Monday, December 11, 2006

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

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.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

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.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Rhino Mug

Post for the Artblog challenge for the week.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Finger Licking Good


My idiom for the ArtJumble topic of the week.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

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

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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.

Friday, October 13, 2006

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.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

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.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Deal or No Deal


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

Friday, September 08, 2006

Doodle


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

Done in PS.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

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.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

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.

Friday, September 01, 2006

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 : )

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Creativity Starters

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

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Bully kid


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

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

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.

Friday, July 28, 2006

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.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Sketched Colored

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

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

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.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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 : )

Friday, July 21, 2006

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.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Doodles 6

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

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

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.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

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.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

How does he use the bathroom?


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

Monday, June 19, 2006

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.



Thursday, June 08, 2006

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.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Gladys

Same exercise

Cefu

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

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Character Concept 2


New body style sketch...done in PS

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Character Concepts





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

Doodle/Gestures

Just to post.. : )

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Face Doodles 3

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

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

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.

Monday, May 08, 2006

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.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

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.