Wednesday, October 13, 2010

How to Make a Sock Puppet

Well I have an idea for my thesis film. I just have to find the time to create it. So in honor of having an idea here's some samples of designs for the sock monster and some zombie/monster socks.




















I leave it up to you to figure out a story just based on that. :)

Friday, September 10, 2010

Exploring Character

So I was experimenting with the cavegirl design from earlier and thought hey, why not try to make her more of a neanderthal in terms of the skull shape. And see if it's possible to do so without turning the design ugly. Not sure about it yet.











I worked on the old tourist some more and came up with this guy.



















I'm liking him so far.

Let the explorations continue.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Tourist

Two posts in one day. Go me!

Just wanted to post my first shot at the old perverted tourist. He's not perverted yet, unless he's just pretending to read the paper and is staring at the bikini clad college girls on the beach. But he's old. I still need to explore the character but I just drew this and was actually kind of happy with it. That doesn't happen often so I thought I'd share.



















Yes I left the hands very gestural on purpose. I need more hand studies. :)

Cavegirl

So hello blog. Long time since I've been here. I forgot to post most of my gesture drawing class drawings. Oops.

Well I was wanting to take some of my sketches from that class and delve into some character design. So here's a post.

This was the original gesture from class.



















This was a first attempt to work on the face and then I added some of the body however, I'm having proportion or anatomical issues with the body. But my concentration was on the face. With the hair she reminds me of a pissed off Ariel.




















Then I started to explore and added a cartoon tiny caveman to be her companion.


I think I like this face better.
She reminds me of a teenager.






































And just to get away from the typical tiny waist woman character.



















So there's some rough characters. Next up old perverted tourist man. :)

Monday, March 8, 2010

Gesture Class

So I'm taking a Gesture Drawing Class at the Union with Steve Brown. It's a pretty awesome class. It's not so much about making an anatomically correct drawing in 3 minutes as it's about drawing a story in 3 minutes. I find it a very challenging and fun class. You really have to work on thinking quickly and being willing to use the model as reference only really.

These drawings were done in class and I would need to rework them for any other purpose. I just wanted to share them in their really messy glory.

From the first class.



From the second class, the model was dressed as Aladdin.



From the third class. The model was dressed as a medieval court jester.





For this pose the model had his hands tied behind his back but this scenario popped into my head.



I'm also taking an animation class with Alex Topete at the union. I'm enjoying that class as well. We were supposed to do some caricatures last week. I forgot and then spent some time at work drawing these two. Not really caricatures to me because they can be pushed so much farther. But it was silly fun drawing some iconic poses.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Giraffes

First post of the year!

I went to the zoo today during lunch with a friend. We drew the giraffes and they were in a playful mood. They came over to us a few times and sometimes seemed to pose just for us.

Back at work, when I had some down time I tried to take a couple of the rough gestures I had and do a memory sketch of them trying to capture the mood I saw at the zoo. So here's a few samples of the day.

The first two are straight sketches done at the zoo.



I liked how this guy was stretching for the food on the tree.



This one was just acting so regal, going look at me. Draw me. Although I noticed that a lot of my drawings were of profiles. I have to remember to not do so many profiles.

This was a gesture I didn't capture well of the baby giraffe leaning against what I assume is the mother, but could be the father.



So back at work on a trusty post-it I worked out this memory sketch, switching the position of the baby for composition reasons.



And this was the last gesture at the zoo. This guy was so haughty in the way he/she strutted across the grounds.



So back at work on another trusty post-it I tried to work out a better way to get that haughtiness across.



I unfortunately couldn't remember the walking gait of a giraffe. Later I checked and yep the leg positions are wrong. The back legs should be switched.

I wish I could get a sketch like this started at the zoo and then have the animal in front of me to study and get the drawing right. But for some reason I always get flustered by the moving animal and try to capture exactly what they are doing instead of just looking. Finding a pose I like. Work it out as a gesture and then use the live animal in front of me to complete it. Maybe one day I can stop being flustered by the motion.