Life Drawing: Monday 14th January

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Fig 3: Sectional study using 4 different colouring pencils

Fig 4: Study using 3 differing coloured pencils 

Fig 5: 20 Minute study using 3 colouring pencils

Fig 6: 20 Minute study using 4 colour pencils for the body and additional 2 for the cloth

For this life drawing session I wanted to experiment with a new medium I hadn't used in a long while, colouring pencils. I really want to practise them as I would like to use them in some matte paintings for my environments in the Major project along with watercolour. The two sets I have are Derwent Coloursoft pencils and Faber-Castell Polychromos. While being different brands, all of the pencils blend well together and the use of the darker tone of the paper I used really makes the lighter colours of the yellows and light greens and purples really stand out.
Overall I feel as though this life drawing session really gave me a good feel of using pencils and I can really see the difference of the earlier pieces to the later ones as i got more used to and more accustom to the medium.

Life Drawing: 19th November

Fig 1: 1 Minute Sketches in Pen 1

Fig 2: 1 Minute Sketches in Pen 2

Fig 3: 5 Minute Study made with Pencil and Posca Marker 

Fig 4: Study with Watercolour

Fig 5: Study with Watercolour and Pen

Fig 6: 20 Minute Study with Gouache and Posca Markers

Fig 7: Studies with Pencil and Posca Markers

Fig 8: Studies with Pencil, Posca Markers and Stamps

Fig 9: Studies made with Watercolour, Pens and Stamps

For this weeks Life Drawing, while continuing to use the two sketchbooks, one being a watercolour sketchbook and the other one a storyboarding sketchbook with very thin paper, I decided to introduce my set of Posca paint pens. I wanted to experiment with different techniques with them such as layering, and adding water but I feel like I wasn't confident enough to go all the way with the experimentation which led me to use pencil as a safety net. I also was planning on doing more combination things with watercolour and white gouache but unfortunately I left the gouache behind so I was having to work without being able to layer colours, like what I did in the last life drawing session.
Overall I feel as though while I wasn't confident enough to properly use the paint pens I'm happy with the quality of work produced in the session and I'm really enjoying making compositions with the storyboarding sketchbook to block in certain aspects of poses to focus on.

Life Drawing: 5th November

Fig 1: Gouache Painting of models torso and elbow

Fig 2: 5 Minute sketch with a Clutch Pencil and Brush Pen

Fig 3: 10 Minute sketch in pencil and highlighted in red pen

Fig 4: Gouache Painting of one of the poses in Fig 3

Fig 5: Multiple Drawings that implemented the storyboard format of the sketchbook, coloured pens and stamps were used 

Fig 6: Another Sketch implementing the storyboarding format

Fig 7: Final Study piece using watercolour mixed with white gouache

On Monday 5th November I joined in the morning life drawing session. Because I wanted to focus on experimenting with the supplies I had I brought with me: watercolours, gouache, inking pens, blue lead pencils and also novelty stationary things like the numerous cat stamps I've collected over the year. I decided to work in two sketchbooks for the session, one was is a regular watercolour sketchbook that I wanted to practice gouache and watercolour on while the other is a sketchbook that is supposed to be for storyboarding but because the spine of the books isn't that good and the pages are prone to ghosting I used it to do more general experimenting with the supplies I brought with me.

Overall I found that attending the life drawing session was a very therapeutic couple of hours especially after the hectic weekend I had, it allowed for me to relax and enjoy drawing and painting with supplies I haven't touched in a while. With the end result being a collection of sketches and studies that I really enjoy, with my favourites of the lot being 1, 4, 5, and 7

Minor Project: Sketchbook Concepts

Fig 1: Life Drawing Clown

Fig 2: Mr Plimsolls

Fig 3: Mr Plimsolls 2

Fig 4: O' Barney 

Fig 6: Additional Sketches

 Some sketches in my sketchbook for some of the bogeyman characters I am creating, still trying to figure out the 1930's rubberhose style and I've been looking around for individual characters and cartoons to help in influencing the character designs for individual bogeymen.

Adaptation B: Character Concept: Ludlow and Joe

Fig 1: Ludlow

Fig 2 and 3: Joe 

Fig 4 and 5: Ludlow and Joe

Fig 6: Ludlow and Joe

When I was going through designs for the two characters I tried to give them as much opposition while also correlating with the books original description. Ludlow is a pick-pocket from the city so giving him long slender fingers was a common element in his designs, as well as this the books continues to describe him as having wild eyes with an intense glare to them so some of the concepts play up to that but giving him larger eyes. 

Joe, on the other hand, is an older man with an emotionless face, a tall and lanky body and hair that has no set structure to it, overall the description of Joe was very descriptive although I was playing with the fact that because of his height things like his trousers wouldn't be fitted as right as it should.

Overall I feel as though while I am making progress in the character designs that I need to focus on making the two designs for them marry together to make it plausible that they both live in the same world and also make it so that the design is to a standard that I feel comfortable modelling them in 3D in.

Life Drawing- Ink Practise

Fig 1: Close up study in Ink

Fig 2: Ink and Pencil sketches 

Fig 3: Two 20 Minute sketches in Pencil and Ink

Fig 4: Studies in Ink

I dropped into a life drawing session to practise using my inks and to refresh my traditional drawing skills after focusing on digital drawing for so long.

Adaptation B: Tree Frog Studies

Fig 1: Pencil Drawings of Tree Frogs

Fig 2: Fineliner Drawing of a Tree Frog

I drew these as Joe's pet Saluki is a tree frog, specifically a Poison Dart Tree Frog. I hadn't had much practise with drawing these animals before so I used a selection of images of different tree frogs to try and figure out the anatomy of the creature.

Character Design Week 3: Sci-fi Victorian Era

Figure 1: Research on Victorian dresses and Initial Sketch

Figure 2: Without the fan in front of her face and the fan itself

Figure 3: Quick sketch of the dress

Figure 4: Sketch of Victorian Era Sci-fi Alien

For this project I was given the Victorian Era and to use it to influence a Sci-fi character. For my character I did a beautiful alien that would prey on humans, who'd draw men in with her gorgeous face only to reveal that her lower face is grotesque and that her hands are elongated claws. I based her outfit on early Victorian Era dresses where a V-shaped bodice and small waist was popular, as well as the bell pagoda sleeves that I thought would be good to hide how weird and monstrous her hands actually are. Her waist is tiny and based on how the Victorian women would use corsets to achieve a small waist and big dresses with large boning to emphasise large hips which was very fashionable in the early 1800s.

Character Design Week 2: 3 Pirate Characters

Fig 1: Initial Ideas

Figure 2: Going into more detail on the hero girl pirate and the villain rich guy

Figure 3: Continuation

Character Design: Mary Poppins/Neanderthal

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This challenge to take aspects from a known character and put it onto a type of generic character, was difficult at the start, for my characters they were Mary Poppins and Neanderthal. At the start I just drew Mary Poppins in a sort of caveman attire. Then I started to think more of what her character is and added elements of that, making her classy Victorian fashion was made into a modest fur dress and her umbrella and magic bag is now a stick and fur sack that she takes with her while wanderer to cave to cave.