My first post is an ugly post...

but I had to break the ice with something! Name's Tyson Murphy-- I'm all of your's fanboy. Applying to the program in April. Just a question- is it already decided that the evil master is going to be skinny and such? I thought maybe a fat master would give off a good atmosphere of gluttony. My sketch isn't quite as fat and disgusting as I was thinking.... but that's what came out.

All your stuff is amazing, sorry for the noob first post, my internship just ended so maybe I can help out if only a little.

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AAAAAAAAA!!!! BIG NEWS!!!!!

okay, everyone, sorry to post pictureless, but i figured this was the best way to get out the AMAZINGLY awesome word that the one and only special edition "Jungle Book" DVD set to release this fall includes a genuine original FRANK AND OLLIE COMMENTARY amongst the plethora of dazzling extras!! i mean, come on- does life GET any better???

i would venture no.

except maybe at pixar.

Some quick pen sketches

Here's a handful of designs I whipped up--all quick pen sketches. The landscape I actually stole directly from a painting hanging in my brother and sister in law's house. I like the tender scene between mother and son. Also, what do you make of dad's face?

That's me in the corner...

Okay. I'd like to apologize for my absence. I didn't even get to bring my laptop. Not that it would have mattered. I haven't drawn anything in like... two weeks. ANYTHING. It's disgusting. But the honeymoon's over now, and with it my wife's reign over sketchbook and laptop usage.

I'd like all of us, thems that be in Provo at the moment, to have a chance to meet this Thursday or Friday. Preferably Thursday at 5:00 pm. IF this time does not work for you, please email me and let me know what would be preferable. We can do it later, too- anytime after 5:00 works for me. Levi and I should have some boards to present by then, and anyone else who wants to (Ron, Brant, Bueller, anybody) can bring boards, designs, originals, etc. What boards I have will prolly be thumbnails.
Also: who has a spiffy idea about where to meet? We could reserve a study room at the library. Is the HFAC still out? Whatever. We need a Room of Requirement, and whoever brings it is captain of the D.A.

And some drawrings.





Dad's armor is from the Qin (pronounced 'chin,' I found out from a friend) dynasty. This armor would have been work by an officer in the army, someone of the nobility. I like it for simplicity and iconograpy- this is the armour that the ceramic army guarding the emperor's tomb wear.

I'm out.

Keep drawing.

See you in August.

composition stuff

here's some weird landscape ideas I had. I was wondering what you guys thought. I've been messing around with the social layers of the mountain thing, trying to make an interesting composition, and just started playing around with guash and this weird Chinese "Guash" paper that's sort of a long story (and unfortunately isn't good for guash at all and has this weird circle texture.) That and I'm sorry about my camera. I take pictures in the middle of the day without my flash so that its not overexposed, but unfortunately it came out underexposed today. I'll come across a scanner eventually for all this stuff. That and I paint better than this...on almost every other type of paper. If I work the Xue Shuan too much it starts dissolving on me, haha. It was a struuuuuggle



There's this island idea where they could build off of eachother in some fantastical way. Only prob is that it looks like a pirate island. yar. This might be drawn out, but it was designed to look something like the dragon river spirit. The fog needs help, too. I drew it on sort of half hazardly because it was a thumbnail, and I have a tendency to do weird skies on thumbnails. I don't know why.



Then I thought about pirates of the Carribean, and about how the most recent one starts off in Thailand or something, and the whole city was actually built on the water on stilts instead of on land. I thought "hey, what if the poorest levels was on water in a bay, with the richer areas literally rising above and around them?" So I've got this thumbnail to sort of visualize whats goin down. Hopefully it makes sense.

That or it could just be a simple mountain, but there's this part of me that just can't do that. I tried to do that...but then made it floating. Like this.



Then I remembered they already did something like that on Star Wars. (also, the colors on this are...so different than they are right now. I leveled it but there's only so much you can do, that and apparently whats normal on my monitor is sort of yellow on all elses.)

Another weird idea--I remember this book on pictures of China I had at home, and this one village was on a mountain so steep that it looked like it was built into the mountain, a lot like the Native Americans did down in Four Corners (but on the base instead of the top of the cliff.) I was thinking that it appeared so cramped and busy with the houses piled on eachother like that, it would be good for a marketplace or poorer situation where things are stressfull and ... busy. Just a random idea. Plus, there are those huge statues carved into Mountains down in China, and you could stick a couple in the backgrounds to look pretty.

A couple of hours = a couple of paintings

Here's what I got done this afternoon. Sorry the scans of the mountain and water spirit are goofy and two-toned, but the paintings were so big I had to scan them left/right and then splice the images. Alas...
And another pic of good ole mom and dad, as dad readies himself to depart for the battle...I really need to get a hold of a book of Chinese armor. My goal here was for simplified, animatable designs. Sorry I totally copped out by cropping the feet--oops! Well, that's it for today!