of Great Dane studies. The image of the dog with his mouth wide open was quite comical to come across and I decided that would be a fun one to recreate.
I did a series of drawings on Great Danes; one of my favorite books as a kid involved one so I imagined adapting it to the screen. I started out with realistic sketches, not really exaggerating anything for cartoon effect, other than just slightly on his eyes.I found a picture
The second of the Dane series. I wanted to try different angles, the 3/4 view, and the profile.
Skeeter is a character of mine and the star of my short film A Lesson in Laughter. I created him originally back in 9th grade drama class, giving him distinct physical characteristics in order for him to stand out; here is a character sheet highlighting him 🙂
“Hey I’m talking to you McFly, you Irish bug!” Back to the Future is my favorite movie series; I believe it’s this trilogy that started my love for the 80s, my favorite film period. I adore Michael J. Fox and he does a phenomenal job of portraying Marty and his hilarious
The Fonz himself, Arthur Fonzarelli played by the amazing Henry Winkler on Happy Days. The epitome of “cool”, the smooth talking, romantic, streetwise greaser with a big heart underneath. It’s quite random how I started watching this 70s show- on an episode of The Office, the characters start saying “Ayyy”
Doris Day- my favorite actress! Her wholesome, chirpy demeanor for most of her films led her to be known as the “girl next door”. My favorites of her movies are The Glass Bottom Boat, Pillow Talk and Send Me No Flowers. All of these feature her in ridiculous situations with hilarious
My favorite Olympian, the legendary Wilma Rudolph herself- she was the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in track & field in a single Olympic Games. Her story was one of my favorites growing up, as she overcame polio and a leg brace to eventually be called “the
