Life drawing class- week 3

 Week 3 of life drawing class went really good even though we've only did 2 pictures this time. Reasons for that is because we're working with charcoal on a page using the rubber to rule out the light sources and adding more charcoal for the darker tones.

The first session we had a male model posed for us. I found it quite hard to draw the face but felt that drawing the proportions of the body had improved more than last week's.

After having a small break, the models switched over which this time we had the female model. At first I panicked as I wasn't exactly sure where to start since I can't quite judge the basic shapes of the body. So using the method of using the rubber to draw light tones first, it helped me figure out the proportions as well as giving me confidence on the whole image. So adding a few more tones to finish the image, I was really happy with the result that I don't want to ruin it by adding more!!

After that image, we had a little break again to talk about everyone else's work. While we're doing this fellow classmate Andrew decided to "face charcoal" me just for the fun of it (and adding the moustache!) which this is the result:

so this is my "early Halloween" costume sorted, but note to self: always hide behind the easel so that noone can do "charcoal attack" on you!! \(>A<)/

Interim Online Review

OGR Interim Online Review- Unit 1

Hybrids and Me: sketches 3

Looking back at my previous sketches, I've decided to try and develop on the "dominant" body structure. I've also tried to add in the facial developments as well with the arms and legs with little bits of human parts to it like the "hooves with feet" and the "fingered hooves". I was really pleased with the image on the right however, the more I look at it, the more it looked like the Navi creatures from Avatar! I didn't realised this until the facial features, the body structures and the stripes started to look too familar to the Navi which was why I didn't add them in to the influence maps. (;_;)

Hybrids and Me: Zebra potrait!!

I have drawn an image of a zebra from my influence map using the graphics tablet on Photoshop.

Hybrids and me: sketches 2

Here are some more sketches for my hyrbid design, fusing the humand and zebra skulls together as well as thinking of how it looks in the flesh. Experimentation of the eyes and a rough silohuette drawing of the full body- inspired by the look of El Fauno from Pan's Labyrinth. I've also tried to think of ideas of the hands with tiny hoofs in place of nails and the feet with some few humanoid toes remain. I also am thinking of how the hybrid creature can adapt to its enviroment especially in the dry plains in the grass.

Influence map 2

Another influence map!! Looking at the skeletal structures and how I can combine the human and zebra skeleton together. I am also inspired by the kids TV series, Animorphs where one of the characters "morphs" into a horse which as depicted by the stills above can still show the fusion of horse and human. I have also included the skeletal structure of satyrs, centaurs, faun

Photoshop!! Week 1 and 2!!

On the first week with photoshop Phil, we had a tutorial on drawing concept art using Photoshop. We did some practices on our own and I managed to draw a zebra on photoshop using the graphics tablet but ended up being strangely deformed.

The image taken from my sketch done on photoshop using the graphics tablet

So for the second week, I had some sketches prepared and showed them to Photoshop Phil. Though I've already started on drawing the lower right image on photoshop, Phil liked the idea of the upper far right image which is quite anthromorphic and that I should perhaps focus more on the faces. Though drawing a hybrid of human and a zebra is quite hard as most of the ideas mostly goes towards the direction of a centaur "only with stripes", the structure idea of "Mr Taumnus" is interesting as well but is also quite common. So for now its back to the drawing board...\(^ㅂ^)/


An experimental head whilst trying to show "agonising pain", looks strange but ugly!!



The sketches shown to Phil (middle images of the page were added in later)