GerraGinny

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Day 04 _________ Lioness Knight 'Hey, watch where you are going, honey.' 'Why? When I have you around, I feel completely safe.' Sorry, I'm behind on Inktober. (I have several sketches that I felt was terrible) haha. But I'll keep at it. #inktober #inktober2017

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Agent Galahad, Eggsy.

I saw Kingsman 2 recently, i love the action sequences and really like how Eggsy how grown as a character since the last movie. #kingsman #kingsmanthegoldencircle #kingsman2 #eggsy

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A wallpaper both Tumblr and Behance. Ohh wee. #characterillustration #illustration #musician #guitar

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My submission for this month, Character Design Challenge, Punk.

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Notes for a young character designer

Dear E. 

Thanks for your email.

I don’t work at Cartoon Network any more. But I’m going to give you a very quick portfolio review in hopes that you find it helpful! Here are some things I noticed when looking at your stuff - lessons I learned from brilliant people while working on AT for two years: 

 1) AVOID SYMMETRY. Humans are organic, randomly shaped animals. Perfect symmetry rarely exists in nature and if it does, it’s conspicuous - it’s the exception rather than the rule. Find interesting ways to throw your characters off-balance. 

Don’t repeat objects in twos - (buttons or rips or whatever) - it feels prescribed - cluster things in threes or fives if necessary. 

 2) AVOID CONCAVITY - I don’t know what else to call this. But it’s those lines that go “in” rather than “out”. You are using inward sloping lines to describe many of your characters. As an exercise, try using outward, rounded, voluminous lines to draw EVERYTHING. Humans are fleshy lumps connected together by other fleshy lumps. Each mass is either in front of or behind other masses and as a designer, it’s your job to tell the animator where it is. As a designer, you are providing a technical blueprint for the location of masses. 

Only occasionally allow a concavity to connect two convexities. Look at the work of Robert Ryan Cory (spongebob), Tom Herpich (Adventure Time) or Phil Rynda (AT / Gravity Falls) - master character designers - for examples of this. If you need to, trace a couple of their drawings and you will see what I mean. 

 3) AVOID GRAPHIC DETAILS - Some shows use a graphic style; it’s very appealing and looks clever when done right. But in animation, everything needs to move in space - so if you use a graphic element - it needs to correspond with an actual 3D thing that can move. Therefore it is better to start with a voluminous style and then revert to graphic elements where appropriate. Art directors will look for this. Do not jump straight to graphic representation if you do not yet know what you are representing.

Look at the work of Tiffany Ford and Jasmin Lai for amazing examples of volume expressed graphically.

 4) STUDY JAMES MCMULLEN - To truly understand volume, and fully respect your subject, you should read very carefully High Focus Figure Drawing by James McMullen. Slow down and think about drawing “around” your subjects. It’s a truly meditative experience when you get there. Think about the weight and mass that your characters, props and effects are experiencing. Many students from SVA - Tomer Hanuka, Becky Cloonan, Rebecca Sugar, James Jean - studied under McMullen’s philosophy and you can see this common richness in their work. 

Jeffrey Smith, a top student of McMullen’s now teaches life drawing at Art Center. These are two of the best illustration schools in North America - anyone who is interested in drawing living things, should probably read his book. Also look at the work of Andy Ristaino or Danny Hynes - two other character designers’ whose work is seething with volume. 

I hope this is useful and I hope you have a wonderful career. 

Warmest,

Matt

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An art trade with my friend, Bel Mervyn, on of her Witch Ladies Collection. Like her, I'm also trying to adopt a different approach to painting.

Do check out her other works, at Tinybelpepper. :D

Link to her original painting: https://www.facebook.com/tinybelpepper/photos/a.246224795789337.1073741828.205648319846985/317655301979619/?type=3&theater

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In the swamp.

The tortoise wash. "Urgh it's really difficult to clean between your shell, Tort. My hands are sore."

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Lazy afternoon Another illustration for my tarot set.

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Sleepy these days. Another illustration for my tarot card set.

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Starting on a tarot card collection, with theme of sleeping.

Back from the dead. Its only when you're distant or away from people, where your thoughts are clear.

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You have my... car...

I have been meaning to do a fanart of John Wick 2 ever since I saw it. I loved it as much as the first, maybe alittle more than the first actually. Though, i prefer the soundtrack/theme songs they used in the first.

John Wick 2 Fanart

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Zen, Hyun Ryu. This is just for fun (and a test for further works) I felt the previous version was lacking something, so I tried adding some lighting. I'm still gonna do the others in previous flat color style, for consistency.

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Ahh, fabulous and narcissistic Zen. Hahahaha.

I wasnt very interested in his character at the start.  But after playing his route, I realized he is really sweet and caring. Plus he has the most CG. Hahaha, I really enjoyed his route, my second favorite next to Seven. ;) 

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I started playing Mystic Messenger last month and i got hooked. 😂 My favorite character from the game. I really fell in love with Luciel. Poor baby.

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Meet the artist!!

My potato self. I was tagged sometime ago, haha. Been busy with work, now here it is. :)

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Trying to draw more boys :)

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Red-headed Air head.

Something I'm working on the side. :)