I apologise for being MIA for so long, and when I finally do post again, it's old material (this is some visdev work from Sep 2011). Well, at least it's old material I don't believe you've seen before on this blog. <insert placating smile>

We were supposed to design characters for a given story. The story I worked on was about how the vulture became bald. (Excessive pride about his beautiful feathers.)

Designs for the other birds. I laughed a lot at onion bird on the bottom. Sorry onion bird.

Colour/pattern explorations.

The other 'style'. 

General style explorations.

Funky 'dos.

This little series of vultures was completely random. I think I was bored.

This doesn't belong here, clearly, but it's here because I realised something looking at it. I realise I like this so much better than another one that used to be my favourite among my figure drawings of this fella. I realise this is better, now. I did some depth-destroying errors around the folds of the right leg though :/

I miss figure drawing class. 

another matte painting!

This is Tiger Leaping Gorge, or 虎跳峡, a canyon on the Yangtze river in China.

This is the Clifton suspension bridge in England, with an upside down photo of a historical building from Rajasthan, India. This stage was a quick test out idea of something I had in mind.

The final result :) I used more things, ranging from dreamcatchers to an eastern Baha'i temple to the Great Wall of China. A Mayan temple or two. The elephant statues are from Beijing.

:D

Here is a fast sketch of three people looking at something in Chinatown.

Sketchies

Been a long time since I posted anything!

Here are some zoo sketches. And another sketch or two.

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mattepaint!

(Final)

Some form of process...

3D Jump wip

Despite studying animation, I do believe this is the first animation I've ever posted here hahaha. 

Well. Right now we're doing character animation (3D), this was one of the exercises (to do a jump). This version is what happened when I continued editing the jump after submission. The feeling of realising how much the prudent deletion of just one keyframe improves the animation is great - but...when this revelation happens only after you've already handed it up...

Anyway blogger has sucky upload quality. Please view enlarged 'cause when small, some movements are lost. 

Still a long long long way to go, but at least I enjoy it. :)

NTS: Timing at step back slightly too fast, improve jerk, add folthru/secaction for right foot at tiptoe. Timing too fast in general-, correct moving foot at the start of jump???

cubie

This was a matte painting exercise we had in school - where we had to paint three cubes of different materials into a given photo.

snow?

This was the second part of the assignment: we had to convert our painting to a snow scene. 

Comments for this went something like: keep working on the snow on the stairs in the foreground, and add some definition to snow which gathers on edges. Mm! :) For this one I kinda spammed one powdery custom brush.

P.S. Bear with me for a little while, I'm trying out Blogger's dynamic templates :D

alley

Blogger did something funny to the colours. Anyway this is a painting I did for my matte painting module - we were copying a photo.

I used a colour-picker and put the original photo below my painting to trace for blocking. 

Used a round brush with pen-pressure opacity, a hard square brush with zero spacing, and a scattered dotty brush for texture! :> The next assignment is to turn this scene into a winter one....wish me luck :/

mrt sketching

copies

These 2 are copies of drawings/photos that I made today (we copied drawings/photos that the teacher gave us), first sketchbook thingy for Fig and Animals. I don't like copying thingies :( I mean, sure, I do learn things as I copy, but damn is it ever tedious.

I think my pathetic shading has been forced to improve a little :/ Maybe I should grit my teeth and copy more things. Doing this has also made me realise how long it's been since I've really drawn anything.

I'm looking forward to the upcoming sketch outings!

oo la la

Anyway, as promised: a better quality updated version of the drawing. 

It was a figure drawing during a school Wed session that happily got out of hand!

figure drawing: 12th july

For last Tuesday's lesson we were supposed to bring references of period fashion. I chose Edwardian (1900-1910-ish)! But I didn't manage to print it. Got to school early only to realise all printing places were closed till 9 (lesson started at 8.30). -_- Ended up borrowing a classmate's reference for-

My favourite model (china lady I must one day ask the name of...I'm scared my chinese will be embarrassing) was late :( So we practiced on what references we had first. I finally stopped being stubborn and broke out the conte. Pleasant results. I'm an eejit for being stubborn.

My shading still needs work however. Also the proportions. I messed those up enough to turn him a little feminine instead of masculine hooded guy, Assasin's Creed style.

Gestures! 2mins or so.

3-5 min.

Normally I suck at clothing gestures, but I thought today was decent. I think today my better clothing gestures are thanks to 1. my favourite model 2. big big big drapey cloth 3. enough sleep (really important). 4. I hate to admit it, but conte

I also think I'm learning to stop drawing every single stupid wrinkle.

This last unfinished one...has an embarrassingly drawn face. Hahaha. I spent some time printing out my pretty references and ended up with only enough time to do this (we were supposed to put clothes from our references on the model's pose).

I just love the way people dressed back in the old days. So I admit it must've been pretty tedious and all compared to pulling on shorts and a shirt, but everyone looks pretty and elegant and proper, all the time.

The on-loan DSLR I have only came with a wide-angle lens. Can you see any noticeable fish-eye distortion in these fig drawing photos?

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My senior told me something interesting the other night: "In Year 1 you learn that sleep is important. In Year 2 you learn how to cope with sleep deprivation. In Year 3 you actually learn how to manage your freaking time."

you ain't got no alibi you ugly!

Some visdev up-a-dates on the sour, ugly, misanthropic vulture. Boy, can't you smile?

I like the one that's on the floor giving up. That's how I'd be like sometimes if I were a vulture. When I identify with Slouchy (his name) I feel sorry for him. Damn, I'm not supposed to sympathise with you! It's all your fault you're like that dude.

Oh the big one at the top, he's supposed to be struggling to reach for a dead fish 'cause of his stiff back or something. Didn't draw it well enough z.

terribad, wondergood.

Drawing Class (Tues)

Had a terribad headache striking the left side of my head and my left eyeball that morning. From personal experience I can tell you this is really horrible for drawing. I think even without that, though, it was still not a very great drawing day....

... I get more confused than a sheep underwater when it comes to drawing clothes and drapery gestures and well...drapery. Maybe I'm just thinking about it the wrong way.

On the bright side, I'm somehow venturing more into perspective and thinking about it. Thank you, Mr Mattesi.

This was done after getting some Panadol (which worked like magic for the pain). About 10 (I came in halfway) and 30 minutes respectively. :[ Grr. My favourite lesson nowadays is now officially figure drawing. With enough sleep.

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Wed drawing workshop thing
Man I am going to make it a point to be there every week unless circumstances disallow. Small number of people (unfortunately and fortunately), less pressure, more awake (me), and the model gets a lot of freedom with poses and stuff.

Today we had a female model, a China woman I've drawn before. She's actually one of my favourite models to draw, and her poses are always fun. (For me, anyway.) Also I like messing with her hair. She has skills with pinning up her hair that I completely ignore.

Gestures:








For the one on the right I tried 'blind force' - like blind contour drawing, only you draw force. I ended up looking a few times, but I think it somehow works. It flows...



Lazy to comment. Pam if you're reading this figure drawing and shading with colour pencil is fun :D