Bear sketch

So in a last minute cramming session, I am going to be filling my sketch book up with as many sketches as possible in the next few weeks. Not all of them will be amazing, but I like my style of drawing since I have been home from the mission significantly more than I liked my sketches before the mission. Here is a sketch of  a little girl and a bear that I did yesterday. I like the bear pretty well... I just need to learn to draw little kids better. Maybe I should just draw bigger? I think that's what the biggest problem is with little kids... Or characters in general. But that's what practice is for right? I'm going to focus on drawing people at 3/4 view and I need to work on my clothing folds. I like how the hoodie looks with the simple drape folds but the sleeves need some folds to look more lifelike. Or at least less boring!

Its going to be hard to focus on drawing folds when all i really want to draw are bears now! I think I will just do a bunch of bear sketches and I will work on the folds and faces later. Bears are cool. Just so long as they don't get into your kitchen. Then bears are annoying...

Weekend sketches

These are a few of the drawings that I was working on during the weekend. They are kinda cool. This one I am proud of because I have never drawn a woman that doesn't just look like a man with long hair! So I was looking at a few profiles of women's faces. The differences are subtle but make all the difference. I need to work on hair still... but for now I am happy with it.

This is one I found in my sketch book. I liked it so I decided to work on it a little bit and just shade it differently and rework it. I may have posted it a while back... I don't even know. Its kinda a boring character but I posted it anyways.

Hipster Russian Model

This sunday Doug and I drew a pretty simple drawing of a man's face (we named him the Hipster Russian model). He drew the eye, ear, and hair, while I did everything else. This left me excited with the idea of lines. How do lines effect the composition. I had a lot of fun drawing heavily outlined characters with varying widths of lines. I have always liked outlines. Realism is cool up until the outlines completely disappear. Then I only appreciate it but I don't like to draw it. After working on these two drawings, I aspire to do non-outlined characters even less. It is fitting that on Tuesday we studying UPA animation which focused on escaping from the Disney style and brought outlines back where as Disney was always trying to escape the cartoony.

This one took me a little more time and I didn't draw it during church (which... makes it less embarrassing). I also put a little more effort and time into it so it looks a little more polished. I put an army beret on... just... because I wanted to. My goal for the semester is to learn how to draw hair, so I am going to bug Doug (my roommate) to show me since his hair always comes out amazing.

Finally I have mentioned my project and not shown the progress. Unfortunately that is because the progress has been very slow. Especially because I have had finals. Hopefully I can get back into the lab this weekend and continue to work on it now that my crazy weekends of unbelievable amount of work are over. Here is a quick picture of the basic frames I have been working on for the first animation (a misty 540).