Lift and Toss Animation

Life Drawings

 

 

 Just an assortment of life drawings from the semester thus far, ranging from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. The model is pulling a scarf that is around her neck in this last one, in case that is unclear. Below is a skeleton drawing of an aye-aye I did at the ROM some weeks ago.

Painting

Below is our first painting assignment, which includes three color studies, a tonal, and the final painting. The small color studies and final painting were done in gouache, and the tonal was done in marker and white pencil crayon. I have to get back into the swing of painting as I am a bit out of practice.

Ava

Having finished most of the assignments that were due this week, I decided to use my free time to do a portrait. This here is a cousin of mine, which now makes the third portrait of a cousin I have put up on this blog, haha.

Character Design

This was completed for a character design assignment. The design will be used in my next animation, which involves a character lifting a heavy object and then throwing it. I don't think I was completely successful with the posing aspect of this assignment...I'm not sure if it looks like the object (a pot) is truly heavy, or if the character just seems to be faking her reaction to holding it. Regardless, I do like how this character has turned out - it will be interesting to see her animated.

 

Harry Potter

I decided I'd draw one of the promotional posters for Harry Potter - I omitted the text because I felt it wasn't necessary for the drawing. I've been working on this on and off over the course of 2 or so weeks. 

I used the grid method again to draw the outline. Despite what I had written in the Jack Johnson post when I first started doing portraits again, I really do prefer to use a grid than to not...especially when there is a lot going on. It's easy to run into trouble of fitting everything on the page if you're not using any form of measurements.

Even though Ron is the smallest of the three in this drawing, he gave me the most trouble; the angle made it  difficult for me to draw and shade. I also didn't go too detailed on the background. In the poster, the bridge is of course more detailed and whatnot, but I really prefer just focusing on the characters. Plus, I would need a reeeally tiny pencil if I wanted to get it spot on.

Below is just a video with various photos I took along the way to show the work in progress.

Click here for the reference picture. :)