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(RP 4222) Major Project Drawing: Drawing Game

When I was on an online chat with my friends, we decided to play a game where we were given a character from a game, show, film, and were given 10 minutes to draw them, then afterwards re-draw them in 3 minutes. This was quite fun to do. Whilst doing life drawing; timing myself forces me to study the figure and form of the human body and find the best and quickest way to draw it, so doing characters from from different shows and game made me do something similar, I had to study how the original artist drew the character and quickly figure out how to draw the  basic shapes. I particularly found it the hardest to draw the character on the second sheet (Top Right) I am not sure what show they are from, but since I am not to use to drawing anime like characters. What was hardest for me was that the character had a happy like expression, but their mouth was just wide open, so I had no idea how the artist conveyed that.  Looking back at it, I think they made the top of the mouth have a little bit of a curve, which gives of a little smile. very subtle, but quite effective.

I also did some random sketches during the chat (those at the very top of the first sheet, and the ones at the very bottom of the third sheet) I am trying to make it more of a instinct little hobby thing I do now with sketching. I think it is working so far, and hopefully when I get to animating, I will have more of a natural instinct to sketching out the characters pose to pose in the animation.

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(RP 4222) Major Project Drawing: Mando Sketch

This is a little sketch (I guess some what life drawing thing) I did of the character  Din Djarin from the Disney show ‘The Mandalorian’. Since I recently finished it, I was inspired to draw something from the show, and along that since the character is wearing armour, I though it would be a challenge for me to draw something “unique”. I quite struggled with the torso since, as I said, I am not use to drawing armour, but I did my usual mistake trying to draw the detail first before the actually shape/form. That is why I believe the helmet came out better, because its a simple shape, so I didn’t focus much on the detail first. This was fun drawing to do, but it was also a challenge do to the detail, but the more and more I draw, the more I understand the importance of doing shapes and forms first before doing detail. I know its the same thing, but the more I do it, the more the idea drills into my head, and the more it will hopefully become an instinct for me. Especially since in my a animation focusing on the pose to pose, it is very important to consider the character form and shape.

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(RP 4222) Major Project Drawing: Another Life drawing

Yet again, I only gave myself 4 minutes because I felt like it helped me focus more on the form and shape of the body. I was little messier this time, but that’s because I wanted to see if I could get in a little more detail this. I did start of with softer lines, but I though maybe adding some little bits of shading here and there would give a little bit more depth in the drawing, which I feel it did. It makes the drawing come of messier, but it does feel more lively. But I did not make that my main focus, yet again, I wanted to mainly focus on the shape and form of the body more then anything else, since I feel that is what is more important. And having to rush myself did help with that, but since I gave myself time to do some detail, I may need to shorten my time a little. I it is helpful to do long drawings, but since I want to do rough animations first, I feel like working on short drawing will help me more with form and figures like it has so far.

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(RP 4222) Major Project Drawing: Character Drawing

These are couple of drawings I’ve recently worked where I wanted to practise more working with line of actions (which I have talked about in the past, but it is where you make a character do a certain action, but the action as to be in an arc) Usualy I star off by drawing a basic shape to help me draw out the body and or head, but this time I started off by drawing a line of action, then basing the shapes with the line. This actually made things a little easier to draw a pose in an arc stance, because most of the time i can be a wild guess. I may try this whilst animating my pose to pose to keep a more constant flow to my animation, sine it is always best to work in arcs.

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(RP 4222) Major Project Drawing: More Life Drawings

Here are a couple more life drawings I did. I decided this time to give myself self 4 minutes instead of 10. I felt that having to draw in a shorter amount of time, made me try and focus less on the detail, and more on the shape and form of the person. Which is what I want to improve, I feel that last time I gave myself to much time, making me focus to much on detail, making a bit of a mess. Especially on my second drawing here, just like my first life drawing I posted, I worked a little bit to much with straight and sharp line, but maybe because of the pose the character does feel a little bit more 3 dimensional. But I do have to work left with such boxy shapes, it is probably helpful to do so to draw the basic shape of a body then clean up later with smoother corners, but as a finally things it just looks messy. granted I was on a time limit, and the point is to focus on the form of the body, it is something I wish to improve on. 

I prefer the top drawing (although may be a little hard to see do to the scan) I worked with a lot more smoother edges, making the drawing (I believe) feel more alive. But in conclusion, what I have learned from these life drawing is it best to focus more on the form and shape first, then detail later, but as well to be a lighter with the pencil.

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(RP 4222) Major Project: Simple Coloure Backgrounds

To help me save on time, I though it would be quite helpful to make some backgrounds be simple coloure. It is a very cheap to make backgrounds, but I feel like if I use the right coloures at the right time, it may help emphasize the moment by emphasizing more what they character is feeling. For example when they Sheriff sees the Convict and believes him to be a ghost, I made a red background to give off a sense of danger. As I said, it is a very cheap way to make backgrounds, but if used right, I think it could help enhance the overall film.

I also made it so that the backgrounds go from a light colore in the centre and darker as it spreads out, so that the audience knows where to look. I did very similar thing with my other backgrounds, using the the shadows.

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(RP 4222) Major Project Drawing: More Sketches

This time with my sketches I was inspired by the work of Eiichiro Oda. I wanted to be a bit more creative and random like he is with his drawings, so I decide to work with more random shapes to help inspire me to create more wacky design. I think my favourite wacky design is the sketch at the bottom left, it’s a strange big lipped creature, I don’t know what it is suppose to be, but that is why I am drawn to it.

I was also trying to be a lot more looser with my pen, and I feel like it did help me create better and more expressive drawings, instead of focusing to much on the detail. I still have a long way to go, but I feel like the looser I get with my pen, the more expressive I and energetic the drawing can be. That will be very helpful when it comes to my animating, since I want to be able to make my rough animations more expressive, so that the clean up and be so as well.

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(RP 4222) Major Project Research: Eiichiro Oda

One of my favourite Illustrators is the Manga Artist Eiichiro Oda. I have always loved looking at his sketches since he is great at creating expressive characters by exaggerating their features, like in cartoons. But what I always love looking at, is how strange and exaggerated his character can get. Especially looking a the  Fishmen designs he does (Bottom Illustrations) he gains inspiration from real life creatures, but uses such exaggerated shapes and body parts to create such memorable designs.