Reference Study #11

So this will probably be the last painting I do for the year, and I'm pretty happy to end the year off with this piece. I'm now using colour! Mwahahahahaha! So yeah, I started this one initially as a speed painting to just get comfortable splashing colour around and working values, but after a short while I realised I was really enjoying the progress that I was making so I just kept going and decided to refine it.

I found a reference image of actress Emmy Rossum after I had this really vivid dream where she was in it - quite weird, but that's how it goes. I started this painting a couple weeks back, however after getting about 3/4 of the way through, I had to stop working on it because of other commitments, but once I finally had some time free I was able to sit down and finish it off. Proportions are a little off here and there, and ofcourse I'd like to have spent more time refining some things, however I've decided that I shouldn't get too hung up on this one but try and keep pushing myself with the next one I do.

 

Em

 

The Reference Image of Emmy Rossum.

The sketch I started with.

A "Work In Progress" showing the development of Em.

Reference Study #10

Started this one at work, but finished it off at home. I'm not a big cat person, but kittens are always fun. Who doesn't love a kitten!? :D
Referenced this drawing from an image found in a gallery that a work colleague found and sent to me; full of cute animal pictures!

 

Sprung Kitty. 

Reference Image used.

 

Reference Study #09

Another slow moving arvo at work. This time I decided to draw one of my favourite animals, the eagle. Took around 3 hours to do. I'm happy with how this one turned out. I wasn't sure how I'd fair with the feathers, but I think they turned out relatively fine.

 

Eagle's Portrait. 

The reference image I used.

Reference Study #08

This was something that I did on a slow work day afternoon. I decided to have a go at something non-human, so why not a puppy! I took some liberties with the image, giving my dog a larger head since I thought it would make it a little more cuter :P Was a bit interesting doing this picture too, since I was drawing it with a Bamboo Wacom as opposed to using my Cintiq, but I feel I managed to get the hang of it after a while.

 

Puppy Love.

The reference image used.

Reference Study #07

Here's another relatively quick one I did. Based on the photo Dusk Till Dawn by Sarah Louise Johnson. It's been really fun doing these quick DPs, and not to mention helps improve general work speed. It also helps you not to get too caught up in trying to get some of those details just so, I've found. Blah, blah, blah...it's just fun. :)

 

Another Speed Portrait.

Reference Study #06

So this is a quicky I did last night. It took me a couple hours tops (a lot faster than I've taken in the past). This was based on an image of a woman named Lauren Calaway, which can be found HERE.

Earlier in the day I had found myself drawing for a couple of ladies, and so later in the evening, once I was home, I had the urge to draw some more...that is how it came to be.

Speed Portrait.

Hugh

I've been getting back into animation lately (in the sense of personal projects) and so I decided to do a little something with a character that I developed awhile back [but never got past concept designs]. I wanted to break back into 2D animation, so I came up with a simple idea that would just revolve around the one character.

 



A screenshot from the animation showing the character Hugh standing next to a lever.

 

It was just ment to be a fun little animation exercise, really, to get me back into the swing of things, which I found to be successful in doing so. The character Hugh was the central character to a serial concept that I had developed awhile back [and am still sitting on, till I can figure out the best approach that I should take with it - either develop it as a 2D animation or as a 3D animation]. I've been reading a book by Joe Murray (creator of such successful cartoons as Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo) entitled Creating Animated Cartoons with Character, which has been a really interesting and insightful read which is giving me great ideas/direction for future and current projects that I work on so as to be able to take things to a new level and get my content out there. Anyway, we'll see what happens. It all takes time, and effort.

 

Hugh