Various Daily Drawing Challenge sketches

Storyboard and character sketches.

Been working on an animation.  It's mostly about this hobo character who is always scheming for.... stuff.  I imagine he's sort of like a mythological trickster, always joking around, pissing people off.

I want it to start out with the question "Why do they call you Jungle Buzzard anyway, Hopkins?" and the main character, Hopkins, not really wanting to answer until he spots a pile of items he can steal.. leading to him telling a West African myth, Anansi and the box of stories, purely for distraction purposes.  Each animal Anansi captures in the story correlates to a hobo around the campfire.  The snake gets tied to a stick, and so does a hobo.. the leopard falls in a hole.. etc.

Eventually someone will catch on, like the inch tall fairy at the end of the story will end up being humongous and take Hopkins out of the little dream world he's created to see the big guy just walloping him to the ground and knocking all the supplies he was attempting to steal everywhere.  Then somehow they'll all realize a jungle buzzard is a hobo who preys on other hobos.

Added some temporary audio to a storyboard for timing purposes, and then started designing some characters.  I'd be greatful for any comments on this.. been getting an awful lot of backpedaling from people who are afraid to give an honest opinion.  Comments that actually specifically say what you didn't like are best.  Was it too slow?  Did it make sense at all?  What would you change?

Here are some character thumbnails.

And here are some refined-ish characters.

Day 22: A video game character.

Skull Kid from Majoras Mask

I recently bought Color and Light by James Gurney to learn color theory.. and also read these two articles:  Kecleon Color Theory.  Color theory principles and practice.  Overall, I think they've helped loads.  Though, I haven't started making my own color palettes yet.  Still, I wouldn't be able to do this without these articles.

Hobo Hopkins and the story of the Sky-Bitch.

This was day 18 of the drawing challenge, Comic, but it got out of control.. now I want to make an animation/motion comic type thing.  Heres what I have so far.  Tell me what you think.. any criticism this early on is awesome.

Day 15, 16, 17, and 20 of drawing challenge.

Day 15:  Your Spirit Animal
I chose either the coyote or the fox because they were both represented as tricksters by ancient myths.  I'm not exactly tricking anybody, or even cunning or full of wisdom.. but I do tend to act foolish, funny.. etc.

Day 16:  What you wanted to be when you grew up.

I remember drawing Garfield all the time and people saying "he's the next Jim Davis".  So I somehow got it into my little kid head that I was actually going to replace him. lol

Day 17:  Something sentimental

Day 20:  Boba Fett or Darth Vader

Did a little color study after reading some articles too. Also ordered James Gurney's Color and Light which should get here around Wednesday.  Yesss.

Day 14: Theodore Roosevelt as.. Heavily Armed Teddy Bear on Moose!

Theres clearly something wrong with my color profile or whatever its called.  I just got Photoshop and it's doing the same exact thing Corel Painter does.  Light beige grays turn into pitch black blues when I save them as jpgs.

Day 13: My Dream Job (30 day drawing challenge)

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Space is a wide open vacuum thats always expanding.. and I'd feel claustrophobic as hell in space.  Not to mention I almost puked while on a ferris wheel.  I'll stick to drawing astronauts puking in space, thank you.

Day 11 & 12: Reptar and Stephenson

My choices were The Dinosaurs from the TGIF show "Dinosaur", Dino from The Flintstones, Yoshi, or Gozilla

Day 11 - Most Influential Person

Day 11 is below day 12 because I didn't like it as much. lol  I didn't know what to do for this one.  This is hardly someone who changed my life and molded me.. and I honestly feel silly for just drawing him because I only read one book of his.  But the book Snow Crash got me interested in reading about mythology, ancient Mesopotamia, and Christianity/Islam/Judaism a bit more.  It's probably the one thing that has changed most about me recently.

Or it might just be Tenzin from The Legend of Korra.  He taught me how to air bend.


Also used Google+'s Hangouts on Air feature to record a sketching session and send it straight to my youtube account.  Later on I downloaded the clips and edited them in premiere pro.  Was extremely nice.  If you want to see how often I go back and forth and then eventually give up on value/color:

Drawing Challenge Day 10 - Useless Superpower

Look, it's Tea-Time! He's a master of disguise because of his knack for creating royal hats out of thin hair. He can also materialize rather nasty tasting cups of tea. Though, like many heroes and villains, he too has a weakness.. his kryptonite is the fact that he can only use his powers at 5pm in the UK.

Drawing Challenge Day 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.

Day #4 - Favorite Muppet or Jim Henson character.

I don't have a particular favorite.. so I googled a bunch that had an interesting style to them.  I had a list of Clifford, Pepe, Crazy Harry, and Animal.. but I decided to go with Sweetums.

Day #5 - Favorite Musician or Band.

I went with Bear McCreary.  I don't know if I like the soundtracks because I liked the shows.. but I feel extremely productive when I'm listening to, say, the Battlestar Galactica season 3 ost.

Day #6 - An Idiom Literalized.

Day #7 - Favorite Movie Quote.
I couldn't remember many quotes from my favorite movies.. so I decided to watch one that I thought was funny.  Role models.

Day #8 - Favorite Animated CharacterI was going to go with just Ren and Stimpy, but I also find Adventure Time to be pretty damn hilarious.  I don't know if that makes me immature or not. lol