I thought I'd push my gesture skills a bit and try drawing from moving figures, so I pulled up some ballet videos on YouTube. Very difficult, but good fun!
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Life Drawing, 7th
These drawings are from earlier this month. Another excellent model! I struggled after the break - most of the drawings below are from the first half.
Gestures
Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.
Animal Gestures
Haven't drawn much in the last few days, so I spent some of my morning doing timed sketches from artists.pixelovely.com [now https://line-of-action.com/] - a great site for gesture practice. These were 30 second drawings.
Gesture Drawings, August
I haven't posted any figure drawings in ages. They've been building up for a while so here are some of my gesture drawings from a fantastic workshop that Sarah Airriess (former Disney animator, animation assistant on Duet, and animator on Ethel and Ernest) gave during...
Animation Base Camp – Shark
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...
Animation Base Camp – Bear
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...
30 Second Bird Sketches
I wanted to loosen up a bit so I went to https://line-of-action.com/ and spent about 20 minutes drawing 30 second bird poses. Here are my favourites!
New Brush Doodles
Some doodles with new Photoshop brushes.