Blue and Orange!

For my digital tools class I was told to create a name slate, plate, plaque, whatever-you-want-to-call-it thing.  It was a fun assignment which we got to colour digitally.  I went a little overboard, but I enjoyed doing it!

Project due-dates are coming up in the next weeks.  I like to post my art once it's finished, so it won't be too long before posts start flowing in :)  Until then, enjoy some blue and orange:

Sketchbook Stories, 6

Animation has started!  It's been a wonderful first two weeks so far, and I honestly can't remember any time when I was so excited for school work and everything that revolves around it.  I've been sketching more than I used to, I've been enjoying anatomy more than I ever have and I'm all around happy to finally be studying the things I've been waiting to learn.  Here's four sketchbook pages ready to be enjoyed, criticized or whatever else you wish to do with them.

 A character I'm working on for a rotation we have to start next week.

A friend of mine, Aaron Fryer, advised me to draw hands every day.  Okay :)

Sketchbook Stories, 5

School starts tomorrow!  The summer has finally come to an end, but not before I quickly update my blog with some more sketchbook stuff before I dive into the world of animation.  Here's four pages of recent, random doodles.

Sketchbook Stories, 4

Faces and Force.  Those are my main focuses as of right now.  After all the faces I've drawn, I am nearly forgetting on how to draw realistically, but I don't want style to take over.  I was inspired to start practicing hair because of this post by Darik, a soon2be co-animation student.  I seriously can't wait for life drawing to kick off again.  I'm almost done reading Michael D. Matessi's Force, and I simply can't wait to do some practice.  Posemaniacs is the place to be!

Of course, I'm still practicing hands as well, but I was unable to keep that one sketchbook dedicated just for that.  I also seem to have some odd proportion issues lately, so I'm still working on getting those out of the way too.

Enough text.  Here is three pages:

Walk Cycle

I started working on this roughly two months ago, but I finally finished it last night.  It didn't even take that long... oh well.  I'm happy with the way it turned out, however I wasn't expecting it to be this "laggy".  Since I wasn't motivated to continue, I didn't make the character take four steps, as previously planned.  I'm actually looking forward to doing more rough, life-y animation, so that's probably where I'll put my focus next.