The Black Frog's return update jun 16

**the black frog** · June 14th, 2005, 06:21 PM

Hey people!

News update for the cats in L.A:

I will be teaching two 10 weeks courses at Gnomon for the summer term:
"Advanced production design" from 9:00am to noon
and "Character design" from 2:00pm to 5:00pm every Sunday
Strating the 3rd of Jully.

Inscriptions are now.
Take care

B.F.

**cannibalcandy** · June 14th, 2005, 06:28 PM

Hell yes! What sort of things will you be going over, in terms of tools, and process?

**bwkeough** · June 14th, 2005, 08:56 PM

about time you posted more art!!

this is nice, rendering and design style are both pretty fresh. it's like elektra or red sonja but with a realisticly un-attractive face.

I can't attend your classes (since they're on the otherside of the continent), so I'll settle more another step-by-step when you have time.

**conanvsbear.com** · June 14th, 2005, 08:57 PM

I like that picture you have there. Not sure what's going on, but I like it.

**duddlebug** · June 15th, 2005, 03:27 AM

Great Stuff... Love the hair...

And i like the fact that she's not some amazonian beauty... but a little funny-faced and short-legged. She could probably do with seeing a doctor about those varicose veins though...

Nice to see some more work from you. More please.

**spudstudios** · June 15th, 2005, 03:34 AM

Fantastic Work. Just Fantastic.

**ArtisticSchmidt** · June 15th, 2005, 02:11 PM

I love the style and color of this first piece! Wild hair and cool veiny limbs. Very cool. Are her eyes just black?

It seems like her hat should be coming off or something because of the powerful wind below her feet.

I wish the oil pic wasn't so blurred...

**el coro** · June 15th, 2005, 02:17 PM

badass as always my friend. so glad to see you fukkin wit dem oils! its fun huh? hope yer doin good, sorry i keep missing you on msn, but ill be keepin an eye out for ya.-c36

**the black frog** · June 15th, 2005, 03:45 PM

cannibalcandy>Tools... not really my focus, it doesn't matter to me as long as it doesn't slow you down you're fine with anything...I'll be teaching about the thinking process, how to deal with the production constraints and still give the best you can.
But mostly I'll be teaching my own way of approching design problems.

bwkeough>yeah I know I've been out for a while... been working on stuff I can't show...bummer!
duddlebug>Borred to death with amazonian beauties fuck'em!

Chuck,mate.> Thank you sir

Mort>Thanks for the encouragement... the "Old" style is what I love...
Klimt and Sargent are my monsters.
I'm just starting but I like the feel of it

Sems>Yes it was meant that way... I'm borred with the "cannons" of beauty I like to give characters a "fault" to make them a bit less 2D

csteingart>Yeah, I'm excited.
Dude, same here, I'd like to speak English too one day.

Art_Addict>Yeah sorry I was so childishly excited about showing to you my first oil painting that I grabbed a pic straight off my web cam.

ArtisticSchmidt>yep just black, i was going for querky

el coro>HEY COROOOOO!!!
I wanted to grab you first and show it to you (since it's your fault my kitchen table is a mess)

Oils are great!!!
It'll take me a while before i can do anything I am really happy with though but that's ok.

Thanks for putting me on the right path... it's liberating