Wednesday 27 March 2013

Painted over the sketch I did of the mecha. I think mostly, the background and lighting values in it need the most work, as well as the fact the mech is shaded very organically. I think I need to go practise shading metal in cel shading and full painting...

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Sketch of a mecha based on a friend's design for bionics. I decided to just doodle out a design I can colour up later.

Anatomy excercise. We were given the task over the week to come up with 3 illustrations of the human skeleton. I first did the drawing on the top left, referencing directly to the source material we were given (Atlas of Human Anatomy - Stephens Rogers Peck). This one looked a little clunky and out of balance, so I decided to do a similar pose, but with a simplified skeleton base 'puppet' to get the posing right. This one looked alot more natural and real, even though I didnt go into as much detail.
I also used this opportunity to practise my hands a little, first drawing a larger version of the simplified skeleton hand I used on the second drawing before adding some simple bones in the right areas. This made it look alot less broken than some of my previous attempts at hands...

Tuesday 19 March 2013


Porportion work for homework. I unfortunately didnt get to have the human finished due to some personal issues. For the dwarf, I tried to keep the stockiness, and a bit of the slightly 'heroic scale' with his design, with slightly larger hands and head than then would be if perfectly realstic, adding a slight stylisation to the image. I think I could have done alot more in terms of the armour painting wise, maybe giving it more gleam and better shading.
The elf was a bit of a pain to be honest, the actual concept of the design was hard to come up with. When sketching out his porportions, I did have a bit of trouble with his facial features, so much so that I couldnt nail it whatever I tried, and ended up covering it. I think I could have once again worked better on the shading, especially on the armour.




Some weekly sketches, one of my Sonic screwdriver on my desk, and one of my hand while I was drawing. The hand could use alot of work I think, maybe the way the pen is portrayed, and the positionin of the furthest fingers.