picket fence

Was trying to design a human character. Not doing very good, at least I feel that way, but I sorta like this design! He's a fencer who goes around pretending to be a superhero "The White Picket Fencer". Some day I'll get a good out-of-costume design. I don't really like that one at the bottom.

Some random characters, and Hello again!

 

After a long hiatus, I finally remembered to post here again! I really should use this more often, I'm always making characters and it's be nice to keep it concise. So here's some characters I made up the other day, I felt like messing with color palettes.

(Ordered from left to right)

-Mossy the sloth. no real personality or anything though of for him, not really my favorite one, but I liked it enough.

-Saffron the Springhaas/Spring Hare. She's a timid and gentle girl. She loves to play sports and socialize, but she's just modest about it. She's a very good jumper. This design I liked a lot.
-Greg G. Raff the Giraffe Weevil. not THIS one I had a lot of fun with. He's a private eye, but he only gets the boring jobs! Like spouses trying to see if the other is cheating. Poor guy.
-The last is Nikki the honey badger. She was more of a joke because I ran out of steam, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. She's just a beautiful young lady who likes to party and wants to be your BFFL!!

You can tell him and Saffron are my favorites, as I drew them again and tweaked the designs a bit. Anyway, that's all for now, I'll try to update the HUGE backlog of designs and pictures I've done of my OCs in the past few.. months or so.

Site Update! Three new pictures and an upgrade!

www.awgosh.com/gallery.html

Check it out! 3 new pictures up to see in the gallery! Better pictures of Fiktor in there, if you would like to see, and some new faces.

Also, big news for me, mostly! I just upgraded my host to a new plan (instead of the free plan I had), so now my site will have full PHP support and far more space. This means I can finally use the wordpress I downloaded, and I'll be able to create a special page for my comics! You know, the fancy kind with back buttons and archives. I hope this will motivate me to work on it more regularly. Plus it will look nice.

Character Concept: Fiktor and Faktoid

As the image says! Wanted to make a writer and a robot team of characters based on the words "fact" and "fiction", and I think I am pleased with the result! Factoid might need a bit more work though. but who knows.

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My process this time was pretty fun. I wanted to make a pencil-based character, not really knowing what I was I was going to do other than the name pun. Ended up a crow, who I gave a pencil-like shirt with a design. I then figured I could just make the legs function as the orange for the pencil, but a tan shirt still wasn't coming together well. Finally I remembered that skin is tan like a pencil too! I also remembered how some birds will pick all the feathers off of their bodies under stress, and thus Fiktor's final design was accomplished! Adding an eraser-like robot was the easy part, then.

I still do not know why there is a 2 written there. Other than for design purposes, that is. Maybe he scrawled it onto his leg in a daze of midnight deadline-meeting.

Character Concept: Bluebelle, and Site Update!

Bluebelle: She is a pretty little sheep who is just the cutest thing! She's just oh so clumsy, and always forgets to bring money to the bar and club... teehee, oops! Eh, what was that gruff tone just now? Probably nothing!

Also, Site Update! New image in the gallery section. More specifically, a better image of Spookmark.

Character concept: Spookmark

A character design/idea I thought of last night and had to (sloppily) doodle in paint. Really I am more proud of the idea and design rather than worried about picture quality, haha.

Spookmark: It's a cat-like bookmark ghost. Not so much a ghost of any living thing, but more of a apparition resulting from the bookmarked place held in someone's book, unfinished, before they died. It is always searching for the spirit of it's reader to finish the book. It only speaks in unfinished sentences. Very friendly, but don't entrust it to get something finished!
(I say "it" because it has no gender, being a ghost of an idea/situation/object)

Site Update and concept doodles

New illustration added to the Gallery section of the website!

Also, here's a random doodlepage I did, with concepts for the mole character, Sheriff Sharp-Star. I got a nice design for him pretty quickly, so there was only minor changes before his final design. His mole gun, however, took a lot more work.

Site Update: New art!

Added another illustration to the gallery section! Go look! http://www.awgosh.com

Nicolai Model Sheet #2

Updated and colored reference sheet for Nicolai. Hopefully I'll be able to stick to my own character model! But some growing is always an inevitability, which can be a good thing! There are definitely some differences from the old one.

Site Update: New comic page, new art

http://www.awgosh.com/gallery.html

A new comic page has been added, along with a new art! Check em out.

Animation assignment: Walk cycle

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Pencil test for a walk cycle animation for class. It's just a simple cycle of 10 framed based on a template we were given, and were to draw our own character over it. I decided on Mr. Dentson for some reason. There are lots of errors, but it's the first pencil test I scanned in. The belly spot line needs to be fixed on frame 1 to 2, and other things, but I thought I would show off since it took a while to scan at home.

Storyboard assignment, interactive animation

A storyboard for an "Interactive user interface" for class. We're making a character with an idle animation that changes when a button is pushed, then returns to idle.

I wanted to make something disgustingly cute, because that is how I roll. Hopefully I'll be able to do all three buttons! I might have to reduce it to two if there's not enough time.

Site Update: New comic page, About page image

-I have finished a NEW COMIC PAGE and added to the Gallery, please check it out!! Hopefully more should be coming out very shortly. Looks to be a continuing story! Also, I added a little flower as the placeholder image for when nothing is selected in the gallery, much better than the little white box before.

-The About page finally has an image as well. And after screwing with the code in a few places in both the About page and Gallery, I think, I finally have the site just about done! A big update to how the comics are set up might come in the future, but for now it stays as it is.

Site Update: Index, About Page, Back buttons

Some fairly important site updates!

-There is not an INDEX PAGE. Main.html will still work for a while, but the most updated version of the site's main page is now, as it should be, http://www.awgosh.com/index.html.

-The ABOUT PAGE is now up! There's no image there yet, but I finally got around to changing the main page to index because I want the site to be a bit more "live" now, since I added the about page. It has contact info and boring stuff.

-Also minor update, I added a back button to the gallery page (and respectively, the about page).


Hopefully I won't be lazy and completely finish this stupid site soon. There''s a big update I'd like to make first, but it will involve a server change. Sigh.

Knight Beetle Concept Sketches

Another beetle design, this time, a Hercules Beetle! This is the knight that Squire Adrian works under. I'm most happy with the designs on the middle-left.

He's a little complicated so I might try to simplify him a little. The one dilemma I'm having is about the stripe between his eyes. Hercules beetles have this really cute yellow stripe there, and I like how it looks a lot, but I also want him to have that knight helmet...face-plate...thingy there on his head too. But it covers up the stripe and thus the stripe just clutters the face. I really like the helmet though! But the yellow stripe was going to match his back/wings (which were to be yellow, too). Maybe I'll make the helmet gold, and wings gold too? Decisions.

As for personality, I don't have much right now, except he's a very nice guy, unlike his squire. He will occasionally give Adrian a "Now, now, no need to look down on [X person]" scolding once in a while.

Rotoscope Project with Kuiper

Youtube description (please read!): A rotoscope project I did for my into to animation class. It's my character, Kuiper the frog, drawn over frames from a stock video of a player hitting a baseball. It looks wobbly because the camera on the video was wobbly too. His proportions are also a little off because I matched up his joints to the human ones. But overall I'm happy with it, for working in a short time-frame.

also I think a frame at around 8 to 9 seconds was doubled by accident, oh well.

We had to add the title and ending disclaimer as part of the project. I forgot to edit one part of the "template" disclaimer at the end, so it says my teacher's name in there instead of my own at one part, woops.

Storyboard Project 1

The first storyboarding project for my animation class. The prompt was that your character walks into their "office" and finds someone there that they didn't expect.

In my case, Nicolai walks into his supplies closet to find Mr. Dentson looming above. Making each layout look good was tricky but fun.

Adrian concept sketches

Hey what's this! A character concept page that isn't something old! Doodled these in my notebook at school today, after thinking of a new character.

His name is Squire Adrian, he's a Giant Fijian Longhorn Beetle. He is also, of course, a squire, which are something like a lnight's assistant. He's veeery proud of being a Squire, so much so that he's generally very snooty and up-tight about it.

I was thinking he'd be a great "Rival" for Nicolai, like an antagonist. For one, even upon meeting Nicolai, he is always scoffing at the fact that Nic is a "lowly" butler, and gloating about how his job is so much more important. He insists that he does WAY more for his knight than Nicolai will ever do for the Queen.

Also, of course, being a beetle, he has 4 arms, and is thus even more on a competitive level with Nicolai on who can multi-task the best.

I'm pretty proud of the design so far, I think. His final design for now is the one on the lower right, I am liking the square-tipped antenna for some reason. I still need a design for the knight, who will probably be a Hercules Beetle or something just as cool and tough. Also a good back story for why the Queen has decided to hire a knight. I'm thinking probably some trivial reason. I'm very pleased to have at least one insect character now, though!

Links I used:
-A real life image of a Giant Fijian Longhorn Beetle: http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/images/sources/xixherfm.jpg
-A summary on the life and duties of a squire: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/squires.htm

Plunky Vector Drawing

For a class assignment, I made a Plunky vector drawing in Flash. He's made up of a lot of movable parts, so it was tricky to get all the lines to match up. I'm still learning Flash but I think I did ok, following the process the teacher taught!

I'm not the most keen on animating in Flash with tweens and such, that future assignments will entail, but it'll be good practice for using the program. I'd like to be able to do nice frame-by-frame animation in it some day! If only Flash's vector tools weren't so annoying. We need a program like Flash with all the onion skin and cool time-line features, but with raster drawing tools instead. You either have to annoyingly Pen Tool everything, or bog down the program with way too many paintbrush strokes. I wonder if Toon Boom is any better for that, we'll be using that in class too sometime.

Site Update: Fixed Gallery

http://www.awgosh.com/gallery.html

Fixed up the gallery page, so the thumbnails wouldn't get pushed around or make you scroll down when you load a big image. Much better on the left, I think! All I need now is a back button (lazy) and an image to replace the little white square above "Choose an image on the left".