Animation II/Character Design: Etchings of a Madman

I started work on some FX animation today, as well as the background for it.

here's the sketch and WIP of the background. I still need to go back in and add more "muckyness", but here's the stage its at as of today:

Also, here's this exercise from Character Design that didn't warrant it's own post.

We had to draw some human character archetypes heads, so I took the opportunity to draw some old characters in a new way. I actually hate how this turned out, but it was fun to do so I'll post it anyway