Rough sketches in Paint Tool SAI for Stitches, the lead character in a group film project.

These are the three static characters in my short film collaboration, “Stitches.”

This was made as a prompt for a 30-day monster design challenge for Halloween 2015. Gel pen, ballpoint pen; edited in Photoshop.

My first attempt at drawing a Wendigo. Made with pencil, gel pen, ballpoint pen, and charcoal on toned tan paper. Cleaned up in Photoshop.

Preliminary sketches for an idea for a feature film/miniseries.

Practicing drawing profiles in my sketchbook. Pencil and white gel pen.

A compilation of my best human characters I’ve drawn.

A compilation of stylized animals I drew. Originally drawn in gel pen and colored pencils, they were edited in Photoshop. 

Name: Fukuro (Japanese for “owl”)

Gender: Male

Life Cycle: Can live to be up to 200 years old, relative to a human.

Age: 150 years

Height: 4′ 5″ (due to his anthropomorphic form)

Weight: 15 lbs.

Occupation: Counselor/Town Elder

Need/Purpose: He serves as a figure of wisdom in his respective story arc. Meant to encompass the “Wise Man” archetype.

Diet: Carnivorous (his favorite food is rodents)

Anatomy: Fukuro is a half-human, half-owl humanoid. The upper half of his body resembles an owl the most, but his limbs are more human. He is stout and has quite spindly limbs, yet he has the ability to turn his arms into actual wings.

Nocturnal Habits: Since he’s an owl humanoid, he prefers to sleep during the day. Hence, whenever someone tries to consult him during daylight hours, he is understandably annoyed and will sometimes shoo them away. However, he spends most of his free time studying and pursuing spiritual knowledge, so he does not necessarily get along well with people even when he’s available for counseling.

Personality: He is frightfully intelligent and thinks more logically than intuitively. He is haughty and high-strung, and if he has any sense of humor, it is sarcastic at best. A realist and a loner, he will not hesitate to tell someone like it is. Despite his old age, he is quite imposing and is not one to be messed with. Fukuro’s greatest fear is people either misunderstanding him or not taking him seriously at all. His intelligence has inflated his ego a bit, and so he has a tendency to look down on people sometimes. This makes him a busybody as well, and will poke his nose into other people’s business from time to time. Despite the fact that he thinks too highly of himself, he takes his job as a wise man and elder very seriously and will counsel others when they need him.

Here is a series of hybrid characters I made using humans and animals.

A cross between a young girl and a meerkat.

A seahorse-elephant hybrid.

A hybrid of an elderly man and a male snowy owl.

Today, my class and I went to the Toledo Zoo to sketch the animals there. For this assignment, we drew four quadrupedal animals, four reptiles, four bipedal animals, and four miscellaneous ones.

Experimenting with personalities based on physical features, professions, and personality traits.

1.) A party animal beekeeper with warty feet.

2.) A flirtatious plumber with square glasses.

3.) An annoyed, sneery-faced teddy bear repairman.

A range of age studies for a female character. From left to right:

2 years.

20 years.

70 years.

These are two pictures of

Creating characters using different elements of design. From top to bottom: 2D shape (circle), a unified color scheme, pattern, and 3D shape (pear body).

These three drawings are meant to be an attempt to draw in other character artists’ styles. Credit is given to the following artists from top to bottom:

Tim Burton
Noelle Stevenson
Tomm Moore