Return with Some Storyboards

Hi everyone,

Sorry for my prolonged absence over the last few months.  Between dealing with the unexpected death of my father, and being busy with work, I haven't been able to post up a lot of work on here, but I'm looking to rectify that now with some boards I did in the past.  The first is a sample from the Netflix show F Is For Family, starring Bill Burr and Laura Dern among others.  And the second is an excerpt from Bob's Burgers.  These are to whet the appetite,  I should be uploading more more regularly in the near future.  Until then, I hope you enjoy these!

Chris

Weekly Illustration Project Weeks 12-14 - I'm the Only One That I Am

Hey folks! Sorry for the radio silence vis a vis Weekly Illustrations. I assure you, I've been doing my daily work on this, but I've forgotten to post work-in-progress shots the past couple weeks, and by the time I remembered, I always figured I might as well just wait until the next Saturday, only to forget. BUT I'm finally getting one up now.

It's getting close to finished, though there's still the matter of some secondary tones and background details. This one's in honor of Jake and Amir's new webseries, and the title is from a line in one of the episodes.

Hopefully this'll get done fairly soon. Until then, I hope you like what I've got so far! 

 

 

Weekly Illustration Project 11 - Lost and Confused (Work-in-Progress 3)

Hey everyone! Checking in here with another work in progress on this piece. Finished most of the base colors this week and ahve gone on to adding some shadows in. Getting fairly close to the finish line I think. I may take a break from this illustration this week, because there's another idea that's come up that I might want to get out of the way sooner than later. We'll see how it goes.

Hope you like where this is going, and I look forward to finishing it up! 

 

 

Weekly Illustration Project 10 - Lost and Confused (Work-in-Progress 2)

So here's an update of my current project.  A little late, but better late than never!  I spent my time this week getting down the rest of the lineart and starting on blocking in some flat colors.  Hopefully it'll be done by the end of next week.  Depends how deep I go into highlights and shades I guess...  I'll probably stick mostly to cel, maybe a little painting for the background.  We'll see soon enough!  Hope you enjoy this in the meantime. 

Weekly Illustration Week 9 - Lost and Confused(Work-in-Progress)

Hey everyone! So this week I was working up an artistic tribute to one of my favorite things and characters ever, Ranma 1/2 and Ryoga respectively. The poor fellow just can't seem to find his way to the Tendo Dojo. It's almost like he can hear Akane's voice calling to him, so much does he want to find his way there...

As you can tell, it's not so finished as I'd like. Wanted to color the characters after I lined them, so it might have been more line-finished if I'd avoided that, but oh well.

It did bring me to a decision though! What I'm going to do from now on is work at least 30 minutes a day on an illustration, but not confine it to a week, necessarily. Sometimes I've completed things in less than a week, more often they're unfinished, so I am going to try a more flexible approach and work on them until they're done. I'll post in-progress shots at the end of every week untilt the drawing is done, then start a new one. Really the goal was to spend some time working on personal projects every day, and that's still achieved, but I won't have to rush and put out a subpar-quality piece or only work on simple projects. I'll still not drag my feet about it, but try to move at an appreciable pace each day and finish in the most reasonable time possible.

That's my plan at least. I'll do that for now and see how it goes. If I find that I'm abusing it and taking forever to finish things, I may have to rethink it, but I'll try this new system for the moment.

I hope you folks like the current state of the drawing, and I look forward to having a more finished version for you all next week! 

 

 

Weekly Illustration 8 - If I Were You: Seize the Cheese

Hey everybody!  A bit of an early post here.  For this week’s weekly illustration, I wanted to do a little fanart for a podcast I’ve recently gotten into called If I Were You.  It’s an advice podcast hosted by Jake and Amir from Collegehumor.  Been a fan of their sketches for years, but just started listening to the podcast, and now I can’t stop. 

Basically there’s a long-running joke based around the phrase “Seize the Cheese,” so I thought that would be a fun thing to render artistically. 

They also invite people submit shirt designs, so I figured if I was gonna draw fanart, I might as well make it a shirt too, so if you want to buy this as a shirt, you can!  You can find it here, and can also buy it as a print or on a phone case if you so please. 

Since it’s an early post, I may see if I can get something done by the time the week actually ends, or maybe I’ll go back and do some finishing work on older stuff I want to refine or color. 

In the mean time, I hope you all like this and SEIZE THE CHEESE

Weekly Illustration 7 - Fool For Love

Hey folks!  So here I am with my Week 7 Illustration, and it’s based on this song, Fool For Love by Lord Huron.  It’s one of my recent favorite songs, and props and profuse thanks go out to Lauren for introducing me to this amazing band.  This illustration is essentially the calm before the storm, the last moment of contemplation before the major conflict of the song. 

Ideally I would have been able to fully color this too, but I wanted to at least get it pretty solidly black and white, so that I can later color it when I have time. 

I hope you all like it and that you enjoy the song as well! 

Chris