Character Development WIP

Here are some warm up sketches of Mickey Mouse. I was trying some things out with the brush settings but it started to bring me to the point of overworking my line work. I need to keep that in mind. Also the proportions, I notice a couple of my Mickey's are a bit stretched.

I felt a little more comfortable drawing Donald but it was pointed out the heads are slightly too big. The proportions, they got me again! Either way it was a fun exercise and I might try to do it more often. Perhaps next time I'll work with pencil directly on paper. On my personal computer it's kind of uncomfortable, with the screen space, to try to have photoshop and youtube open to draw.

Beginning to develop my own character, decided his name is Bancroft. He's a house spirit (fairy or brownie). I need to delve more into his attitude and personal preference. I think I was getting more into it toward the end. Also I don't normally start a sketch in photoshop, I was trying to become more comfortable with it but for now I think I'll keep my brainstorming to paper.

Well We Didn't Die...

I would edit these but that's not really the point of quick observational sketches. I'll just focus on drawing more and try to add value to studies as I get faster. Maybe expand on the medium.

What I'm doing at 4am

So this is my Philosophy final, a little dizzying isn't it? Goes along with the concept of art and machines. We have the ability to make endless copies of anything so what was the original and what is the copy? If we take a door...and paint a picture of a door and take a picture of the painting...what is the true door and how do they exist?

More observational Drawings

These are sketches from Saturday, I ended up buying a new sketchbook because the other drawings were done on loose paper and it's going to be hard to track all of them.

(I had sketches from Friday and they're in my room....

somewhere...)

I like drawing these in ink because it forces me to think more about where I make my marks. I still go through the process of constructing the figure but I can't go back and erase them. Walter King said the reason he would have us draw in pen was because if we erased our mistake we would make the same mistake again.

I decided to do a foot study, maybe I'll do one with hands, eyes, lips and other features.

Blog-tastic

So Sunday at work was pretty slow so I ended up drawing on the back of my recipe cards...

I've been thinking about my schedule and when I have free time isn't when people chill at cafes and stuff so I might use pixel lovely and other photos as reference to supplement practice but in conjunction with life observations. Still focusing on human figures.

Portfolio Stuff:
So taking into consideration what we covered on Tuesday I'm going to attempt to alter my blogspot to accommodate the portfolio functions...It's going to take some figuring out but I would like to try. If it's too difficult I'll just make a wordpress.

Creative Habit

I want to do more observational drawings to practice proportions and perspective. I suppose it would be similar to café sketch or commercial figure drawing. My focus will be people, their clothing, facial structure, emotion and actions.

To do this I plan on visiting various establishments (North Market, Convention Center, Crane, and cafeteria) for an hour or two and sketching.

I’m considering how media will play in to this (i.e. microns, pencils, markers, watercolor) I’m not sure if I should limit myself or use these interchangeably. Perhaps just focus on the ones I’m least comfortable with to build up my strength in using the material.

I really want to practice digital so maybe once a week I’ll compile a few drawings and do a digital value/color study knowing that color is another area I would like to improve.

Big Heads

Big enough? Bigger??