A Repository of Sketchings, Current Projects, And Miscellaneous other art-related things by T.C. McKenna
T-shirt design for my brother’s dance marathon team . They were really into dinosaurs and I gave them two ideas (one with only the t-rex and this one) and this is the one they liked best. I really like how it came out, especially the stegosaurus. It’s three colors total (black, orange and white) on a dark blue t-shirt. I’m getting an honorary shirt, so I’ll post pictures of the real thing when I get it.
Really dig doing t-shirt designs.
Most people hate Valentine’s Day. As well they probably should, it’s a silly day made up to sell cards and chocolates and stuff. But sometimes that’s okay. Especially since here, in the dead of winter, I get seasonal affection disorder. Most people get the other sort of SAD (seasonal affected disorder), which I also get. I’m pretty sure my SAD is a reaction to the first sort. Whatever it is, around this time of the year, I get an overwhelming urge to draw/paint adorable small furry creatures. Sometimes they have scales or feathers instead of fur, but they’re almost always adorable and cute. Valentine’s day brings out the worst of this because I feel the pull to draw small furry creatures In LOVE! All twitterpated and disney-fied.
So today I have for you adorable squirrels (actually, more correctly, adorable squirrely butts). Tomorrow? Who KNOWS. Possibly baby rhinos, or camels, or frilled lizards. Very likely there will be more squirrels (I like squirrels), possibly even these squirrels in the aftermath of their peanut buttery indulgence (but who didn’t eat peanut butter from the jar at some point in college?? definitely not me…)
Been working with one of my brothers on his final film project, “Break” (which is loosely based on Euripides’ Medea, and then more loosely inspired by the graphic novel version of Medea I did my sophomore year of college).
The uncolored storyboards are more of the quick and dirty type – the “i only just got our final shots today and can you do these storyboards overnight, please?” kind. I kind of like working on that kind of deadline, but it usually results in the less than perfect storyboards (and this is not super acceptable for portfolios and the like). So I spent the portion of today NOT spent searching for jobs to apply to and applying to them, working on some loose color ideas for page 2 (which is full of gore, so of course I went for that). I was trying out a vector-ish look which I sort of like, until I did the Lucretia smiling panel in a more painterly style (but still with super high saturation), so now I kind of want to go back and do it all in that style…
we’ll see.
I ran 4.5 miles this morning and spent most of the day working on the job search, so this evening I took a little break and cranked this out. I think she’s the best so far of the unintentional series of somewhat scantily clad women wielding interesting weaponry and probably ineffectual armor.
I was trying to go for a slightly different look with the inking and the coloring style, too. I kind of dig how it came out. I was sort of thinking of her as being something between a rogue and a druid as far as class goes (I am always tempted to play druids because they usually get to be shapeshifters or have animal companions, but they’re generally just weaker versions of rogues).
I was thinking of her as a non-celtic/gaelic druid class (so the fantasy desert equivalent, with maybe something akin to a cheetah as a familiar instead of the usual bear/wolf/raven/boar option). I might do a series, possibly with equally scantily clad men, just for y’know, equality.
Did a tiny bit of research on the armor-mostly just looked at different armor styles that appeal to me (I still really dig chinese armor, it’s got all kinds of neat swoops and spikes and such) and mixed them up.
I also doodled a horse. It started out as a realistic horse, but quickly devolved into a silly horse. I have real trouble with horses. They just look wrong, proportionally. On one hand, they’re big, strong animals. But on the other hand, they’ve got teeny thin legs, unlike other big strong animals that have nice sturdy legs (rhinos, elephants, hippos, etc).
Working off my vague doodles from graduation. She’s still looking kind of generic. Also working on new painting techniques.
must research better armor, me thinks.
Well I officially graduated from CDIA on Saturday. Very exciting and all that. The ceremony was actually quite nice and the key note speaker was pretty interesting, even if one of the other speakers compared all artists to prostitutes, which was a bit odd (if possibly accurate- still odd). As per usual, I brought a pen since I inevitably get bored at this sort of thing, and one should always be prepared to doodle.
Worked on a new character design which I may do more with. so that’s good.
Also my portfolio website is all up and running, demo reel/technical project reel and everything. In case anyone who reads this, doesn’t read any of my other media portals.
