Practicing with Animation

Practicing my skills so that I could or might be ready for a career in the Animation studios. I will be studying 2D animation this year, so I hope this practice can help me in class. I have just been drawing key frames on my paper, I am thinking of doing some animation with Pencil that I just downloaded, so I can get to making my Miiku move ^^.

Pastel Work - My Mum

Just a little sketch I drew of my mum last night, it's not measured so I'm sure it's not as accurate as I could make it but I am happy with this one. I couldn't finish it because it was just a short sketch.

Still Life - Mangoes and Plums

Pretty self explanatory, I was not being very pleased with my recent cartooning sketchs and so I decided to draw some more real things.
I quite like this, I forgot my pastels today so I couldn't make it colour. I would have liked to make it colour but it works quite well as black and white.

My characters - More Digital

I'm not sure on the anatomy, it's harder for me to see when drawing straight onto the computer than when I have my copy on paper. I think the anatomy is ok, but there are places where I think I need more work on.
I am quite happy with this nonetheless, it had been a long time since I drew Amara lol, so I felt happy with that :). Miiku's face is a lot different because the Siamese nose is a lot closer to the face, and Amara has a much wider jaw.
I still need more practice on getting my Miiku's hair right, it is hard for me to draw dead straight hair :P. Amaras hair in contrast is quite fun, because it is just made up of straight lines ^^.

Another ATC - More Markers

It's a little bit dark, haven't tried to install my scanner since I put Windows 7 on because it didn't work with Vista but I will try to see if my scanner will work with 7. I am quite happy with this piece.
It is a Christmas drawing/card for my friend, it's her character with my style of drawing and colouring. I am pleased with my marker work, although the marker still bled even with the thicker paper of the cards.

Copic Markers

My Miiku, I've been drawing a lot of her lately. I have been trying desperately to get her right ^^. I want to draw my characters for easy animation, and it is hard. Miiku's mouth is something I need to work on, because it is not a human's mouth like in most cartoons, and it is more human than Bugs Bunny. I am happy with how it's coming along though :). And I am pleased with Miiku's eyes as well :).

This character is from the video game, Knights of the Old Republic 2 by Bioware. I used him to practice a cartoon style and my work with copic markers :). I am pleased with how this turned out, but I am displeased wtih the rest of his body lol. So that is why I only scanned in this part :P.

My First Steps - First Steps to Animation

Waaai ^^ I'm very pleased with myself :). My Animator's Survival Kit book just came today, and I wanted to get cracking. I used my Miiku for animation because my Miiku is the star of my personal project for drawing ^^. I am quite pleased with how this turned out. I'm on my way to being an animator :D.

Comic Practice - Marker Practice

This one I was inspired to draw with reference to the illustrations of Miwa Ueda for her Peach Girl manga. I love the girly romance in those Japanese stories, and playing KOTOR2 it just made me think of how it is in the shoujo manga. So I drew my pink haired Jedi with the female side love interests. This is not accurate at all, it was originally meant to stay as a sketch, but I just wanted to colour it. So it became some pretty good marker practice ^^. I plan to draw a different version of this in pastels or on Paint Tool SAI, but after my assessment is over. Less than a week now.
Just playing around with markers, and working on a drawing technique to make it easier for when I am doing animation next year.
This is my character for the Star Wars KOTOR 2 ^^, I originally started her off looking more like the in game character, but I pink hair(I want some in real life!). But I have just been into a more Japanese style since replaying my Star Wars games, and I want to use my pink haired girl for my animation studies :). I feel she will be easier to animate than my furry people lol.

Life Drawing - Life Scale

I was originally scared about the life scale, but it didn't turn out bad. I am really pleased with the drawings I did on Monday's class. The one on the top was a quickish drawing I did after we drew the life scale. We didn't have to draw accurately for the second one because the life scale was my accurate one ^^.
It is really long, I shudder to think of how I am going to take it into class for assessment :<.

Drawing Windows Project - Second Final Progress

Not that good of a photo of this work, I am pleased with how it is coming along. I love line, I find Miiku looks better with line especially since she is my cartoon character. The background is way better now than it was before, I prefer it this way.
Still working on this.

Drawing Project - Window Ink Sketches

I was just playing around with ink this week, I didn't have a photo reference which is why the anatomy is off. I like it with the pastels over the top though ^^, it gives some depth to the ink underneath.

Pastel Work

I am quite happy with how this turned out in the end. While I was drawing it I was not knowing how it would turn out, but I am pleased with this result ^^.

Drawing Project - Windows

What I've been doing for my personal project for Drawing ^^. She is my character, Miiku and I've been using myself as a model while putting Siamese cat features onto the face to produce the drawing :). I am happy with how it is coming along. I am a long way from finished on this piece though :P. Way more paper to cover for this drawing.
I still don't know what to do for my final for this project, but I am happy with the way it it going ^^.

UPDATED: Draw another face in, not finished yet, but I liked the way the fur came out ^^.
Worked on the drawing more :) I am happy with how it's coming out.

Mor Cartoons.

I drew it on the train and I liked her face so much I wanted to CG it ^^. When I put the real cat face over mine, I discovered a better way of drawing Miiku and I think she look really cute :D.

New Digital Drawing

Started with my drawing from the train into town and then CGd in Paint Tool SAI. I liked how it turned out, but as I was drawing this on the computer; I was just thinking of how I could come up with a faster way to draw in all of her stripes. Since I'm planning to get into animation I need to make it easy to animate ^^. But I need to work that out later.

Life Drawing

The only good photo of these that came out is my extended drawing :<. I still like the quick sketches though, I was thinking of how Matisse brougth his figures together as plain line ^^ and tried to imitate something of that quality.
I am happy with how the extended drawing came out :). The pastels looks good with the charcoal ^^.

Digital Drawing

I am pleased with how this turned out ^^. The arms in line only are to experiment in drawing time and movement. I am happy with the final result.

Drawing Progress - Pastel & Charcoal

Along with my digital drawing practice I am still working with my real media ^^. I particularly like my pastel drawing, probably also because I love drawing my characters :D. But my charcoal shading practice came out because my teacher told me to be braver when putting tone down, so I tried to go all out with my tone lol.

My Digital Drawing

I've really been enjoying drawing like this on Paint Tool SAI ^^, I've been trying my best to try and not having them look too perfect like how digital art can sometimes look.
I think I will use this sort of comic-y style for my second drawing final ^^, comics are fun.

My Experimentation

Just some experimental drawings of media. I plan to use this sort of media for my second final involving my own characters ^^. Personally I really like the oil pastel drawing at the top, but I am fond of all my marker experiments. Though my marker drawings look much better on white paper than brown paper. When I start my final for this I will have to keep that in consideration. Still unsure of what type of direction to head in for my final, I know I want to involve my little Siamese girl some some colourful form of colouring; but I don't know what the final will look like in my mind yet :<.

Collage, Crayon and Coloured pencil

I am quite happy with today's drawing ^^, two pieces we were suppose to draw. Our teacher said we could work them together, or have them separate. I personally think that they are strong enough to be separate pieces ^^.
I want to work more with crayon for my personal project with my furries. I really enjoyed drawing with crayon.

The only drawing from Monday's class which I am pleased with. I am not really an abstract drawer, even though I like the look of some sort of abstraction I don't like the look of a lot of other abstraction. I can't seem to not draw the figure though. Even Picasso's form of Cubism is too abstracted for me lol. But I am pleased with this.

My Artist Trading Cards.

I've only complete these three ATCs right now. They are my characters, the two anthropomorphic girls are characters that I plan to write in a story I have in my mind. I have yet to start writing it, but hopefully I will soon :). The human girl is a farm girl from France, and she appeared in my head after watching Beauty and the Beast ^^.
I have only been colouring them in with coloured pencil so far, but I plan to colour some more in with my copic markers. After I draw all my characters first :D.