SOLACE -- because I clearly have nothing better to be doing

this is my cat. his name is raven. sometimes he looks up at me and is filled with infinite sadness.

Time: About 10 minutes each, medium: blue col-erase in a q-book.

I'd been meaning to get a Q-book for sometime now.

I guess you could call these a cross between workbooks and storyboards, because they're not quite either. I was drawing from the writing I'd been doing the last couple of days.

I plan on cleaning them up, I'll show you when they're done.

Cheers

EDIT: I rearranged them so they're in order. But there's still beats missing, so it probably won't make sense.

The Moonstone -- and a new header for the blog - again.

time: 2 hours; medium: pencil with a little photoshop touchups

So here's another one form the Warriors, the coveted Moonstone deep within the cavern of the High Rocks.

I've started using leadholders and smudge sticks again, they're both blessings.

I Also changed the header to the blog, because while yes, I Can animate - it's pretty clear now that layout's where I belong. Anyway, enjoy the cats guys.

Warriors again

time: 1 hour, medium: photoshop

I actually have no right to do this artwork, because the Warriors belongs to HarperCollins entirely, but I wanted to do this.

This is my interpretation of the medicine cat's den, that's Cinderpelt.

Workbooks

If you were a girl, and you loved cats, you probably read Erin Hunter's "Warriors". It's a cute story, that I'm surprised hasn't seen more attention - and to be honest, it's a real imagination stirrer. I also wanted to try something different; I was talking to Darnell about layout - and I realized, I haven't worked out of my comfort zone of attractive women and architecture for a while -- so I decided to get my feet wet and try out cutesy cuddly cats and organic layouts.

the book cover, for the first novel. apparently it has a huge fanbase.

I've generated some preliminary location designs.

time: 2 hours; pencil, with some photoshop touchups for the light.

time: 1 1/2 hours; pencil with photoshop touchups for the light

Also, this is my younger cat, Raven, trying to communicate with the old crotchety cat that is Amber.

time: about 10 minutes; reason: it's happened too many times to keep track. Needs to be documented.

Oh yeah, one last update - The OCD hasn't seen the last of me and check out my portfolio at:
http://leisha-riddel.daportfolio.com

time: 6.5 hours, medium: photoshop

K. I'm gone to New York. Be back soon.

Panelist Portfolio Review -- Say that 5 times fast.

For full portfolio click here.

Portfolio has also been updated on carbonmade. To answer any questions as to why some of the layouts look particularly wide -- it's not because I'm making the jump to cinemascope, although that would be fun - they're actually mini-pans. 2-4 field pans.

Sc015 - storyboard panel

Sc015 - Rough Layout first pass

Sc015 Rough Layout - Second Pass; adding more character

Sc016 - Storyboard Panel

Sc016- Rough Layout

Sc022-Storyboard Panel

Sc022- Rough Layout

Sc023 - Storyboard Panel

Sc023-Rough Layout

Sc025 - Storyboard Panel

Sc025 - Rough layout/Poses

Sc034 - Storyboard Panel

Sc034 - Rough Layout

Sc039 - Storyboard Panel

Sc039 - Rough Layout

Sc047 - Storyboard Panel

Sc047 - Reuse of 39's background, new poses.

Red Wolfe - Too many pans? And Royal Winter

After much deliberation, I decided it was okay to post some production work up. Here's some of the heavies from the pile of layouts that I just finished. I have about 15 pans, and 30 layouts. Yes, I actually cut it down from 40. These are just the digital ones, and the effort I put into them tonally was somewhat minimal. I'm doing the traditional ones with graphite powder and love. I might not post those, just to tease.

So as a treat, I also included the lines from the script to accompany the rough layouts.

Sc.002 --
"The jazz hall is littered with boozehounds, flappers and dapper fellows. A single spot shines on the curtains which has a silhouette of a person in tophat standing aloof."


Sc. 005
"The wings of the Redemption are rampant with activity, as costume racks fly past, the longest pair of legs you've ever seen stomp up the stairs to the star dressing rooms."

Sc.006
"You get a flash of leg, and the glimpse of a girdle as the woman travels up the creaky hallway."

Sc.007 --
"She kneels down to hike up her fallen hosiery once more, as she's missing her left garter. She catches something out of the corner of her eye from her gussying up and notices a poster that reads - "ALEX WOLFE, TONITE!" plastered over another. A robed arm reaches up and rips off the top half exposing the one underneath; combined they now read "RED WOLFE, TONITE!". The woman storms off in the direction of the starred dressing room..."

And now, on a much less slutty note, The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair drawings:

I call the above: RACISM.

Also:

Nice number.