Learning to walk

I tell ya the hardest thing to animate is walks but once you can nail down walks everything else I'm told is cake. I wonder if it's chocolate or yellow cake? I love a good yeallow with strawberry filling mmmmm! Wait off topic, today I was left alone to work on animation and I spent the day throwing paper away because I could not get the contacts down. There hard but it's important because there the key drawing to the walk cycle. Now this walk isn't a cycle. Cycles are hard and I'm not that good. Later I'm going to add the torso for this and then the arms for the secondary action. Let me know what you think. It's just 13 drawing on 2's and the action seems jumping or bouncy. Ah well, just keep drawing and hold fast I say.

Just what it is a ball bounce

Well did this a while ago from Richard Willams animators survivl handbook.

Art Funk

I don't have anything to post and the few sketches i do have suck major ass. I've always lied to myself as to why I never get any work done or why my work hasnt improved but the truth of the matter is I;m not good. Really i suck so much shit it's unbelavible. To explain I now only work nights part time, this said I should be drawing my arse off but instead I just keep beating myslef up by looking at all the other websites of aritst i admire and thats cool cause in the past it's always inspired me to try what they did and in trying I end up creating something new and away from my "comfort zone" which by the way I don't have one really. It's weird I used to be real good at art. it was never something I felt I had to study or learn or master. It was just fun, I would always be drawing and painting or sculpting for me! not for a fucking grade or aproval or anything like that. No it was for me but it's funny how a person can let another fuck them up so much.
My person was my dad a pretty good illustrator and photo retoucher (before the days of photoshop kiddies) His problem he fucking sucked as a busniessman. So when I would show him my work and he was feeling shitting he tear me down. He said he was just critquing my work but there was never anything he liked about my work, only what was wrong with it and when I told him I would like to become a comic artist or animator. He would give me a hundred fucking reasons why I'd never make it. I wish he would just have said well Kevin those are good goales lets work out a list of what you need to do to make it a reality. Nope that didnt happen and I know I'm whinning like a little girl and in the Mcleod house we HATE little whining girles.

Well I know no one looks at this site so I'm no longer worried about what I say or what I post, fuck it lifes to short and I have my own famliy now and my own son. So really I should get my head outta my ass and look foward instead of always looking behind at how things could of been or should of been. So my dad was a ass big fucking deal. Alot of folks have had worse shakes then me.

So weve figured out one of the things that seems to be holding me back and thats my memories of my dad. The second one I've developed from the first and thats fear! Fear of failure fear of getting it right and having to repeat the process. This one will simply have to be sholderd by ALWAYS DRAWING NO MATTER WHAT! Sure easy to say or type but that bitch of a deamon self doubt sure can be a mofo to keep quit. Is that how you spell quit or it that quit like quit looking at me? Whatever no one looks at this anyway. Well I post soon my son is crying.....

bye

new header for my blog

Well since my computer crash I have finally been able to sit down and finish my blog header. It took me awhile to find the look that shows of my personality but I finally got it. The only thing that I would nitpick on is that color dosnt come easy to me, I'm confident that with practice with a color wheel and studying color theroy I'll get better. Wow whent on a rant, well enjoy and thanks for visiting!

Kev

Warm ups

Here are some warm up pages from work, today was slow. Enjoy, hope everone had a safe 4th of July.

Happy 4th of July

Could not sleep so I drew a 4th of July card. I'm posting the pencil es and then the color. Color is not my friend just yet. I keep thinking in primaries too much need to spend more time with a color wheel. Hope your 4th is safe and happy.

07-04-08

page from work today.

Old Sketch

When this years sports illustrated swimsuit came out this year I spend some time sketching the lovely ladies. This is one I like out of the bunch.

Old artwork

Been diggen through old sketchbooks, and found this one of a co-worker. This is the original I later made a better one for her as a b-day present, enjoy.

Character Pose Sheet

This started out as a ink scribble on a note book at work today and at luch turned into this. The part I'm most happy with is the full pose. Most of the time I have a hard time constructing the character over the line of action but today all of the things I've been reading and sketching just clicked. Now I just have to make more time between my son, wife, and work. I know I'll stop sleeping!

Blog logo

Been working on a logo for my blog and in the future website.The pencile one was close to the final design of many many pages of ruffs but it still had something that buged me. It was the hind leg, so the blue one ( and no this isn't the final color) is the one I choose after fixing the leg.

More bears

Heres another page of bears from last saterday while having coffee. My wife liked the one holding the jar and I'm tryinh to push his design more. I also like the one with the heavy brow.

Last of an era

The last of the nine old men is gone. Godspeed Mr. Johnson you shall be missed

Bearly Ruff

Sorry couldn't refuse the bad pun but while on lunch today I came up with this bear.
I'd say I'm getting better at drawing with construction lines and such. Now I need to keep working on line of action and posing, using squash and stretch.

Character Ruff's

Hi all decided to post some character sketches I made of a monkey for a short I had an idea for. It never got more than a few pages in my sketchbook but it was fun to do anyway.

Looooooong Time no post

Well it's be awhile since I posted last. From that time to now. Me and my wife have welcomed our son Collin Gregory McLeod into the world, I had to have gallbladder surgery and have been told I have carpal tunnel syndrome. (fun!) Well 2007 turn out to have it's ups and downs, can't wait to see what this year has in store for me. Here is a picture on my greatest creation to date. He really has made me more focused on making a career in animation.

More pages from my sketch book

Here are some more pages from my sketch book.

Long time for a post

Well it's been a long time between posts. Had a injury with my drawing hand but better now and keeping my new year's resolution of filling a sketch book each month.

Sketches from X-mas Holiday

Here are some of the sketches I did over the holidays.

Happy New year

Well it's a new year and that means new art for the people that come and visit.

Sorry for the long over due post been busy drawing and I at the moment do not have internet acess where I'm at. So any who heres a sctecth from my last years sketch book that I played around with in photoshop. Enjoy and as always leave a comment or two. Oh I also have put up sketches from some of last years sketch books on my sketch blog, the link is on the right.
Thanks