Welcome to my blog! I want to share what I've been up to lately. The image above, which is the wraparound cover for Scrappy Jack a book I wrote and illustrated. It's a biography of my dad, who had plenty of stories to tell and he lived to be 100 years old. The original version called "So, That's That!"was given to him on his 100th birthday many years ago. That's me and my brother, dad, and two sisters in the junkyard where I grew up. The best playground any kid could ask for!
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Here are some of my students working on their maquettes. First they sketch a few character designs, then they draw a model sheet with different points of view, to be used as reference to sculpt maquettes. The students final assignment is to pair with each other and draw a comic page with the two characters talking .
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| A few colourful students! |
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| Patience is an asset. |
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| Humour is essential! |
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| Here I am in my studio working on this maquette I made, for my character design class. I use it to show students the process of making their own cartoonish maquette version, of themselves. First we make a wire and tinfoil armature, then cover it with Super Sculpey a polymer clay, then we sculpt it and bake it then paint it! |
