Jinks Knickerbocker Toy Construction

Here's my Jinks toy construction lesson. For some reason, I seemed to like this one more than the Top Cat construction lesson, it came to me easier. Must mean that I'm getting better.

Also, after drawing all of the photos, I did some pretty quick drawings from my head, so that I was applying what I had learned from doing all those drawings. It was fun to do some loose drawing after all that slow, detail-tight drawing. I might do some more later on.
























Here are the quick, loose drawings to see if I learned anything from this lesson. Obviously some look better than others, and all of them have errors, but they don't look half bad.




Here are all of the tries and retries that I did to get to the final drawing.









John K Stuff: Toy Drawing 3 - Advanced -Knickerbocker toys - Jinks

Top Cat Toy Construction

Here are my Top Cat Construction drawings. This one was a challenge, and the fact that I have been in between houses and living on friends couches didn't help. Now that I have a semi-permanent living area I can start going through some lessons.

The best part about this was watching how the eyes move around at different angles, something that I don't feel that confident when drawing cartoons.





























John K Stuff: Toy Drawing 1: Top Cat Turnaround Toy Construction Exercise

Porky Poses - Lesson 7 (Again)

Holy cow, drawing up my own poses is super fun. When I copy someone else's drawing, the funnest part is looking a pretty looking finished drawing, but when I make up my own the the whole process is fun (although more difficult and time consuming). At first I started scribbling some poses with a pen,
(you can check out the scribbles in this post) to get the good line of action, good proportions and a generally pleasing figure. Then I roughed out the proportions,bigger this time, and tried to iron out anything that was bugging me. Lastly I went over it in red and laid down the details. Cool huh!







Guess what director I was thinking about when I scribbled this one



John K Stuff: Animation School Lesson 7: Combining Construction With Clear Silhouettes

Animation Sneak Peek

Right now, I'm working on a short animation, like only 30-45 secs long. But I wanted to share this sneak peek of some animation with the finished line work.

BUM SNEAK PEEK



Tell me what you think, it might go by a little fast to read it all, but I had a heck of a time keeping up with the beat. I was doing lots of things to make it read better.

Here's the video on Youtube