Animal farm

If you go to my online portfolio (http://ashleyboydportfolio.blogspot.com - or just click on it through my profile), you can see the nicely finished character pieces I did for Animal Farm. But I thought I'd put two scraps up here from that project that I and others liked.
The first one is an early character study of Napoleon, and the second is a windmill establishing shot.
You'll also notice that I'm updating more, which is a thing I want to regularly do now. :3

I was hungry.

This was for a project where I'm scrapping everything (including this) and going in a whole new direction, but I still liked these little dessert ideations. I quickly painted a few in Corel Painter 'cause I wanted to try the program out.

*tap dancin' towards graduation*

So I thought I'd share some of my stuff for Barron's class. This is my spread for this semester's zine, titled "Sweeet," where I talk about drawing crazy monsters as a kid.



This semester Barron assigned everyone to do covers for the zine, and normally we'd just pick one, but since this time it was a nice collection of pieces we decided to place our own covers on each of the copies. This here be mine. I know it's 'a wolf in sheep's clothing,' but I like foxes better. :P



...and another plein air study. There's problem areas, but then there are nice bits that I do like in it, so I thought I'd post it. Done in an hour and 30 minutes, I think.

An update...

I have a lot of stuff I could show, but I feel like none of them are in a finished state to really show, y'know? But then I remember that this is a blog, so it's pretty much assumed that everything posted on here is a work-in-progress.



At any rate, here's a 1 hour study done at a nearby park...



And a character design of Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist. The painting still isn't done, and I keep going back and tweaking it, but here it is for now.

I haven't updated in a long time, so I thought I'd just do an art dump. These are some viz dev shots I did for the BFA project, based on Sara Gruen's book Water for Elephants. We're done in class, but I still consider them to be works in progress. Any comments would be nice. :)

Every blog needs a cat sketch...

Canaan has a very soft, luxurious cat-bed he can sleep in at any time of the day. Instead, he prefers to sleep in a cardboard box filled with trash. We keep meaning to throw it out, but haven't the heart to upset his day.
...sketched in Photoshop, yo....

Locksmith Character Design

Here is my evolution for a character design of a locksmith located in San Francisco. The only stipulations was that the character had to be intimidating at night, yet still a "nice guy". I'm still developing him, but I thought I'd upload my current works-in-progress.

This version had to be more realistic, like something seen in ILM. I realize I could have made him much more realistic, but I err on the side of whimsical in designing characters.

In the next iteration we had to take our character and go the opposite direction (making them more fun and whimsical). I think I can push it more, plus there are several things I need to fix on him (breaking up his design some more, making the composition of it flow better, showing more sketches of him actually locksmithing). Overall, I think it's getting there. I like his boots. :p