Primates! and also fire

Week one of Creature Construction & Anatomy - real Primates.  I picked a Cotton-top Tamarin because I like animals with built-in hairdos.  My classmates are kicking my ass so far at realistic rendering, and I had a small moment of crisis when I realized I had no idea how to draw cute cartoony animals, but overall it didn't turn out too bad.  Drawn with mechanical pencil on marker paper, colored in Painter. HW for Creature classes will all look something like this:

And then for Effects Animation, in addition to my bouncy-ball, I got to interpret a natural phenomena.  I wasn't supposed to forget that composition exists but I totally did.  I present to you very sharp fire:

Last semester I did almost all of my drawing digitally.  This semester I just don't have time to do it.  I am probably twice as fast with pencil and paper, and the results tend to be better.  If I had the time this would be a great opportunity to force myself to cut that speed and quality difference down, but it just doesn't exist.   Color will still probably be digital; maybe I will break out the colored pencils; maybe I will invest in some markers; maybe I will go crazy with the pipsqueaks.  ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!  You know what I really want to try? Watercolor...

Next Week: Imaginary Primates! Animated Fire! Ghostbusters! A Temple!

Hello, Art Blog

How have you been? Probably pretty lonely

...sorry D:

Here, have some ridiculously rudimentary art-stuffs.
Two beginner-artist rites of passage in one week:

1 - The Bouncing Ball Animation (yes, I really did this just now in my last semester at school. shush)

2 - Crates and Barrels - I can now officially call myself a video game artist.

Now I just need to think of a game with barrels full of spiders and poisoned martinis to put these in.

Up next: Primates! Fire! Action!