Russ McMullin's Sketch Blog

Banjo Pig Animation

russmc3 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:21:29 +0000

My friend Will Terry told me about the Dueling Banjo Pigs blog, where artists can submit their version of a pig or pigs usually playing a banjo. I’ve been wanting to submit one of my own. I started with this sketch:

My Once the vectoring work was done, I had my nephew show me how to animate it with Flash.

Using Adobe Illustrator I vectored the sketch:

And then my nephew Quinten showed me how to do the animation in Flash:

Ridgemark Revisited

russmc3 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:37:55 +0000

The original design was approved by the client, but we ran into a few obstacles when it came to actually using the logo. They wanted to put the logo on golf merchandise, and some of the women in the organization wondered if there shouldn’t be a version of the logo that had a woman. There was also the fact that the hills started looking a little “cheeky” to me. Bummer.

We ended up exploring a different direction which they liked a lot. It is non-gender-specific, and doesn’t have the problematic hills:

Logo for Golf Course

russmc3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:42:00 +0000

This one got approved today. It’s more complex than I had originally intended, but I think it still functions.

clowning around with prismacolor

russmc3 — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:42:00 +0000

This was done on Canson Mi Tientes paper. I didn’t plan this one at all. I started doing a sphere, and then it morphed into this scary thing.

New Portrait done in Prismacolor

russmc3 — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:32:00 +0000

It’s been a long time since I did a portrait in this medium. A friend of mine commissioned it, so I had to sweep away some dust and cobwebs in my mind and remember how I did the first ones. I used a colored matboard, and four prismacolors for the rendering.

Enebriated Sheep

russmc3 — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:12:00 +0000

This is for a t-shirt design. Apparently, the sheep is supposed to look stoned. I was given the reference photograph of a mask, and after doing a bit of sketching, I ended up with the simpler vector version at the bottom.

People at church

russmc3 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:38:00 +0000

This is another drawing that I did a while ago. I like to sketch in church, and usually I make stuff up. This time I thought the guy in front of me would make an interesting subject.

Naegling the Sword

russmc3 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:35:00 +0000

I haven’t drawn anything new today, so I’ll post something old. I did this maybe 6 months ago, as a concept drawing for a customer. He never came back in to see it. It was still fun to do.

Sketchbook Pro and a Wacom tablet

russmc3 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:59:00 +0000

It’s amazing how Sketchbook Pro imitates pencil lines. It’s a simple program, and fun to use.

In the top sketch I started with several smaller ideas, and as I developed them, they ended up almost fusing together in one.

In the bottom sketch I was thinking about an imaginary bully kid that is bigger than everyone else his age, and how he lives to terrorize the neighborhood.

I added some color

russmc3 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:53:00 +0000

I did the color on my laptop, so it might look odd. I’ll have to check it later.