Lately I've been trying to loosen up my drawings, thus making them more fun to do! Ever since attending a drawing workshop with Louis Gonzales I feel like I've been pushing my drawings into a new, very fun direction. I'm trying not to get bogged down in what's actually in front of me. Instead, I'm trying to capture a feeling.
~Chris
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Friday, March 08, 2013
Team Donatello
Here is a personal piece that I worked on during a couple weeks that I took off work. I wanted to stay sharp, and also I wanted to play with my new copy of Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro! Below is the finished piece and some work-in-progress stages.
Final. Light and dark tones added. The dark tones I added by painting different shades at full opacity. After doing so I realized that, even though this is something I'm doing for fun, I would have preferred to use just black on a semi-transparent layer. That's exactly what I did for the highlights (not using black, though... naturally) and I enjoyed that much more than hand-picking several different shades.
WIP #4. Base. I put down a base coat for all of the colours that I would work with. I put all of the base colours on one layer; since this was a personal project I didn't want to have to navigate through several different layers. Not if I didn't have to. The paint splotch however was its own layer. I used one of the pre-made brush designs as a starting point, but scaling it up this far made it extremely blurry, so I painted over most of it and just had fun designing an energetic splat!
WIP #3. Line Weight. After putting down all of the clean up lines, I went through and added more weight to some carefully selected areas.
WIP #2. Clean-up. After I was happy with the semi-rough I proceeded to create a clean version on a new layer. Looks like I jumped ahead and began adding some heavier lines before remembering to save a new version.
WIP #1. Semi Rough. After scanning the rough draft from my sketchbook I did a lot of plussing and re-constructing on a new layer inside Sketchbook.
Rough Draft. After a couple pages of brainstorming, this idea appealed to me with its energy and simplicity of design.
Labels:
character design,
donatello,
dynamic,
illustration,
life drawing,
line,
line of action,
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posing,
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Monday, March 04, 2013
Ink And Watercolour Tones
Experimenting at home with my Pentel brush pen and a water brush, adding dimension to some sketches that I did while riding in transit.
~Chris
~Chris
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Transit Gestures
Having fun applying some wisdom gained from attending the Gesture Drawing Workshop with Louis Gonzales. What a great time that was, and what a blast this page was to draw!
~Chris
Labels:
character,
design,
doodling,
dynamic,
exploration,
gesture,
human,
illustration,
life drawing,
line of action,
quick sketch,
shapes,
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