character designs

It’s been a while, blog-o-mine. I figured it was time to finally post up some of the doodles I did in an animal character design class I took summer 2008 from David Colman! I still don’t have a scanner, so once again it’s cleaned-up iPhone photos. (Sorry! :<) There’s a lot of things wrong with these drawings, but I learned A LOT in the process. . . that’s all that counts!

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December 28, 2009

Animal Character Design Class

“Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.”

I wonder if they’ll ever re-make “The Phantom Tollbooth.”

September 30, 2008

The Road to Dictionopolis


For the past few weeks I’ve been taking an online storyboarding class through Schoolism.com. Here’s some quick character doodles for my latest assignment (I’m a bit behind… ack) based on a script called “The Dysfunctional Dam.”

Have I mentioned how I hate creating interior home environments? I automatically think of a couch, a lamp and a TV. And the rest of the house is empty.

September 18, 2008

Cupcake syringe

The first faculty critique came and went in a flurry. I’m not sure what’s going to happen with my story quite yet, but I’m experimenting with a new character design based on feedback I got in the crit.
At the very least, I like the colors for him and the sock . . . that is, if my story even has a sock in it anymore. :(

February 6, 2007

Revised character design:

Took a break from homework to do some flamingo doodles:
And here’s another color dino + sock — in amazing TECHNICOLOR NEON!

January 30, 2007

Doodley doo.


. . . I’ll put something else other than dinosaurs up here soon, I promise.

- kim

January 28, 2007

More character exploration!