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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 […]

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