Character Design

I'm trying to do my character design, except I'm terrified to re-draw the character in different positions. I've never been able to get a result even remotely close to acceptable. Psssssht.

Sketch dump from the last couple of days.

I've been working on some head stuff recently, I'm getting more comfortable with drawing the basic shape of the head now. I'm using QuickPose.com for my reference, best life drawing site I've found so far.

Also been messing around with game maker studio and trying to learn GML.

I learnt how to make aliens and a ship to shoot them with. 

Trying to code/script makes me feel very inadequate, mentally.

Gesture Drawings

Did a few gesture drawings today so i'll post a few of them:

:D

Small Update on Weapon Rendering

I didn't do a lot of art today, mostly mucking around in photoshop and finding a good way to render stuff.
This is what I got for today.

Character Re-Designs

Today in class we had to re-design a set of characters by picking a  new visual style and theme for them. Our group picked Scooby-Doo, done in a Looney Toons art style and set in a Film Noire theme.

I did a couple of drawings of Scooby but unfortunately spent most of  the rest of the afternoon fighting with my computer and tablet.

This is what I came up with:

I'd like to eventually get the background finished for the 2nd drawing.

Weapon Thumbnails

Today in class I started working on some weapon thumbnails with marker with the intention of eventually modelling one or two of them in 3-D.

I managed to get a few thumbnails done and did the line-work + masked one of them out for rendering.

 I know it's not 100% necessary to render the line-work to get to a 3-D model but I figured it was best to be as thorough as possible.

My thanks for your looking.

Attempting to work digitally.

I decided to work a little on digital art today, since I haven't really paid any attention to it. So I managed to very tediously rough out a painting. This is going to take a while to get used to but it's pretty fun.

FWOOM

I think it looks ok-ish for a rough line drawing but i'm unsure what to do next. I figured I could either do an inking pass, clean it up and block in colours or I could go completely out of my comfort zone and just paint straight over it.

I'm really confused.

Perspective and ellipse practice.

I've just been doing more freehand perspective stuff the last couple of days, I've found it's helping my drawing quality a lot. Especially when I try to draw quick sketches.

I've also started to try and really apply the study to create things from my imagination.

This drawing doesn't really 'work' as a design at all but it's been great practice for learning how to plot simple shapes in perspective. Good rendering practice too.

Adventures in perspective land.

Some practice in transferring planes in perspective and freehand ellipse practice.

So excite.

Life Drawing - 10/4/2014

Hand Drawings (Stylized, realistic and animal.)

Really enjoying doing these hand studies, which is good because it'll take a lot of practice to get comfortable with drawing them.

Hand drawings from life using visual styles of other artists.

Aminals

Feets and things.

Didn't do a lot of drawing today unfortunately, since my brain is a little rattled from the 48 Hour Film challenge. But this is what I got, yo:

I also worked on a walk cycle in Maya that I'll post a video of once it's cleaned up.

Museum Trip Photos + Studies

We went to the Auckland War Memorial Museum today. There were so many awesome displays, it's a shame that some were so dimly lit, resulting in some not-so-great photos.

These are a few semi-decent photos I managed to get:

Flying fire-spit thing machine.

Rock that looks like it got pulled out of Darksiders.

#52

Pigeon skeleton.

I attempted to do some perspective studies of the pistols I found in the armory.

I learnt an important lesson about not putting the subject so close to the vanishing point. Because of the unnatural distortion it causes and also because I hate it.

These were done with Toner Gray Copic Sketch markers, a Sharpie Poster Paint Pen and a Pilot Hi-Tec C in case anyone was wondering. The paper is from a Hahn Kraft Toned Sketchbook.

PEW PEW

Remember kids, the more money you spend on unnecessary art supplies, the better your art will become.

Life Drawing From Yesterday + Hand Drawings

These are some life drawings from yesterday that I liked.

2 Minute Gesture Drawings

Line Contour Drawing

And some hand drawing practice, the middle one was giving me so much trouble. So I gave up. :D

MOAR PERSPECTIVE + 3 Point Lighting.

Did some more practice on basic freehand 1, 2 and 3 point perspective.

This is a screenshot of the 3 point lighting I did today. 

Bonus sketchbook sketch.

That is all.