Craig Houghton May 8th, 2008
Film pics (Fuji Reala 100 with an old Minolta SR-T MC-II)
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some bee butt
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these little yellow buggers looked like plastic
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more backyard plastic
Digital (DSC-H1)
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which one of these things is not like the others
Craig Houghton November 6th, 2007
In case anyone has been wondering where the hell all the art is lately, here’s the anti-climatic story: I spent half a month working on the Creature of the Week month-long challenge. I realized that I was not going to make the deadline, so I bailed. That left me with a semi-wasted half-month and 100 creature sketches that I may never scan. I have two smaller watercolors going, but I haven’t finished either. And, since November 1st I’ve been writing a novel for the NaNoWriMo challenge. So far, I’m on track. Aside from all that I have a number of sketches I will eventually scan.
So, for now, here are a couple of photos..
literally the ear of a stranger
squirrel today from Lake Wintergreen in Hamden
Craig Houghton September 23rd, 2007
Had a great time at Lake Quassy with Sonia. Took this carousel horse using my Sony DSC-H1 (F/3.2 1/25sec ISO-64 9mm) and adjusted the levels using photoshop.
Craig Houghton July 22nd, 2007
Over at the Cheshire Town Post I uploaded some photos of flowers and bees and such from the Riverbound Farm bird sanctuary in Cheshire.
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Here’s one from home that didn’t fit in that post.
Photos by Craig Houghton.
Craig Houghton June 24th, 2007
I put some digital color down on the young priestess who has so lovingly volunteered her person to the spiders
Craig Houghton June 5th, 2007
I’ve discovered the ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive. And, not surprising, that led me to John Kricfalusi’s blog, all kinds of stuff. I’ve spent about a week and a half roaming the halls of the Archive and attempting to wrap my head around John K’s classic cartoon wisdom. There’s so damned much to learn from the Archive, and John K is one hell of a tour guide.
To start things off I’ve been doing a crash-course version of the archive’s (free)$100,000 Animation Drawing Course. I stress crash-course since I haven’t been drawing each and every example in the lessons, and I’ve not been checking my work against the originals using the computer as they/John advise. I think that means I fail, but I like to pretend that I’m unafraid of failure. Actually, it’s only because I started out casually — I’ve since been sinking further in day by day. John K knows his stuff.
Each lesson has a wrapper post on the Archive’s site that references the corresponding lesson on John K’s blog and provides additional links or necessary source materials. I’m including the links to both grouped along with my homework.
1: Construction/The Head | archive / john k
2: Squash & Stretch/The Head | archive / john k
3: Proportions/Check Your Work | archive / john k
My work from the first three lessons has been piled together on this page. I’ve left out some of my studies, but they weren’t worth posting.
4: 2 Legged Characters/Full Body | archive / john k
5: Line of Action/Silhouttes | archive / john k
6: Advanced Head Construction | archive / john k / GIANT MOUTH…post at Funny Cute with Katie Rice
The studies for lesson six come from Katies blog. These two drawings are my clumsy copies of Katie’s awesome work and are in no way my own.
7: When Generic Is A Good Thing | archive / john k
I was supposed to stick with something extremely generic in this lesson, but I ended up drawing from a disney model sheet. Nonetheless, I get the point that studies from simple generic subjects can really slingshot your learning process.
8: Proportions Affect Design / Contrasts | archive / john k
9: Hands- SImplifying Complicated Things | archive / john k
It literally took me days to complete this page, but I managed each and every hand from the lesson.
Craig Houghton April 29th, 2007
I don’t think I can get away with naming this ‘The Donkey King Returns to the Sea,’ but until I get that kind of pretentious absurdity out of my system, it’ll stand.
This is just a quick oil-sketch rip-off of Daubigny’s The Lone Cow, which I think should be named The Cow Princess Returns to the Sea. I really didn’t spend enough time on this, but I kinda like it.
Craig Houghton April 22nd, 2007
I think I’ll turn one of these squirrels into a pen and ink, but I’m not sure which.
Craig Houghton April 5th, 2007
just some idle sketchwork… I’ll be starting something bigger to start and finish over the long weekend, but I’m not yet sure what.
paint is Painter IX over the sketch
Craig Houghton is a self-taught artist available for fine-art commissions and illustration work. Contact via email using leversandpulleys at yahoo.com.
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