For anyone interested, i also started a new Tumblr blog that i will use primarily for inspirational stuff, posting things that grabbed my attention. So far i am finding Tumblr super user friendly, but as i have quite a bit already here, i do not want to ditch blogspot just yet...
Anyway, check it out:
http://derangedartisan.tumblr.com
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Back in business!
Well, it's been a while, but I am back to drawing again. Here are some sketches i did after going to CTNX, which was an absolute blast. I think I have inspiration to spare for months! Gotta work hard now, and get the animations done!
Also, here are progress reels for both my iAnimate Workshop 1 that I finished back in May, and Workshop 2, which I finished in August. Currently finishing off a dialog piece for Workshop 3, but that I'll post later, once it's actually done:)
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
A small Update
So, once again, I've been silent for ages. I tend to read a lot of other people's blogs, but I seem to forget to actually do something about my own. Well here are a few new things that I did in the last while:
Also, I have actually started on my way to animation! I have enrolled into the new school created by the one and only Jason Ryan, iAnimate.net, and have been doing my Workshop 1 for the last 2 months. Here are a few things to show my progress. Hope you enjoy!
A Ball Bounce:
A slightly more fun ball bounce:
Different Weights exercise:
TOTS (Thing On The Spring) Jump:
And this is the latest anim I am working on, so it is still a WIP:
That's it for now! Time to get more things going!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
In beautiful Vancouver, and just got my Wacom back!
As a celebration for getting my Wacom Tablet back with all my other stuff from Germany, I decided to dedicate a little bit of time to the neglected child and did a small b/w painting study. Was definitely fun, and I am sure I will attempt to do the same thing again, but in color. Hope you enjoy!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Felipe Nogueira - Character TD Reel
Thought I should share the awesome work a buddy of mine, Felipe Nogueira, has done. Very, very impressive reel! Looking forward where this guy ends up being:)
Friday, November 5, 2010
Woohooo! I'm on a roll:)
Ok, I gotta say, I am very much enjoying my time now. Not sure what happened, but it looks like I broke a new plateau when it comes to drawing. I know, I know, still a ton to learn, will always be, but hey, this is pretty damn cool! For the first time, in my life - no less, I can really see my own progress!
So, cutting to the chase. Last night I decided that I need to do a facial study, to try and solidify my understanding of the face. I picked a random face and started working. My goal was to work from the inside out, meaning I was looking for skeleton landmarks that would create a solid proportion and structure, general head shape, then slowly but surely progressing into seeing how different facial muscles formed the face and caused certain forms of the face. Then I tried to get all those forms to work correctly.
I cannot describe just HOW MUCH I learned. This is absolutely amazing! I really understood how much all of that anatomical structure can assist you while working, and how much is in fact going on. No kidding, I was shaking while doing this, cause I was so nervous to put too much pressure on the pencil. Which, btw, finally forced me to start light, and progress from larger to smaller. Basically, I am finally doing things as they have always been told to me to do:)
Ok, I hope I didn't overhype this, as it isn't anything out of the ordinary, but hell, it deffinately is a landmark to how far I went so far. Time to complete - ~2.5 hrs.
Enjoy!
If you want to see a larger version, go HERE.
Till next time!
DK
So, cutting to the chase. Last night I decided that I need to do a facial study, to try and solidify my understanding of the face. I picked a random face and started working. My goal was to work from the inside out, meaning I was looking for skeleton landmarks that would create a solid proportion and structure, general head shape, then slowly but surely progressing into seeing how different facial muscles formed the face and caused certain forms of the face. Then I tried to get all those forms to work correctly.
I cannot describe just HOW MUCH I learned. This is absolutely amazing! I really understood how much all of that anatomical structure can assist you while working, and how much is in fact going on. No kidding, I was shaking while doing this, cause I was so nervous to put too much pressure on the pencil. Which, btw, finally forced me to start light, and progress from larger to smaller. Basically, I am finally doing things as they have always been told to me to do:)
Ok, I hope I didn't overhype this, as it isn't anything out of the ordinary, but hell, it deffinately is a landmark to how far I went so far. Time to complete - ~2.5 hrs.
Enjoy!
Till next time!
DK
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Long nights, but loving every bit of it!
Been staying up quite a bit lately... Surprising part for myself is that the reason for it is me drawing! I feel exhilarated nearly every time I touch a pencil now (Should I be concerned?...)
Anyway, so I've been going back to learning a bit more anatomy as well these days, going through Glen Vilppu's head anatomy videos. I know that I am still really confused with the cheek area and the depressors of the lips area. It is really useful, and if you don't know it, better get them ASAP. Some of the best anatomy instruction videos that exist.
I didn't go all that nuts with drawing many heads (I will soon, however), but I did try my best at learning what Vilppu was explaining, and at the end of it all I did a head drawing from imagination, trying to remember all that I just learned. Can't say I feel succesful, but I do believe I learned something along the way...
And here is another little brain fart:
I have also not posted my lifedrawing from last week, i believe. As I had a session today as well, here is what I ended up outputting. Sometimes I hope the Pencil Gods will forgive my infinite sins... Because honestly, I fear that these sketches must be pissing the off a whole lot!
Anyway, so I've been going back to learning a bit more anatomy as well these days, going through Glen Vilppu's head anatomy videos. I know that I am still really confused with the cheek area and the depressors of the lips area. It is really useful, and if you don't know it, better get them ASAP. Some of the best anatomy instruction videos that exist.
I didn't go all that nuts with drawing many heads (I will soon, however), but I did try my best at learning what Vilppu was explaining, and at the end of it all I did a head drawing from imagination, trying to remember all that I just learned. Can't say I feel succesful, but I do believe I learned something along the way...
And here is another little brain fart:
I have also not posted my lifedrawing from last week, i believe. As I had a session today as well, here is what I ended up outputting. Sometimes I hope the Pencil Gods will forgive my infinite sins... Because honestly, I fear that these sketches must be pissing the off a whole lot!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tiny midnight sketches
Sat last night, and being inspired by Aidan's work I decided to do a tiny lil test with watercolors. It sucks, very much, but hey, it is better then nothing! Now to get more confidence... Ah, and after seeing all the weird stuff he has on his blog, I sketched a lil creature which I might take further in PS or maybe also in WaterColors.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Attempts at pinups and a large sketch dump
Like I promised the last time, I have gotten a bunch of sketches from some life-drawing sessions. As well, I have gotten into my head to do a sort of "Pin up" girl drawing. And I ended up with a drawing which I actually made entirely out of my head referencing only the anatomy to more or less correctly know where to place the masses. Here is the drawing:
I have done it in a blue Caran d' Ache pencil, which, tbh, is turning out to be one of my favourite weapons of choice! I really like how I can be quite soft with it, and whenever I do the lines, I end up making quite cool flowing results which I enjoy so much. This whole thing took me about 2-3 hours, which is quite a bit. Here is a sketch that started the idea:
This was just a quick pen doodle I did trying to figure out what the pose should be. I redrew the final from scratch, following the way Clair Wendling mentioned that she draws, allowing me for more practice. I also did another attempt before that, but I ended up partially referencing the pose from a model picture, which I cannot say was what I wanted. Here it is:
I tried to play around with proportions, but I gotta be honest, I am not a fan of how it turned out. She got a bit too curvy for the way I pictured it, and I feel I didn't capture what I wanted to get out of the pose. I might come back to it, but I will need to think of some more additions to the design. I really like the old-school pinup drawings, such as those done by Gil Elvgren:
I like the fun in these drawings. I always wanted to do 1 or 2 of such pinups, but maybe with my own twist.
In any case, the best part is that while doing that drawing I really came to learn a ton about anatomy. And boy did I ever had fun drawing! This is probably one of the more finished works I have done so far, albeit without a background, but that will at some point change. I am also thinking of trying my hand with some watercolors next time. I will try a couple of drawings straight on the watercolor paper, and see what I can come up with. Probably will be a disaster, but her, what the heck!
Aaaaaaaaanyway, here is the rest of the stuff I sketched from the last month or so that I missed putting up here:
Till next time!!!
-DK
This was just a quick pen doodle I did trying to figure out what the pose should be. I redrew the final from scratch, following the way Clair Wendling mentioned that she draws, allowing me for more practice. I also did another attempt before that, but I ended up partially referencing the pose from a model picture, which I cannot say was what I wanted. Here it is:
I like the fun in these drawings. I always wanted to do 1 or 2 of such pinups, but maybe with my own twist.
What makes these interesting to me (beside being a guy, i guess:) is that unlike so many other drawings that are done now days, these aren't of women with some unbelievable proportions (think J Scott Campbell girls, which, in my opinion, tend to get really annoying now days), but rather of natural looking women, someone real, alive. The Marvel style stuff, however "cool" it might be in the nerdy/guy sense of thinking, feels like plastic dolls and to me, and borders on the feeling of cartoon porn rather then interesting and tasteful art. And these old-school pinups are a lot more intricate in the way they display the idea. But I guess that is just what was found interesting back then, the "Marvel" girls of those times... But hey, at least they do not make women look like they should stuff themselves with silicone and stop eating to look beautiful!
Aaaaaaaaanyway, here is the rest of the stuff I sketched from the last month or so that I missed putting up here:
Till next time!!!
-DK
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