Winding Down

Welp, the application is in.  There's nothing else to do but let the reality set in that there are other classes I've been neglecting all this time.

Here's a few figure drawing that I submitted:

 

So... yeah. Fingers crossed.

Two Weeks...

Two weeks from today is the deadline for the application to the BYU Animation program.  I'm freaking out a little bit, but that's probably a good thing; fear is a great motivator.  I have about 100 sketchbook pages to fill in, several figure drawings to make, and some 3D work to do over the next couple weeks.  It's a lot to do and I hope I can get it all done on top of my regular classes.  As long as I stay focused I should be fine.  I hope.

Evolution of a Character

So i thought I'd share a character I've been working on for a while and how he's developed over the past few months.

I got the idea for this guy back in the fall.  He's a Bruce Lee enthusiast with no exceptional attributes thrown into tournament to the death with a bunch of bloodthirsty, super-powered... people.  I don't know.  It's a work in progress. Anyway, Here's the earliest drawing I know of that I made:

It was done in my spiral notebook, I later started doing some drawings of him in my sketchbook and experimented with some shading:

Meh.  I did some more sketches, refining the design each time:

So I finally got something I liked and sketched out a model sheet:

Finally I did some sketches of various expressions, building consistency in the features and practicing emotions in general:

There you have it,  that's generally the process I go through when creating a new character.

First!

You are currently reading the first post of my new blog.  The purpose of this blog is to share my art, post info about any projects I may be working on, either for myself, school, or anything else.  My hope is to get helpful feedback as I hone my skills in my chosen craft.


To start off, here's some select gesture drawings I've done over the past few weeks in my Figure Drawing for Animators class:

Constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged.  Hopefully I'll be updating this blog regularity, so I'll see you next post!