Taffetas Studies

 My pal Yesenia Carrero and I have been at work studying up on mythology, independently producing animation, and pitching for the last few days. We still have quite a lot of books to get through before we're done.

It's driving me crazy not really drawing anything for the project since feel like we're stagnating somehow, even though I know this writing/research part is of the utmost importance. So here's the drawings I've been doing in the down-time, some studies, practice and silly sketches so that I'll be ready to go when the concept art portion hits.

Elena Sketches

Exploring the siren character Elena for my and Yesenia's series pitch, The Taffetas. I'll get down to the nitty-gritty with extensive silhouette and outfit studies and stuff in a bit, but for now I play.

The Taffetas Once More

If you read The Taffetas production blog, you're probably aware of the revamping our story and pitch presentation is undergoing. I'm thrilled as this means a ton of new art for me to do. The above image is something I just finished off yesterday. It's our new Veil and Gemini couple picture which Yesenia is vectoring in our style. I like how it came out, and I love their outfits. I finally made veil's feet bigger which is something I've been meaning to do for a long time.

I went through a lot of rough sketches and thumbnails for this image, in the end it came down to two rough poses, both of which I inked and colored although the one I choose to show today is by the far the better one.

 

A taste of some of the sketch work- rough poses and Yesenia's help with possible fashion choices

As usual, I'm super excited for Taffetas and I feel great about the direction we're headed. I'm especially happy to finally be caught up with our e-mails for the project, which took all weekend. I feel like a weight has been lifted, and now we can really be more efficient in our correspondence with crew members and supporters once more. 

Not to mention our slick new e-mail template designed by Yesenia Carrero.

We've also got a lot good things going for us which I am very grateful for. We've almost reached 300 likes on our facebook page which is fantastic! I really think we could reach 500 by the end of next year and this is all before we've even started production on the project! Wow. 

I'm so surprised and honored by how much support we get for this project. It's really touching and confirms my belief that this is going to be something big.

 

In closing, here's a drawing of baby Veil (or their son Licorice, really).

Can't Sleep

 

  

So I draw

Ruud Request

A few weeks ago I held a visitor contest on my deviantart, offering up 1 free drawing for the person who nabbed my 50,000th pageview. I had two winners in the end, the talented composer/sound designer James Dalby and one of my art-peer idols, Ruud Hendricks.

The latter's request is the one I chose to do first and just finished today. He requested a romantic picture of him and his girlfriend (or their avatars, at least). It was an honor for me because I really idolize both his and his girlfriend's work as designers and artists. You can learn about their self-run studio here.

Also, on a related tangent, On October 2nd I received a Daily Deviation (a special feature) on devianart.com with my Veil Taffeta test animation. I am so grateful, as this is not only my second DD but The Taffeta's second DD as well (the first one belonging to The Birth of Something Beautiful). With over 1,000 favorites, 30+ likes to The Taffetas facebook, and 300 new watchers to my deviantart I couldn't be more thrilled. I'm always so taken aback by how much support the Taffetas work receives, which makes me excited for more great work to come.