Craig's Art Blog

HMCS Summerside

2012-01-27T08:47:00.000-08:00

Commissioned by a friend of mine, whose mother commissioned this Kingston class ship for the Royal Canadian Navy which is ported out of CFB Halifax

Two Bears in a Tube

2012-01-27T08:45:00.000-08:00

Done as a Christmas gift to my parents as a part of the "Bears in Tubes" series, these two are supposed to represent my brother and I

Bear Sketches and Concepts

2012-01-27T08:41:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a various stages of a personal project for the last month and these are some sketches and character designs that I've been working on. The sketches are referenced from the book "Natures Great Events" with the purpose of understanding the shapes and posing of different bears so that I could apply them to my character designs. The bulkier design was my initial concept but I didn't like the design very much and decided to go with the more stream lined concept which will be closer to the final design that I'm still working on.

Monte Carlo on the Beach

2011-11-09T13:18:00.000-08:00

Done as a commission for a friend of my brother's that was getting married. This is the car he and my brother worked on over the winter and into the spring of this year.

Four Dogs

2011-11-09T13:16:00.001-08:00

Done as a gift for a instructor and friend of my girlfriend's before we moved.

Coon Fishin'

2011-06-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

This is an illustration that I am currently selling prints of in a few local gift shops.

May Sketches

2011-06-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

These are the result of a weekly sketch challenge I did throughout the month of May. Each week had three suggestions with some obvious or vague connection to each other.

Trans Am in a Storm

2011-06-08T15:21:00.001-07:00

This is a commission that I recently finished for a long time friend.

Three Dogs on a Disc

2011-06-08T15:17:00.000-07:00

This is a commissioned piece that I did recently of three dogs.

Animations

2011-05-09T12:34:00.000-07:00

2009 Animation Reel from Craig Waugh on Vimeo.

This is a compilation of the scenes that I did for my final animation project at NSCC and the different parts that I was responsible for.

Side Run Animation from Craig Waugh on Vimeo.

This is a simple animation that I worked on recently to get myself back into the process of animating.

Bunny Fishing

2011-05-03T16:08:00.001-07:00

This was done as a gift for my girlfriend's birthday. Inspired by a recent fishing trip and including her faithful dog Axel.

Bear in a Tube 2

2010-08-21T06:27:00.000-07:00

I did this as a gift for my mother's birthday, it was done as a pair to the one that I did for my Dad back in January.

Dolphins and Daisies

2010-03-10T14:30:00.000-08:00

These two pieces were commissioned by my grandmother to be used as gifts for a couple of the head people in a church organization that she is involved with.

Bear in a Tube

2010-02-03T19:19:00.001-08:00

I did this as a gift for my Dad's birthday. It was kind of inspired by my "Skunk on a Motorcycle" picture.

I've also been commissioned to do two more similar pictures. They will appear on here once I've got them completed. I might even to a step by step to show my working process.

Skunk on a Motorcycle

2009-12-29T12:51:00.001-08:00

Back in October while visiting family, my uncle asked me to do a concept of a skunk driving a motorcycle, to see what I would come up with. While I was there I did up a general sketch, and let him look at it, he gave me some suggestions of what he would like to have seen, so I left and told him I would work on it some more. When Christmas time rolled around, I still hadn't gotten back to working on his picture but my family was looking for gift ideas and thought that I should draw him some kind of skunk cartoon. I hummed and hawed over it and the suggestions they were giving me I didn't really like, so it was coming crunch time and I decided, "Hey! Why don't I just do the skunk on a motorcycle thing and get this over with." So this was the result of that.

Used reference of a Harley Davidson from their website to get the general design of the bike and went from there.

Final Work Term Project

2009-06-29T07:36:00.000-07:00

I know that this is a little late considering I graduated about three weeks ago, and I had this project done before that. But I wanted to post some photos that I took of the finished signs that I created for a local business, the Kensington Country Store, as well as a few early concept images.

Two Illustrations and some sketches

2009-05-21T16:55:00.000-07:00

This was done for my Digital Illustration class, with the subject being "My College Experience"

This was my final assignment for Digital Illustration class.

These are just some quick sketches that I had done over the last couple of weeks that I thought turned out pretty well.

This is a quick Flash image of a character I made while watching "Hulk vs. Thor"

Work Term

2009-04-24T14:59:00.000-07:00

Over the last two years of college I have slowly been working away at the work term hours that I need in order to graduate. I have worked on a few small projects up until now. my first project was done last year at around this time, I created a 10 second movie to be submitted to the Toronto Animated Image Society for the Monster Jam, animation jam, that they were putting on last year. I also did the Chapman Barbarian designs that I posted a few weeks ago as another project. The most recent project that I worked on was an experimental animation project that one of the current first year students was working on and needed a hand with. It was my job to do the animation for a few of the scenes that she already had the story and everything planned out for.

Skills Canada 2009

2009-04-24T12:26:00.000-07:00

I was able to participate in this years Skills Canada Competition, in the 2D Character Animation category at the Post Secondary level. We were required to create a character design and story boards off of a script that was given to us, and then animate the scenario as close to the storyboards as possible.
The scenario was: A fully of himself ninja bunny is walking along and comes across a door standing in the middle of nowhere, it doesn't open when he tries it. After that we were given creative freedom to end the scene as we wished.

I was awarded the Gold Medal at my level for the following animation.

Class Project 2009

2009-04-24T07:44:00.000-07:00

This is a compilation of the scenes that I had done for my part of a class project. I was also involved in helping with the concept ideas, as well as storyboards, and a few of the background and prop designs. When I get permission I will post the full video.

Sketches and Paintings

2009-03-27T12:03:00.000-07:00

This is just going to be a dump of a bunch sketches and things that I have done, that show some of what I consider my better work, and some different things that I've done.

This was done as an assignment for Digital Illustration class, with the middle version being done using Corel Painter. While the version on the right was done in my free time using Photoshop, in a more of my own style.

This is a sketch done for a Life Drawing assignment. I will post the final color version of this when it is complete.

This was a part of a commission that I did, for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's Chapman House Residence. The design was supposed to go on T-Shirts but was canned and replaced with the following design.

The rest of these images are just some sketches and paintings that I had done for fun. Enjoy!

Rope Climb Animation

2009-02-25T13:10:00.000-08:00

This was an animation test that I did for class, the objective being: to have the character climb the rope and out of screen in between 6 and 8 seconds, showing gravity, weight, balance, and timing, as well as secondary action.

Digital Illustration Assignments

2009-02-04T07:48:00.000-08:00

These are the last two assignments I had for my Digital Illustration class.

This one was to one scene with two different moods,

while this one was to show aerial perspective.

Recent Animations

2009-01-27T11:28:00.000-08:00

This is a rough animation test, that I did in Flash.

This is the same animation test, but with a different ending.

This is the finished action analysis assignment I did in my last term of College. It was done on paper, recorded in Flipbook.

First!

2009-01-27T07:54:00.000-08:00

This is the first post of my new blog. I will attempt to keep it updated with new animations, doodles and other different work that I do.