Life Drawing: Start of 4th Semester

Here's the first batch of 2013 Life Drawing.  Lots of short poses.  Soooo many.

Trying some silhouette gestures to help form clear poses.

Trying out a lot of different gesture approaches.  Capturing the poses is the main thing, but there are soooo many ways to try to do it.  Oh well, fun to experiment.

A couple full pages gestures to stay loose.

The model had this awesome Thor hammer, but then I realized I didn't remember what Thor looked like, but I had be watching Spartacus (sooo good) so problem solved

Rounder

Straighter

Was playing some Jak and Daxter that week.  That game has awesome design.

May have pushed the form slightly here.  Reminds me of some ancient art.

Thanks for having a look!

Life Drawing: Top 10 Drawings From 3rd Semester

So at the end of each semester we select our 10 best drawings and hand them in to be marked.  It can be tough to pick out what "best" is, but 10 is enough that it allows for a good mix, it just requires sorting through a pretty big stack of newsprint.  Luckily the better ones were closer to the top.

If you want to compare my top 10 from 2nd semester they are HERE, and if you want to go all the way back to 1st semester they are HERE.  Getting better, but no shortage of things I still want to work on.

On with the show!

Thanks for having a look.  More from this semester on the way shortly.

Life Drawing: Almost the End of 3rd Semester

Alriiiight, back to some life drawing.  These are from the last couple weeks before the holiday break.

More 5-10 minute poses, but still a few 1s in here.

Sometimes my gestures end up smaller, but I try to do a few full pages ones to loosen up.

I almost always get some sort of face drawn, but I ended up working on the rest of the pose and when time ran out I left this one alone.  Partly I kind of liked it this way, partly I was pretty sure my made up face would destroy it :)

Trying to shade, without it looking like scribbles.

I like the attitude and expression here.  Still need to work on faces.

This one might have been up here before, I had a few random pages that I liked that were out when I was sorting through drawings trying to come up with my ten best for the semester.  Speaking of which, get ready for my 10 best drawings from 3rd semester...coming next post!

100th Post: Animation Super Post!

  Woah this is my 100th post, let's make it a good one!

Here are a few of my animation assignments from last semester.  All done on paper, and all taking a very long time :)

Daffy on a ball, trying to do his thing.

Lilo trying to move her mouth while she speaks.

The Goof trying to catch a baseball

Alice trying to look like Alice.

Thanks for having a look!

Gladiator Guy Animation

Here is a short animation from the end of this semester, although not really focusing specifically on animation.  

This one was for our digital animation class, learning and animating with either Flash or Toon Boom Harmony.  I did the designs, builds, and animation.  Think of it like the short you watch before watching a short.  I think it's kind of funny, but mostly in a funny bad way :)

Thanks for stopping bye!

Cold War Clash Animatic

This next one was from storyboarding class.  We all came up with our own story, did the boards, and then put them into animatic form.  Really fun.  Like doing a little short film without actually colouring or animating.  Some things I would change to make the story clearer, but hopefully it mostly makes sense.  I drew everything digitally which made the animatic easier, but certainly not easy (camera moves - i'm looking at you).  They both have sound so crank up your speakers!

Thanks for having a look!

Life Drawing: November 15th Edition

Life drawing!  Life drawing!  Hmm...haven't posted much else recently.  I'll get some other stuff up here at some point.  Probably.

Not a lot of 1s on here this time.  Mostly because I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with gestures.  I'm usually pretty happy with the gesture that I use to build up a longer pose, but as a drawing itself, I'm still trying to find the mix of roughness and completeness.

Someone left a stump of bright green and blue pastel at my spot, so I tried 'em out.

I like the hand on this one, and maybe parts of his left shoulder.

This one has some nice line weight going on.  Structure seems decent.  Probably better if I can find an eraser and dial back the disaster around his eyes.

This one felt pretty good.  Arm feels a little flat in the shoulder, but not bad.

Pop quiz hotshot:  What part of this drawing is totally made up?

Do you give up?

Here's a hint: It's one of the arms...

So I made up the left arm here.  I know it's not that big of a deal, I often change the pose a bit when drawing.  On this one I liked what was happening but was kind of annoyed because the left arm was perfectly hidden in front of the models body.  Oddly enough I think the light saber part was really there.  The arm change also affected the shoulder position and shoulder blades.

A page of 1s.

I like the feel of this one, especially the feet.

Sometimes on longer poses I struggle to find additional structure to define with line.  The usual next step is trying to busy it up with shading, but this time I tried busying it up with contours.  Then I think I redid the gesture in 10-15 seconds, which I like better.

This one came out pretty well.  Alright hands, feet, and face.  Not bad not bad.  Seated poses can be interesting because you can draw at a larger scale than a standing pose and still fit everything in.

That's it.  And to get you pumped for the next batch that's on the way...I think the next batch that's on the way are pretty good!