Drew's Nifty Art Blog

Group Film

2011-04-26T06:46:00.000-07:00

So I didn't post much this past year, not that I've blogged excessively in the past, but this year I didn't do much of anything except work on the group film.

These are the scenes I animated, though I got a lot of assistance

In order of appearance:

Nichole Ter-Horst did clean up and inbetweening for me on scenes 8 & 10 (the giant ham, and the king putting the bone in his mouth)

Shaela Kinting did clean up for me on scene 9 (the close up of the hand)

Sophia Lee did clean up and on scene 31 (the royal adviser leaning in towards camera)

Nancy Tjokro did clean up on scene 39 (the dead king falling on the map)

Finally Nancy and Sophia both did clean up, inbetweening and drapery animation for scene 36 (the adviser unfurling the map)

So the only scenes I took to complete finish myself were scenes 11 12, 41 and 44 (the held cell of the king choking, the king getting out of his chair after choking, the adviser reacting to the king smashing his map & the adviser's sad point)

Here's shot tests of my animation roughs

Jungle Japes

2010-12-19T17:27:00.000-08:00

Hey, a Thing!

2010-11-12T19:53:00.000-08:00

(Had to start rushing about halfway through. Chris Walsh had to come wrestle the puppet away from me.)

Two Bits!

2010-05-26T12:38:00.000-07:00

My first exercise from the animating to music workshop. Nice and simple, getting back into the swing of things. The character is a crude interpretation of the instructional "Norman" character from Cartoon Crash Course.

Shave and a Hair Cut from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

Muzzle Clean Up

2010-04-15T17:51:00.001-07:00

There we go, that's more like the ol' bloggin' Drew I know.

Clean Muzzle from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

NOT ANIMATION!?

2010-03-25T16:16:00.001-07:00

Also totally not my line art. NOT MY LINE ART! NOT AT ALL MY LINE ART!

This one's my line art, but the designs were given to us.

Not terribly exciting but, more exciting than no update.

Human sync

2010-02-22T20:09:00.000-08:00

Kind of hard to make out in places but here it is

Human Lipsync from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

Acting! Lipsync! Restrictions! Challenges! Haaaaaaaaaard. Fun! Yay!

Oh yeah... this thing

2010-01-30T16:13:00.001-08:00

Hoping to give my blog a nice little makeover soon. For now, here's some animation assignments:

Expression change (with rushed ending)

Expression Change from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

Mouth lipsync (that gets messy in places)

Mouth Lipsync from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

Walk and Run

2009-11-29T05:26:00.000-08:00

Prehistoric Walk and Run from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

Only two more posts until my blog front page has only animations!

Fiiiiiinally

2009-11-15T16:07:00.000-08:00

Wave Boat Sack from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

Untitled from Drew Petursson on Vimeo.

Animation assignments I did. Working on another one. Oh this poor neglected blog o' mine.

Oh Mercy Me!

2009-10-05T23:07:00.000-07:00

BLOG UPDATE COMING WHEN I HAVE TIME!!!!!!

Sack on Stilts

2009-04-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

Is this running choppy or is it just my computer showing it that way?

(By the by, stilts are both really hard and really fun to animate)

Rocket Turtle!

2009-04-22T01:01:00.000-07:00

Even though it's so simple, I think this may be the first digital painting I've done that I'm happy with.

Marmoset!

2009-04-12T20:44:00.000-07:00

Caricatures are Fun!

2009-04-11T11:28:00.000-07:00

This drawing of Brad is the one I handed in. I like this one a LOT more than the rest but I'm putting them up anyway, since caricatures are generally fun to look at.

This drawing stopped looking like Cynthia around the time I got to the eyes but there are some things I like about it anyway.

Caroline pretty much turned into a portrait with a big mouth.

Ian's a cool kid.

Karim doesn't look like himself unless he's smiling.

Bear Walk

2009-04-03T17:34:00.001-07:00

I've noticed a bunch of little things that could use a tweaking but overall I'm very happy with this.

Zoo

2009-03-23T10:35:00.000-07:00

New Stuff

2009-03-04T16:58:00.000-08:00

Here's my head rotation and cleaned up walk cycle. They've been a little choppy for me on YouTube but I think it's probably just my dieing computer I'm watching them on. I'm happy with these. (But I think I can make my next assignments better.)

Paintings and character sequence next! Same blog time, same blog channel!

Pink Panther

2009-01-30T14:17:00.000-08:00

My first walk cycle! The whole thing's a little overblown (especially the hands) and on the verge of being too distracting but I am very happy with it.

Ball and Tail

2008-12-10T17:25:00.000-08:00

I probably spent way too much time on this but it was a lot of fun to do. Looking back on it now I can see a few things I'd like to change but there's no way I can justify spending MORE time on this. Overall I'm pretty happy with it.

Pelvises? Pelvi?

2008-12-05T11:12:00.000-08:00

So the bone portfolio is done! There was a bit of last minute scrambling and re-doing of bones but I was happy overall with how it turned out, particularly the pelvis

Rex Caterwaul

2008-11-27T20:49:00.000-08:00

Character expressions! I'm really happy with how these turned out. Still feels like I'm losing a bit of the life in clean up but I think that will always happen to some degree.

And this is the awesome caricature that the blog-less Dylan drew of me. Aren't I handsome?

Royal Winter Fair

2008-11-20T14:06:00.000-08:00

Box Fold

2008-11-13T09:54:00.001-08:00

With the box fold over I'm now done (I think) the last of the purely technical assignments and can look forward to the rest of my animations having at least some level of character in them.

I can't wait.

Ian's Angry!

2008-11-06T18:21:00.000-08:00

Have you ever walked by me in the hallways or passed me on the street and thought, "Boy, I sure would love to get a closer look at Drew's hands." ?

Your welcome.

And this is the drawing I did of Ian in character design class.

Broken Telephone

2008-10-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

My character action poses:

I'm pretty happy with these (especially considering how little time I left myself to do them in) even with all the mistakes. I feel like I'm getting more life into my characters. I really need to work on my clean up though.

Seaweed & Book

2008-10-28T18:27:00.000-07:00

Hey something new! Soon there should be more new things (like painting and life drawing things.)

More Schoolwork

2008-10-04T23:12:00.001-07:00

My first character design assignment.

Also Evee's finally put some content on her blog. Go tell her to add more.

UPDATE: I figured out how to edit the links in the header and have removed all but one, which now links to a page where I will collect all of my animation assignments.

Balls a plenty!

2008-09-30T21:05:00.000-07:00

Ok so I bit off more than I could chew with the unicorns. I'll try to paint them later when I think I have a better grasp on this digital painting thing.

In other more positive news I've now completed my first animation assignment at Sheridan! Woo!

Balls

Pendulum

I had a bit of fun with the pendulum. It shot a little dark so I'm not sure if the "ZAP" written across the top is readable. It's supposed to be a bug zapper.

Oh and here's the background for my ball animation coloured WITH THE MAGIC OF TECHNOLOGY-OLOGY-OLOGY-ology.

When I get the chance I want to give this blog a proper header and tweak the colours. I should probably also edit those links up top. Work to be done, work to be done.

Unicorns!

2008-09-08T12:13:00.001-07:00

Finished coloured version of this later.

Squinty Face!

2008-05-21T15:52:00.000-07:00

I wanted to draw some really ugly faces. Not wanting to offend people with feelings, I drew myself and my brother.

Mall Drawing

2008-05-06T16:23:00.000-07:00

I haven't been drawing nearly as much as I should, but I do have mall drawings (re-arranged with the magic of technology).

I'm an illustrator now!

2008-04-02T21:50:00.000-07:00

Well no, I got into animation so I'm going to be an animator. Which means that I won't be doing stuff like this:

-for a very long time.

Doggie!

2008-02-23T17:24:00.001-08:00

I've always had a difficult time with character posing. Usually I'd wind up with a character who had decent movement, but was completley off model, or an accurate but stiff characer. Last year my action poses were the worst part of my portfolio. I think I may have even scored all 2's on them. This year though, even though they're not perfect, I'm prety happy with the way they've turned out.

Small update!

2008-02-16T19:07:00.000-08:00

Click the Doggie!

And here's that hand from the last update.

My ugly Mug Again

2008-02-12T23:00:00.001-08:00

Plastercine self portrait

These are some work in progress pictures of a hand sculpt that's now finished (but un-photographed)

Just a Quickie

2008-01-30T13:34:00.001-08:00

Here's the finished re-production of that Lawren S. Harris painting.

And here's those handsome devils from The Bear Cave!

Here Mom!

2008-01-27T17:02:00.000-08:00

Sunday night is still Sunday. Here's some things!
This is my favourite painting from last year. Just about everyone's seen this I think.
"Series of paintings telling a story with a plastic toy" assignment.
Self Portrait: Pre-Cofee

And my current room drawings. There's some line quality issues I want to touch up with these but I'm waiting until after my critiques with Andrew and Glenn.

Here's two more life drawings.

Lots of stuff!

2008-01-15T18:32:00.000-08:00

Some of my life drawings from first semester, badly photographed through plastic.

The current version of my hand drawings for what is hopefully my last animation portfolio.

A study of a Lawren S. Harris painting at the McMichael Gallery. One of the 5 or so impressive paintings on display.

And these are from the Royal Winter Fair from wayback.

NEXT UPDATE: Paintings!

Another change in hue.

2007-12-22T20:20:00.000-08:00

Well the black didn't last long. I honestly wonder if anyone stopped by the blog while it was up. Don't worry, you're not missing anything.

Now that that's out of the way, how about some content?

I sculpted this as a christmas/birthday gift for my good buddy Laurence. He hasn't recieved it yet but there's little chance he'll stop by here. He doesn't really use any blogger/facebook/myspace anything, so that means I finally get to show off a finished piece on my blog. SCORE!

Laurence was gushing about my sculptures last summer, praising how far I've come and such. I figured that kind of ego inflation deserves a present. He's studying political science so these are him as the Emperor of Earth. I took these pictures before I baked it so the shine is much more subdued now. Origionally I was going to paint it and glaze it to make it look like marble but I've become attatched to the stone look it has now that it's baked.

Y'know now that I look at these I'm not happy with how the flash on the camera flattened the sculpture. I'll have to borrow Derek's camera again. (Thanks Derek!)

I'm making one of these of Karl too. Can anyone who knows my brother guess which infamous photo I'm using for reference?

It's very slimming

2007-11-25T20:26:00.000-08:00

So my blog's black now. It's kind of depressing to be posting without any new content. I really need to get a camera because just my little scanner isn't cutting it.

I'm currently trying to play a massive game of catch up. I took half a week off of school and all the work I thought I had under control bent me over and made me its bitch. Ugh. So I'll have a week or so of working my ass off and chasing teachers down to hand in late assignments. Fun.

Comic Backgrounds Preview

2007-11-14T15:03:00.000-08:00

Sean Perry (sic?)

2007-11-08T19:32:00.000-08:00

I'm not dead! Just reorganizing my room so I have a clean work space/finishing up late assignments/finishing up the last of the comic (so close to finished!)

So once I get THAT done I'm going to start practicing my caricature/cartooning abilities. I started trying it out a little bit in extra life drawing while waiting for the model. This is the only one I was happy with but I'm really happy with it.

Panel Layout

2007-10-24T00:49:00.001-07:00

More Sugar and Spice

2007-09-30T22:09:00.000-07:00

2007-09-22T17:27:00.000-07:00

Yellow Black and Yellow Again

2007-09-19T07:53:00.000-07:00

This was a class assignment that was only supposed to take about 2 hours. I probably spent about 5 or so on it though but I think it was worth it. I'd never been happy with anything I coloured digitally before this.

Friedrich take one

2007-09-12T20:17:00.001-07:00

More Olfer designs

2007-09-04T12:36:00.000-07:00

I Decided my life wasn't colourful enough:

And faces:

Olfer

2007-08-30T16:33:00.000-07:00

Hey Steve! It's a monster!

HEY STEVE! You have to whip your artist harder!

2007-08-24T17:56:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch of the characters from over at Minions

Timber

2007-08-14T20:36:00.000-07:00

I'm house sitting this week for some friends and taking care of their dog Timber.

He looks roughly like this.

Here's some sketches

2007-08-08T13:00:00.000-07:00

Ok so I haven't posted much...... aaaand all I really have to upload are sketches of things I saw in Burlington and my hand as a chicken.

The next order of business is to pretty up this blog.

Rodent Sketchs

2007-06-24T18:33:00.000-07:00

Ratatouille comes out this week so I drew some rats.

More Sketchs

2007-05-31T17:24:00.000-07:00

From Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School. You know, the booze, sex and life drawing combination.

I've only got one of the model uploaded because it's a bitch fitting newsprint into my scanner. However for good measure here's one of Nick being mauled by a bear.

I should eventually put something substantial on here eh?

Rough Murlocs

2007-05-31T04:51:00.000-07:00

So I was sitting around last night drinking a beer and doodling murlocs. I'm trying to get used to how they're put together since I want to do a sculpt of one. So, for the sake of having an update, here are some roughs.

Fun fact: These were drawn in graphite because I didnt' have any blue pencils left. I turned them blue after I scanned them because I had my heart set on blue murlocs.

Good copy turn around for the head sculpt to come shortly.

Totally ripping off nick!

2007-05-24T16:51:00.000-07:00

That's right Nick it's ON now! Consider this, oh future roomie, the start of a completley fake over the top internet rivalry. I will post more than you, I will draw more than you, I will tell more interesting tales. Let the blog-off commence!

This is when it would be customary to link to your blog wouldn't it, Nick? Well I will, but I'll TYPE WITH MALLICE! I WILL TYPE SO HARD THAT THE INTERNET WILL QUAKE UNDER THE MIGHT OF MY FINGERS!

HTTP://THENEWANIMATIONNICK.BLOGSPOT.COM