Realistic Portraits in Pen and Pencil

Natural Blind Drawings

This has been my favourite art practice so far this year! Blind drawing flowers, and then working back into them with water colour pencil afterwards. I am going to keep making these as they not only look really cute. They also help with hand eye coordination! 

Stop Motion Puppet

Over the Christmas break, my Dad and I put our little heads together, to make my first ever Stop Motion Puppet. Not one that I'll be using to animate with (you'll see why below) I simply wanted to learn/attempt, to simply make one. I used Balsa wood, a craft knife to carve the wood, wire, Balsa cement to fix it all together and some Silk clay to sculpt the head and arms. The head, is a little scary, to say the least. 

Sketch Book update

3D - Catching and throwing a ball

First attempt at Catching a ball on Maya. I'm just going to look at this, as a learning curve. Overall, for my first attempt with very little to referance from, I'm pleased. I'm struggling to animate the arms without them twisting all over the place. Currently, the rig, doesn't look very human. I will be starting fresh with the same rig and attempt a more life like appraoch to the catch.

 

 

 

Second attempt: Step one: Catching the ball.

 

 

A little more

 

 

Finally... I tried okay?! In all seriousness, for me, I'm proud of my attempt. May of needed a little help with constraints and the graph editors but I'm learning! My main concern is that the ball just floats away. However, I've spent another hour on top of many, just trying to make it work. This is as good as I can get it for tonight.

 

 

Monty Walk Cycle

 

 

Maya and I have such a love, hate relationship. Sometimes it works for me, other times, like now for example, it doesn't. There's something not quite right about this. I'm pleased that it looks like it's walking, but there's definitely a lot of room for improvement. 

Spirit Bear Storyboard

My storyboard is yet to be finished, but here is a little sneakpeak of my progress. I'm extremely pleased with how it's turning out. There are definitely a few character design flaws, where I've drawn the same character looking slightly different across different frames. However, I don't think this is a huge issue as I'ts simply just to show key frames and give a brief idea of the storyline. To have saved time, I definitely should have completed the storyboard in black and white. However, I have really enjoyed adding colour. So although it's taking me longer, I'm putting more effort in because I'm enjoying what I'm doing!