I tried something new with this session: I recorded my screen as I drew! Watch the video below for a look at all the drawings I normally never let anyone see ...It was a good exercise as I can spot when I'm struggling with a pose, and start to noodle. In those cases...
In last week's All In Gesture class Ralph posed as Freddie Mercury - except it was more than posing, it was performing. A great session and a good challenge! My drawings at the beginning resembled Mirror Universe Spock but I seemed to get the hang of it towards the...
Sadly the project I'm a Storyboard Artist on at Wild Child is coming to an end in September, so I'm looking for work from mid-October! If you'd like to work with me, or know of a project coming up, please email me at ajaiken90@gmail.com Also, take a look at my updated...
A few years ago I posted some images from a short story I'd written and illustrated. You can view them here if you didn't see them the first time around! The story follows Kinsey, a young Queen who battles her fears in order to reclaim her sword, her family, and her...
Recently I've spoken to a few people about their life drawing, and one thing that's kept coming up is hands, feet, and faces. It's really clear when I look at work that has these things missing. They're tough to draw - don't I know it! Sadly, they will still be...
If you haven't seen my previous storyboards from the Animation Base Camp, you may want to start here. The story revolves around odd-couple animals at a therapist’s office. Throughout the camp I worked on several different versions of a scene involving a shark. Here's...
I had the privilege of taking part in the first-ever Animation Base Camp, a trainee programme in Glasgow with mentors from Sony Pictures Animation, during July to September this year. It focused on creating visual development art and an animatic for an original...
I first remember seeing Escher's work while at primary school. We were given a piece of his to copy, so I dutifully started drawing some of the plants from the corner of his lithograph "Waterfall". I ran out of time, and never finished anything else, but I did gain a...