Martin Luther King Jr.

As many of you know black history month is coming up pretty soon.  I've been fortunate to have been comissioned to do a poster for it.  Overall the poster is pretty ambitious so I've been working away at it pretty diligently for the past week or so.  I hope the result will be special and memorable.

This is one of my personal heroes Martin Luthor King Jr. ;the famous civil rights advocate.  It's funny becuase being black, I realize that many of the oppourtunities I've been blessed with in my lifetime wouldn't have been possible if not for people like MLK.  He was brave enough to stand up for what he believed in and he ultimately lost his life as a result.  Thankfully, it was not in vain and I believe his dream is slowly becoming reality.

Thank you Martin Luther King for sharing your dreams with us.  As a result of your work and sacrifices, I feel that I too will be able to realize my dreams.

Anyone who would like to learn a bit more about Mr. King, can go here 

---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

God bless everyone!

-Gavin

Character anatomy

I always thought it would be cool to work out the skeleton and muscle system of a character design. To me it just brings them a little bit more to life. The first time I really ever saw this done to a high degree was in Disney's Tarzan. Which is one of my favorite Disney movies of all time.

I also had a really good teacher when I was a Seneca college who taught us a lot about anatomy. More than that though, he instilled in me a real passion for digging a bit deeper into the physical aspect of a character. By doing this I think we are able to enhance, to a degree the illusion of life, thereby creating a more convincing, believable character (thanks Werner). Of course, that doesn't get into personality and the story behind every character which is a whole other ball of wax.

Anyways, like I said, I always thought it would be cool to do an accurate skeletal system of an otherwise unbelievable character (I guess that is what appeals to me the most, taking something unbelievable and arranging all the little details in a way that makes it believable) which in theory, should render it a bit more believable, because it is based on things that makes sense.

So here are a couple of designs I did, you can see the initial sketch and then what I was able to do using Photoshop.

I hope you find it interesting!

Take care,

Gavin

Cat drawings

These are some drawings of a cat that I did a while ago. I was teaching a portfolio development class for students who were trying to get into animation school. One of the student's was nice enough to bring in her cat for everyone to draw. The cat was really cute, but it was terrified and wouldn't move at all. So we just rotated around the table and drew it from different angles.

I was just looking through some of my older drawings and I came across this so I decided to post it. More to come!

Take care,

Gavin