Time for a full body character design. Going into this one, I didn't have full sketch of the body, but I imagined him wearing a red unitard sort of thing. It was only afterwards that it occurred to me that he'd have looked quite good dressed as a boxer! Oh well, next time I'll try and be more thoughtful of my character's "motivation", etc. Still, he sort of has a friendly Andre the Giant vibe, I think.
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| The Wrestler |
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| Line Work. |
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| Lady with Short Hair |
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| Line Work. |
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| Original Sketch. |
The nice thing with doing these types of drawings is I can mess around with different colour combinations and see what happens. With this one, I decided I wanted this character to have a green nose! Watching the time-lapse, you can see me messing around with some of the shapes/proportions. It's great to just try out things on the fly and see what works.
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| Man with a Green Nose |
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| Line Work. |
Following up from the previous post, I was keen to do another cartoonish portrait based on one of my sketches from work. This time I also captured a time-lapse of the process. I quite liked how this one came out!
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| Man Who Squints |
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| Line Work. |
I really enjoyed this. It was great to get away from the sort of realistic/hyper realistic stuff and just have fun trying something more cartoony!
At work when I'd have a little downtime I'd sketch little character thumbnails, and one day I just thought "Hey, why not take some of these and render them out properly?", so that's what I did!
This design kinda reminds me of those funny designs of the puppets on the old Spitting Image show which I loved.
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| Man with Large Nose |
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| Line work. |
Back in 2020 for work, I created some graphics to help "jazz-up" an Information Management System that my team was developing on the company's intranet. I was pretty limited to what tools I had at my disposal on the office computer; however, using Microsoft PowerPoint and the basic shape tools that come with it, I was able to create a number of graphics. I was pretty impressed with the results. The following are a collection of the ones I quite liked.
In September, I felt the urge to draw/paint something, so another girl portrait was the obvious choice! Based on the reference here, I wanted to play it fairly fast and loose. I was also trying a different brush in photoshop. Not much else to say. I felt pretty rusty doing this, but it was a worthwhile exercise.
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| Girl 2021 |
