Lifedrawing HW -- CCAD campus

It was really beautiful out the other day, so I sat on the quad and sketched people outside and sitting in Crane.

Head Hunting

Sketching and caricaturing random people walking around.

Then I took one of my sketches and pushed it a bit further. Lots of fun!

Tarzan sketches

Some quick sketches while watching Tarzan.

It was fun trying to get his legs working correctly.

Zoo sketches

I went to the zoo the other day and got a lot of sketching in! And I even got to feed a giraffe!

Lifedrawing HW -- The Hills Market

This past week I did some lunch time sketching at the Hills Market.

Mickey Mouse In-Class Warmups

We've been doing a lot of gestures from old school Mickey Mouse shorts as warmups before class -- we're starting to get into analyzing the form and the inking of the characters in addition to the gesture and line of action. These are from "Thru the Mirror" and "Boat Builders".

Character Design from Life

I took some loose life drawing sketches from when I was at 16-bit and turned them into a more interesting character. I really enjoyed working on this!

Character Swap

I was given another student's life drawing gesture and had to make it into an interesting character with personality and back story.

Here was the original one (from my classmate, Laura Mansfield):

And here are my rough sketches and final design. I found myself responding to the really loose, soft lines in Laura's original sketch and tried to keep that sense of roundness and softness in the final design.

More shapes in space!

Still working on moving basic shapes in space -- beans, ovals, and rectangular based forms.

Character Silhouette Variations

I did some silhouette variations exploring my character Yvonne from the very beginning of the semester. Definitely fun to push the proportions and shape, but still expressing the personality that I wanted.

And the original:

Life Drawing HW -- The Wine Bistro

I got out of work a little early on Saturday night, so I sat and sketched up some of the people sitting at the bar as well as some of my co workers cleaning up for the night! Bar gestures were fun and probably a good idea for the future -- these definitely made me think more about how the different people were interacting with each other.

Drink and Draw at 16 Bit!

Life drawing gestures from the Drink and Draw outing at 16 Bit. Fun people and fun drinks!

And then just for fun, I did a quickie for the theme -- draw yourself in your favorite video game! (Legend of Zelda!)

Lifedrawing HW -- Animals in my House

I spent some time relaxing at my house on Friday, so I decided to sketch my cat Roland. We recently moved into a house with a ferret, named Tomas, and he was pretty fun to sketch too. Both of them are very 'bendy' animals.

Not pictured is the fish or frog who also inhabit our new house. It's becoming quite a menagerie in here.

Looney Tunes Warm-ups

Some of the in class warm-ups I did last week from Looney Tunes cartoons (mostly "Duck Amuck" and "Rabbit Seasoning").

For these gestures, I really focused on quickly establishing a strong line of action before moving on to blocking in basic shapes.

First Character Design

For our first character design assignment, we were given pretty much free reign over what we wanted to do.

Basic Shapes

Practice rotating basic shapes (spheres, shaved spheres, rectangles, and cubes) in perspective.

Good practice for heads and hands!