Josiah Sarr's Sketch Blog

2012 Demo Reel

2012-01-31T20:56:00.001-08:00

Sketches from Life - Spring 2011

2011-06-29T06:34:00.000-07:00

Sketch of an ol' lady riding a bus in Ann Arbor, March 2011

Caricature statues in the DIA, 2nd floor.

Clothed Figure - Scarab Club - Detroit, MI

A study of my first assignment during a compositing gig for a movie, and guess what ends up in the trailer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uZYU-iDCk

Statue study from the DIA

Nudes drawn during Cliff's Drawing Clinic, over at CCS's campus (Sat. noon-4pm).

Clothed figure portrait - Scarab Club - Detroit, MI

Ballpoint Pen Sketches from NYC: Summer 2010 - Spring 2011 / Part 1

2011-06-20T15:09:00.000-07:00

Al Jeoffry at the STRAND bookstore promoting his new book.

Bill Plympton premieres his Idiots & Angels to an SVA audience, Fall 2010

Various Comic Book publishers at NYCC 2010.

Dan Slot signing comic books at Jim Hanley's Universe, Winter 2011.

David Hoffman presenting his newest Jewish funny book at the Strand bookstore, Spring 2011.

Creators and supporters of Kickstarter.com, Fall 2010

MET museum statues.

PBS Reps who worked on Electric Company, Fall 2010

Robert Crumb and Sophia Crumb, promoting her new book at the Barnes & Noble Union Square, Winter 2011.

Digital Sketch from Life 04142011

2011-04-14T18:37:00.000-07:00

Waiting for dinner at the Jolly Pumpkin over in Ann Arbor, when I decided to give my new Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet for a test drive. Done in a spand of 30 minutes.

Dance Studies 02072011

2011-02-07T22:41:00.000-08:00

Russian Dancing

Square Dancing

Fred Astaire Studies

The Carlton dance from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Studies from A Charlie Brown Christmas

Observational Sketches from the Metropolitain Museum - Summer 2010

2010-10-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

SVA Ink Plots - Every Picture Tells a Story Comics and Painting

2010-10-22T22:13:00.000-07:00

Ink Plots SVA Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 20th, 2010, featuring Gary Panter, Keith Mayerson, Jerry Moriarty, and introduced by John Carlin.
For more information, visit Visual Arts Briefs: link

Sketching ppl @ NYPL 09202010

2010-09-20T13:16:00.001-07:00

Guy reading newspaper.

A business dude on his laptop.

This girl was reading a small book and often staring-off into space.

An incomplete portrait of a woman on her laptop.

Off Track - 2010

2010-09-14T14:02:00.000-07:00

An independent short film I've been working on that's nearly finished.

Ford UniVRS Sponsored Project - Spring 2009

2010-09-14T14:00:00.000-07:00

To see actual project, click this sentence!

A sponsored collaboration between Ford Motor Company and the College for Creative Studies (Spring 2009): this project in general is a new way to present demographics to a company's R&D department, aiding in new innovative product development. There were four teams competing against each other, one team would receive scholarship money in the end.
My team's pitch is called Ford uniVRS (universal Virtual Reality Statistics), where virtual worlds are created specifically by and for a certain demographic to help in the process of R&D at Ford. This is more of a new age tool than a source of inspiration.

Team X Members:
-Caitlin Pasqualone & Jared Silbert - Graphic & Interface Design
-Josiah Sarr - R&D & Concept Designer
-Marco Cutrera - Illustrator
-Brock Koelzer - Team Leader
-Mike Drain - 3-D modeler
-Ryan Griffin - Flash Support

Original team X members.

Complete and Utter Joy

2010-08-25T00:03:00.001-07:00

Lullaby Follies - Part I

2010-08-24T23:56:00.000-07:00

2010 Demo Reel

2010-08-05T20:39:00.001-07:00

First Flash Animation

2010-07-22T10:50:00.000-07:00

Did a trace over of a past pencil test in Flash. Its a nice program for cartoony vibrant animation.

DiGiorno Mockumercial Final Color

2010-07-20T19:28:00.001-07:00

Sketches from Detroit Mar. - Jun.; posted 07132010

2010-07-13T10:11:00.000-07:00

Portrait Practice 06242010

2010-06-24T03:38:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait, referenced from an old webcam pick from winter break 2009.

Color Test: Scene 02, Shot 02

2010-03-29T23:34:00.000-07:00

Combining ballpoint pen animation with designer marker rendering. I'm liking this style over digial coloring.

Flats Color Test

2010-03-26T18:56:00.000-07:00

Flats Color Test - Digiorno Mockumercial from Josiah Sarr on Vimeo.

Scarab Club - Model Study

2010-03-20T21:13:00.000-07:00

First time rending in straight color, while studying from a live model. About 90 mins of fooling around, over at the Scarab Club.

Manwich Coming Soon!

2010-02-13T15:14:00.001-08:00

Something fun I'm working on.

LaLaLand Follies_RoughCut

2010-02-12T14:00:00.000-08:00

Last Week of January 2010 - Sketches

2010-02-01T19:57:00.000-08:00

A study of "The Israelite Worshiping the Golden Calf" - 1758, by Lorenzo de Caro, in the Renaissance section of the DIA.

Some quick caricature and portraits of people at the Circa Saloon 1890.

Caricature practice of Siskel & Ebert.
Caricature practice of people in the CCS cafeteria.
Bruce drawing intently during a Scarab Club drawing session.

Caricature practice of Franz Fernidad.

Scarab Club model during Thursday sketch clinic.

Weekend sketches 01242010

2010-01-24T16:28:00.000-08:00

A few people eating at the DIA cafeteria, during Friday dinner.
Done at the Scarab club, 2hr 30min pose.
Based off a painting in the Detroit Institute of Art, in the American section.

Invader Zim studies - Holloween Episode

2010-01-05T14:32:00.001-08:00

Ottawa International Film Festival 2009

2010-01-05T14:09:00.001-08:00

Eric Goldberg's overhead sketch for Disney's Princess and the Frog lecture

A study of Eric Goldberg while presenting to an audience.
Rough sketches of Ron Diamond and Steven Silverberg. (An awesome presentation from Silverberg)
On the way back to Detroit, I sat on the passenger side for a number of hours, it was quite numbing.
On the way to Ottawa, I sat in the backseat. It was nice and comfy. Comfy enough to take many naps.
Meet the Directors on Thursday or Friday morning.
Same meeting.
A double decker bus interior, although this is the bottom deck.
Meet the Directors, Sat. or Friday morning.
An interior of Tim Hortons. Tim Hortons rules Canada like Starbucks rules the US.
A rough sketch of Chris Robertson.
An interior sketch of the hotel room, over at the Days Inn.
Random people at the Animators Picnic.

Ann Arbor Sketching 12262009

2009-12-31T12:05:00.000-08:00

Sketching from Life on CS4

2009-12-27T16:17:00.001-08:00

A few Summer Studies/Sketches 2009

2009-09-20T19:18:00.000-07:00

Stuff from winter break 2008

2009-05-09T19:23:00.000-07:00

Resturant Sketch 05032009

2009-05-03T18:06:00.000-07:00

While waiting in Ann Arbor

2009-03-28T15:24:00.000-07:00

I sketched my friend while waiting for our food. Done in Photoshop CS4 and with a Graphire 3 tablet.

Old Stuff . . .

2009-03-28T14:55:00.000-07:00

Random Things

2009-03-26T23:27:00.000-07:00

Here's some stuff floating on my school network account.