Sketch Blog-Final Battle

For this past week's theme we had to do something involving a final battle.  I decided to so something actually involving Spike (my schools mascot) seeing as how the sketch blog is called 'Spikes Sketch Squad'.  This is how I imagine Spike would do battle with the graph editor and the Dastardly Dr Spline who destroys all of your hard work during the blocking stage when you switch over to spline mode in Maya.  I wish that Spike would fight splines and unruly tangents for me...

Sketch Blog-Banana

Stanley's day was just about to get a little worse.

Sketch Blog-Imaginary

"Unicorns are not imaginary.  They just made up that rumor after people found out that they tasted like bacon."

So I left this week's sketch blog until the VERY last minute because I had a crazy busy week full of homework and a watercolor workshop and I did it while very over-tired and sleep deprived.....Can you tell?  I was pretty excited to draw a unicorn, although a unicorn standing on it's hind legs in a supermarket looks a little strange.  I did the background really quickly because I was tired and didn't really want to work on it any more.  I do like that the unicorn shops at a store that stocks liquid food, moonshine AND value pack tacos though.

Sketch Blog-Retro

"This is Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population..."

The theme for last week's sketch blog challenge was 'retro' and I can't think of many things more retro than the Price is Right.

Sketch Blog-Green

Sometimes it's not easy being green.

Sketch Blog-Resolution

One of my resolutions for this year is to not let work take control of my life. I work at a Dairy Queen (hence the annoying mouth mascot) full time-soon to be part time, to pay for school. It can often be physically and emotionally draining what with the delights of customer service and the high turnover rates, and it often leaves me with no energy to do the actual schoolwork that I’m working to be able to do in the first place. This year my goal is to worry less about work and focus more of my time and energy on animation mentor and just generally not getting completely burnt out.

I also really dislike that mouth mascot…. :)

Sketch Blog Week 8- Food

This week we had a materials challenge!  We had to create our 'sketch' out of whatever material received the most votes.  The material that won was.....Food!  And while mine is not entirely made of food, it's what my mind first jumped to when I learned this weeks challenge... I'm not sure what that says about me though, hahaha.  I called it, 'A Carrots Nightmare'

And yes, that is a Zefron poster on the wall. I promised my Maya Springboard classmate Jay Fontano that I would put one in some future assignment, so this will have to do for now.

Sketch Blog Week 6 and 7

Sketch Blog Week 7-Prehistoric

Prehistoric Pizza and a movie.

Sketch Blog Week 6- Halloween

The Headless Horseman decided to switch things up with his Jack-O-Lantern head one Halloween, but it didn't incite as much fear as he had hoped...

Sketch Blog Week 4 and 5

 Week 5-Monster

"Cheers To A Job Well Done"

I have hardly ever used watercolors or sharpies, so I decided to try them both.  Together!

Week 4-Worst Case Scenario

This theme was really hard for me to come up with an idea for.  I just ended up doing something really quickly in pen.

Sketch Blog Week 3-Cute Overload

The theme for this week was 'cute overload' so I decided to take it literally.

Kitties really are the best defense against killer robots.

And if kitties don't work, just show them this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kradKo2rrlY

It's definitely one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

Sketch Blog week 2-Villain

Too Much Makeup Lady

Full of old lady sass (and not the good kind), the dastardly TMML (Too Much Makeup Lady) is not to be trifled with. One of her favourite pastimes is lurking around department stores and spraying unsuspecting shoppers with very strong perfume samples causing them to instantly get a headache. Her weapon of choice though, is the makeup gun (or the ‘Fixer-Upper’ as she calls it). She shoots people in the face with it and they instantly look like they have just stepped out of an 80’s music video. There is always a ready supply of garish lipstick colors on her ammo belt so that she is ready in any situation. She finds Mimi from the Drew Carey Show to be an inspiration.

Sketch Blog Week 1 - Worst Hero

So I recently joined a Sketch Blog with some of my soon to be fellow students from the online animation school, Animation Mentor.  Every week we are given a new drawing challenge (which is voted on by the blog members) and then we have to come up with something delightful for it.  The first week's challenge was Worst Hero.



The Worst Hero that I submitted was Swordface.

Name: Swordface!

Superpower: Cutting things. With his face.

Weaknesses: Hats, doorways that aren’t very high.

In his spare time Swordface likes to chop up vegetables and sharpen and polish his face. When not cutting bad guys down to size (pun intended), he wears a pair of magnetic clip-on sunglasses to conceal his identity.


I came up with a second Worst Hero idea, but didn't end up posting it on the blog, so here it is!

Name: Sardine Man

Sardine Man can shoot Omega 3 Fatty Acids out of his fin-hands at bad guys, but it acually just makes them healthier...He is also extremely oily, which makes catching bad guys quite difficult.  They usually end up just slipping through his fin-gers.  When Sardine Man actually does catch the bad guys he packs them up nice and tight in his special Sardine Tin and delivers them to the police.  He also has a very distinct odor, which makes him not the most popular of heros.