First semester of second year is finished! Wow, I can’t believe how fast it went. I have a huge amount of work from the semester that I want to post over the holiday. Although, I’d like to catch up on some sleep first.
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!
Alright, alright. So perhaps I’ve been neglecting my blog… a bit. This will change, I’m hoping. Second year’s been doing a damn good job keeping us all busy and hidden away from the outside world. Once I’m on holiday I’ll be sure to go through the mountain of work from first semester and post something. Only two and a half weeks until the semester’s over, and second year’s half finished. Surreal stuff.
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.
In my character design class, our professor, Pete Emslie (http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/) had us watch ‘Rabbit of Seville’, a Looney Toons short from 1949. Pete paused on great action poses from the short and had us sketch them out quickly. He wanted us to capture the gesture that is the foundation of a great action pose. It was the best in-class assignment I think I’ve ever had. Below are my sketches and the short. Maybe you’ll spot them in the film? Enjoy.
Our painting professor asked us to take our last character from character design and incorporate it into a scene related to the character. My painting doesn’t directly relate, since an ostrich probably wouldn’t be wandering around in a park, but I thought it’d be better than my original idea, some sort of gym.
This painting is by no means perfect. I’ve been drowning in finals and huge assignments so I only spent a few hours on this. Very rushed. I need to buy a book on some sort of Photoshop instruction. I am not PS savvy. D’oh. Enjoy.
We had to put together a character model pack for our character design class. It was based more on personality, so I came up with a Jane Fonda-esque Ostrich, who has devoted her life to aerobics and yoga. Eighties themed.
Quick side note - I cannot believe there’s only two and a half weeks left of school. First year is almost over and it has flown by. There’s been a lot of ups and downs but I feel I’ve grown as, not only an artist, but a person as well. All the talented and knowledgeable animation faculty have opened my eyes to a new side of animation, and for that I am very thankful. Enjoy.
Just a few sketches from two sketchbooks I’ve been working in during the school year. There’s some character design, subway/GO train sketches, some friends, randoms, the last unicorn. Some may recognize a couple animation faculty too =P Enjoy.
Here’s one of my rough drawings from a character sequence assignment we were given. Mine basically revolves around a fish who loves music. This is frame three; he’s curious over the sun polyps. Enjoy.
Here’s my character expressions, inspired by the lovely Bette Davis. Left until the last night X) The expressions should be pushed a lot more *sigh*. The work is being piled on! Enjoy.
This is my rushed character design of some ugly baby. The assignment asked for action poses. Babies seem awkward. I tried for awkward, aside from the classic strut (used in class) in the top right corner. Enjoy.
