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.