Please Note the Following...

First, I got a moleskine sketchbook for Christmas.

Second, the turquoise area marks the lesser scribbles. 

These are some pirate girl sketches. I'm working with the A-Train to improve my drawing/character design skills.  As a project, he's helping me develop pirate girl. These, however, are not part of the homework he most recently assigned, but you have to do something worthwhile during math class. 

Third, there is at least one character from Community on this page. Heh. I started this page about a month ago as a way to practice drawing guy faces/profiles, since I was really only good at drawing girl faces prior to this decision. I still go back to it every now and then and add a face. 

It has gotten a little crowded...hence the all-devouring afro, top center. In all fairness, that guy's  lame hairstyle had it coming.

Aaaand this is where my motivation to scan things runs out.

The Princess and the Pea

So, The Princess and the Pea is one of my favorite fairy tales, and I was wondering why it hadn't been made into a movie. Then I read the original by Hans Christian Andersen, and I realized that not only is it super short, it has no villain. However, as I thought about how much I would love it if it somehow became a movie, I realized that the princess must have a back story, which would draw the story out and make it more exciting. So I started drawing the peasant girl from my last post with the Princess and the Pea in mind, but I didn't have a logical way to make the peasant girl become a princess--at least, not with fairy tale logic. So I began to draw a more princess-y character, using early concept art by Mary Blair. Here's a sketch of the princess: 

Yet another post of random math class drawings...

Laurey, from Oklahoma!. I liked seeing Laurey in overalls in one production of the musical, and I originally planned on drawing her in overalls, but they became too complicated without a reference. Not many people wearing overalls in my math class.

I originally imagined this girl as the princess from the Princess and the Pea, but I thought more about the story and came up with another girl, who will probably be in my next post.

Just a cowboy. He looks like a bad guy to me.

And this is Curly, also from Oklahoma!. 

A girl.

I read and loved the Hindu story Savitri and Satyavan, and I thought it would make a great Disney movie. So here's one of my sketches of Savitri. 

Robin Hood Guy.

Sorry about the shine. There was also a Little John character, but he is not yet ready to be exposed to the interwebs. Again, sorry.

Some more drawings...

The Pirate Girl, again...still unnamed.

More Monsters...

Pirate Girl, Early 1900's Dress