I wanna be the Indian

Done in Illustrator

Tyronius

An addendum to the detectives world. I have a few other characters that I'll be introducing as well. Back stories will come with time. Hope you like.

Detective

Couldn't quite come up with an adequate name for this guy as of yet... maybe later.

I'm still practicing animation and this guy may be a test subject. Done in Flash.

Rhino Mug

Post for the Artblog challenge for the week.

Finger Licking Good

My idiom for the ArtJumble topic of the week.

More Hero Sketches

These aren't what i want them to be as of yet... guess that's why they call them sketches : )

Speed bag Sketch

Hero Sketches

I've been watching this show and i've done a few sketches on my take on some characters. For now I'm posting 2.

Squared

Didn't know what to call this guy. I made him by pushing and pulling squares in Illustrator, thus the name. Maybe i'll use him for animation in Flash. Working on simplifying characters.

Lil Monster

This is a post for monster week on Art Jumble.

Did a PS sketch, then resketched in Illustrator, then colored in PS. I was too lazy to use the pen tool on this guy, but I like the uneven lines it produced.

Deal or No Deal

Watched the show last night...more new posts coming.

Doodle

This came about after doing some scribbling then fine tuning... had nothing in mind when started.

Done in PS.

The Novelist

This is a character design for my next big animation project. It's gonna be a music vid of my man Marcus Pittman "AKA" The Novelist. He's got a hot cd and I wanted to pay homage by doing an animated vid.

I wanted to put that out there, to hold myself accountable : ).

As you can see i've been doodling small gifs to get back into the habit and mindset of motion.

I may change the clothing slightly and may rework the colors a bit for this one... who knows.. C & C welcome.

More Animating tests

Working on timing and what not. I plan on working on more developed animation soon. C & C welcome. Done in Flash.

Working on Animating

Trying to get back into the swing of Animation, so I did this little diddy for that purpose. Artistic beauty was not a serious concern here as you can see. Hope you like. I'm trying to work on timing... more to definitely come.

Trent Strong

I came across an old project, that I may update and revamp. The characters name is trent strong, and I've had a number of developments for this particular character over the years. I may revisit my original designs for this and ad some animation.

This is an intro animation (definitely nothing special). This was when I was first learning flash... I may post my first ever flash project as well. At the time I was over joyed with the results... now... I'm shooting for higher heights : )

Creativity Starters

Random pics to get creative juices flowing. More to come.

Bully kid

This may have to be reworked, cause I feel i've lost something with the flash reconstruction.

Flash Wips

Characters to be designed in Flash... these are a few of the various characters that i've been designing for use in Flash. Done in PS.

Hoping to post the finished designs tomorrow.

Jam

No name in mind at this point so I called this kid Jam. Another flash pic... hoping to animate these in the near future.

Villain

No Real story, just wanted to do some FLASH characters and this is what I cam up with.

Sketched Colored

Tried something different with my coloring and i'm not too happy with the results. C & C welcome.

Sketch in Progress

I'm working on this pic to be colored. Done in PS. It's a redraw of the kid with pet pic I posted previously.

Website up and somewhat Runing

IF anyone is interested my site lafetaylor.com is currently up and running. It's a smaller version of what I intend to make my site be, but it has a variety of my work.

Be sure to check out my webtemplates as well, you just might see something you like : )

New Look of Business

This pic is loosely based on myself and experiences. I look nothing like this guy, so don't think this is an image of me : ) . I came up with this idea based on the changing look of business. I work in a fashion driven business, and on rare occassions I get to meet some of our customers. When I was in Germany this past year, I attended the Bread and Butter event, which is for European Jeans and streatwear fashions amongst other things. Anyway, Business had a totally different look. I was dressed similar to this cat amongst many varying styles of dress. In short, I was just thinking about paradigm shifts and stereotypes of business. Hopefully that made some since : )

Done in PS.

Doodles 6

Just some random doodles to post on the blog. : ) PS sketches.

Sketches to be Completed

It's been some time since an adequate post so I decided to put these unfinished pieces up until they're completed.




Thanks for stopping by.

Updates coming soon

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, i've been rather busy. I will have some artwork to post very soon. Thanks for stopping by.

How does he use the bathroom?

Ever wonder what it's like to have to go in a super hurry?

Old Sketches

It's been a while since I've posted anything, so I decided to post some old sketches. I did most of these in 2003, if not all of them. I'm going through an old sketchpad and drawing on the back of the pages... I loved this particular pad, so i decided to maximize my drawing in it and drawing on the opposite blank pages or back sides of the drawings.




Below is a series of old sketches... These are all the same character. The concept was for a story that never really panned out. I designed a variety of styles for the character. Here are a few.

Demons

This was for a weekly challenge over at Ben Caldwells forum on demons. Since demons are more or less manifested in people this thought immediately came to mind.

Unfortunately this image is all too real for many children.

Gladys

Same exercise

Cefu

Another character development where we make a character descript and draw what we think the character should look like.

Character Concept 2

New body style sketch...done in PS

Character Concepts

These are all concepts for the same char... lemme know whatya think.

Doodle/Gestures

Just to post.. : )

Face Doodles 3

PS Doodles ... nothing special, just need to post : )

Granpa Perkanzetta

Illustrator, then exported to Flash. Instead of just doing colors I decided to make an animatable model for future use. Hope you like... crits and comments welcomed.

Granny and Granpa Perkanzetta, & boxer boy

Yesterday I was drawing with my nephew and I had him give me character descriptions and we both drew the characters according to his description. He's 9 and he had some very interesting ideas. His drawings were pretty good too, however he didn't want me to post them on my site, cause he didn't want to show anybody. He actually draws better than a lot of people i've seen on the net, but he's a kid so I didn't want to push him too much. It was really fun. I promised him i'd color these and make them look better. Hope ya like.... I may have scanned them in too hi a res.

March of Dimes Shirt

Did this today. Got word of it yesterday, and started some sketches this morning. After I got the approval, I proceeded to finish the work. I had trouble figuring out how to do the halftones for the image, but got that taken care of and this is the final.

I wish I had more time to push the concept even more, but the deadline was tight on this one... maybe next time.

BTW this was for March of Dimes walk that my company participates in every year. This is my first time doing the shirt for them so I'm not too sure what they've done in the past. I think they may have just printed words on a shirt and that was it.

Hope you like. Done in Illustrator.