Holiday styling

I've just beentrying to come up with interesting art styles that I could use. I've been using a pencil tool to get that effect , and I think it does work.
The first one was me going for a minimalist approach to colouring whilst the colour doubled as shading. It mostly works for the large areas but anywhere that has too much detail looks clustered & like l couldn't be bothered to properly colour it in.
The second one I tried lowering the opacity of the pen to get a more pen & paper feel. I did this with the shading & highlighting, and it turned out well, but it was the one I spent the most time on.
The third one was block colours. This was meant to simplify the design & also reference propergander posters with their sharp snappy designs.
Over all I think if took the pen & paper feel of the second one and combined it with the block colours of the third it might just work. Also loose the heavy highlighting of the third one.

Papa Poule - The Lizzard Chronicles: Part 4: The Egg of a New Beginning

with this one i was tasked with just inbetweening, as you can see the green i use to inbetween. it seems everyone just keeps moving me to inbetweening for some reason, its probably because i don't find inbetweeing to be that hard, but then again it isn't really that hard of a thing to do. maybe it is the fact that i am happy to do it, and other people are more vocal about wanting to do more glamourous stuff, like keying or colouring, which both look alot better at the end.

Papa Poule - The Lizzard Chronicles: Part 3: Betrayal

so for this one i was tasked with inbetweeing and clean-up. one thing i keep forgetting to bring up is that i keep forgeting to do those little flourishes on the tail and the neck, before this wasn't really a problem because i was keying and the fact that theu weren't there didn't really change anything, however due to the way people colour in TV paint, it'll make their lives alot easier if i did all of the lines for the clean up. so as per usual i had to back over it adding the flourishes and handing it off.

Papa Poule - The Lizzard Chronicles: Part 2: The Fate of BLizzard

i was again tasked to key this shot, and again the same problems arose. however the shape was alot more difficult due to the angle, however after much anguish and many rub-outs i was able to get a working versions.i have become quite good at drawing the little arms and i can definitly feel myself getting better.

Papa Poule - The Lizzard Chronicles: Part 1: Blizzard Rising

i was asked to Key the lizzard for this shot. they made it out to be really difficult, but i didn't find it too be that much more difficult than the average keying for a shot. the only real problem was getting the shape right. getting the shape right was a little bit of a pain, and i did get the size wrong, but those are small problems that were solved almost imediatly. if i had to do it again, i would find it easier because i have gotten quite used to the Lizzard's form.

Dead Armless 2 - Staring into the distance

i would like to point out that this isn't a sequal to the original Dead armless film, this is the original Dead Armless film, i have just taken to calling it Dead Armless 2 for no real reason other than fun.
again i was doing the clean-up and the colouring, and it is basically the same as the previous upload in terms of information. the only difference was that there was less to animate because he isn't moving alot.
nothing else i can really say. move along

Dead Armless 2 - Electric buggaloo

so i did the clean up and the colouring for this shot. thankfully i was given excelent reference to use when colouring so there would be no complaints about anything being wrong, infact there was no feed back on it so i presume it was perfect. the main problem with this was conecting all of the lines so i could colour using the fill button which helps alot.
there isn't really anything i could have done to improve this because i was doing it to their specifications.