Schoolism.com : Lesson 2: Silhouettes

I just handed in my second assignment.
Starting with the silhouette faze of the project we are Designing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, well a new take on it.
I choice Medieval theme king jekll and Lord hyde. We had to give a who, where, when, personality and physical details of the two characters. I marked the ones with a red "X" these will be the characters I will be developing for the weeks to come.

The silhouette faze was perfect for me it forced me to loosen up and not get hung up on details, it made me just play with shapes and ideas. I recommend it to everyone.

Background story of my characters:
King Jekyll's Father has just died and no one believes in the new king, so Jekyll takes a potion to transform himself into a large giant monster so he can defeat the monster and gain the towns people trust as their new king. but the taste of power is intoxicating and King Jekyll soon realizes he is in over his head when many of the towns people go missing in the night.

Jekyll

Who: King Jekyll
Where: fairly tale castle
When: Medieval Times
personality: Weak, clumsy, prissy,
appearance: Tall, bad posture, skinny
age: late teens early twenties
attitude: does not want to be king afraid of his own shadow

Hyde

Name: Lord Hyde
Where: Deep woods
When: Medieval Times
personality: Strong, breast like, possibly from nature
appearance: larger then life Giant!
age: NA
attitude: wants to be king and will kill who ever is in his way

Also check out a friends blog cedric hohnstadt who inspired me to post my journey in this class. click here

Next lesson to come - Lesson 3: Construction/Caricature.

Schoolism.com : Lesson 1: Jerry Loomy

I started taking a character design class online at Schoolism.com
Stephen Silver is the instructor and a professional artist, cartoonist and character designer. He is best known as the lead character designer for animated series such as Kim Possible and Danny Phantom and Clerks The animated series.

I just handed in my first assignment.
It was to create a character called Jerry Loomy.

Description of Jerry Loomy:
used car salesman boss. New York. 2008. A cruel, moody ,high strung, dishonest man. Wears a cheep button down shirt with a vest or sportscoat and a greecey tank top underneath and a tie that doesn't fit. Middle aged, White male Negative attitude towards life. Stocky Build around 5'4". A patch over one eye and missing a finger due to an angry employee biting it off. A large round head with deep set eyes and sunburned skin. receding hairline with a pony tail. mouth with yellow stained teeth.

With this first assignment Stephen wanted to get to know a little about us and see where our skill level was at and determine how to go about making us better character designers.

Next lesson to come - Lesson 2: Silhouettes

"Rex" model sheets version 1

First post for my new Children's Book I just started working on called "Practice Pet" I am still developing the characters but just wanted to share and get some feedback.

Hope you enjoy and more to come soon.

-rob

My long awaited Children's Book is in, come and get it!

For those who would like to order:
Jack and the Lost Tooth Children's Book

INFO ABOUT THE BOOK:
Written by: Anne Scully
Illustrated by: Robert Scully
50 page long children's book
with over 30 illustrated pages
8.5" x 11", perfect binding
ISBN: 978-0-578-01029-8

list price: $20.00 US

CHECK IT OUT!!

To purchase book Click here

Hope you Enjoy!

Children's Book *UPDATE*

FYI - Ok so it is almost here! My Children's Book "Jack and the Lost Tooth" Is at the printers and Should be available early January to purchase. Above is the final cover for the book hope you enjoy and check back soon for more details on when and where it will be available.
** to see some final Pages click here**

The release date is in early January

Hope your enjoy!

Funky Children's Wipes

Designer, Illustrated and developed a New Funky Fun Colorful Children's Wipes Program. enjoy

Holiday Illustrations

He are some Illustration I recently did for Bed Bath and Beyond and Buy Buy Baby they were used on gift cards, Signage, Website and circular. Hope you enjoy and go take a look at them in person :)