Yeehhaaa Cowboy

I recently watched the film 3:10 to Yuma, with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. I really liked the landscapes and characters so it really inspired me to draw some cowboy characters. This is the only one I have done so far. He is an older fella, who lives in the snowy mountains. I used a red pencil to sketch it up then Coloured him up using only adobe illustrator. I'm really happy with the outcome as it doesn't look too vectorish considering it was done in illustrator.

poster!

Hey loong time since I last updated my blog! I have no job but keeping busy!

I gave myself a little project of creating a poster full of my favourite characters/films.

Here is a little bit of the process I went through. I first drew the charcters on paper, then went over them using Illustrator as it has a very nice line. I then used Photoshop for textures, shadows, etc.

I'm very pleased with how it came out! Hopefully people can identify the characters. If not I'll post them after the picture.

Hope you like.

'My Favourite', camper van (Heisenberg), top hat : Breaking Bad

Dinosaur : Jurassic Park

Temple, bolder : Indiana Jones

3 boys in front of camper van : Superbad

Hand out of the ground : The Walking Dead

Captain America

Forrest Gump

Me

Brick and Brian : Anchorman

Aln : Hangover

White Goodman : Dodgeball

Kirk Lazarus : Tropic Thunder

'by Owain Emanuel' : American Pie font

Gollum : Lord of the Rings

The shire: Hobbit

Wings ashes : Supernatural

Couch and Fountain : Friends

X wing Fighter : Star Wars

E4 Sting

I thought I would enter an idea in for the E4 sting competition this year.

The one idea I had, which I didn't end up using was based on the dating app 'Tinder'. Instead of seeing people though, I had animal characters pop up. The hand would keep swiping left (Which is No) until it reached E4.

Here's the characters for the app.

 A llama

 A pugg

and a sloth.

The idea I eventually went with was based on the Zoetrope. I had this quick idea of making it really old school, a bit like a silent film. And as the animation quickens up, the colour comes back to make it a little bit more modern.

First of all I animated the E4 icon doing a simple jump using Adobe flash. Using the 12 steps I then laid them out on the circle that I used to be my Zoetrope.

I made a little box then so you can only see one E4.

I used Adobe After Effects to do the animation, and this is what it looks like.