DANNY PICAR

Library Study Area

2011-05-27T16:16:00.000-07:00

I stumbled upon a texture assignment I did at Glendale Community College a couple years back in the introductory Maya class.

Idea Sketch: Path of a Warrior

2011-05-20T12:32:00.001-07:00

Draped Figure Drawing: Tippy Toes

2011-04-29T21:26:00.000-07:00

Composition: Fun with Value

2011-04-29T20:07:00.000-07:00

Construction Penguin

2011-04-29T19:55:00.000-07:00

Composition Exploration: Graveyard

2011-04-26T13:37:00.000-07:00

Female Mage

2011-04-20T01:44:00.000-07:00

Mage idea I had awhile back; it was time to revisit the idea. I'll give it some tonal value later in the week.

Draped Figure Drawing

2011-04-19T13:24:00.000-07:00

I revisited a few drawings from Karl Gnass' class.

Film Studies: The Bridge on the River Kwai

2011-04-19T12:16:00.001-07:00

All studying, all the time...

Kites

2010-11-18T15:19:00.000-08:00

At the Arboretum

2010-11-18T14:56:00.000-08:00

Chantry Flat Sketches

2010-09-24T12:47:00.001-07:00

Butterball

2010-09-16T01:59:00.000-07:00

Don't you just hate it when you get so worked up you fall over?

Bridge Design

2010-09-09T14:14:00.001-07:00

Film Studies Compilation

2010-09-09T12:26:00.000-07:00

Assortment of compositional studies from The Princess Bride, Touch of Evil, and Lawrence of Arabia

Gnass September 18th 2010 Seminar

2010-09-09T11:58:00.000-07:00

Just in case anyone was interested. It's a week from tomorrow. It's a really fun place to draw. Karl generally has a seminar every 3rd Saturday of the month.

Draped Figure Sketches

2010-04-04T23:05:00.001-07:00

The Princess Bride

2009-11-25T15:09:00.000-08:00

I felt like studying the movie The Princess Bride.

Starbucks Studies

2009-09-30T16:49:00.001-07:00

Quick Environment Thumb Post

2009-09-30T16:37:00.000-07:00

Malibu Creek State Park Inspired

2009-09-30T15:55:00.000-07:00

Karl Gnass's Blog

2009-09-02T19:09:00.000-07:00

Karl Gnass has a blog now. It's a great place to find announcements for his upcoming classes and seminars.

karlgnass.blogspot.com

Ship Port

2009-08-05T15:10:00.000-07:00

This was a challenge issued to me yesterday. Here's the beginning of my thought process.

Mage Poses

2009-07-22T18:58:00.000-07:00

I was looking at an old post of mine of a mage idea and was inspired to further develop the idea. Here is my exploration of shapes. I chose not to fully fill in the silhouettes so I could remember some of the small shapes I found interesting.

Toasterdoodle blog

2009-07-22T11:28:00.000-07:00

Here's my little wrestler.

Smile

2009-06-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

Interior Quick Study

2009-06-13T23:12:00.000-07:00

I was at a family party and decided to do a 15 min quick sketch.

Timed Thumbs

2009-06-04T20:12:00.000-07:00

More thumbs I did with a set time limit to see how much I could get done.

City

2009-06-03T23:37:00.001-07:00

After looking at Paul Lasaine's blog, I was inspired to play with pastel-like colors in Photoshop. The other two thumbs are blue and black Tombow markers with blue pencil.

Fun With Composition

2009-05-27T23:09:00.000-07:00

I was inspired to do more thumbnails after Don Hahn's presentation last night at The Animation Academy.

Dragonfly Kite Revisited

2009-05-22T17:14:00.000-07:00

This is my work in progress value tonal.

Lion Bodies

2009-05-19T13:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a few quick silhouettes I did last night building off the lion head design.

Coffee Shop Head Drawings

2009-05-18T13:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some pencil sketches I did last week. I splashed on a little color and value.

Lion Head Design

2009-05-16T14:47:00.000-07:00

Thanks Carl and Jay for nudging me to post again.

Composition Progress

2008-10-03T17:42:00.000-07:00

Here's a dragonfly kite composition I've been tinkering with. I'll post an updated version once I've worked out the kinks.

Mage Idea

2008-08-28T19:33:00.001-07:00

Bear

2008-08-22T00:16:00.000-07:00

What's a random sketch page without random sketches?

Gorilla

2008-07-01T23:46:00.000-07:00

Little Warrior

2008-06-04T12:35:00.000-07:00

Here's a rough I've been working on.

Organizing...

2008-05-01T18:04:00.001-07:00

Here's a character I came up with while having a nice cup of coffee. I know I haven't posted any creative material lately, but I felt like I needed to step back and learn more fundamentals through figure drawing. Now, I think it's time to start posting again. I'm going to organize my sketches from now on and try to keep some order. This will be my random sketch page. I just posted on my figure drawing page. I'll work on the character design and background design blogs soon enough. The links will be found under My Other Blogs.

Head Drawings

2008-04-26T14:35:00.000-07:00

On Monday's class, we had a chance to do expressions.

Just Returned from Figure Drawing

2008-01-31T22:50:00.000-08:00

I just got back from draped figure drawing over at the Animation Guild. Here's a sample of what I did tonight.

Hamlet

2007-10-29T12:25:00.000-07:00

I apologize for not posting anything since June. Here's a drawing I did in the summer session at The Animation Academy in the narrative illustration class.

Alien

2007-06-29T17:35:00.001-07:00

Here's an alien design I've been working on. It was one of the first times I used Photoshop only to rework a drawing. I'll take another pass at it with pencil. I added a head design because I couldn't stand looking at the rough.

To Be Reworked

2007-06-29T14:47:00.000-07:00

I did this character lineup in November 2005. I'd like to see what I can do with them now. Stay tuned...

Another Elf

2007-06-29T14:39:00.002-07:00

Work in progress...

Reworked Pose

2007-06-26T16:11:00.000-07:00

Here is the pose reworked.

Coffee Shop Drawings

2007-06-21T16:00:00.000-07:00

Here are some faces I sketched at the coffee shop this week. I'll be reworking Before And After 4's stance to make it more natural.

Before and After Part 4

2007-06-18T23:53:00.001-07:00

Here's the fourth reworked image. For the most part, this was one was done in Photoshop using layers like markers.

Before and After 3

2007-06-15T18:34:00.000-07:00

Here's the third one. I don't think I'll have time tonight to finish the last one. I should be able to get to it and post it by Monday.

Ogre Warrior

2007-06-15T00:36:00.000-07:00

I designed this ogre in November 2006, and I have pushed off rendering it until now. The second one was done with marker and the third was done in Photoshop. I'll be visiting this piece again in the near future.

Before and After Part 2

2007-06-14T20:32:00.001-07:00

Here's the 2nd installment. The next two should be up tomorrow afternoon.

Before and After

2007-06-14T17:11:00.001-07:00

I went back to the drawings I did at the coffee shop and tried to rework each one individually. Here's the first reworked drawing. I put the initial and reworked drawing side by side to illustrate how much a difference can be made by taking more time to think and plan. I'm not completely happy with the drawing but I had to show my progress.

Apparel Reworked

2007-06-14T12:40:00.000-07:00

Here are some minor changes I did in class.

Apparel

2007-06-09T15:24:00.000-07:00

Here are my designs from this week's class. My next revision will make the faces less ambiguous.

1st Rough

2007-06-09T14:55:00.000-07:00

In an effort to rework my drawings in a timely fashion, I'm going to start posting my roughs and go through the process. I figure it will force me to stay on task since everyone can see my progress. If any of the viewers comment on my mistakes before i can fix them, then I know I'll have to work even faster to get the revisions up. Anyway, here are my first set of drawings. Yesterday at the coffee shop, I was playing around with brown paper and marker to get myself away from the usual white paper.

Fun with Graphite

2007-06-01T23:12:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple head designs I did a couple weeks ago for class.

Head Designs Posted at The Animation Academy's Blog

2007-05-15T18:04:00.000-07:00

Please, go check out the school's blog, which is under my favorite links. Charles posted on May 14 some head designs I did last week in class.

Tree House

2007-04-27T15:39:00.000-07:00

I took another approach having the house within a tree.

House in the Forest

2007-04-26T18:55:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple more thumbnails I did in class in the session that just finished:

Random Doodle

2007-03-17T17:07:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick head sketch I did last night while I was talking to a friend.

More Perspective

2007-03-16T12:34:00.000-07:00

The first drawing is a thumbnail I did in last week's class. My background design instructor, Robert, noticed I tend to render too early so I tried to take a step back and just work on the pencil lines on the second thumbnail.

Ogres

2007-03-16T11:58:00.000-07:00

Here's a drawing I did while I was in the visual development class in December. In this piece, Charles asked me to draw female ogres preparing for dinner with an emphasis on the interaction between the characters. He told me to really push the simplicity of design of the ogres. After working out several thumbnail sketches and roughs, this is the picture I came up with.

Elves Reworked

2007-03-13T16:21:00.000-07:00

I was unhappy with how the girls looked and tried to come up with solutions by flipping the drawing, reworking it first in blue pencil and then markers.

Female Elves

2007-03-07T20:12:00.000-08:00

I was bored the other day and decided to draw female elves.

My First Post

2007-03-06T17:32:00.000-08:00

Here's a drawing I did a couple weeks ago. The one point perspective version can be found at The Animation Academy's blog. Thanks again, Charles, for persuading me to put up my artwork.