Hung gar and hungry to animate

I'm especially excited lately to begin working on a hung-gar/kung-fu animation. I've always super loved kung-fu movies and any sort of martial arts film and art. All the different movements eat me alive, and I don't really know what to do with myself.

When I was younger, it was frustrating because I always wanted to copy the kung-fu I was watching and put it on paper. But all the movements were so hard, that it's real easy for a kid to get discouraged - nawm sayin?

Drawing the actual moves aren't too hard anymore these days as I'm getting older; but animating it is a whole different story. In my mind, I'm always really ambitious about what I'm gunna animate, and how I want it all to look - but alas, my abilities only go so far. So, what was in my mind, and what's on paper are often pretty different in quality.

I'm real excited about this one, because I wanna see if I can make all the fluid movements successfully, and not only this but keep my characters readable.

The last animation I did was one of a guy doing crip walk, which I referenced with a bunch of youtube videos of others doing their c-walk thang. [below]




So we'll see how long this'll take me to finish. To achieve one second of animation typically takes 12 or 24 drawings (I'm going to use the 12 drawings to 1 second ratio). I've pulled some pretty epic drawing speed before, especially when pressured. Sometimes, a 10 second animation will take me months to complete. Other times, it'll only take three days.

SO WISH ME LUCK!

KUNGFUUUU

sailors&things

This is a piece I'm working on~ It's not done yet, I think It's gonna be a two part project. Maybe even four parts.

I've been really leaning towards ocean and nautical themes lately. Well, you know, I've always been really drawn to the ocean (even though I've been pretty deathly afraid of under ocean for a while), but I've never really done anything major in my art devoted to the sea.

I love sailor colors and all the designs that go into boats, and ships~, and the clothes people wear on the shore. Also, it's all about the light houses, baby.

I'm really excited to get started on more nautical-themed paintings and drawings.

And I'm also doing a lot to get over my fear of underwater. :) I've been looking at a bunch of pictures of octopus (SERIOUSLY, the source of my phobia) and under ocean scenes.