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.

Plein Air Forest Studies

On a humid Friday I went plein air painting with Christine and my good friend Khoebe. It's nice to get off the computer, sketch outside and explore nature, had a lot of fun!

Various Character Designs

I did a pinup themed weekly with my animation buddies and during the week I also wanted to experiment with some fantasy, scifi and tattoo design. These are just the experiments.

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.

Downtown Oakville Sketches

My good friend Khoebe wanted to draw in downtown Oakville to practice environment sketching, so despite the pouring rain we went and sketched some fancy buildings.It was a fun adventure.

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.

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.