Robin

We'll see where this one goes, I often see some quick paintings where the colors seem like they're slapped on by because the colors are so EXACT it looks real despite the painterly style.

I'll spend my time on this one trying to understand that.... or spend little time?

So last week the epic man came back again, however what few skills I have at life drawing were not present at all that day.

Sad Face.

This was done yesterday. I went with Esi (www.esijohnson.wordpress.com) to it and I decided to bring my new woodless (Progresso) pencil crayons and a cheap toned paper sketchbook (Strathmore, smooth toned paper, $6.50)

AND I LOVED IT. I'm still getting used to the idea of the paper filling in some of the mid value and where to apply white and where to blend, but I will DEFINITELY pursue this further. Since the sketchbook isn't entirely too big, it was one page per 5-10-15 minute poses. Life drawing is one way to fill up one of these toned sketchbooks QUICK. I can see myself having a collection of these things so cheap and fun to use.

Apologize for the scans, the scanner prefers to keep the coiled ring rather than the couple of centimeters of paper it decided to cut off.

Warm ups

Used a pen I got from jetpens.com I saw some pictures from facebook of this guys' life drawing pictures and I'm going to now use the pen more to get clean figure studies, how long that will take... Forever probs. But I'll get there!

One of my favorite ones of the night, I don't have glasses so I can't see the facial features at all. LOL

More to come from life drawing as well as the robin stuff! All in due time.

Keep drawing! 

Update: Retarded ass scanner. I'll render this up 5 notches when I get home with some white conte/pencil crayon. 

Animation Concepts

 

Animation concepts! We have to create a character for a walk cycle and right away I wanted to do a robot that is Ashley Wood-esque. So the first 3 being pretty based off of him, but cuter....

The concept for these is that this is in the future, coming from a time that lots of war has ended but there's just still lots of weapons and tanks left over, so what do the people do? They built home appliances that they need out of the tanks. So it's this concrete, solid, military look, but all they do is cut grass. I think I'm going with the last one, Mr. Pepper Shaker.

Any updates to this project (it's a 3 week project) I will post on this entry!

So this one is talking about how it'll look when it's cutting grass, the actual colors I"m thinking to be more Ashley Wood-esque, so burnt siennas basically. I'm abit stuck on how to design it for animation, especially in a side profile view. So I'll be thinking about it some more while I'm at the bar watching UFC 158 LOL

Go GSP.

Update: So GSP just dominated him on the ground and jabbing Nick Diaz's face off, Nick Diaz still believes he can beat him and wants a rematch (if he doesn't get this he will retired....again?)

I want texture added to the robot, so I am using Dan Luvisi's hair brush to had that scratchy texture. I took off the pepper shaker head, just to make it more simpler...not too sure, we'll see how it goes during crit the next day.

Learning the Ropes

Waaaaahhhh!!!!!! AFEK:AJW the more I render this the more it doesn't look like me at all! I know the image isn't a great reference at all but I still want to work with it!

Should I use more flat color to push out the planes? How do I make it look more painterly and less retarded??

Model1 WIP

Skipped out on school work to watch anime and draw this during the night. Phofind to was taken from a friend of a friend's.... I've saved some of her stuff on facebook, link her back when I  beffind out who it is. I saw a video of this guy doing a self-portrait of himself in the style of Jana Schirmer (god help my spelling) and it took him an HOUR! So naturally "if he can do it, then I can too! Eventually."

Watching his 4 minute video seriously made me pick up digital painting, and I'm starting with monochrome first before I dive into the complex world of colors (they scare me). I am just loving the freedom and fail-alot environment of photoshop digital.

Working on this on my laptop, while at school on the Mac Pro x Cintiq, I'm doing a self-portrait for my FB.

More to come!

Abit lost on how I should go about this next, I guess more blocking in of values before complete rendering/blending but I"m just scared of ruining what I got? Working on this at school on the cintiq while the one above is on a small Intuos 3, both I'm thinking are weekly projects.

More to come!

Animation Piece

I learned a lot of things when  I was doing this animation, part it being that I don't have a lot of patience drawing things in 1s or 2s, however nearing the end of the animation seeing it come together and that you made it happen is quite the experience. I have a long ways to go in terms of animation should I persue it? I'm not entirely too sure, I have seen myself taking up a career in animation but more in the storytelling department rather than the animation department. But artistically it doesn't narrow your options, knowing how to animate.

It's a 7 second long animation bit, cut in to 16 pieces of a song and then scrambled together to form one semi-cohesive piece.

I kind of do want to do more after seeing that, just the way the explosion lightning thing syncs up makes me pretty happy haha. Animation for me is definitely a learn as you go, not knowing too much means a lot of growth to be had in the area, and just improving on line control and drawing in general.

Epic Life Drawing

These gestures don't translate how excited I was to have the model that we had, he had all these props and crazy poses he was whipping out! Man it was so refreshing compared to the previous two ladies who would just stand and lean over, this guy was wicked.

Quickies, I went all blue this session, blue gel pen, blue ink, and blue lead. I worked only in my sketchbook (a new one since I lost the other one due to stupid drunkedness) so I focused mainly on shapes, thinking in 3d (hard to think about) and landmarks, as well as keeping my lines interesting.

He did some punching poses.

This guy had a whole slew of props! Teddy Bear, Pole, Ball, Chain and a couple of other things too!

Instead of intense rendering, just thinking about shapes and proportion.

Need glasses, don't even know what his face looks like. LOL

Bottom left is my favorite of the night.

More stuff to come about the League of Badasses, who knows maybe it'll be a portfolio piece....project thing..... Keep you guys posted!

Thanks for stopping by!

Update: Retarded ass scanner. I'm not going to work on this until I can grab my white conte or pencil crayon, but I'm having lots of fun with this so far, already effed up the face but s'all good, I'll just practice portraits later as well. 

Should I Make Daily Posts?

I needed coffee last night in order to simply concentrate on my animation homework... I really love animation but I'm not too sure whether I have the patience or attention span for it unfortunately. So about the coffee, woke up and felt like a mess, part of it might have been I could only pass out at like 2:30 and woke up at 6:30 (Alarm clock so that I don't sleep in) and then went to bed for another hour and a half, not too bad! But bluh do I feel odd right now. So this morning I lazily drew this one in, and only this guy, didn't even bother rendering his right half, I normally don't draw faces on these people but now I'm starting to in a really simple planar manner, I'm sure I'll be more up to drawing faces and super hero figures later in the day. Keep ya guys posted!