Flikr Sketch Dump!

Hey watchers and casual perusers,
ever wonder what my sketches look like? What? No? Well, too bad! listen to this anyway:

through a wonderful idea conceived by my fellow artist Rachael Hunt, I have now assembled a jumble of sketches, scribbles and unpolished ideas together into a flikr slideshow. Feel free to browse it anytime, as it'll grow whenever I add new images to the stream. Much better, I think, than clogging this blog with undeveloped work.
Thanks for sitting tight guys! That's it for now.

-Shanti

P.S.- like how many times I subliminally linked to it? What? No? Get outta here!

Elderly Barbarians

First assignment of the Spring semester's Fantasy class with Jaime Zollars, and I'm drawing old people in breast plates and leather.
(sketches below)

Domovoi

Toward the end of last semester I started drawing these little imps at work. With traffic at the bar being generally slow, I filled quite a few sketch pages with little old man trolls, and even developed a loose story relating them to witches and housework. I won't say more because that' about as far as I got, but who knows where they'll pop up again?





(Sorry for the cruddy scans, btw. The scanner I used belonged to the school, and was very worn and torn from a semester's worth of use.)

Animation PreProduction, Fall 2010

development sketches/environments/characters


storyboards

Robot Ruckus

Asides the Ivan myth project, I have to create a design for a skateboard deck & matching t-shirt based on the topic, "Giant Robot Sports/Olympics".
I'm on the fence with two ideas: one being Gentlemen Robots playing Badminton in a park,


the other being Wacky Race inspired Automatons relaying each other across the deck.

I'm at sketching stages right now, but I'm hoping to make up my mind soon :/

Prince Ivan and the Firebird

Our final project for Illustration 2 is to create a narrative of a myth or legend. I chose the aforementioned Russian fairytale, and decided to make work for a mock-animation project, complete with storyboard, colored key sequences, character studies and environment work. This post will get bigger as time progresses, but for now please enjoy some character sketches.

First up: Young Prince Ivan




Ivan's Father, the Tsar


Various Firebird Designs




The Wolf




Tree Patterns


(I'd like, for the most part, for backgrounds to be flat. Scenes such as the Wolf's forest, and the beginning of Ivan's journey are to look almost like a setting in a play.)

Unfamiliar with the myth? Please check out this page, which sums it up very nicely!

Scribbles, People Watching Fishes

Here's a couple pages from my sketchbook; thought I'd share a little bit about what goes on at the ol' drawing board.

This last one was done while observing folk at the National Aquarium:

Four strangers gathered together simultaneously to stare into the blue abyss.
Just putting this up here as a reminder to oneself to keep practicing simple, quick real-life sketches.

Maintenance

So I'm slowly fixing up the place, one post at a time. Also, I added a links box to the right! It's not filled yet, but to classmates and friends: remind me to put your link up if I've forgotten...

Asides from that, here's a little old janitor man.

Doot-doot, dum-de-dum-dum...