AndrewAnsahArtwork

This is a professional blog for the artwork of Andrew Ansah.

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Edna and Clyde

     This is a simplistic talking animation scene that was made to demonstrate the ins and outs of talking scenes at a base level.

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The Shocking Mask

     This is an animation of a project for my drawing studio class in December. I wanted this done in January at the latest, but seeing its early March right now, I think it’s safe to say that my plan didn’t pan out that well. I’m glad it’s finished though, because I’ve been wanting to do this since at least mid september!

Original project here.

The song is “Cold Finger Girl.” This particular version of the song was sung by Chiaki Kuriyama and the lyrics are by Ken’ichi Asai, and appeared in the anime television series Level E, which I have not seen (the song was chosen because of the lyrics).

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     This is my three by six foot final project for my drawing class. Yes, I book ended my assignments for this class by making (what I think at least) is a bigger, better version of the first drawing I did for the class. The reasons I did this are numerous, but here we go.

    The first assignment I had to do for this class was a free drawing with the subject of said drawing relating to what I want to do or focus on in the coming years in art school. Since I want to go into animation, I came up with these seven characters that look like they belong in an animated series off of the top of my head. These seven characters didn't have anything to them when I first drew them. But I've come up with stories for them all semester, and at this point, they have descriptions that go with them. First, there's the (gray) man with a mask who works as a museum curator. However, he's long stopped caring about a lot of things in life, and is a generally unhappy person to be around due to his lack of sympathy towards most anyone or anything. One day, because of this lack of caring, or maybe for the hell of it, he tries on an ancient mask that had just been delivered to the museum he works at to be put on display, and when he does, he becomes the boss of six super humans that happened to live in the same city he has all this time. The (blue) kid obsessed with candy, is also the proud owner of candy swords and spears he creates himself. The (red) old man who's a head in a jar, loves retro video games and has a body made out of giant toy magnets. The (purple) ghost woman who may or may not actually be a demon, was once the owner the biggest convenience store chain in America, but became a ghost under mysterious circumstances. The (yellow) man with a giant stern looking chin, has an effinity for tea but also had his brain replaced with a copy of a book detailing tragedies from the year 1912. The (bronze) six eyed beast creature he rides, has another gelatinous four eyed beast living inside of him that makes up two giant arms that carry him from place to place (this guy was once human, but underwent cruel experiments from an underground research society). Finally, there's the (green) college student who studies for class so much she sleeps during her work hours at the local library. But she also harbors the older brother of the four eyed creature that lives inside the beast creature, inside of her. So, she lets this creature cover for her at the library, due to him being the smartest one of the group. But no one in this group of misfits listens to what he has to say. Basically, now the museum curator, who feels like he's lost his drive to do anything in life, has six bizarre super humans at his disposal to order around.

    The reason I'd decided to draw this for my final, is because I've been wanting to do something with these characters I've basically been obsessing over for several months now. I am also currently working on a small minute and a half animation (in the style of an anime opening sequence because I happened to come across a song that would fit this premise almost perfectly), but because the time I've had to work on it has been so infrequent, I decided to book end my assignments for my drawing class, with the more realized versions of the characters that appeared in my first assignment. There are several reasons each character is only one color. These are the colors each character were assigned for the more stylistic sequences in the animation that currently isn't finished. Not just because it cuts down on animation time, but because the more vibrant and interesting colors belong to the super humans, and the color that feels the most bleak compared to the rest, belongs to the depressed man in his mid twenties. There's also meaning I've attempted to assign to the shattered glass aesthetic I attempted to create with paint and tape. I wanted to have the glass shattered around the curator because I wanted to create a picture where the lull in his life is broken by the super humans he's now the boss of, and to have the contrast between the colored shards of glass (that are the colors of most of the characters) clash with the mood the color of the curator gives off, in order to emphasize the fact that he feels broken inside. Also, take note of how the shards trickle down the pages, filling an emptiness that also belonged to the depressed curator.

     This idea was inspired by the works of one of my favorite manga artists Yasuhiro Nightow. He's the creator of series like Trigun, and and Blood Blockade Battlefront. The later of the two being one of my favorite things ever made, and a big influence on this project (the way the Nightow draws his characters was something I wanted to partly emulate in order to sneak in a shoutout of sorts). As I continue to develop this idea and these characters, I do want to have the Yasuhiro Nightow and Blood Blockade Battlefront influences strike a balance with my own ideas and narratives I create for these characters. With the setup alone, I feel that if I keep this idea in my back pocket for a while, I could truly develop it into a fully realized television series of twenty four (or so) episodes somewhere in the distant future. But until then, please enjoy this concept art!

Up close versions of the bottom page (it’s the biggest, so it’s hard to see):

I’ll update later with a batter picture of what the entire thing looks like without it being broken up to fit in my dorm for picture taking purposes.

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     This project involved combining 2D and 3D in some way. So I bought two slabs of foam board and drew a crowd of people all gazing at an obelisk-esque figure. The idea of this idea changed a little when I ended up watching 2001: A Space Odyssey a few weeks ago. The movie covers man at the beginning, and in the distant future. So, I decided to cover a little more. What you see here is the beginning of man on the far left, 20s America as you move to the right, a little of the 70s in the middle, and the 2010s on the right (You can tell it’s the 2010s because almost everyone’s taking pictures with their phones). I even went back and shaded and blended my drawings here (for what feels like the first time in forever), and I liked how it turned out. The people are placed closest to the viewer on the foam board, which I painted black. In the middle is the obelisk (made of a different material called foam core), that I painted gray and added a reflective bit of paper to the top (in order to break the color scheme of the work). The grass (yeah, it’s grass) is placed farthest away from the viewer. I went over it with some white chalk so I could have the idea that it’s far away conveyed. I even cut up the top in an attempt to make it “grassier.” The obelisk was glued down, while I cut slits in the foam board and slid the grass and people sheets so they could stand. The main theme or idea I tried to capture here was how different eras would view something strange or mysterious like an obelisk. They’re basically doing the same thing, except later generations have better ways of capturing what they’re seeing. I’m rather pleased how this turned out. Maybe I’ll do another one day.

Sorry you’ll have to settle with poorly shot photos of the project from inside my dorm room. I’ll make another post later with better documentation.

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     This is a project that has to do with repetition. I’m not sure why, but when I started making this, I knew I wanted to draw a hand reaching out towards another hand. So to show that these two hands were on opposite sides from one another, I had the background and the kind of line that shows up on the hand itself different, and then made the two hands opposites. I also created a different form of shading by repeating the same line in close proximity wherever I felt it was needed. I personally didn’t want to emphasize too much in one place for fear of not creating a work where your eyes are led around the page. Mainly because projects involving repetition are where those kinds of projects tend to shine. Whether or not I succeeded in that regard is left up to you though!

Sorry for the quality of the photos. I’ll spare you the details, and just say that my phone and computer decided to make uploading them one of the most tedious situations I’ve been through in a long time.

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     Making of the Portrait Animation

Exactly what it says on the tin. This is a making of video I threw together because I had the seperate clips from when the animation was much rougher on standby. I thought it might be a fun thing to see!

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     This is an animation I did for a self portrait project in my drawing class. There’s a couple things to explain, especially if you watched the video before reading this description. My intention with this animation was to show my process for working on a project. The project I’m working on can fall under animation stuff I do for fun, or projects for school (which is why I’m working on both my computer and a giant sheet of paper). The music in the background is an instrumental version of the second theme song to the anime Bakuman that someone made on Youtube (and by “made, I mean distorted the sounds so the voices are edited out for the most part). I haven’t seen Bakuman, but I’ve read about a fourth of the source material, and I know the series’ main theme is wanting to achieve your dreams. So, I thought I just use that and go for a similar vibe.

     I intentionally kept myself from seeing Bakuman’s opening animation for the first time since my junior year of high school in order to avoid mooching off already established imagery. I also planned on singing the song, and wrote lyrics that would flow better in english at one point, in order to mirror how a lot of teenagers used to make ametur covers of their favorite anime themes. Thankfully, I realized it was a VERY bad idea, that would shift the focus on the video completely. Also, the two thirds of this animation was made in the last two days. On the night of October 23rd, I only had the rough version of what I wanted to represent. So the lineart isn’t the cleanest, and backgrounds are very simplified (for the lack of a better word). Although I did include a small detail where objects I payed attention to had a broader range of color. Two long nights were spent trying to meet the deadline, meaning I’m only partly satisfied with this. Oh well, you can’t win them all (I am working on two separate projects for another class along with this).

     As I said earlier this animation shows my process when working on a project. I start working at a decent pace. Then at some point I stay up way too long into the night, and my sleep schedule is messed up for about a day and a half. I text with my brother in the video, but I text with other family and friends as well. In the video I’m texting while getting hot chocolate from Dunkin’ Doughnuts the morning after drawing for a project. The morning after I stay up way too late, I’m usually tired and over dramatic about getting out of bed and getting the day going when I’m waking up. Sometimes I think about not wanting to let down family and friends by just laying in my bed and doing nothing after making it to college. Not that I’ve done that, but the thought of doing that is enough to motivate me to do the opposite. Then it shows a silhouette of myself growing up and my art growing up with me.  The screen at one point transitions by becoming a punch of separate pages that slide to the top of the screen, and another transition is made from the top of a pencil I’m holding glowing so bright it envelops the entire page. The section near the end where I shed a single tear (I would have included more tears, but time restrictions wouldn’t allow for such) is supposed to represent how thinking about experiencing all of the things that influenced by wanting to draw and the fact that I ended up in the art school of my choosing because of those influences gets me emotional once in awhile. I wanted this to be obvious as it could be, so in an attempt to do so, I placed this part directly after the section where it showed my old art. After that, the animation ends with me well rested, working another long session on the project until it’s finished (this process usually feels like a rush to put the finishing touches on a project so I can be as satisfied as possible). The last thing we see is my signature (at least my signature when I don’t feel like writing my name). Usually I’d include my signature on the same page as my work, but since I’m turning in an animation instead of a drawing, I put my signature at the end instead.

     I felt this project was a mixed bag. I feel I had some good ideas, but I ended up without enough time to flesh them out properly. I can live with the sketchy linework and limited visuals, but I wish I could have made the presentation feel less rushed. If I ever do another animation for an assignment, I’ll definitely take the time to plan it out better so I don’t have to rush to finish two thirds of the project over the course of two days.    

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This drawing is for an assignment involving figure and environment. So I had one of my neighbors on my floor take a picture of me working on a drawing (not this one, this is me in front of a blank sheet of paper). I wanted this pose of me in the environment I’m in during late night drawing sessions to show what it feels like to be me with my long drawing session setup. In this picture, you can see I’m kind of slumped towards my desk, and the only things present on my desk are paper, a pencil, a sharpener, my laptop, my lamp, and two water bottles. The reason this is, is because those are the only things that matter when I’m by myself, drawing for long periods of time. I have a paper, pencil, and a sharpener for drawing (usually this is my laptop because I do a lot of digital art and animation in my free time), my laptop plays a podcast or a really long let’s play for background noise, my two water bottles keep me hydrated (and they’re constantly refilled), and my lamp comes on when it gets darker outside (my lamp also comes in handy when I need to pay attention to implementing the darker line work on a drawing when my sketching is too light). My trashcan is also present, but it’s usually there to remind me that I haven’t emptied it recently. The empty space that makes up the rest of my desk, usually isn’t empty, but I don’t pay attention to it when I’m drawing, so it’s empty. The back of the wall, the drawers, and the bed above my desk are things I glance up at occasionally, but they’re not my primary focus. When drawing, I also acknowledge that my feet are planted on the floor, so I included a floor. But I usually am so sucked into my work that I pay my roommate no mind, which is why everything past my bed is a white space.                

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     This is an assignment that takes reality, and warps it in some strange way. What you see here is basically a door that leads into the building that I live in. The changes are as follows:

-I changed the top of the door.

-The stairs now elongate like it’s the front of a museum.

-I’ve elongated and blurred the frame...thing..around the door to contain various windows.

     Basically, I was trying to create a weird half and half between a bunch of windows being in front of an entrance to a building, and elongated stair in conjunction with an endless brick pattern. I also attempted to stylize the door in order to make it look even stranger. I like the outcome. Especially since it’s one of the darker drawings I’ve made (in appearance anyway.                     

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     TL;DR: I severely underestimated how much shading and blending work I would have to do in one sitting the night before turning this drawing in. This led to me finishing the drawing in a trance for several hours after the time I wanted to sleep, while shading everything sloppier and sloppier, and trying not to wake up my sick roommate with my laughter. Also I was shivering a lot because the air conditioner was running for no reason.

    The assignment was to draw something that showcased the inside and outside space of a building.This is a drawing that shows off the inside of a Dunkin Donuts, but the giant windows also allow the road and the buildings across the street to be seen. I took this picture sometime last week on my phone, and have been drawing it for several days since then. I feel that the shading is fine for the top two thirds of this drawing. The bottom third is where it starts to get a little wonky. Not only that, but the perspective and size of everything inside the Dunkin Donuts isn’t the best. There is a reason for this, and it involves one of the strangest drawing sessions I’ve ever had.

     Yesterday, I was a little behind on this drawing, and I had the line work finished, and in a state that I feel was near identical to the photo I took. I didn’t include the trees and traffic cones that were present outside the building, because I wanted to have the composition get simpler the farther your eye would trail off from inside the building. Anything outside of the buildings I felt added unnecessary cluster, and I didn’t want to make it hard to figure out what the drawing is of. So, I confidently thought I would be able to get all of the shading done yesterday evening. I get back from class at around 5:30, and ate dinner and relaxed until around 7:00. After a light power nap, I was rejuvenated and ready to start adding some detail to this drawing!

     I didn’t want to add too much detail to the drawing, because I wanted it to be a simple image that clearly communicated the setting. But right before I started shading everything, I suddenly decided that I didn’t like the way the two guys sitting at the table on the drawing’s bottom third looked. So, I went back and changed them to have better proportions (they were way more stretched out due to a perspective error on my part). However, trying to fix one perspective error opened up a lot more errors. One thing led to another, and suddenly about thirty to forty minutes were gone. Not wanting to fall too far behind, I got right to work on shading (finally) until around 9:00 when I took a break to shower.

      As I continued to work on shading everything, I realized my own meticulous detail obsession was getting the better of me. When I refer to “meticulous detail” in this context, I’m talking about wanting the lines that made up every building across the street to be as well crafted as possible. Those lines were drawn lighter than everything else, so I had to REALLY focus to see it when shading in the space with a lighter graphite pencil. At this point, I’m deep into the night (let’s say 12:00), and my ideal time of when I wanted this drawing done (11:00) was but a sad unobtainable dream. The desk lamp was my greatest source of light, as it was closer than the ceiling lights, the air conditioning was running for some reason, making the dorm and the hallway colder than usual, and my roommate also got a cold, and I didn’t want to keep him up. The air conditioning would lead to me shivering pretty frantically at random intervals, it calmed down after about ten minutes, but it was still interfering with my progress! So, at this point, I’m trying my hardest to give this drawing my own seal of quality, but I also want to finish it ASAP.

     I should also mention that for long drawing sessions like these, I tend to put on Let’s Plays or Podcasts on Youtube (through my earphones of course) so I have something in the background in order to not go mad from just hearing my pencils, erasers, and blending stick rub against the paper for hours. During the hours I was adding detail to everything, I had listened to the entirety of the Stream Train playthrough of Space Quest IV. I didn’t intend on finishing the playlist of videos in one session, and the playlist also served as a timer for myself. At this point, I’m starting to panic a little (and I’m aware this sounds really cocky, which isn’t my intention, but I’m not one to stress out, at all).

     In a rush to put something on I clicked the playlist for the Game Grumps Let’s Play of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. If you don’t know, the game the two play in that particular series is an infamously terrible second party Zelda game developed for a legendarily terrible console called the Philips CD-I. So, in usual “Youtube Let’s Play of a terrible game” format, the commentators would start out calm (well, calm-ish, they knew how bad the game was instantly), and slowly lose their sanity as the Let’s Play went on. So, as I’m sitting in my chair, still shading in the drawing at around 2:00 in the morning, I was starting to get a little stupid. I attempted to contain my laughter at the commentary from the Game Grumps playthrough, and trying to speed through a shading and blending job while also trying not to make any mistakes. It devolved into madness for myself in a good hour.

     It was around 3:00 AM when I start quiet laughing at almost everything. The Game Grumps were losing their minds playing this bad game, and I was losing my mind rushing to get this drawing done. I even laughed at the fact that the people sitting by the window in the picture I took were unaware of the fact that they were causing me to lose a ton of sleep. It was the perfect meltdown scenario, but I refused to quit. I was at the bottom third of the page at this point. If you pay close attention, you’ll be able to tell I didn’t put in nearly as much care to the bottom third of the page as I did the top two thirds. I was basically rotating 2H, HB, B, 2B, and 4B pencils getting all of the shades down on the page as fast and as carefully as humanly possible, while giggling like a tired hyena at Youtube personalities trying not to loose what was left of my sanity that night. I had severely underestimated my workload. It should be noted that around 2:00 AM, my blending stick stopped working for next to no reason. I didn’t know what to do, and I was pretty emotionally compromised (or at least that’s how it felt at the time), so I used three tissues in their place.

     Upon completing the shading and blending, I noticed how there wasn’t much distinction between buildings and objects. Instead of adding more depth, I just added comic book-esque dark lines to most of everything. It doesn’t look as good as it could have, but I really wanted to sleep at this point. Mainly because I had an online test today that I could only get started on from 9:00 AM to 10:20 AM (I was able to take said test, and did well, don’t worry). It wasn’t until I stood up did I realize how much of a trance I was in. I stopped laughing, turned off the Youtube app, and noticed it was 4:20 AM. I set the mess of materials on my desk aside, and went to bed. Now that I look at the drawing, with around four more hours of sleep, it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever made, but if I had budgeted my time better, it could have improved. Oh well, you win some you lose some.  

-I’ll post a better lit picture along with the reference picture eigher later tonight, or tomorrow.-                              

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     What you see here, is a drawing of four paintbrushes buried, mashed, and frozen in maple syrup, giant marshmallows, Mod-Podge glue, sprinkles, an old honey bun, and glue sitting atop a folded slab of cardboard. Depending on how you look at it, it’s either an interesting composition detailing how strange an amalgamation of calories and resources can look when combined together, or a big waste of around twenty to thirty dollars. Compared to the actual pile of stuff that sat on my desk for several days, this drawing is a bit more stretched out. The detail on several items, specifically the honey bun, were textures I couldn’t get just right. This makes the drawing not much to look at from far away. The only remarkable thing about this drawing from a distance are the trails of syrup that were left on the folded cardboard I had, that for whatever reason, turned darker over time. Overall, I think this turned out fine. But if there was one thing I could go back and fix, I’d be the lack of detail. If you’d like to see the creation of the monstrosity this drawing was based on, click here.

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Creation of an elderich abomination for a drawing project.

     My assignment for class was to radically transform a set of objects. My initial purchases were four cheap paintbrushes, a small container of sprinkles, pancake syrup, and a bag of giant marshmallows (which I ended up eating half of due to my lack of self control around giant marshmallows). I taped down the paintbrushes, to a sheet of cardboard I had, and proceeded to pour syrup and sprinkles on them. After arranging some marshmallows around the mess, I poured some more syrup on it. Desperate for a gross result, I folded up the cardboard, mashed it down by stepping on it several times, and shoved it in my room’s mini fridge.

     After about a day, I opened the fridge with anticipation. I couldn’t wait to draw the monstrous object I had created!

     The result however, was really underwhelming. All that happened was the syrup sunk into the cardboard and froze a bit, while marshmallows stuck to the side.  I sprayed my creation with febreeze in frustration, and left to go buy more things. While standing in line at a nearby Wal-Mart, I noticed an old looking honey bun that has been on display since I arrived in Richmond. No one ever took it, or seemed to even acknowledge it. For whatever reason, every time I entered this Wal-Mart, I always told myself that I’d buy that Honey Bun, and taste it. It looked kind of good, despite its obvious melted exterior. I bought it along with a container of Mod-Podge glue and a pack of Goldfish crackers.

     When I arrived back at my dorm, I transformed my monstrosity into something worse. A tiny voice in the back of my head telling me that I wasted money and should have just used trash to transform the paintbrushes was present the entire time. After my tampering was complete, I stuck the creation back in the fridge for a couple more hours. When I got back from class, I took my creation out of the fridge.

There we go! Now it’s properly gross, ready for drawing. I should bring up how it smelled awful though. It had a really bad musk of sugar, syrup, and glue. I tried to fix it by creating a smiley face on top of it with some of the extra Mod-Podge.

It didn’t exactly help with things. 

Click here for the drawing.

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     This drawing is for a dramatic lighting project. I almost used an entire stick of charcoal to being it together. Mainly because I first drew it on a 9x12 sheet of paper, and realized later on that the assignment was to used 18x24 sheets or larger. So I ended up going out and buying another new pack of bristol paper. Now I have two packs of bristol paper, and they each have the same drawing in them, which is kind of strange.

     I wasn’t sure on how “dramatic” this was, until I applied a bit of context to it. I do a lot of animation. My clustered college schedule usually has all animation time fall to night, when everything that needs my attention during the current day is finished. So, usually, I end up drawing for several hours at a time by myself. During Labor day weekend, my roomate went home to spend the days off from school with his parents, so I had the entire dorm room to myself. For three nights, I did nothing but animate for three and a half to four hours. This time is usually interupted, and the only noise comes from podcasts that travel their way through my earphones. On Friday, I realized that a drawing depicting how lonely animating for long hours at night can be had potential. So I turned off the lights, and I took a picture of my computer, resting on my desk, with my lamp shined on it. 

     I idiotically deleted the picture when I drew the first 9x12 picture, so what you see here is me drawing from a pre-existing drawing, rather than a drawing from life. Even after drawing the picture twice over a period of several days, I’m still unsure if it captures isolation quite right or not. I attempted to show off this feeling by placing the laptop off to the right in the drawing. But as a whole, I’m not sure if the light the computer gives off detracts from what I was going for, or not.

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     I aspire to be an animator. So, when I was told that this piece could be anything I wanted that, in a way, could tell someone more about myself more about myself, I opted to draw these wacky looking characters. In order to make it seem like these characters could be in some sort of animation, I attempted to make it look like the characters featured here would seem fun to see any of them moving around. In other words, I wanted to make it look as though this image could fly right off of the page. This led me to pose the characters in wacky poses.

     As for the characters themselves, I made them up as I went along. Starting from the left, and moving clockwise, we have the teenager who’s supposed to be helping out at a library, but opts for sleeping at home instead of going to work. The old man who’s really just a head, but is able to move around with giant toy magnets attached to his container (he’s also a fan of retro video games released in the early 1990s). There’s an eye monster that can transform into anything (if you notice, he transformed into the lazy teenager’s pillow) and is probably the smartest one of the group. In the background we have a cartoonishly over the top mob boss who wears a mask because he’s self conscious about the way he looks despite having enough underground power in whatever city he operates in to take over anything he desires. In the middle we have the fourteen year old kid with a sweet tooth and a comedically oversized backpack also full of sweets (who would probably also be the main character if this was a fully realized work of fiction so a younger audience could insert themselves in his position somehow). To his right we have a short frankenstein-esque gentleman who loves lipton tea and had his brain replaced with a copy of the book “1912” for whatever reason. To his right we have a ghost of a 21 year old girl who worked retail and loves mocking people. Finally, below her we have a one headed dog-esque creature, who has two gears attached to either side of him, and moves around with two blob creatures attached to either gear that he can control, and tries to form into two giant hands (and his pet ant that somehow keeps him clean). If this was a fully realized property, my only guess is that it would be about the going ons of this over the top mob.

     When attempting to make a composition that appealed to myself, I tried to even out the characters on both sides of the fourteen year old character in the middle as much as possible, in order to create some sort of balance. For example, the trail the ghost girl is leaving is balanced out on the left side by the length of the eye monster’s neck. The lazy teenager being in front of everyone would make up for the size of the dog creature on the right. The old man head would balance the frankenstein gentleman on the right. As for the background, I attempted something minimal so it wouldn’t get in the way of the characters. If things got too busy, you wouldn’t know where to look. The actual background itself, specifically the buildings, defy logic in the same way the characters do. The nonsensical build, not to mention the ridiculous size and shape is something I wanted reflected in this world the characters reside in, as I thought a nonsensical world would fit their designs. I wanted the characters in front of the shy mob boss to be the first thing someone would look at if they had never seen this piece before. So I made the mob bosses’ lackeys have really thick outlines. These outlines have two purposes. One I just mentioned. The second being that, in order to know if you’ve made distinguishable characters, you would only need their outlines or silhouettes to tell the difference from any of them. So, I attempted to fit that philosophy into the drawing itself. Hopefully I was able to get across some sort of kinetic energy that could remind you of animation in this image.