Character Design - Beatrice "Trixie" Jackson MODEL PACK

Here's the final model pack for Beatrice "Trixie" Jackson, my klutzy showgirl.  Next stage is the maquette!

Life Drawing Dump, no.2

 I'm trying some new things with Life Drwaing this semester. Ultimate goal is to be more expressive but keep good structure.  It's fun, but really hard. I'm not where I want to be yet but I'm getting there.

Car Assignment

New digital assignment this week was to draw and paint some sort of car.  For me cars are about the least exciting thing to paint ever.  I love the look of them but to me I have no intrest in them at all.

However when we were able to create something of our own then I had a bit more fun.  I decided to make something that would never be able to work in the theme of the Jestsons.  This is my version of a what people thought cars would be like back in the 1960's.  Back when apparently all traffic problems were to be eliminated by 2005 and we'd all be driving magic carpet hover cars. 

Here's the step-by-step and final image.  

Creature Design

Digital painting class once more! This time we had to design a creature, so I combined a gecko, squirrel, dragon and cat together to get my little dragon squirrel.

It's adorable in my eyes.

Anyways, in the world these things exist I imagine that they're nothing but pests and are around the size of a small cat. They look vicious but aren't really, and can only singe things (not fully ignite anything).

This took far too long to paint, but it was nice to move away from the gray scale work and paint with colour again.

Character Design - Beatrice "Trixie" Jackson

Here's the finalized design for my klutzy showgirl, Trixie Jackson.   We'll be taking these characters eventually to a 3d maquette stage, but for now it's all about creating a solid design package.  This is an example as to what all poses, and finished designs will look like in the end.

Head and Hands - Lady Macbeth

Here's my third digital assignment and a much more enjoyable one I found at least.  We had to create a painting with a figure involving an emotion and featuring the face and hands.  We were encouraged to use as few references as possible to try and challenge ourselves. 

I tired a new technique this time around where I painted the entire image completely in gray scale then I stared using overlays and colour value edits to transform the image to colour.  It was defiantly an interesting approach but I'm not sure if I'll use it all the time.  There's just something about painting straight to colour that seems a little more challenging and engaging. 

Never the less, I did enjoy this assingment and I tried to get it as clean/smooth as possible with my time restraints (and wisdom teeth removal the same weekend).

My theme was of Lady Macbeth and this is one of the first times she's hallucinating blood on her hands, before she goes into complete and total insanity.  

Here's the step-by-step:

 

Breakdown:

1. Intital Sketch

2.Painting out the lines

3. 40% Complete to show in class for critique

4.Refining

5. Flipped the canvas to refine some more

6. Skin and clothes almost there

7. Details added

8. Colours applied

Here's the final image (I may tweak it again before class tomorrow , but we'll see)

Life Drawing Dump - September

The first month of school has come and gone.  It's a crazy semester this September (a huge difference from last year) but there's also a huge difference in my art!

I'm finally seeing some improvements in my life drawing class.  I'm also excited that we're working on faces and portraits now in class, and I just love drawing faces.  SO here's a min-dump of some pieces from class and extra-life sessions that I like.

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 5 minutes

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 7 minutes (With instructor notes)

7 minutes