Random sketchbook stuff

From bottom to top: 3 first are research for a sheriff character i'm developing. 2 next are cartoon characters for two of my friends. last one is one of 20 sketches for a self-portrait i have to do as homework for the weekend

TDA - Week 7

*Afternoon update*

This is the first pass of the storyboard i'm making. Consists of 13 panels:






I know i promised excercises from the previous-portfolio week, but I'm currently making my storyboard and a character design for the acting part of the portfolio I have to send for the Bachelor in Character Animation. I have some stuff, and probably tonight I'm going to scan and upload them here.

Stuff from this week's class. The first is a 6 hour portrait study, which we are probably going to give 3 hours more. The second is an one and a half hour study of planes from shoes. I'm sorry for the badly composited portrait, but the scanner couldn't fit the whole paper:

TDA - Week 6

Afternoon croquis session.

At the first hour I did this excercise with the free proportions. I drew a custom frame each time, and with this as a guideline I fit the pose into the whole frame.

I'm quite happy with today's croquis because I think I managed to achieve 2 things: One was to transfer the freedom and fluidity of the lines with the free proportions to poses with more normal proportions, and the second was to go into the form, which is what our teacher always notes. "GO INTO THE FORM, DON'T DRAW ONLY THE OUTLINE!" o_O









P.S. This week it's portfolio week with guest teachers talking about storyboarding and character design (I think), so maybe I'll be posting some shit from excercises we may have

TDA - Week 5

This week we did a lot of life drawing, but most of the stuff is corrected from my teacher, so not much to show.

I only have this bust study that is not finished yet and some freestyle stuff. The first one is dedicated to a friend of mine that left this world last year...

TDA - Week 3-4

*Update No2* Final version

It's the 4th week (wow...) now here at The Drawing Academy. From last week my best piece was one boring composition excercise (last drawing).

Yesterday (Friday) we had a croquis excercise where we had to fill the entire paper by distorting the proportions of the model and I believe, strangely enough, that these are my best drawings since I came here.
I think that I achieved in bringing personality to the drawings.

Hope you like them ;)

Week 4:









Week 3:

The Drawing Academy - Week 2

This is stuff from the second week. Quick life drawings (croquis), some excercises and portraits.

First sketches for 2010

Happy New Year...Ho Ho Ho!!

New start!

(Drawing not mine)

New year, new start!

I finished my studies in Design Engineering, with the presentation of my dissertation in animation expressiveness, at Tuesday.

From 4 January I will be attending The Drawing Academy to prepare my portfolio for animation schools.
I was told that first week will involve yoga and meditation, with 2 hours of drawing for start, only.

Looking forward to a new start! Woohoo!!

Santa gone wild

I did this for a friend. Came up with this wild santa idea as I wanted to do a Christmas theme, but not a simple santa.
I worked on his posture a lot, until getting it right. There were a lot of difficulties with his fingers, his legs, especially his left. Think I've done pretty well...

My first commission! Ahaa

Hello again!
A really intensive period in my life... Dissertation that should be finished by mid-December, french language lessons to prepare for France, and no time to draw!

This is my first commission hoho! A relative of mine asked me to draw two teeth for children in school, one happy and one sad. So I did a little search on the internet to see what other artists had done.

The first"happy" tooth is a collection of ideas, even though not a straight copy of a specific illustration, so I couldn't claim it mine.
The second is completely mine though, that's why it sucks :P The arm is really bad, but I didn't put time into it to correct it.