Jake Kalsbeek

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Daytime Emmy

Abby's Flying Fairy School and Pete de Seve won a Daytime Emmy for character design. Pretty cool.

--update--

Our art director David Michael Friend also deserves a big congratulations too. A project like this is a team effort and David really did an amazing job of translating Pete's work into the 3D realm. He just posted some of his thoughts on his blog. Check it out.

Comic work in progress

I finished the pencils and just got them scanned. Next up colors!

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Quick Sketching From Harriman State Park

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Comic work in progress

I know it might seem like I was drawing a lot in April and then just stopped in May. That's not true I just have had less to post. My current project is a little more involved.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Swordfish Sketch Club

The topic for this weeks Swordfish Sketch Club was FABLES.

Monday, May 03, 2010

Swordfish Sketch Club

A group of us at Speakeasy started up a weekly sketch club about a month ago called Swordfish. Here's the sketches I've drawn so far.

Friday, April 30, 2010

30 Monsters 30 Days: 30

Mission completed! My goal for the month of April was to pencil, ink, and paint a new monster every day. And I did it. I wanted to learn more about watercolor and explore some different inking styles and pens. I think it was a really successful experiment. I only had one close call where I almost didn't get the drawing posted in time.

As an animator who works in 3D it easy to ignore my drawing skills and this was a really fun way to keep stretching those drawing/design muscles. I've got some other drawing projects coming up so I won't continue the daily drawing challenge for now. I've been participating in Speakeasy's weekly Swordfish sketch club and will continue to do that. I'll post my previous Swordfish sketches soon. I've been asked to participate in Kevin Burkhalter's Friends of February and I'm super stoked to start that. My drawing had a slow start to 2010 but I feel I'm back on track here and that the rest of the year is going to be a great year for growth.