happy bear

did another sketch today on top of another old sketch

Clownfish from sketchbook sketch

Did this today while waiting for some products to get photographed. Just felt like painting so I grabbed an old sketch I had done and started rendering.

Animations de Brandon Green

This was done for my traditional animation class in the spring of 2005.

The assignment had to consist of a floursack showing at least 2 emotions.

This was done for my traditional animation class in the spring of 2005.

The assignment was completed in 3 days and had to have a person walk in, sit down, and walk out.

This was done for my traditional animation class in the spring of 2005.

The assignment was to show a basic ball bounce. This was the first assignment in the class.

This was done for my traditional animation class in the spring of 2005.

The assignment was to show a basic ball bounce with the added "fox tail" to demonstrate follow-through.

This was done for my traditional animation class in the spring of 2005.

The assignment was to show a ball bouncing in perspective.

I did this little animation in Flash in 2005 or 2006. It was my very first Flash project I ever did actually. I think I spent a total of 20 minutes on it before class started one day.

This was done as a warm up last year. It's done in flash and was done just to get me back into working in Flash. I hadn't touched the program in so long I needed something fun yet simple to get my brain working again.

I did for fun in 2007. I was just messing around and this little girl with very limited strokes and it inspired this little short. the first frame is the original drawing of the girl. This was done as a frame by frame in Flash.

Self-Caricature

yet another odosketch

I've been playing with this site a lot this evening...

Odopod sketch

Found a cool new site that allows you to sketch online. It records your sketch so you can watch it again or embed it. pretty cool.

you do what ya gotta do

Hey all! Been busy busy busy...mostly at work. I haven't had too much time to draw things on my own.
I've been drawing caricatures lately for some extra cash on the weekends. It's pretty fun actually. A lot of people look at caricaturing as a lame tourist-trap art form that takes no real artistic talent. Well, true, I don't get out the oils and brushes to draw funny faces; there's no decisions to make about color temperature or atmospheric perspective. But it does take a trained eye to see the features of a face to express them in a funny (yet not insulting) way. It's fun. I don't go as far to do the bodies holding footballs yet...my artistic pride is still telling me to hold back on that. (that's where it turns into a gimmick for me) But I see each person as a model in a figure class in which I'm doing head studies. I get all kinds of shapes and sizes. Plus I get to meet some interesting people. Plus...I'm my own art director; there's hardly anybody that doesn't like what they get when I reveal their drawing (even if I hate it), they're just looking for a laugh.
So, NO. It's not the glorious job I was hoping for when I graduated. However it helps pay the bills and keeps me drawing. I'm in a sort of limbo anyways with my wife being in grad school here in TX. Booooo. So hopefully that glory-job is still to come.
Below are some samples I've been playing with. I've been experimenting with an airbrush lately. I'm hoping to start doing caricatures (and other random "money grabbers") on t shirts soon and pull in a bit more money. Surprisingly, after all the training and practice at school and the 2 jobs I've had since, people still love the cheesy crap. And who am I to argue with someone that wants to give me $30 for a t-shirt with there name on it?
Some of these aren't my best work ever...and frankly, I'm surprised I even posted a couple of them, but hey, we learn most from the failures, right? right!
Take care

just a quick 5 minute color study from a photo.

Saturday's speed painting

Memorial day character sketch

Today was just a "I wanna draw something really screwed up" kinda day. This guy took about 2 hours.