I’m back to life drawing after a few weeks off to finish my finals and boy do I feel rusty! Here is figure drawing from the lasts “Pompscicle Session” –doing clothed, charactered figure drawing in Sacramento–its pretty much amazing & today we drew a pirate!
Sleeping Pirate 20 Minutes
Pirate – 15 Minutes
Pirate Treasure
Crazy Pirate
A little bit wonky looking hands but I still kinda like these drawings because I’m finally getting closer to making characters and expressions–hopefully the body follows
So you probably thought I forgot about Sybil Ludington–my in progress children’s book–but I AM still working! And with day one of my summer break I’ve already started storyboarding out the new pages and some new spreads. A while ago my HD crashed and I no longer have access to my original Sybil files so her story will be getting a new and improved look. After nearly 3 months of extreme stress and very little sleep, after one day of rest I’m ready to do it all.over.again for the summer!
Okay, so some of you may think that I am dead–the good news is I’m not!–just in grad school ;-p. I just finished my classes last night at about 10pm–everything exported, submitted and uploaded–HURRAY! I haven’t been posting lately because I have barely had time to finish my assignments or do normal people things like sleep & laundry–but I did it! and now my clothes will be folded, work will stop thinking I’m homeless and I can sort out the tornado that’s gone through my house (which I’m sure is all my roommates’ faults–:-p) but first I gotta start some more projects! (You really know you are in the right career choice when after 4 weeks of consecutive 12 hour+ days of work/animation/and more animation, you can’t wait to get done so you can start a NEW animation & illustration adventure instead of being excited over the prospect of actually getting some sleep )
Here is my animation final for the semester:
99 hours of work, 42+ cups of coffee, one art studio rented, 400+ sheets of animation paper, 2 pencils, one stick eraser later and that’s the result–hope you like it!
400 Frames?? Don’t believe me? Look at all this paper!
In Other news:
Welcome to my Studio 2110 Gallery, 2011 K Street Sacramento
Speaking of this art studio thing–I am also renting at a local at studio in Sacramento–if you find yourself in Sacramento on a Saturday from 11am-5pm come and stop by to say “Hi!”and see me working (like a zoo!–now that classes are done I might actually talk to you ) You can find my studio at 2110 Gallery coincidentally located at 2110 K Street in midtown Sacramento–check me out on their website! Also if you’re in town for 2nd Saturday or preview Thursday stop by, its a really fun gallery with lots of other AMAZING artists and good food & music on preview Thursday!
Layout Assignment–a pan–oo ahh!
That’s a pan for my layout class–in case you’re wondering if I do anything but work on my animation assignment .
Animation and other school stuff has me really busy but I did get some figure drawings done the other day that I still haven’t gotten a chance to post yet so here they are.
I always thought that animators had to be the best draftsmen but now I am starting to think that maybe animation makes them that way. After focusing on drawing the same character for literally hundreds of frames while keeping them a consistent size and on model makes figure drawing seem really easy! And helps you to see how to break up the forms better–here are this weeks figures!
15 Minutes Graphite
20 Minutes Pen & Ink
20 Minutes Prismacolor
20 Minutes Graphite
My Favorite! :)
Hopefully you will see another animation this week!
Finally you guys can see some of my work for my layout class–here is our first layouts-a Western Street scene. I started mine by sketching in Old Town Sacramento (and I wish I could do that more!) and then made up my layout later in the week. I’m actually really enjoying Layout this semester (but nothing has been graded yet so that might change).
I made some edits to my head turn animation–here is the final one. I’m really starting to learn how much thought, planning, and concentration goes into making an animation! With all the trouble getting my character’s head shape consistent I completely forgot about my spacing and movement –yikes! I will not forget that again!
Hello Everyone–I think that today must be a miracle (30 Rock says that its because Leap Day is coming!) but I finished all of my homework for my classes and its only 9pm and I’m not even freaking out–well..yet–they haven’t been graded yet. Oh the wonders of not procrastinating…I should do that more often. Here is what I submitted for my animation assignment this week–its a head turn. At first I hated it but after a few edits (and a very late night) its starting to grow on me.
Hello again! Its been a pretty good week for sketching here in Sacramento. I found a new place for figure drawing–Pompsicle–where they do costume figure drawing & it was an awesome place to draw–check them out here (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002852125772). Here’s some of the sketches that I did–the poses are 5-20 minutes in a 3 hour session with a costume change! It was definitely a nice break from the nude figure drawing I’ve been doing which was getting a little repetitive. Also this will help with developing characters and making figure drawings with ‘an opinion’ because you can make up a story about the model’s pose and really get practice at pushing the pose to fit a story.
Yesterday I also got some sketching done in Old Town Sacramento for my layout class–we’re doing an old Western Town for this assignment and I needed some inspiration–also I need to see what the streets looked like in real life because I couldn’t quite picture a good composition. Here they are, I hope I can get some more sketching done in the next few weeks as well .
If you’re my Facebook friend then you know that this has been my status update for quite a few days weeks, okay well maybe the last two weeks. But I’m finally taking an animation course in 2D character animation at the Academy of Art–its AMAZING! and I am actually getting the hang of this whole animation stuff. This is what I worked on this weekend, it has a few edits to do on it to make the cycle smoother–but I’m pretty happy with it!
I’m back in school and I’m already exhausted! I do, however, still love them and my animation desk–seriously I don’t know what more you could want besides a traditional animation desk–I’ve wanted one since the 2nd grade…or something like that.
Even though class has just started I’m still trying to attend at least weekly figure drawing sessions so that my work keeps improving (and you can never draw enough naked…I mean nude people…can you? Just kidding, I kind of wish that we could have more clothed gesture sessions, I don’t know why fine artist types don’t like them–they’re amazing and so are the sketches people make of them!
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) You can find my studio at 2110 Gallery coincidentally located at 2110 K Street in midtown Sacramento–
