Inktober update

If you are following me on Instagram (Follow Here) you may have spotted that I have been taking part in a month long drawing exercise called Inktober. Where the rules are simple: To draw a design in ink once a day for the month of October or as many days as you can. its been fun to try and wrap my head around different styles and play around with line weight as I continue to learn more about inking techniques. here is what I have managed to produce so far:

August Sketchbook Project

Over the past month I gave myself the task of filling a sketchbook up with different faces. I got inspired from a masterclass video I spotted in storyboarding on CGAcadamy's website. It's a great exercise to help understand the form of a face the structure as well as caricaturing.

Another challenge was to work in pen for the majority of these drawings. To give my line quality a bit more confidence as I can be quite reserved when I work in pencil. Below is just a quick snapshot of some of the pages from the filled sketchbook of hundreds of different faces.

Overall I am really pleased with my progression and development and will try and do this as and when I can.

2 min Figure Drawing

Quick Morning Warm Up

End of July Art Gatherings

So here are some of the pieces of digital and mixed media artwork that I have been working on as I try and experiment with different styles and techniques. I am really pleased with them all.

Girl Got Vamp

Life Drawing - 13/03/13

Here are some life drawing pieces I did this week. We had a great model and she was albe to do some great dynamic short poses which I am proud of.

1 Min Drawings 

10 Min Drawings

5 min Memory Drawing

15 Min 

30 min

I definitely think that I have improved so much since when I started life drawing. I can't wait to do more and start collecting some great pieces to put in my portfolio.  

2013 Sketchbook/Scrapbook

When I was in Bristol I started work on a new experimental sketchbook. Taking influence from fashion and design work I love. I want it to have a scrapbook feel to it where I can whack in anything and everything I find interesting and cool. Here is the back and front of it 

One of the running series of illustrations i've started messing around with is taking real life clothing from a fashion magazine and then cutting it out and stylising it to then draw my own character model underneath it. Playing around with size and scale. Trying out different styles. I'm excited to see where I can take this.

I have done a couple caricatures of youtubers that I love a well. I am pleased with how they look.

Grace Helbig

Mamrie Hart

Start of Week Update - With photos

Back again. Trying to make these updates a bit more informative and interesting for both me and you the reader.

So lets get to it.

Alice Holmes - Yes/No Project


I have been working hard this week on this project. I have been given the task of line cleaning and painting. I was given rough animation that Alice had been doing and then taking it and making the lines more sketchy and then painting them with a somewhat watercolour look to them. I am pleased with the final look that this project has and I can't wait to see the final cut. Here is a quick screenshot of what i've been working on.

Cinematography Project


This is coming along really nicely. After a few idea session my group and I settled on an alien sci fi theme with chase elements and we went about on last wednesday to go filming. I stepped up the be the actor for the piece as due to time that Frankie gave us for the project finding actors on such short notice was just not successful. But the footage that we came away with looks really good. So far from just the rough cut it has the potential to be really interesting. We are now just working on the soundtrack for it and Ted has been working on a simple moster model in Maya to place into the background of a couple shots.

Love/Hate


So this shot is almost done now. I have been given the size and dimensions now so I can work out the final output of the shot. All that is left to do now is just to clean up the shot and colour the girl. I am really pleased with this shot as it's one of the longest pieces of animation i've worked on in a while and it was a great challenge to work back in flash and also to animate two characters interacting.

Life Drawing - Summer term