First post, some doodles

[Spudd]

Hey, i'm new here. got some doodles. not really great, but i'm not much of a sketchbook person anyway.

bunny w/ a sword and a bear thing with a big mouth
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/sketchpage1.jpg

rabbit playin ball, this is for a character design assignment at school
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/sketchpage2.jpg

farmer dude, i make a bunch of characters using this construction of triangle body + big spherical head.
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/sketchpage3.jpg

my interpretation of pip from the book "great expectations", this is for a storyboarding class
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/sketchpage4.jpg

pip and miss haversham
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/sketchpage5.jpg

did this a while back, i dont really do fantasy type drawings
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/infiltrator2.jpg

watercolour painting of a character in a comic strip i invented called "Spudd", hence my name
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/prof.jpg

sample comic strips (i don't have very many though) i did a long while ago, like in 1999. Spudd is the pudgy dude, Prof is the dude with the hat. i've changed my drawing style since then, though.
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/spuddcomic1.jpg

http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v86/spudd/spuddcomic2.jpg

that's all for now. c/c welcome.

[Zeb]

It's hard to crit cartoons.

Personally, they remind me of Sinfest. If you've never read it, don't worry. That isn't a put down by any means, so don't think of it as such.

The characters are mostly original, and exciting.

Now. As for the painting.

The dagger seems a bit small in comparison to the man. More of a pocket knife disguised as a dagger. The contrast is a bit lacking due to the overwhelming majority of black, and darker grey tones.

And a lens flare?! Come on man. I know, I know, we have ALL been there, but with a monotonous picture like that throwing in a lens flare forces the viewer to look right at it and keep looking at it.

Out.

[Spudd]

haha yeah the lens flare thing made me kinda laugh, but that was like one of my first tries with photoshop. i was like, "ooh, lens flare". and it wasn't really a painting either, but rather a pencil drawing just all blackened up. thanks, i know it's hard to crit cartoons.

[jetpack42]

Originally posted by Zeb


And a lens flare?! Come on man. I know, I know, we have ALL been there, but with a monotonous picture like that throwing in a lens flare forces the viewer to look right at it and keep looking at it.




While I was in school learning Adobe After Effects, I made a video titled "Dueling Lens Flares", where I just put together clips of random movies (be it a person talking, a car, a person playing piano) and used the 2 distictive types of Lens Flare effects across them all...it was a riot. Anytime I'm in a movie now too, and I notice it, I always have to comment to the person next to me "ooohh, nice lens flare"...I mean, it was cool the first 50 times...now it seems like you can throw a lens flare in anywhere and people go gaga over it. I'm not referring to the picture, just the comment...