The Spectacles

One of my  uni assignments - choose any of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, adapt a part of it including designing the characters. A Tableaux and two pages. We could choose any era we wanted to place the story in so....that's what I wanted to go with. I've drawn comics quite a lot in the past, but never coloured them, so this was kinda fun to do. Character turnarounds were produced too. I never used to do that but hey, it's what they do for animation! :)  

One of the goals was to tell the story well enough without the use of speech bubbles. After going through a few revisions, here it is! (It's only a part of the story, so I chose to do only the early half of it)

More of my fascination with the human head

Oh dear, another headshot! They're very relaxing to do.

CaricaTURES

Sometimes you see someone's face and go 'Gee, he/she has such strong features!'..that's what I thought when I saw Timothy Omundson on Psych - plus he looks a little like Rowan Atkinson don't you think? While sketching them, I had to try really hard not to draw them realistically, in proportion, and instead kept reminding myself...'Exaggerate! Exaggerate! - What features of theirs jump out the most?' Short but fun and interesting experience. Will be doing more of these in between to get a better hang at it.

No more Chuck!

I really hope you can recognize him. And if you don't... aw well. It's Zachary Levi...or you may know him as Chuck Bartowski from the NBC TV series Chuck (that just ended!! D':  hence the want to paint him) or as the voice of Flynn Ryder from Disney's Tangled. and of course I used photo reference for this. Gosh, that first pencil sketch looks so scary, doesn't it? ^^" I will miss all those Chuck x Sarah moments!   :(

A break from the tablet

Tried out a Toner Gray copic marker here. I'm still not used to using them though...kinda messy. I'll just have to keep experimenting.

 

Also, I've been playing around with acrylic painting - learning the basics under the guidance of a Mr. Bob Davies   ;)  Love his videos!

another city sketch

Sketching in the city on a Sunday afternoon, ... after a hectic week!

Gotta keep that pencil moving.

Related posts:

•  A day in the city

Pages from the sketchbook

Pencil on paper - never getting tired of it.

Some sketches from le ol' sketchbook. 

Happy New Year 2011

I managed to squeeze in my last drawing for the year right after the Eve dinner - he's my puppy!  I've been wanting to draw him for a really long time. The holidays have been awesome, catching up with family, some games and reading, and I'll be heading back to Australia really soon...
Happy New Year to all..!

Vanille fanart

This is my fanart of Vanille from Final Fantasy XIII. I can't help but think that Tetsuya Nomura had way too much fun designing her....the beads, the random pieces of cloth! that curvy weapon..thing...lol  I decided to push myself and draw a full body applying what I've learnt in the past weeks, though this took longer than it really should have. I was enjoying the process yet just fearing every stroke I make would be a total blunder. It was difficult to really get a good look at her design, so there're some mistakes in there....well, that's that. On to the next piece!

Headshots and an update on Disney Masterclass

A collection of headshots I'd done recently. Posted the first one before but thought it'd be nice to have them altogether. They're all random characters except for the last one which you may recognize as the smooth Flynn Rider from Tangled ;) I'd used the original pencil designs of Flynn as reference and realised too late that in the film, his hair is different. Well... Whew, break time, I say.

The Disney Masterclass with Roy Conli and Glen Keane was amazing and inspirational. There was one part when Glen was explaining Sculpture drawing (shading when animating) using a pencil test clip from The Little Mermaid, where Ariel was singing 'Part of Your World'...but there was no audio. And to fill in the silence, Glen had asked us to sing along and guess what?...you could only hear squeaks, haha! Though, a huge sing-along would have been fun..

Plus est en vous... There is more in you



Related posts:

• Basic Animation: Mr. Floursack
• More headshot practice 

More headshot practice

I know I should really be studying my books (related to my uni course, that is) but..my hands get itchy. Been working on drawing and coloring still-life, stock is awesome! For this piece, I wanted to use what I'd learnt recently from practice and other great artists. I'm quite happy with the result :)

Also, there's gonna be a Disney exhibition at the ACMI, plus, Roy Conli and Glen Keane will be coming to town for a Masterclass! If you're interested, head over here. I know I'll be there ;)

Fighter

Wow..this feels strange..I haven't drawn like this in quite a long time. What do I mean? I mean, me just flicking my pen over a drawing. I've been so hung up on details and getting things perfect, neat and 'inside the lines', if you know what I mean. I picked up drawing from reading comics so doing lineart was really fun. And you know what? Fight scenes were even more fun!  Ka-POW! haha  And I realise today, no, more like I am reminded that the drawing has more life when the lines are..imperfect. At least, I prefer it this way :)

Warrior

Trying to do more semi-realism. This character is based off a previous character concept which I'd posted here before  =P 

Full body pic can be found here .

This took me about 8 hours from random sketching to completion.

Wonder

Yay for artificial food coloring :P

Textures from Mayang's Free Texture Library

wip

Another floating head! Still trying to find out a style of coloring that I'm comfortable with while learning to use bolder colors. I'd originally wanted to complete the hair and full torso, may do that another time.

A day in the city

                                       

Followed a friend to a sketch group in the city...

Just some random sketches of people

Embrace

Progress sheet for artwork entitled 'Embrace'. I did this for a competition with the theme 'Emotions' held by a local magazine. I didn't make it into the final 10, but I'm still proud of this one :) 

Concept: Steph

character concept quickie for a game project.

EDIT: Character art as used in the game - :

Still looks kinda sketchy. I was asked to draw the night before the deadline. Still I'm pretty happy with it :)
 

and...a background scene for the same project. Just one of a few backgrounds - The Noel Space Station.

3 hour pieces /// Floating heads!

practicing some semi-realism


wanted to try a more cartooney look



a warrior concept