@Alan Adaptation B Character Designs

 

I drew the character with Alan's structure method, am I going in the right direction? I will work them over in Photoshop if they are structurally sound, for now I'll work on expression sheets. I decided to draw in a style closer to the 1920's as the character is from roughly that time, I will post up my new influence map soon.

Adaptation B sketches

   

Eponine from the film Les Miserables.

 

First attempt at drawing my character Sez from Beanstalk, the trousers are meant to be fluffy which is why they don't follow the exact shape of her body and the top is low cut with bare shoulders.

Idea for Concept Art

This sketch is an idea for the layout of part of my city, I have scanned it in and started colouring it in with the help of the lasso tool as well and my biggest problem is that three people had a look at it and the first response was "cute" .... I will upload the coloured design when it has more to it than three buildings! But may have to overthink stuffs if it keeps getting called cute.

But I think the scene would work as the foreground is water which runs under the bridge (not defined yet) and there is a hill in the background which holds a big part of the city and conceals the rest. As hills and rivers are featured in many of Kandinsky's environment paintings I feel that he would build his city around those two factors.

Thumbnail sketches

Together with my digital thumbnails these ones add up to... 85 I think? Since I explored colour already and Jordan said I did well on that and should concentrate more on house shapes, I decided to do it in my sketchbook because I find it so much faster to draw like this. Thumbnails 11, 12, 20, 26, 37 and 52 are my favourites, I think they will make really nice house shapes!

Exterior low angle shot

My exterior low angle shot is getting there, I know the perspective in a few places is a bit off but quickly learning it is not as easy as it sounds :p I like the colours, they feel cosy and inviting but it looks more like a comic book at the moment, definitely needs improvement! Will work on this again this afternoon.

Interesting

I just selected my thumbnail with the marquee tool and copy-pasted it onto a bigger canvas and half the picture vanished! It only shows on here what I did yesterday and today, nothing else. Odd. Will try and upload all my images properly!

Life Drawing Homework

I think we were supposed to draw from a photo so that we can tell the difference between big life drawing and small sketchbook drawing. I also didn't work with charcoal because of my new beige carpet... so pencil it is! My bigger drawings from the last lesson worked much better with perspective, on this one I can just see so many places where it's just off. This is why I didn't add the strings because they can't go into the same places as they are on the photo! But altogether I think it looks much better than I would have expected and it was fun to draw.

pictures from last weeks life drawing session, not mine!

Everyone elses beautiful work and Max's great photos of the structure! I started on drawing one of them from my phone but the screen is very small (and switches off all the time) so I gave up about half way through but will continue now that they are all on my pc! If you have any problems saving your picture from my blog give me a shout and your email address and I will send them over :)

Life Drawing lesson: my pictures

These are my life drawing pictures from last Wednesday, it was very exciting as I have never drawn anything like it before! I think using charcoal instead of pencil really helped a lot as well as drawing really big scale, I just haven't figured out how to use the putty rubber better yet. But in the next lesson I might sit myself right next to Cat, she seems to know what she is doing :p

More thumbnails for Argia!

These are more drawing on how I imagine Argia and daily life. The first picture is a shot from the top straight down and shows the lay out of the main cave of the city with the lake in the middle, the bridge leading over it and all the "houses" sitting along the walls to the top. My wide angle exterior shot will look a bit like this but with more perspective and not just like a picture taken flat from the top.
The second shot is very similar to the one I posted earlier but I only just had the chance to scan the picture. It shows the cracks in the walls that make proper air circulation possible and it also shows that the homes reach up into the top of the cave and it hints towards the tunnels that are everywhere and occupied like everything else.
The third shot was the most fun because I actually had to look up squirrels and what they really look like - my first version was way to skinny but now it looks really cute and even recognizable! This shot stresses the daily dangers of guarding the insect farms as giant squirrels regularly attack them and try to steal the insects. This might turn into my low angle exterior shot.
The last picture shows a typical house front of a loved home with plants (mushrooms or other cave plants, will look them up) on the window sills, a water can and curtains. I think these details will be part of my interior shot as I plan on having the door wide open so that I can add details to the inside of the house and the house front, it will have a two point, possibly three point perspective. 

one, two and three point perspective drawings

These are my perspective drawings with one, two and three point perspectives. They are very simple and basic but I do understand the concept much better now than before and will try and implement the right perspective into my drawings whenever possible.

Thumbnails for Anastasia, Argia, Despina, Dominia and Ersillia!

These are my hand drawn thumbnails for the cities Anastasia, Argia, Despina, Dominia and Ersillia, I still have the last 4 left to draw and will do that when I published these! All of them are just quick ideas and things that pop into my mind when I read the description and I will also work hard on my perspective. It needs lots of improvement. Also, after talking to Jordan last week he pointed out that I should make my sketches widescreen instead of square, I am still adjusting to that but getting better!