Thanksgiving Crazy Turkey!!

Hello! I hope you all have had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It was because of this Thanksgiving that sparked an inspiration for a new turkey drawing! I have some exciting work Id like to present that are in development! I think it helps me to have different projects to work on so that it keeps my mind active with more inspiration and ideas. Anywho here is my turkey(in progress):

My turkey has teeth as you can see in the opening of the beak. Ill color them and see if I like them or not. Im afraid they might make my turkey look took terrifying. But thats the fun of experimenting(seeing what looks good or not)! Speaking of experiments, I also played around with brushes and the painting mode. Im pleased with how the burn mode turned out for the larger feathers above his head.

When I looked at my last blog posting, I did say I should post drawings from my sketchbook sometime. Well it just so happens that I did some while I was away in NYC as well as over the weekend with my dad while he was oil painting in his friend's gallery. Here are excerpts from my sketchbook:

 

The first one are just random characters. This was where I also tried out an inking pen(Not the inkwell kind, but the plastic one that you can squeeze, and has a brush tip.)and careful outlined my sketches. It was actually pretty fun and would like to try inking again!

My last 3 excerpts are design ideas for a stop motion film I have in mind. You'll see a few drawings where she looks "snake-like". That's because my story will be about how my chihuahua, Glory, sneaks up to a dinner plate to eat something real quick. Ive caught her on more than one occasion trying to eat from my plate. Its pretty funny! She only has this behavior because her previous owners(my family and I believes)let her eat whatever she wanted. So we've been trying to correct this behavior. Anywho, the best part is that my other chihuahua, Lulu, has acquired a new funny behavior! Every time(well almost)she sees Glory try to sneak a bite, she will growl at her as if to say "Dont even think about it!!". I want to play around with how Glory is so skinny, lanky, and snake-like. Ill even exaggerate it too. As far as the medium goes, I was thinking about making this into a paper stop motion film. I remember animating a super short little story in paper in my first animation class. So it has been quite some time since Ive used the medium. If I do go through with paper, I would like to use different textures to make it interesting as well as to make the shots have a nice composition.

Thats about it for now. I will be visting my sister and friends next week until the end of classes. I WILL however keep developing my Glory character and she will definitely be posted in the next blog entry!