Clay Modeling: Week 2

This time instead of making characters, we had to make a clay bust of our model's head. It was a bit harder than the character model because I had to make it look more realistic instead of cartoony.

Early on I tried to focus on how each of his parts looked, like the ears and the nose in addition to his wrinkles and lines on his face. The hair all along the back came out really well; I just used one of my tools to make it seem like a hair-like texture, mashing it against the back of the clay head.

Besides all that though, I decided to give the head glasses since the model had them on for a spell. He took them off before I could fully check out how they looked but I think it still looks good regardless.

This coming class is all about either finishing our character model or this bust and use the scanner to make it digital into Mudbox. I think I'll stick with my character, and made the rest of his body.

Clay Modeling: Week 1

For my first time making models out of clay, I was surprised with how the head turned out! It was really different from what I'm used to with modeling, though I know never to directly wet my clay…it gets really slimy and it feels gross.

Next week should be all about the body, so I'm excited for it~

Midterm Portfolio

For my midterm, I'm picking up 12 of my favorite or most well-drawn sketches to showcase. This includes drawings from my sketchpad and my larger canvas.

This one I'm proud of because of how I got the legs to look, more canine-like and good with positioning with the back and front parts of the dog anatomy.

This one I feel has a lot of character in the expression, and the first character sketch I did.

This one started as a character sketch, but extended into some expression tests. Probably my favorite.

Another favorite, was a basic character sketch, just to try my luck from something out of my head as opposed to a reference or a model. Very happy with how it came out, and very careful as well.

Some practice with lighting and shadows when I drew this pill bottle. I tried to draw all the little shadow lines I saw but I should have used less thick pencils. I feel it went good.

This was another character model, with a good look of the eyes and mouth for expression.

In an exercise to try and help hand-eye coordination, I tried to draw things by looking at them and not my paper. After drawing about 4 or so objects, the whole page looked like it made some kind of archway!

This was my first attempt at using shadows on a model.

This was a little practice with my new sketching approach to drawing, as opposed to my last method of using thick lines for everything. I particularly like how Pikachu and Kirby came out to the bottom right.

And finally, my headshot skull work. I think it came out pretty well for a focused work such as this.

Sketching Models: Week 4

The last week of model sketching went very well, with more focus on making characters from the model's poses.

I tried to pay extra attention to perspective and the way the model was positioned, so I can make things more proportionate with things in the background and foreground.

I also realize most of my drawings are too down the middle in their poses, so I've been improving on that as well.