Stumptown Comic Festival

This last weekend, I attended the Stumptown Comic Festival here in Portland. 

It took place in a huge convention center, and due to the different events being held there, there was a wonderfully bizarre combination of people present. 

 I had a great time observing the contestants of the Spotlight Dance Cup, ambitious little girls with their faces caked in make-up.

And comic book geeks sketching each other:)

I was humbled by meeting Craig Thompson (he singed a copy of Blankets for me)

 And went home with a fine selection of comics and tons and tons of inspiration!

Composition for Storyboards

Today, I'm working on composition and perspective. These images are based on photos from Erik Benson's fantastic blog: http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2008/07/composition.html

Train Make-Over

Today I saw this happy couple on the train. 

 I briefly looked away. When I looked back, the lady was busy dyeing her hair a beautiful shade of green. 

When she was done, she put it up in a bun and started plucking her eyebrows, which was obviously quite painful. 

That done, it was time for make-up. 

 When they stepped off the train, she was a completely different person. Boyfriend looked happy, too:) 

Aah, the pleasures of public transportation! 

The Bike

a short Portland story. 

Zoo

I went to Oregon Zoo today. I ended up drawing more people than animals!

 This young polar bear was walking backwards

a beautiful pregnant lady. 

Airport

A quick composition sketch.

Fish!

An Illustration for a lecture entitled:
"Intractable and unsolved: The challenge of data assimilation with uncertain static parameters" :)

Concentration

Train Man

PELICAN Trailer - it's finished!

It's done - congratulations to the whole team! Enjoy! This is a project by director Magdalena Osinska. 

'My Donald' Storyboard

Storyboard for My Donald, a short 2D animation based on the song by Owen Hand.

Pelican© Animatic

This is the animatic for the trailer for Pelican©, a stop motion animation by Magdalena Osinska.