Steampunk Robin Hood Design for David Colman’s Character Design Class at the Concept Design Academy. It’s one of 3 characters for the final project. I’ll post the rest as I finish them. I swear it would have given me less grief if I just turned in line drawing versions instead of going for a polished render. I’m taking a digital painting class at Gnomon and I wanted to test out what I’ve been learning there. So I blame it on the idea of applying myself. Anyways, digital painting is not a strength of mine. This blasted thing took my about 10 hours to get to this stage. Still not done with this particular render, but it’s late and I’m sleepy as all hell. Cheers!
Pretty much spent the whole day drawing at Karl Gnass Expression Seminar in Burbank. For anyone that’s not familiar with Karl Gnass: the guy is a phenomenal figure drawing instructor who ranks up there with Steve Huston & Glenn Vilppu. Definitely a guy whose brain is worth picking.
But enough hero worship and back to actual blogging. The seminar is a must for anyone who is serious about character design, animation and storyboarding. Karl shares his knowledge about expression and how it’s governed by physical and/or emotional actions. He also brings up the point that you can get a sense of what a character’s face would look like based on the gesture/spirit of the pose.
For me, the seminar was like being in Mark McDonnell’s Clothed Figure Gesture Drawing class because the focus is on capturing who the character is and just what you see. Although, I’m still trying to figure out what Mark was trying to hammer in my head but I think I’m kinda getting there. One thing totally new to me in this seminar was the fact that we got to draw two characters interacting with each other. More stuff to worry about when drawing, but fun nonetheless.
So let me know what you think about my drawings and catch you later.
Finally made it out to Bob Kato’s Drawing Club this week. I had a lot of fun drawing there, and plan on going there a lot more now. Anyways, the model, Malo, came in dressed as a Bond girl: the theme was one of the main reasons I went this week. I think it was the main reason why a lot of people showed up as well. Haha. It’s felt good to do some clothed figure gesture drawing after finishing up Mark McDonnell’s class over 2 months ago. I still got so much to improve on, but I felt like it’s starting to make more sense now that I had time to digest Mark’s teachings. So here are the drawings from last night: poses ranged from 5-15 minutes. Let me know what you guys think. So until then, later.
*update* – the drawing club blog posted the images from the Bond Girl Night so check it out:
James Bond Girl, Photo and Artwork
Had a last minute sketchgroup outing at the Glendale Galleria foodcourt this afternoon. Still have to work on my line quality, but it’ll get there….. eventually. It’s been a while since I went out to do people sketching, so it was fun to do that again.
Other notes: done in ballpoint pen while eating and shootin the shit.
In the ongoing journey to build up my portfolio, I finally got around to some development on my alien character, Xid, from my january sketch challenge. I’ve been meaning to do a color render for the longest time, but never fully committed myself to doing so. I also got around to doing some expression sketches in ballpoint pen. Definitely not on model, but it was a good warmup exercise before I did my illustrator render of Xid. I’m not the greatest with color and that’s what makes illustrator a great tool: if you don’t like the colors, they’re so easy to change.
Anyways, shoot some feedback my way as it’s always appreciated. Until then, cheers and enjoy?
concept art | Carl | 
August 19, 2009 1:25 am | 
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