Action Analysis Concept Art

This is some concept art for my major project this semester. I didn't get to finish all the designs I wanted, but this is what I have for now. I'll update this post as I finish the rest of the designs.

More ROM Studies

Went to the ROM with a bunch of animation peeps again and we tore up the armory with our drawing skills. When these fourth graders came around for their tour, they were so awestruck by our artistic penmanship, their tour guide was forced to take them back to ground level.

Motorcycle Themed Studies

I developed an obsession for motorcycles. Well I've always been interested in them but recently I started sketching them a lot. They're drawn from photos or Google Street View, which is why the quality of drawing is better than my life sketches. Also some loose character concepts.

Weekly Challenge 1: Bloody Mary

Two of my school buddies, Jerome and Khoebe wanted to do weekly concept challenge for the summer. I decided to join. It was fun painting this character, but I need to develop my concepts further before rendering.

Western Town

We had a massive western themed layout assignment this semester, but the course wasn't structured very well, so I sacrified the class to study more of my own stuff. It's a shame because viz dev and layout are my favorite parts of 2D animation. The only decent thing I did was design the city. I did learn a lot of valuable lessons from this assignment, so it wasn't a complete failure, but I hope this situation won't repeat itself in the future. Quality > quantity and as a student I'm still learning. Gotta prioritize!

Western Character Design Sketches

I finished these designs last weekend for my character design/ story-boarding class. These designs are going to be used for a storyboard sequence. I'm busy with 3D work, so the designs are pretty rough, but I learned a lot during this assignment. I think it's the first character design I didn't half-ass because I had to design each character with story in mind.

So the lesson learned is that it is pointless to draw and design if there is no story! Better put more effort into the idea before putting pencil on paper...less trolling and more legit stuff.

Costume Life Drawing @ Sheridan Reading Week

I went to life drawing 4 days in a row this week (which is now a huge deal for me!) Wednesday I did my first costume extra life drawing. It was a lot of fun since I can draw the figure better, so it's just a matter of adding clothes on top. Faces and stuff are still messed up and my drapery is too complicated, but these are 3-5 minutes, so it's always intense.

I have to thank my buddies for challenging me to go to life drawing cause if it weren't for them I would slack off and miss this opportunity.

Daily Sketching Experiment

This week I challenged myself to do a sketch a day. I succeeded and it was a lot of fun! Unfortunately I  can't keep it up for the entire semester because there's still a lot of 3D to learn and produce, plus this semester is going to be big for working on painting/layout. At least I got some experimentation out of the way and I learned anything is possible if you have time + sacrifice everything else in the present moment to get it done. A valuable lesson which can be applied anywhere.

Caricatures from Video

In character design class we learned to study character types from real people and apply them to our designs. This is a collection of some of the caricature studies I did from Youtube videos.

Drawing Exercises

Drawing practice in layout class. The composition was created by the teacher and I had to take the drawing to a higher level of finish.

Much better than the previous 3 layout exercises because my teacher showed a good technique for painting values.