Tag Archives: character

All In Gesture – Jane

It’s been great to get back to gesture drawing, and what a session to do it with! Jane’s a wonderful character. I loved exploring some of the situations from Tarzan – and now I know what I’m watching tonight!

All In Gesture – King Triton

After a bit of a break from drawing, this was a good (but difficult) way to start again! I was just starting to figure King Triton out by the time the session ended …

All In Gesture – Lofi Girl

This All In Gesture class was a change in pace from the previous ones, with a lot of relaxed poses.

Simple Character Design Exercise

Next week I’m running a Traditional Animation Workshop in Hawick, so I thought I’d share a little preview from the class. I’ve always found creating characters to be challenging. Where do I start? And I often find they all end up looking the same. Why is that? This exercise helps you to think about whyContinue reading “Simple Character Design Exercise”

Storyboard Planning

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a short storyboard sequence for my portfolio. It’s still a work in progress, but I’d thought I’d share some of the early planning from it. I don’t often share thumbnail storyboards because they’re usually pretty illegible! I love this part of the process, as thisContinue reading “Storyboard Planning”

All In Gesture – Disgust and Joy

Last Saturday’s All In Gesture class theme was the characters Disgust and Joy from Inside Out. Both express strong emotions, so it was fun to draw and exaggerate the model! I also had a few attempts at drawing the characters.

All In Gesture – Viking

Here are some sketches from another fantastic All In Gesture session, with Kelly as a Viking! I was definitely influenced by How to Train Your Dragon …

Costume Design

I’ve been working on a mini graphic novel project for a while (you may remember this, this and this) and recently I’ve been doing a lot of research into clothing. It’s set around 1300 but much of it falls into ‘vaguely medieval’. There are very few source materials for clothing in Scotland at that time.Continue reading “Costume Design”

All In Gesture – Rapunzel

Rapunzel from Tangled is such a fun character. The addition of a frying pan prop was an excellent touch! I felt out of my depth with this one – I may need to redo the class sometime. But despite some wonky drawings I enjoyed taking part!

All In Gesture – Hobbit

As I love The Lord of the Rings I had to draw this session, even though it’s a little ways back in the All In Gesture archives! The hobbit is a little bit of Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam.

All In Gesture – Cruella

Another session from the archives! Some of my drawings lean more towards the Cruella of the animated movie, others more towards the model. Either way the poses were great fun. She’s a wonderfully mad villain.

All In Gesture – Ahsoka Tano

I drew these back in June – now they’re finally seeing the light of day. Ahsoka is a Star Wars character I mainly know through The Mandalorian as I haven’t watched any of the Clone Wars TV shows, so I was aiming more for the live-action look.

All In Gesture – Legolas

I struggled a lot in this class and was only beginning to warm up by the end. The variety of emotions and poses was good fun! In my head I was imagining Legolas at various ages – young and slightly pensive to older and battle-experienced.

All In Gesture – John Smith

I’ve been drawing, but not posting – here are some recent sketches from Todd Bright’s All In Gesture workshop! The theme was John Smith from Pocahontas. My sketches veer between attempting the character and following the model, and have ended up not much like either …