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More Life Drawing

2011-06-29T00:02:00.000-07:00

Eh.

Professor Von Drake

2011-05-31T00:30:00.000-07:00

Model sheet study.

Flick

2011-04-30T01:25:00.001-07:00

Stumble Test

2011-04-24T19:25:00.000-07:00

Dog Sniff

2011-04-21T00:15:00.000-07:00

Dog Gallop Test

2011-04-20T01:13:00.000-07:00

It's the illusion of the motion that is most intriguing for me. So even if I get 20 minutes to do a test, it's still a lot of fun.

Wings

2011-04-17T03:01:00.000-07:00

If I don't hate this when I'm up in the morning I won't take it down.

New Scanner!

2011-02-21T22:35:00.000-08:00

I've needed ink for my printer going on about a year now, so I finally got up the motivation to look into it and realized that for 10 dollars more than they wanted for ink for my crappy old printer I could buy a printer/copier/scanner! I've always had to take pictures of stuff but NOT ANY MORE! I've been doodling mindlessly lately with the limited marker colors I have so I figured I could scan those as a test. Behold.

Latest Life Drawing

2011-01-19T23:00:00.001-08:00

The top one is from life drawing tonight, and the one below is from a little while ago. I'm slow getting the major shapes down and I never get more than a few minutes so I'll never learn how to draw fingers...

More Pencil Tests

2010-08-15T22:45:00.000-07:00

I should probably be spending my time on 3D stuff, but this is usually more fun.

The timing is obviously way too fast but it was still fun to through in some inbetweens just to see how it could move.

I did a half cycle Blair shuffle because, I don't know, why not?

A Pencil Test

2010-08-11T22:15:00.000-07:00

Finally! My 9th Symphony! ...er. No.

I just wanted to see if I could rig up my webcam to serve as a downshooter. This is more of an angle shooter but it's good enough for now. I laid out a backup disk I've got but don't use on my desk and I threw together about an hours worth of drawings straight ahead just to see how it would work. This was immediately gratifying!

Scribbly Tits

2010-05-31T22:35:00.000-07:00

Scribbles. Basically ripped the idea off a wallpaper for Red Dead Redemption.

http://media.rockstargames.com/rockstar/global_data/downloads/wallpapers/games/reddeadredemption_luisa_1440x900.jpg

Presh Pup

2010-05-31T16:58:00.000-07:00

It's a dog. With lopsided eyes...

Next scene planning

2010-03-07T14:06:00.000-08:00

So today I started planning for the next scene I'd like to start on. (While I'm still addressing issues from older scenes of course.) Here is my process.

At first I made a simple foreground, with the intention being that the character will hop across horizontally from left to right. This is going to be an exercise in mechanics so I want it to be almost like an obstacle course. Then I scribbled in a rough idea of how I'd like my spacing to be and in what direction I want the character to move. I doubt this image is useful to anyone but myself, but it's a way for me to visualize what my brain is thinking in terms of motion at the most basic level.

From there, I went ahead and started putting down ideas for how I'd like the character to move from place to place. Obviously there is no construction, maintenance of volume, on-model fidelity, uuhh... draftsmanship of any kind really, and for multiple reasons, one of which is that I figure it's not worth the time at this kind of stage.

It's hard to show that this dude should be bent forward given this angle and if I had drawn it dimensionally it would be more clear.

So by the end of it, like I said about the first drawing, this whole thing is mostly only useful to me. I just want to get the idea in my head to a visual place where I can start posing a character in 3d. And it's easier for me to do that if I feel like I have a plan. I might skip the last gag if I feel like I'm not pulling it off successfully, and I'm sure I'll have to move poses around as I realize they don't really flow through space well. But this is my jumping point.

Some edits

2010-02-21T17:02:00.001-08:00

I made some alterations to the planning here after having talked to a few people about it. I made my changes in red.

I'm cutting this idea because it's not clear. My idea was to have this character look around excitedly at other people in the room to visualize his anticipation to other characters before diving into his gift, but I think it's simpler to have him focus on what's in front of him. Especially since I don't establish that there might be multiple characters in the scene.

I'm overwriting these frames so that the character has a change in his line of action after he realizes that the gift wasn't what he wanted. I think it serves to contrast his changing thoughts.

Looking at it now, I might even have him revert back to his straight back pose immediately after his initial recoiling to flow better into the next pose. Just typing out loud.

On to the next phase.

Birthday Surprise

2010-02-17T20:54:00.001-08:00

Here is a new idea I worked on today that I think is better and simpler than my last post.

Thumbnails for a scene

2010-02-14T18:23:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the thumbnails I did for a scene I'm working on. I don't know why I was drawing in poop brown but I changed it when I realized I'm an idiot.

Also, there was a whale.

Mrow.

2010-02-07T10:49:00.001-08:00

MONA! For now...

I'm on a boat!

2009-12-30T17:38:00.000-08:00

My sister bought me some markers for Christmas.
Another DEK weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU

Happy Thanksgiving!

2009-11-26T09:15:00.000-08:00

This is an inside joke. Happy Thanksgiving!

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-smuggled-songbirds,0,2414834.story

Fall 2009 Traditional Portfolio

2009-10-19T01:51:00.001-07:00

Hi anyone,

I wanted to post the fruits of my personal labor over the last few weeks. This is my traditional portfolio as it stands now. I realize where it's at, and I wish I could do more. Though honestly, given my schedule, I'm almost proud of myself. ...almost.

Running out of titles

2009-09-26T22:07:00.000-07:00

So here are last week's drawing class results. I finally got a few hours of time to myself. In between battling the LAPD, I like to post drawings. The instructor worked with me on this first one, and I added the gist of his notes with my tablet here. Pretty good stuff. All of these are between three and five minute sketches, with a batch of quick one-sies at the end, which I switched to a drafting pencil for. No particular reason. One thing I am getting bored with is the posing. I feel like there are only so many poses the models tend to go with. I'd like to see some creative acting, but... they're already up there naked as the day they were born, so I can't complain too much.

By connecting the neck to the head, he means to draw through the form. In this case there was hair hanging over her neck, so I didn't bother to draw it. This is good cartooning advice, as well. You have to visualize as 3D shapes in 2D space, otherwise you end up ignorant to what the form is actually doing and you'll be unable to convincingly move it. And it's not about making a pretty drawing, it's about understanding what is happening and representing that on paper. That is one piece of advice I find consistent through life-drawing instructors.

Life Drawing

2009-09-16T22:50:00.000-07:00

Life drawing has been going relatively consistently lately, so I'll be happy to keep posting what I've got. This should go strong for the next six weeks at work, so let's hope I make some improvement. Maybe I'll compare the start and the finish when it's all over. Here are two five minute poses.

This one was a one minute gesture. Obviously not fantastic but I thought it was the most successful short pose that I did. Hopefully I can encourage the instructor to do some ten to twenty minute poses in the following weeks. I'd really like to take the time to check proportions and get some finer detail in these.

Thanks!

Life Drawing

2009-09-13T23:05:00.000-07:00

So here's two more of the less revolting poses from life drawing last Wednesday. Five minute poses again.

Lunch Life Drawing

2009-09-02T23:18:00.000-07:00

I'm back at it again. We had a chance to do some life drawing during lunch today so I busted out the old newsprint pad! This time I made some notes of the more frustratingly glaring issues with my drawings. Things I see right away, that I don't understand why I don't see them as I'm actually drawing them. *pulls hair* Not to shy away from the greater problems evident herein. Five minute poses, except for Monster Leg Man.

Somehow I completely failed at taking pictures too. I had a bright light shining on the paper and used a flash but it looks like I took it in a dark alleyway. The last life drawing images came out fine... I don't get it.

To he honest, his head was rather large, but to be fair, it wasn't nearly that large. And I get so caught up in these sweeping lines that I drew his friggin' leg like double the size of the rest of him. I shudder at the thought of him unfolding that leg...

Speaks for itself.

How is that even acceptable?

And the stupid part is I thought I should accentuate the naivete by going over it in charcoal. Somehow his ankle narrows into a ramen noodle?

So that's it! I'll keep this stuff in mind for next time.

Life Drawing

2009-08-26T22:36:00.000-07:00

These are some of the better drawings I did in a class at Rhythm the other week. I like parts of some of them, which is better than usual. They are all five minute poses except for the last one, which was ten.

Look at the size of that head... yeesh.

This is just fun!

These hands are embarrassingly naive. I need to spend more time on that...

Run Test

2009-08-03T22:32:00.000-07:00

As good a place to start as any

2009-07-20T22:14:00.000-07:00