Foodsmith

This was a really fun commission to do for Jonathan Randell Smith.  He's an amazing chef, food writer and critic. Please check him out! https://jonsmith.ca

Young Tarzan

Young Tarzan sketch for a friend! It’s been a long time since I drew this character. Young Tarzan is the first character team I had the opportunity to work on at Disney as an animator, and prior to that, while studying animation, I was always inspired by John Ripa’s work in the original film. Tarzan was such a joy to work on as an animator, so much physical and action oriented animation while also being a beautiful and subtle character.

Continuing my series of poster art inspired by psychedelic poster designs, here is my version for Han Solo, this time with a James Bond twist! (It’s not my favourite of my series… might have to keep working on it.) But I thought I’d share it since the film just hit theaters this weekend!

Van Houtte presents Making Life a Masterpiece

I am so happy to be a part of this series! The commercial has recently been released, and I've been excited to share it with everyone!

May the 4th

May the Fourth be with You! Happy Star Wars Day! Was inspired by psychedelic poster art that I’ve seen in a few different exhibits this year. I thought I’d have fun with creating posters of iconic characters! I’ll share more soon!

Art vs Artist

A bit late to post this on blogspot! This is my compilation for the #ArtVsArtist movement.

Rendering Test

Work in progress…Wanted to try a sketch to test out some new brushes and rendering styles….Haven’t decided how I feel about them yet!

Adam Duff's Artist List

Adam Duff is an amazing artist, teacher and influence in the Montreal industry. Such an honour to be included in his recommended list! He discusses me at the 4:05 mark.

Thank you Adam Duff for the shout out!

Happy World Book Day!

#throwbackthursday #tbt Trying to salvage some more #disney stuff to share. I really need to organize my files better! Here’s another rough #animation scene of #youngtarzan and it’s final cleaned up scene. For some reason the pencil test I had was missing some frames at the start (sorry!) so I tried to match it up with the final version so the whole scene is viewable. Hope it’s still ok! #disneyanimation #disneyanimator #2d #2danimation #characteranimation #roughanimation #penciltest #handdrawn #handdrawnanimation #drawing #traditionalanimation #tarzan #samanthayoussef #samanthasketches #artisticprocess

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Gesture Drawing

Gesture drawing from a collaborated session with Toons on Tap.

Animation Test

Rough animation key frame from a test I’m working on.

Tarzan rough animation

#throwbackthursday ! Been finding old #artwork and #animation from my early days as an #animator at #disney! One of my first scenes as an animator. So long ago! This scene had a 15 foot panning background. I remember sitting there with it spread out in the hallway trying to recalculate the pegs so that I could animate this as a cycle and not across the 15 feet as it was originally laid out. #predigital #oldschool #tarzan #roughanimation #handdrawn #disneydays ! #2d #2danimation #samanthayoussef #samanthasketches #drawing #disneyanimator #disneyanimators #disneyanimation #youngtarzan #tarzan #littletarzan #sonofman #philcollins @officialphilcollins

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Academic Study

Since I’ve been sifting through some archives I thought I’d share some old academic studies of facial features I had done a couple years ago.

Pris

My scribble of Pris from the original Bladerunner movie. Was watching Bladerunner on the plane from London, and sketching on the back of the inflight menu since my sketchbook was out of reach due to meal tray obstruction!

Inspirational Series

Sneak preview of a project with @kbsmontreal and @vanhouttecoffee that I had a wonderful privilege to participate in! So excited to be part of this inspiring work! I can’t wait to see the final result and share it! Thank you Sarah @hoidz for the opportunity! #behindthescenes #comingsoon #artistinterview

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Early scenes on Tarzan II at Disney

http://samanthasketches.tumblr.com/post/170905333805/this-was-one-of-my-first-scenes-as-a-professional

Faline

http://samanthasketches.tumblr.com/post/170840495420/found-an-old-bambi-2-scene-that-i-animated-at

The Boxer

Some 1-3 minute pen & ink sketches from a costumed model drawing session.

Day Dreaming

Needed a break from work! Quick colour sketch inspired by café drawing.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday! Thought I’d share a Kenai maquette I made back in the day for our animation team at Disney on Brother Bear 2.

Studio Time

Three minute gesture drawing. Always fun to draw in an atelier! Derwent Drawing Pencils on newsprint paper.