Inktober- Day 7- Twilry Woo Pose

Because of family events happening over this weekend, I haven't had much time to do my professional. So yesterday (at the time of writing this blog entry), I have been interested in trying to do some piece involving one of my niece's favourite TV programmes, The Twirly Woos, with its striking stop-motion silhouette for these titular creatures. I should stress I did this from memory without any references, which explains why the hair and feet may not be as accurate as I would like for a piece done with some good research, but I'm pleased with the result of the pose, based on their pose that they do when in movement and are fixated or surprised at an object. 

An Old Sketch Book... with Some New Drawn In Too!

I found this old sketch pad, the other day, and I decided to have a look in. Amongst all the notes- which date to probably my GCSE days from the French revision- there were a lot of doodles.

I do like, amongst all those cartoon heads, I was attempting to draw actual characters, like R2D2, or a villian from the PS1 game Rayman- I guess I was born to do some fan art, now and again.
So noticed that there were some pages left in the old book left. So, I did what came naturally to me.... use it up, of course!

So the top picture was really just me sploshing some paint about, as I was working on a watercolour illustration, which was based on the above 3 sketches of my face- I might get around to uploading that piece soon.

I even did some studies from the Loomis book, but I might make a proper, where this drawing came from, when I get around to doing some further scanning.

Post a Drawing- Day 18- Chewits Fan Art

Been inspired from a recent social network that went on about a particular Chewits advert. So how could I not resist doing a piece featuring the popular sweet mascot?

Original drawing

So I did this drawing...

Quick Ink Study

... even did a quick sketch from a screen shot of that advert to get an idea of how I want my version to look.

Background

I went for an abstract quality to the road, buildings, and sky for my piece, which I 'drew' around my original drawing. I added a blur to the building to achieve a sense of speed for the final piece.

Final Version

I went for the block colouring method for my inked drawing. And there you go... another coloured drawing done for today! It was fun, as I wasn't sure how things would turn out with the original pose. But I toyed around with different colour schemes, from several images of the mascot over the years, which explain the 'off-model' approach to the colour and appearance of the character. Might experiment with the motion blur feature in my paint package for other dynamic effects to my work.

It was also interesting checking out all the adverts, seeing how they have used different concepts, and approaches for not just their adverts, but also in how to animate the mascot, from puppetry to stop-motion to 2D animation. It also interesting how the character design have changed over the years- I have doubt over the appeal of the latest incarnation, but that's me.

Post a Drawing Every Day- Day 7- Textured Background for Roy Scheider Piece

Textured Background

I had time today to to do this work-in-progress of the background for this piece. I'm glad at how the water texture turned out for the water tank area. I'm not sure whether the dome top needed that glass texture, which highlights the abstract background for that area. The next appropriate action might be to actually drawing the 'dolphin' creature in the tank, rather then going for the 'cheap' approach of showing what's out of the water.

Post a Drawing Every Day- Day 5- Chuckles the Clown Fan Art

Finalised Pencil and Ink Piece

Having just watched Toy Story 3 (eventually), I wanted to do some pieces involving one of the new characters. In this case, Chuckles the Clown.
I just want to toy around with the scene in which you first meet this character, but add some emotional spin to it. This explains why I drew him on the closed window sill, looking out into the rain- that's what those blobs on the window are meant to be.
This is probably the most finalised piece, despite using a nearly empty ink pen to do the outline of the character and the main scenery elements.

Pencil and Ink Concept

I had to tweak the original scanning of this pencil drawing to pick some of the inked shading done on this early concept.

Digitally manipulated concept

Whilst trying to tweak an early concept, I discovered this appropriate manipulation of the drawing, which I thinks gives a bleak and film-noir-esque undertone to the piece.

Post a Drawing Every Day- Day 4- Block Coloured Illustration for Roy Scheider Fan Art

Block Coloured Illustration

This is a block colour illustration, based on yesterday's pencil drawings.. I'm not sure whether to keep it like this, or add textures and lighting to the piece. But I'm glad how it is currently turning out for now.
The digital inking was done in a vector package, whilst the colouring, and resizing of components, were done in a bitmap package.

Post a Drawing Every Day- Day 3- Concept Sketches for Roy Scheider Fan Art

Inspired by discovering an obituary I wrote for the paper, the PTO, over 2 years ago , I wanted to try a piece that involved characters all portrayed by one actor.

Early Concept Sketch- Pencil and Ink

So here is a rough pencil sketch featuring a character played by Roy Scheider. I had to tweak this drawing in Photoshop to pick up the actual pencil marks for this starter sketch.

Pencil sketch

So here is a pencil sketch featuring characters played by Roy Scheider (From left to right: Seaquest DSV; Jaws; and The French Connection)
This is probably my favourite piece, mainly for the expression on The French Connection character's face.

Pencil Sketch

 So here is another pencil sketch, this time featuring a character played by Roy Scheider- his character from Seaquest DSV. I wasn't sure whether his character had a beard or not- it was awkward to work out when Googling for images for his character. But at least the pose is how I wanted that character to react in the future finalised piece.

Pencil sketch

So this is the final pencil sketch featuring characters played by Roy Scheider (From left to right: Seaquest DSV; Jaws; and The French Connection)
This was drawn onto an A4 landscape, but I wasn't happy with the outcome of how the two characters appear on the left . I had to tweak this drawing, as well, in Photoshop to pick up the actual pencil marks, just to pick on the detail of those two characters.
I might revisit this concept, using digital techniques to make the final piece.