Monster Dance Loop



I made this yesterday for the website loopdeloop. Looopdeloop is a monthly challenge by word (this months  word was 'monster') website to create an animation loop.

I made the silly tune and voice in Garageband for the iPad (I honestly just randomly pressed buttons). Then I drew the whole scene in photoshop with the exception of the squid girls hand and the dancing monster dude. The monster dude and the squid girl hand was animated in toonboom using a textured brush (looks quite nice). I added a few effects in toonboom like adding a tone to the monster and making his jelly body see through and glowing a little. I was able to add a little focal depth and parallax to the background  that I might be over using but dam it looks good.

Once all the toonboom stuff was done I pulled it into after effects and pushed those lazers a bit and added a blur and a dark circle mask to the edges.

annnnnd tada! A day spent animating something stupid

animation in 48 hours?

So last weekend was WAMBAM, a 48hour competition run by Wanimate to produce a short animated cartoon based on 3 words.

My team from last year was sick, busy and interstate.  This was the film we made last year



So this year I decided to try and make a film by myself using toonboom.

I did have a story idea that Rose and I were kicking around for the operahouse Graphic competition and I thought what the hey, "2 birds one stone" and they even shared the same deadline. Both had theme words the Graphic comp had the words 'escape' and wambam had three words 'photograph, blue and love'.

So here's the film (it looks pretty great at 1080 over on youtube)



now here's how it all went down...

On friday night I was late to the event where the words were drawn (the event happened in Joondalup which is nearly an hour and a half drive from my house. As far north as our freeway goes). So I missed all the speeches and the organisation of groups. I could have joined a group which was an all female team but I kind of liked that they were an all female team and I wanted to see what they came up with. I was also thinking about this 'graphic comp' and since I was late I didn't want to try to take over another group and push them in that direction.

So I got my three words and I thought about the story Rose and I came up with and how the words could fit into it. The original idea was there were 2 soldiers in a 'terminator judgement day future'. One was a girl and one was a cat. They fight their way to a time machine and travel back into the past but they inhabit their past selves bodies. So the girl becomes herself as a baby (the baby was based on Roseline's niece 'Sophie') and the cat soldier as a devolved cat (based on a stray cat that we looked after in Hobart named 'Milky'). The idea is they still have the same memories just not the intelligence or the same motor controls as their future selves.

The graphic comp had a time limit of 30 seconds so the main story was they teleport back in time into their new bodies inside of a cot (which looks like a prison at first) but so does the nemesis that was chasing them who inhabits a teddy bear. They're trapped with the teddy-nemesis and they struggle to escape the cot (being the comedy).

Now since I had to work the three words into this story "Blue, photograph and love" it actually helped a lot in the shaping of the story. I'd use blue to stylise my colour pallet, photograph meant the girl became a war photographer (added some depth to her character) and love... This actually is what gave the idea heart. They're escaping a holocaust where everyone has been killed or is running for their lives so if the girl is transported back in time and she see a lost parent, that would be a pretty moving experience.

So on that friday I had got the ideas together and I started doing some scribble ideas of design, shots and backgrounds. here's a few



One good thing about working by myself and is that I didn't have to explain jokes like some of the other teams around me were doing (this was the ONLY positive thing) and could jump right into those designs. I really liked the cats gun, it was sort of a tetris block. I was able to use that city scribble as the final design.

So with all my basics done I decided to take the long trip home (yeah I'm going to go on and on about how far it is haha). When I got home I decided to give myself a head start and draw up my backgrounds in photoshop. I was working a bit too slow on these and only got 3 done.





As I was drawing them I thought what if I used toonboom to animate in. The computers at the event had the adobe suites so I could have used them and animated in flash but I thought this would give me a good chance to skill up and play a bit more with toonboom animate pro.

My computer case is a small black box that is quite portable (it's been great when I have been travelling across Australia working) my cintiq 21 is not. There were wacoms to use there so I thought just bring my computer case over plug in and BAM! I'm away and animating.....

and....

....for some reason I could not get toonboom (and just toonboom, photoshop and flash were ok) to recognise the wacom tablet, which meant no pen pressure. I wasted over an hour trying to reinstall the wacom drivers but I couldn't win. Eff it I've wasted too much time I have to start animating and of course my first shot got over worked (animators know what I'm talking about) and a lot of time was wasted. It was that satellite image of Perth exploding (my Akira and Perth tribute).

At this point it was evening and I jumped right into the next shot. This came together really well. Doing multiplane setups in toonboom animate pro is the best!! It looks hot and the focus effect blends the colours perfectly. The animation is a bit hard to see but I thought on a projector it would work really well. I did mean to add in flashing arrows above the characters but I forgot. I tried to render that scene but it looked like it was going to take awhile so I decided to head home earlier and continue working on scenes and try to make up for wasting time getting the wacom to work.

An hour and a half later I'm home (haha I can't let it go) and I'm digging under my table and reconnecting all the unplugged usb cords (I have no idea why there is so many), thankfully everything works fine. Toonboom likes my cintiq and pen pressure is back. At this point I decided that all the future scenes would be done in toonboom and the past scenes would be done in flash (how's that for a subtle opinion? haha) that meant I could do the toonboom stuff at home and then use the 'event computers' to do the last half of the story. I was able to finish one more shot (the landing behind the box and firing focus pull scene) and then decided to call it a night. I set my alarm for 8am the next day.

The next day, the final day for the competitions I was up working on the last shot that I would do in toonboom. It started out all right but then it fell apart. I couldn't get the timing or the movement to work right, I had somehow forgotten how to animate. It's a form of writers block, it's a bitch when it happens and you just have to power through it and rely on techniques. It does cost time though and time wasn't something I had. that shot took till about 2pm so I was pretty screwed at this point and I had to think about how I was going to wrap the story up with the minimal amount of animation.

The second part of the story I had some loose boards that Rose drew when we were planning to enter the graphic comp.


Rose had over the weekend cleaned up a few of the drawings so looking at what I had I decided to end the film as I did. It wasn't great but it was done

A few 11th hour computer problems (that's just a given) but animation is all done at 4:30pm and everything is in premiere with a very rushed sound mix... Now to get it out of premiere

I've used premiere enough to know all the work arounds and I don't hate on it as much as my friends do (with the exception of that cs one that had the flash file memory leak) but I just had all kinds of crazy problems with the exporting. It randomly changing the frame width and height being my main problem, but lots of messing around and all I ended up with was an HD mp4

It is now 5:45pm I'm not going to be able to have my film there in time for the 6pm WAMBAM deadline since Joondalup is....ok ok I'll let it go.

I wanted to at least make the screening and see what everyone else made (there were some great groups so I was pretty excited) so as I was leaving home I set the film uploading to youtube and drove over to Roseline's house to bring her along. It of course took too long to head out to Roseline's place (no luck today) and we quickly made our way off the Joondalup (sigh)... there was something nagging me...something I was meant to do. We reached Joondalup and there was roadworks and a detour. We then get lost into that black hole of a suburb.... DAM YOU JOONDALUP!

We finally work out where we are and reach the college that the event is at. This is one of those colleges that is environmentally conscious and doesn't waste electricity... IT WAS EFFIN DARK THERE!!! Rose and I walked around for awhile, but we were there very late and we were starting to see people look like they were leaving the screening so we gave up (also since Rose was recovering from a bad flu, I didn't want her getting too cold) and decided to go home.

Rose saw I was feeling a bit down so she said that we should go check out the latest Harry Potter movie. I thought that sounded like a good idea... I still couldn't shake the feeling I was forgetting something. We went to the Inaloo cinemas and grabbed something to eat at retro Bettys. While we were sitting there I remembered what I forgot. The dang Graphic competition! I tried with my new phone to work out how to submit my film (all I know what to do on my phone is play sims 3 and take photos and tweet them) but I was dammed if I could work it out. Well no big deal... after the movie I'll submit it at Roseline's place on her computer.

Harry Potter... that movie was crazy. The wizard war thing was mental. Giant spiders, stone statues come to life, giant ogre things, wizards doing the pew pew with their wands. I've always found it funny in Harry Potter everyone is amazed when they do magic or when they watch people who do magic. It never comes natural to anyone, it's always "Holy shit I can do magic!" "Whoa you totally did magic!". Also all the magic is pretty impractical, there's a scene at the end that sums up the entire Potter world (don't worry it's not a spoiler) with this guy trying to sweep up a giant amount of rubble with a normal broom. hah it will probably make more sense when you see the scene. It was enjoyable though and great to complete the Potter films.

After the movie we get back to Roseline's place and I decide to check the graphic comp andddddd I have missed the deadline. 11:58pm sydney time. DOHHHHHHH! So I killed myself all this weekend and missed both competitions.

hahaha goddamit oh well. I made something new and there's some ideas in there that Rose and I are thinking of developing. So not a complete loss but definitely not a win either. So no birds but something that looks like a stone.

Well that was my adventurous weekend of animation...
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IF: Stay


This was a tiny scribble sitting on my desktop for over 2 weeks that I'm not sure why I didn't just bin (it was seriously just the cats head and hand) but I had to finish it.

It feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Which is hilarious considering how small and stupid the picture is haha

Zoo day 5

Roseline and I went to the zoo to do some drawings. So it is time for a much needed blog update


There were 9 spotted dog puppies running around today. Terribly cute and hard to work out how to draw. Most of my drawings look like rats haha


These Rhino's were a bit annoyed and were running around. I was struggling trying to work out how to draw them and capture the angry face and then they just dropped to the ground and went to sleep with their ass pointed at me... You win this round Rhino's!


Rose loves this little bird on the right. He's terribly cute and gets excited when people come and see him. Not many people go into the bird section since it's either being reworked or neglected. There's only 3 pretty awesome Macaws and a few other birds there so it looks a bit lonely for the little guy.


I decided to draw in the background for these two scribbles. The top one is a cheetah in the grass chewing on a steak. An amazing creature! The bottom one is another Macaw who comes right up to you. The colours are so bright and happy (that doesn't translate well using a felt tip pen)

Well sorry that this blog has been a bit neglected as I've been busy working and doing a webcomic over at http://merks-comics.blogspot.com/


The comic is mostly about the videogames I play but I change it up a bit every now and then.

I also have a lot of art on my newish facebook page. If you click the like button it should keep you up to date with my comics and any new stuff that I do.



Old Dogstar storyboard test

I just found these. They were on an old msn blog that I had. On the first series of Dogstar(2005) I was offered an opportunity to try out to do boards and this was my submission. I was given a portion of the script, one background design, character designs and some blank storyboard paper.

I remember being so sick when I was doing this. My eyes were all puffy and I could barely see but there's a lot I like.




















I think that last frame is the only one I might do differently (due to how everyone runs off and understanding the dogstar way of animating it would have been hard to do it that way).

I saw the real finished scene and my interpretation of what was written was completely different. It was a fun experience but it was probably best that I didn't get the job and worked as an animator as at that stage I still had so much to learn.

Drawing Day

Today is international drawing day! I'll be posting pictures throughout the day

You can join in or follow here: http://www.drawingday.org


wooo SIMON! I forgot how much fun this guy is to draw.


I decided to challenge myself and draw something I hate(have trouble) drawing, "celebrities and women". I wont say who it is. Feel free to guess.

UWA life drawing

Well Roseline was over and she made a compelling argument (we can get Jus burgers) that I should go to lifedrawing. Here's what I did from my warm up to my final drawing, I drew with a fat 6b pencil.








I finshed my last drawing early so I drew anrgy Fred Flinstone again. He cracks me up

Details:
University of Western Australia in the Hew Roberts Seminar Room (adjacent to the Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre) on the ALVA campus (Northwest corner of Stirling Hwy and Hampden Rd): $10 6-8:30 pm Monday. BYO materials, tables and chairs are available, as are basic supplies for purchase (it is still recommended that you bring your own).
Format for the sessions starts at short gestures, then moves up to two 10 minute poses, then three 30 minute poses.

http://lifedrawinginperth.wordpress.com/

TETSUOOOOOOOO!


I've been drawing a lot of request pictures on my twitter account this week (see them here). So it was fun to do a request drawing for myself.

This was drawn all in photoshop and I quite like the expression. Because of that expression he hasn't been hit by the SOL yet. This is Tetsuo when he's making his way to the Olympic stadium

Flinstones

I was challenged to draw the Flinstones. Now I don't remember much about the Flinstones except Fred was angry all the time and used to wail on Barney



Barney looks kinda on model, Fred is more like Captain Knuckles from the Misadventures of Flapjack haha. I love that cartoon

8 second Dash frames

I liked my drawings on this. These are the 12 frames that make the run loop


Part of the design for Dash was adding in those O's to help with the movement. They help add the perspective and define the bend of the joints

8 second Dash

I drew this


and thought, 'Hey I want to animate that!'

So...

8 second Dash from Timothy Merks on Vimeo.


Dash is a really fun character to push poses with. I actually find it easier to draw like this than to draw simply. I think it comes down to not thinking and letting my drawing take control. I like how his leg curls in the distance.

That spiral background is from the first Dash Dashing cartoon I made (you can see it here). How I made it is with my coloured pencils I shaded radial bands of colour and just did a few frames to create the loop. The image was then inverted in after effects and it turned out pretty nice. I didn't even have to adjust the colour.

There's a 4 colour gradient on Dash to make him match the background. In Toonboom (which I animated straight ahead in) the scarf was animated on a different layer. I pushed that layer back in z-space, tinted it and put a focus module on Dash so the scarf would blur.

Well this was just a bit of fun for the weekend.

My latest short and working in Toonboom



I haven't really animated something of my own for ages. I've done some scribbly things using my iPad but nothing planned and executed. This short is part of an ongoing series that I want to do throughout this year but it is also part of my convoluted test film for a test film for a film.


Apart from the points listed, it is also to learn the software Toonboom. To understand how far I can push it, getting used to drawing and working fast in it and how to mix it with other programs. Also a big non software/technique point is to become a better filmmaker.

Oh one thing that I did before this film was to try and improve my drawing confidence. Surprisingly working in commercial animation I've found my drawing skills had dulled. I think that comes down to mostly working on symbol pushing flash shows where at most I'll draw a hand or an arm or adjust the eyebrows. Also staying on (very strict) model means I do the bare minimum most of the time and that doesn't push artistic growth. So to boost my skillzzz I invested my hard earned $1 into a scribble pad. I've tried to draw a little picture each day using no planning and work straight onto the pad with a felt pen. I really feel that this worked fantastically and I encourage everyone else if they want to improve their drawing skills the $1 investment is a good one. You can see my close to 100 drawings on my twitpic

Ok back to the above short. It has some obvious weaknesses (number 1 is it should be funnier) but I never regret a film or drawing that I've made. I figure at the time I made it that was the best that I could do. I learn from it and try to not make the same mistakes on the next ones. It was easier to learn from my earlier films as they would screen in festivals and you could sit amongst the crowd and listen to when you have them and when you lose them. Online films are harder to judge as a facebook like button doesn't tell you what was liked. From what little I could tell, things that worked were the scream, the expressions and the look. So that's something to build on for the next short.

Now I'm going to write a few things about working and using Toonboom Animate pro so that might be a bit boring to non animators or 'never going to use toonboom' animators (you were warned).

Drawing
Ok compared to flash, it's a dream to draw in. You can set the brush tapering (0.5 and 6 or 8) and the smoothing (I set this very low so low it doesnt really do anything) to pretty much emulate your natural drawing style and you can draw a hell of a lot of lines. So yeah, it's fun to draw and your lines don't look amateur when you use the brush tool.


At the start spend a lot of time setting and labeling your colours, probably the only chore. That said, once it is set it is quite powerful. It becomes really easy to tweek or even change the colours across the whole animation. My workflow with this is to do all the colours in photoshop then to eye drop and manually transfer the details into toonboom. I don't know if that is the best way though.

It also has one of my most favourite features the rotate canvas (you hold ctrl+ Alt, you can push shift x to reset the view). It's so hard to go back to not having this feature.

Every single line you draw is an object that you can click on and delete. this makes editing you lines really easy. It's good to flatten the lines once you're happy with it though as it saves memory.


When you draw you draw without anti-aliasing so it looks a bit rough. This probably allows the large amount of drawings. Also you also have to each drawing 4 layers to use. An ovelay layer (good for highlights) your line art layer, your colour art (I dont use this layer as it puts a weird lines around the colours... I should probably find the option to turn that off) and an underlay layer (where I do my colouring).

With the animation I just do the line animation first and once that is cool I do the colours. You can see with my lines I was able to add in some line details like shading hints. Something I can't do that in flash. Like at the moment I'm trying to do a loop animation in the same sort of style and I get that draw one line everything disappears thing and those little lines just morph into a blob ON MY SECOND FRAME!!!

I do my colouring under the line art in the underlay layer which is great because it means my lines dont have to be closed and can be quite rough. Also when you erase you don't affect the other layers (unless you turn that option on). When I was colouring I worked out that if I started with the little overlay things like highlights and shadows then (with the brush set to paint under) do the block colours. I think this is how old cels were painted. With this style I was able to add a white highlight as well as a shadow. I think it's a nice touch, better than using just gradients for shading.


It has some cool things with the shortcuts as well. Like to change to a tool you have to hold alt (ie alt + b switches to the brush) but if you just hold down the shortcut you can use it for a brief time till you let go of the short cut key (ie hold down 'i' for the eyedropper or' k' for the paint bucket for quick use while drawing). It also has some great options for selecting and fill bucket by drawing a lasso line over the areas you want to select or paint. That makes more sense when you use it, but dang it speeds things up. Oh and I had to dissable the 'z' shortcut key as that was doing timeline things (that I didnt want) as well as being the zoom shortcut (weirrrrd).

Each of your main layers (ie paleguy) is like a flash symbol and every new drawing is saved into it. You can cycle using '[' and ']' to go back and forward between the drawings. I didnt really use this much but it's pretty handy when doing lipsyncing.

Background and depth

My background (as I said in an earlier post) was done in photoshop.


Now if you want to do this and keep your layers (especially for doing camera move parallax stuff) each layer needs to be put into it's own folder. Those folders when they come into toonboom, become their own drawing layers. A cool thing is that all the layers in a folder when brought into toonboom become frames on the timeline. So if you wanted to add in an animated element, or a bunch of hands or mouths that's how you do it.

So yeah, a cool thing is the addition of z space. 'Depth'


Now once in toonboom you can bring up a side view and after pressing Alt-6 move each layer back to approximately the distance it would be from the main action without changing the scaling. A nice touch is it has a visual representation of each layer at the top that you can click on to select making it easier to chose the right layer.

Oh a cool thing was that I created a focus module and attached to the main action and depending on how far (on the z axis) the other layers were from the main action would affect how much they were in focus (blurred). Its a cute trick that could lend its self to some concepts.

You can also micro nudge layers back and forth on the z axis by clicking the layer and pressing Alt + Up arrow = go back in space Alt + down arrow = go closer to camera. This is great and fast for character interaction with props and other characters.

Exporting and After Effects
I've had problems exporting video out of toonboom like it crashes at 90% or something hair pulling like that. Doing frame sequences however are pretty good though. Since I was going to take this into after effects and I wanted some control over where the effects would be I wanted to export layers with alphas. Apparently any format with a 4 at the end means it has an alpha (4 meaning the amount of channels). The tga4 file didnt work but the old faithful png4 did. I really like png files, they are clean and they render fast in after effects. When I export out of After effects to go to premier I use Tga files as it seams to be the only stable file premier can handle


So this is a nice visual representation on what I did in after effects. I made it a lot  warmer, changed the tree leaves. I had to create a specific mask to keep the glass looking like a glass and not lose that blueness. The grade was mostly about balance and tone. There was a version where there was a heat ripple on the scene. It looked great but didn't really suit the feel I was going for. I also moved the output view between my computer monitor and my cintiq to try and make sure it looked good on both screens (I should really properly calibrate these screens).

Bits and bobs
 I did the sound mix in Audition and I used a lot of sounds that were recorded from my film 'Existence'. With the sound, it had to have a unique feel and it was great that my sound designer (Adrian Tolman) recorded all kinds of things for 'Existence' that I had a whole bunch of things to choose from. Real recorded sounds are 100 times better than sound cds and stuff you pull off the web. Oh I had a horror theme going when I first started the soundmix, but that was craaaazy. I did the voice acting because I was too lazy to get anyone else to do it. That scream was based on Raiden from Mortal Kombats flying headbutt yell (the most ridiculous yell in videogames haha)

I'm trying to get better at adding in effects into my animation, things like flares, speed lines and in this some water. My effects stuff moves a bit too quick so I need to add in more frames and think about exactly what is happening and do a simple pass first and then do a detail pass. I'd love to be a lot more stylised with my effects like this guy though.

I wrote in my notes 'varied frame rate'. If you're wondering it means working with different frame rates rather than doing everything on 1s or 2s. I think you can get away with this as long as the drawings are funny/over the top and sometimes it can add bit more weight to the movement. When working on some of these tv series I would find myself laughing at my blocking but not laughing at the finished animation. The extra frames were softening the impacts. I know a lot of my animators friends have a strongly different view to me on this and love their disney sleek but if I'm animating these films for myself I'm not going to kill myself drawing hundreds of frames to not find it funny anymore. Eff that haha

I took a lot of inspiration from the character styles, poses, expressions and animation style from the Lupin tv series that I've been watching. Those guys behind that are crazy and it's going to take a lot of hard work to get to their level.

Well that's the overall film breakdown. I'm going to try and get the storyboard done for the next film done soon but this month there's a whole bunch of work happening, which is good since I like to have money coming into my account sometimes.

Background art

I've been working on this on and off. It's a background for a film that is about 80% animated. I'm going to try and have the remaining 20% done by tomorrow night.


A bit of product placement in there but nothing new really for my films (there's always at least 2 or 3 references to previous films I'm made or am going to make). I've always liked adding in advertising, signs and graffiti into my backgrounds. I like how it give a splash of colour and texture and how it can break up a plain surface.

The imagery is mostly from my head I did mash the buildings designs together out of some Melbourne photos Rose and I took.

The composition is quite flat but that's the style I'm going for. Something that feels like a bunch of stage flats. I do use the background objects to flow the view to where I want it. You'll notice that fence is used to diffuse the building detail, the trees diffuse the detail a bit more. I have the leaves on a separate layer and I'm wondering if in after effects if I can add a shimmer or a slight move (this will be an experiment). I tried a few different things for a foreground elements but nothing seemed to fit.

There's a lighting grade that sits over this to pull all the colours together but that happens after the animation is added. This is a photoshop file that I was able to open in Toonboom Animate pro and keep all the layers separate. The background is made up of 7 layers and there's a tiny parallax at the start.

The animation itself is quite silly but it's the first of a series focusing on different acting styles and funny movement.

Oil painting artistic level up!

Well Rose and I have been doing oil painting classes and it's been great! It was fun to learn how to paint with a real brush and use real paints and get dirty. I felt like a real artist walking around Fremantle with oil paint on my pants (real poser artist haha).

Ok here's the first painting I did, it was a follow what the teacher does and work from a photo sort to deal. When I started painting and following the instructions all my digital painting knowledge I was taught working at Ettamogah suddenly started making sense. I think the reason why I started understanding it more here was there was no undo shortcut. I think the undo option can make you more unsure of your work without it you just got to go with the flow.


Now the second painting I decided to try and jump in and paint up one of my characters. I chose my character Dash since he is so round and bubbly. I suffered a bit that my initial drawing could have been a bit better but I didn't really know that until I started filling the sketch in with the paints. It was interesting thinking of the whole shape and how the light would wrap around Dash. When I was doing this Roseline was painting up a still life of one of her blythe dolls and they have quite cartoony features so I was able to cheat and look over her shoulder and see what she was doing and then apply it to my painting.


So for our last painting I came up with an idea of us making a Cat and a Rabbit painting that we could hang in our house. Also to put a spin on it we would each do the initial sketch for the other person. So this painting is based on a Roseline drawing. I like his fuzzy fur and bright colours. Rose was really happy with what I painted, she said he feels like christmas (I felt that was a pretty high compliment)


Roseline's painting of my drawing looks fantastic as well. Check her blog to see if she has put it up. Roseline has been pretty busy putting together a red bubble store (http://www.redbubble.com/people/roseyland) and she is inspiring me to do something. So I'm adding that to my todo list

Nightmare



I made this last night while I was waiting for a movie to download. In case you're wondering it took about 2 and a half hours to do, it was done in flash with a quick after effects pass. The blurry background is the exterior of Perth train station, although that has completely changed now.

It is an animation of one of my fears, 'the automated ticket gates'. I get super nervous every time I go through them that this might happen..... and it has happened. So that makes me more anxious.

I have another animation that I've been trying to finish but it depends if I can get all my work done this morning. It feels good to finish an animation, even if it is a silly one.

Super Week

Ben Grimshaw threw down the super hero/villain challenge. Draw a childhood hero every day for a week. I'm super busy (haha pun) at the moment so we'll see how I go.

Here's my first picture, X-Men's 'Psylocke'


A little rushed but it turned out ok

My second, an X-Men villain 'Omega Red'


Sorry I haven't been keeping this updated here but here's day 3, Modesty Blaise


(I'm not a fan of that drawing)

Here's my day 4, Scud the disposable assassin battling Jeff


and finally my day 5 drawing, Wolverine and Cyber


Oh most of this went down over facebook. Roseline has done a few drawings and posted them on her blog (she absolutely schooled me with her Modesty Blaise)

I'll link here later if anyone posts there pictures on there blogs or whatever