My first iPad drawing!

Procreate (suspiciously similar to 'procrastinate'!) is an awesome drawing software for iPad. If you have an iPad, you should definitely check it out. Drawn with a Wacom Bamboo pen for iPad. This, by the way, is the romantically horrible view from my living room window. 

TS3 Buzz quick sketchin'

Some quick sketching from Toy Story 3. Buzz is so fun to draw!

Merry Christmas!

Some drawings from a sketching session organized by my good friend Rafi Ben Aharon, featuring a hung-over Santa.

Superhero comics style chick

This is something I did for Hands Up studio a little while back. The semi-realistic, anatomical superhero comics style is not something I have much experience with , so I was glad (and a bit scared) of the opportunity to try it out. In the end, I think I pulled it off reasonably well.

It got canned, by the way. Turns out what the client really really wanted was an owl.  :-D

 

Army doodles

Well what do you know, I’m not dead after all... I was just very focused on my secret project, a book I’ve been working on for the past 5 years (!). I’ll write more about it soon; for now, I’m happy to say I finished the first draft, and I hope and believe that re-writing is going to be much easier than writing.

As soon as I finished the thing I was called to the army for a couple of weeks (routine stuff), and while I was there I sketched these (ballpoint pen). The colors are Photoshoped in.

Jungle book quick-sketching #2

To be perfectly honest, the last two were so disappointing in the original quick sketch session, that I just had to re-sketch them this morning. These are the new ones.

Jungle book quick-sketching #1

From a quick-sketching session at Snowball VFX. To be continued – there' are also some Baloo sketches.

Playing with facial shapes

I drew all four during one of our longer “dailies” meetings at Snowball. The upper left one was the inspiration for the other four (loosely based on my friend Nir G., though it looks more like his evil twin…sorry Nir!)

The other three are my attempts to interpret and accentuate the special feature of the first drawing: mainly the forehead and the jaw. My favorite interpretation is the cubical dude.

I noticed that I somehow I got much better at controlling my lines, even though I don’t use pencil so much – it’s mainly Wacom these days. Maybe it’s because the Wacom is so hard to control? Either way, I’m not complaining :)

People (and a motorcycle)

Dragon concept

I'm thinking of storyboarding something with dragons. Maybe I will. A bit of concept in the meanwhile.

Dysfunctional dam - environment prep

I'm not so good at set design, but here's my rough attempt  at two POVs in the room.  This is a beaver's home, so the way to get in and out is by diving through a hole in the floor. I gave the hole a door, and placed some towels by the entrance.  I'm going to have mama beaver wash dished, and I thought it would be cute if the "sink" is just another hole in the floor. The junk food is needed for the script, and I knoe the stove is a bit strange - but what the hey, I missed a big round shape and pushed in a stove. Sue me.

Dysfunctional Dam - prep designs

For my next storyboard assignment....

The script I chose is about a domestic fight in an inter-species family. Mom is a beaver, dad is a raccoon. I wanted them to look like one of those couples who are so busy in day-to-day survival, that they can't see the big picture anymore. They forgot what's really important, and so they get more and more beaten, bitter and fat by the day. 

A few older versions:

His or Hen's - preperation sketches

I forgot to mention that the "His or Hen's" story was developed by me and my girlfriend together. Couldn't have done it without her.

I'm not much of a color person, somehow I get bored by very detailed color work. I threw in some colors just as an indication, but I wish I had the patience to really make a painting out of this. I can see a lot of opportunity for interesting lighting here. 

Morning

My latest arty-farty attempt. Inspired by Pablo Picasso and my girlfriend.

Elderly cowboy

Been a while eh? :-) Happy to update with a doodle again.

The BG is a photoshop distortion of an actual arisona photo. I thought the realistic shapes would make a nice contrast with the simplistic shapes of the guy. What do you think?

A doodle

I'm taking Kris Pearn's storyboarding course at Schoolism. Joy! (The drawing has nothing to do with it, it's just an absent-minded doodle).

Treezomania!

Meeting doodles #1

I haven't been in blogging mood for a while, but I think I'm back now. These are a couple of doodle pages from some meeting back in Crew972. Scanned and untouched, except for some small adjustments to save space. Hope you like my strange braindrops.

Old boiler factory

Yesterday I went out to sketch some architecture. I was thinking of going to Neve Tzedek, an area famous for its unique and beautiful architecture. On the way there, however, I noticed a shabby old building. I've seen it many times, but this time I was really looking. The wealth of texture in form and detail was truly fascinating. Drawing some fancy "straight" house suddenly seemed boring.

So I stopped and sketched it. I drew two versions in my sketchbook, then went home and did a more relaxed Wacom sketch, which is the one I'm posting.

A guy working in a nearby garage told me that 60 years ago, it had been a boiler factory.

Running in the rain

So here is one of the illustrations from the picture book I'm working on. I'm quite happy with this one. More to come!