Making birthday cards for people is something I really like to do. Here's one I made for my sister a few days ago. I've created paper cut-out cards before, but this is the first time I've played with depth. It was fun! I should make more.
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Life Drawing, 12th
Shockingly, I haven't been to life drawing since November! I felt a bit rusty, but it was a good session.
Life Drawing, 11th
I made it along to the All the Young Nudes life drawing session again this week. For the last two weeks I haven't been able to go, but I have been sketching from life and pictures more than usual. This time I really noticed a difference in my drawing; I was looser and...
Life Drawing, 16th
More life drawing! All drawn in pastel.
New Portfolio and Showreel
I thought it was time for an update of my portfolio and showreel! Here's a peek: click on the image to view the full portfolio. [NOTE: this portfolio link no longer exists.]My latest animation showreel, featuring Maya and paper animation:Music: "Dial Up" by Kris...
Deer
I cleaned up and inbetweened the deer over the last couple of weeks. At first the movement appeared very even, so I removed some of the inbetweens and rejigged some of the remaining drawings to get back to the feeling I wanted. Once I was happy, I coloured it, added a...
Deer Background and Breakdowns
I returned to my deer animation today, changing quite a lot of the ending and adding more breakdowns and inbetweens. I'm planning to clean it up in Photoshop, something like the deer shown below: quite loose and free, hopefully keeping some of the rough nature of the...
Deer Line Test
This idea I've had for a while, but today I had the chance to get all the keys and some of the breakdowns drawn. Lots of issues here still, so I look forward to working on it more.
Animals
Yesterday I found a link to the site artists.pixelovely.com which has photographs of people, animals, expressions, etc. that can be viewed as "classes". This morning I tried out a 30-minute figure drawing class, followed by a 30-minute animal class. There are...