Now I have been animating for 6 months

Here are my (almost finished) assignments from class 2 of Animation Mentor.
I'm very happy with how the class went; my lack of ability with Maya was much more of an issue for me this class but my learning curve is definitely, er...steepening ^_^.
I'm in Class 3 now and moving on to acting, but I'm going to keep working on my body mechanics until all of these shots look at least as good as the baseball pitch.

Tom Gately saved my life (premptively)

I took gesture drawing classes from Tom Gately ( who teaches the Walt S. method)before becoming an animation student, and boy am I glad I did. It was painful sometimes because I was so far behind the other students, but that early practice of drawing quickly from life has made getting my ideas down on paper so much easier now that I'm drawing from reference footage, making scene thumbnail drawings, and sketching out shot ideas all the time.

Since these are about the only drawings I am doing regularly, other than the PBlair project I have going on in my other blog of course, I've decided to start posting them here lest this blog wither away to nothing...

These are my thumbnails for next week's assignment.