Lots of Sketches!

I've been busy with drawing. I've started taking classes in character design at the Silver Design Academy along with my classes at the Animation Academy. Doing both at the same time is great. I'm getting double the feedback. The place is really neat. Here's some photos!

Stephen's life art along with Norman Rockwell prints.

Tales from the Crypt cover art! Looks to be original.

I have new sketches! To start off, I wanted to show a new sketch of an old concept I had for the main character in Totally Awesome Dude applying some techniques I learned at the Animation Academy, Silver Design Academy, and the Animation Design Center, who I've not mentioned yet because I took classes there before starting this blog, but I definitely wanted to give a shout out to Andres Alvarez, who runs the courses.

While I see a lot of improvement in my drawing and design skills, this isn't the style I'm going for. Nonetheless, it was fun to try the style out anyway. I noticed after my second pass that the feet are way too small too and, as you can see, I kept going over it to push it out to try and balance the top-heaviness of the whole drawing. At that point, I remembered all three of my instructors telling me to try making thumbnail drawings and I decided to try that, so I'll share that in my next blog.

After the head concepts I made last time, I had to pick one to do a rotation for. I decided on the Bride of Frankenstein.

Next I did some fully body concepts for the characters I designed before. I wanted to try various body sizes for them. In hindsight, I would've like to have tried giving the Frankenstien a bigger body and smaller head for fun... I would've had one with an undersized body, one with a normal body and one with a undersized body.

Charles wanted to see my characters focus on shape more and exaggerate the shapes a little more so I made these two..

I got positive feedback on them, so I used one for my next assignment, a full body rotation.

At the Silver Academy, I had some free time before the class started so I did this character. I was thinking of straight versus curved lines. In particular, I wanted to put straight lines in unusual places. 

One of our exercises was to make a character inspired by a shape given, here's what I came up with!

Did some other great exercises at both classes, but I'm not going to share! I didn't want to reveal too much about the classes for one, and second, they're not as interesting without the instruction that goes with them. Until next time!