James Henry

So, in my honest opinion Ryan Gosling is quite charming, looks like the type of guy you wish your daughter would date.

Anyway, the other day the writer James Henry came over and we pitched to him our character ideas, I did all the three we had and I am afraid I bored him a little...Mmmm I hope he liked them, but I am always quite pessimistic about my work.

Idea 1: The West family: a paranormal show for kids with a mom writer, one small kid, one girl and three spooky ghosts.

The boy (a little weird kid) and the sister

The mum and the three ghosts

the character are built like toys, here are some examples.

Concept for the house

Idea 2: Runepaw: children tv shows with viking mice!

Mice

Extra

Idea 3: Opal the dwarf princess: mundane fantasy world with a dwarf princess and a dark wizard

Palette challenge 1

I haven't had much time for myself lately, I have been quite tired and demotivated, especially when it came to drawing stuff of mine.
End of the story
NO JUST KIDDING
the other day I imposed myself to start a palette challenge: I found 50 different combinations of 5 colors and with all of them I'll do a small drawing. It's fun and I feel like it helps a lot in improving my painting skills. Here are some of them!

Goo Dragon

Pink mage

Samurai kitsune

Poppy parrot

Purple bust

Restorative Justice

Last month we have been introduced to the restorative justice concept.
It constist in having the victim and the perpetrator of the crime discuss with each other about the criminal act that involved the two of them, and they try to sort things out. It often ends up helping the victim a lot, which is great! At the moment it done and known only in northern Ireland and Uk, but it will hopefully spread out all over Europe ( and the world!)
I probably did not explained it very well, so you might want to check their website to know more about it.

So we have to make an animation about it, so here it is! I pitched the idea of a person made of glass, scared of everything after the accident, and the perpetrator who is "corrupted" but all the anger and hate that surrounds him. Through talking the two people ending up "healing" each others. 

Here is the early design of the characters. I am now currently working in a group of people who ACTUALLY wanted to work with me,and liked the idea, which is great! 

I will soon upload more! Wish me luck!

William Tell: the apple shooting

It took a long time but i can safely say that I am satisfied of my first cartoon on toon boom. There are many bits that I would have improved, such as the part where he raises the bow and the one where he is about shoot.
I have to thank Mr Felstead for helping me and sending me the video tutorial

Let's not forget that I had to re do all the design of the character because I screw up badly with the style of the author and I had to learn to paint in a different style without outlines.

Merry christmas to me

As you can see all the character look pretty much the same, only painted differently, except William who was drawn less cartoony (too bad I really liked him)

It was a pain considering I had to re do everything during Christmas holidays, but it definitely payed off considering I got an excellent grade!

Worst part definitely was having a stomach flu while working and throwing up every 5 minutes, but other than that, it was a great Christmas

WIZARDSS

I haven't done something for myself in a long time. I am a little rusty...this is supposed to be a self portrait, but no...I am not that cool. The only true thing about it is that I need an hair cut.

MICHAEL SOWA AAAAARGH

Just as i though the style of my pitch bible was too different from the one of Michael Sowa, so here I am, ready to re do all the things i did before. Ah what a silly sausage i am!

I tried a new style without sketching lines in it, only paint strokes: this is the one i will probably use at the end, i just need to figure out how to change all the other characters.

The pic on the left is by Michael Sowa (obviously) and the right one is by me.

Claws of concern

I really enjoy drawing animals, so i decided to do some character design for the third year animation Claws of Concern, a very cool stylish animation. I had to draw a bear, a salmon and a whale, and i really liked it.

the protagonist, the bear

The salmon, all in its majesty

The whale, saviour of the other two

Also i started doing backgrounds for Long way down, another funny animation of the third years.

Yup, that it. A skyscraper...