In character design, we had a semester-long sketchbook project that called for caricatured people from everyday life.  Below are a few sketches I did in my new sketchbook.  I’m slowly starting to work bigger, I find my drawings have become more successful because of this.  The new sketchbook is 11″ x 14″.  Aside from the ‘book, I’ve very recently started working with marker, which I only dabbled in during first year fundies, but gave up almost immediately.  I couldn’t grasp the medium, but now I’m dabbling once again; hoping something good comes from it.  The caricatures all have a little marker incorporated into them.  I’d never drawn any caricatures until this semester, so it’s still pretty new to me.  Hoping to improve greatly in the next couple years.  Merry Christmas and enjoy!

I’ve been developing concepts of kids for our last character design assignment of the semester.  This is one of those concepts.  A sad girl, wondering if I’ll ever update my blog again.  Enjoy.

We had to create our own character (yay) and animate them anticipating, struggling to lift something heavy, struggle to throw said object, follow through and end in a believable resting position.

Midterm tomorrow and then reading week.  Hoping to update this thing more.

Really, really, really want to fix this up.  Enjoy.

We had to animate the flour sack in a boat (or anything, I chose a bowl), and show the sack being forcefully tossed into the air by the water.  When he falls back into the bowl, we had to animate a large splash.

I animated each object at a separate time, so after three weeks it’s all come together.  The splash at the end is barely visible, thanks to the bad compression.  Wish I could upload the Flipbook file instead.

I probably would have made the bowl and flour sack bigger.  After four long months of sans animating, it was nice to jump right into an assignment.  A little rusty though ;D  Enjoy.

The first part of our first assignment in storyboarding was to interpret two poems and create concept story beats for each one.  In class everyone pitched their ideas, chose the best from the two and created rough story beats that were more refined, cleaned up and applied proper tonal renderings.

The poem I ended up working from is called ‘I’m Nobody’, by Emily Dickinson.  It reads -

‘I’m nobody!  Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us - don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.’

‘How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!’

And based on that poem, below in yellow post-its are my concept beats and on white index cards, the rough story beats.  The beats read from left to right.  Below those is a rough character lineup/size comparison.

Storyboarding is a bit different than last year, so this was challenging, but fun and rewarding.  I’m becoming more and more interested in story and wouldn’t mind being a story artist someday too.  Enjoy.

School starts up again in just over a month, so get ready for some new work, and hopefully a few sketches over the duration of the summer.

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