{"id":1974,"date":"2007-02-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2007-02-16T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:01:00","slug":"character-of-the-week-burglar-plus-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"Character of the Week: Burglar… PLUS BONUS!"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Posted early because I’m too tired to stay up until midnight, and dishonestly post-dated because I am a liar…<\/em>)<\/p>\n

My friend Rick<\/a> is teaching a character design class at Cal State Long Beach–he has created a blog for the class<\/a>, and each week he’s having his professional friends participate in the assignments along with his students. Well, somehow Rick totally overlooked the fact that I’m way<\/em> unprofessional, and has allowed me to participate as well.<\/p>\n

This week’s assignment was a burglar. The entries can be found here<\/a>. And here’s what I cooked up:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I took a little time to design this character’s build and costume, did a quick rough in blue pencil, and tightened it up in the inks. My “sketchy” ink style is starting to get cleaner the more I do this–I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing overall, but in this case it worked, because the inks turned out pretty clean on the face in particular, so I was comfortable leaving the lines black, rather than softening them with color, as I have mentioned before<\/a>. The coloring on this one was again done with the Nina<\/em> technique, rather than the Skeletor<\/em> technique. Surprisingly, I think the Nina technique is faster sometimes! The biggest difference on this piece is that I actually added some lighting effects from the gem’s glow. The lighting effects are a little sloppy and a little inconsistent, but for a relatively quick sketch, I’m okay with it. And hey, for me, any lighting effects at all are an improvement, yes?<\/p>\n

And as an added bonus… last week’s assignment from Rick was a lumberjack. The entries can be found here<\/a>. This is mine:<\/p>\n

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I didn’t quite have time to finish a new lumberjack illustration, so I sent Rick this, which was originally commisioned by my friend James Bates<\/a> for an animation pitch a few years ago. This is a pretty good example of the anal-retentive style that I often make reference to<\/a>. Extremely tight pencils and inks, but not many details on this one, because I was going for a simplified look, knowing that this was supposed to be an animation design. Looking back on it, I wish I had made slightly different color choices on the skin and undershirt, but overall it holds up OK, I guess.<\/p>\n

Post Script<\/b>: For those who did not notice–I posted a couple of reviews. Scroll down to the previous post to check ’em out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Posted early because I’m too tired to stay up until midnight, and dishonestly post-dated because I am a liar…) My friend Rick is teaching a character design class at Cal State Long Beach–he has created a blog for the class, and each week he’s having his professional friends participate in the assignments along with his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-ho-originals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}