The other day in figure drawing class our teacher forgot to schedule a model, so we studied the human face and drew some portraiture.
Here is a charcoal drawing of my teacher
An Ebony pencil drawing of one of my classmates
Another Ebony pencil drawing of another one of my classmates. I have a hard time with the female face so these drawings were a good practice, I think part of it is because I am a dude and I've practiced drawing myself lots of times, but not many girls
I decided to drawing this one in a more Caricatured style since I'm more comfortable with the male face
The last drawing of the day, I decided to go back to charcoal, but this time I laid a ground first with compressed charcoal, then added the dark values with vine charcoal, and lights by erasing
In Drawing class today we took a look at compiling textures from different materials to create another objects texture. I used a sponge to create the gritty, dirty, smudge look on the cow skull
india ink, and sepia ink on 18x24 paper. Im very pleased with how this piece turned out, and decided to title it "Desert Rain" The story behind this piece is that this is the only way that it rains in the desert, when a dead animal skull cries tears of dirt and sand
Today in Drawing class we took our subject of motion to the next level by drawing animation. I haven't really ever done traditional animation, but my base of Computer animation knowledge from Animation Mentor gave me a head start.
Each of these animations were drawn on one piece of paper, unlike traditional animation that has a different page for each frame. In the end I really like this look but I do plan to experiment with individual frame drawing animation.
Anyway here is what you came for. Both are 6 fps (frames per second)
I graduated Animation Mentor's online program this last summer. I wrote thank you notes to all my mentors, the founders and the graduation commencement speaker for all their help in getting me through the program. Here are the caricatures I included in their letters of them.
Once again a huge shout out to the great mentors at Animation Mentor!! Thank you guys you rock! WOOT! WOOT!
Anthony, PIXAR, he was never actually my mentor but he gave me great advice all the same when I met him in San Fran
Bobby "BOOM", Animation Mentor school founder, his name says it all, "BOOM"
Shawn, Animation Mentor school founder, ILM animator, I met Shawn after the graduation I loved how much he cared about all the students giving us all time.
Carlos, Animation Mentor School founder, Carlos gave a lot of the lectures and was an inspiration to act silly and embrace the animators life.
Ray, Blue Sky Studios, Class 1 Mentor, Ray had the hardest job of introducing all of us to the basics of animation, and so he gets major props for patience.
Scott, Dreamworks Animation, Class 2 Mentor, Scott was very encouraging in the fact that he was the youngest mentor I had, and it gave me confidence in my talent considering my age.
Dimos, Circus Ink Entertainment, Class 3 Mentor, Dimos was really fun and an enthusiastic teacher.
Scott, Blue Sky Studios, Class 4 Mentor, Scott was a very tough teacher, most people take that the wrong way, Scott was great being so tough, because looking back his "toughness" was really nothing compared to the real world.
Greg Kyle, Laika Studios, Class 5 Mentor, Greg loves hockey and loved telling us that, also kept the hard reality of deadlines light by keeping us encouraged.
Arslan, Moving Picture Company, He was my class 6 mentor and really pushed me to be the best I could be.
Rich Moore, Director: Wreck it Ralph, Graduation Commencement speaker, Great to meet such a great visionary, reminded me of the importance of failure to achieve success.
Again, I cant say it enough. Thank you All for you help and support. I don't usually put videos on this blog but here is my Demo reel from my time at Animation mentor.
I just watched "OZ the Great and Powerful" and was inspired to draw the original cast. By the way, I wasnt to fond of "OZ the Great and Powerful" I felt it had too much forced humor, some weak witch fight scenes and a predictable story. Although when I consider how odd the first movie was It falls right into place and matches perfectly.
anyways back to art
here is my original pencil art scan, sorry its a little faint
and the Final digitally lined and colored piece.
As much as I like this piece it still feels flat to me, im going to push myself for more depth.
After coloring spiderman I went on to color some other pencil sketches I've done in the past. I also decided to help the composition of these pieces by adding the background shape. I learned this from Randy Hayes, here is is blog, great work!
http://jrhsketchfolio.blogspot.com/
I also made the discovery in photoshop when inking that under the shape dynamics in the brush preset window if you change the "Roundness Jitter" to be applied by pen pressure, then you get a nice ink brush stroke look.
After I saw how nice the compositions on Robin and Rhino were with the shape in the back ground I added one to spider man and I think it really helps keep it exciting. Enjoy!
Rhino, from the Marvel Comic universe, typically has a mans face sticking out of where the rhinos mouth would be, but I prefer this look where its more rhino than man. Rhino is one of the villains in the next Amazing Spiderman movie, Im pretty excited to see their take on this villain.
This robin is kinda a combination of all the robins that helped Batman, Dick Grayson's num-chucks, Jason Todd's angry scowl, Tim Drake's acrobatic body suit, and Damian Wayne's green goggles, gloves, and boots.
Funny how the simple addition of a parallelogram can change up the composistion of a piece for the best.
