Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2011

Ms. Bunny



I usually don't do anthros but here you go.
I was doodling one day and I liked her character, even though I don't think I'll do anything with it.

Traced over a pencil sketch in Photoshop with my tablet.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Monday, October 26, 2009

3 Styles

For my cartoons, I basically have three basic levels of complexity in my drawings.

First is my most simplest style.


Then I have the medium difficulty example. It includes more details.


Finally I have my most detailed level.



I believe it's good to have a variety depending on the context in which you set the characters in. Basically, more detail = more serious story.

American S(c)hmoes

Here are the 9 main characters of my series American S(c)hmoes.

This was the first of my major series which I began in the summer of 2004 when I was just about to enter high school and completed in my senior year.

Never have I created a series that I spent so much time on. Over the course of writing and drawing it, I have filled up around 40 Mead spiral-bound notebooks of various lengths (1-3 subjects) and compiled them into 30 volumes.

It follows a group of kids (of an undisclosed age group but it is assumed they're tweens) and their sometimes crazy and sometimes mundane adventures through life. The series itself is an episodic comedy and has no real overall plot line. I basically made it to record any funny event that happens to me or anything funny that I think up. It also served as a platform for social commentary, though the only person to ever have read it was my dad, whom I coerced into reading sometimes. Perhaps, in a way, it was the first real journal I ever kept. Things would happen and the characters' dialogs would be my response to them.

For this particular series, I've made up a slew of characters (over 230). I even made a spin-off though it was less successful, since I did not put as much effort into it.

I was never much for diaries so I suppose drawing things out, putting in a story line, and adding humor was how I would express my feelings about things. Each character would have their own personality but I'll admit that if a little bit were taken from each of them and the bits were compressed into one being, that would be me.

Stories just make sense to me.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

What I'm About

As trite as it sounds, I believe that everyone has a story. I am but a simple observer in the world. I watch the things that happen around me, human dramas that never engulf me personally. I only take part in the show when engaged by others.
Of course I have my own life and I enjoy it as well, but I feel that my main purpose is to document others and have fun while doing it. If the others are not interesting at the moment, I will create my own others.

This past summer, I decided to make a list of all the characters I've ever created (in this sense of the word I mean character design on paper). So far I've listed over 530 of them; and those are the ones whose names I can remember. I've got all sorts of characters from 60 year-old men to anthropomorphic bears to talking newts. Each one is part of a distinct series and has their own story and background. I must sound absolutely mental by now.

I began coming up with stories around the time that I started to draw (around 4 years). Their creation has given me countless hours of entertainment that was needed since I am an only child. Every character I've come up with means something to me, like old friends and acquaintances. For 15 years I've been doing this and I only hope that the world enjoys my creations half as much as I do.