Post a Drawing- Day 13- Biffy the Boxer... Revisited!

It just dawned on me, when looking through my old work done at university, that it has been about two years since I last studied at Teesside, particularly the work I did for my dissertation.

Biffy the Boxer

So I have decided to revisit my character, Biffy the Boxer, and see if I have ever improved my drawing skills during the past two years.

I wanted to revisit some the scenes, and poses, that I drew and animated this character in my 'recent' short film.So I wanted to address the scene in which Biffy introduced the audience to a skipping machine. I think that I could draw Biffy and the machine in the same scene- so this is my attempt of that.

I also wanted to address a few aspects in the design of Biffy.  Firstly, I gave him pupils, to get some more expression coming out his eyes. I also wanted make the teeth more distinctive- although that goofy set of teeth reminds me a bit of Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. I also wanted to make the boxing gloves have some kind of shape, rather then using them as animated mittens. That's why, even thou Biffy is presenting the audience to the machine, the right glove is still in a closed position, as boxing tend to back a bit like that in real life. Another bit of 'realism' I wanted to add to his clothing was a waist strap with cord. As I wasn't going to animated this, I could get away with adding some detail, which can be an utter pain to animate- all that secondary motion on that cord would drive me nuts!

Post a Drawing Every Day- Day 11-Story Sketches for Robin Hood Tax short

Story Sketches

Today's drawing comes in the form of some quick story sketches for my film for the Robin Hood Tax competition. I wanted to address some excerpts from the final piece of dialogue recorded, which summed up my views about this scheme.
So I really wanted to work out how to compose the shot of a distressed child in the developing world, as it might be the most dramatic shot in the film, as I want the audience to be convinced that the Tax scheme is beneficial to others that need the money to live a better life, over then the money being still in the hands of the bankers.
I will probably go off and do some research to work on many factors, like an appropriate location for the child character, or how to depict the bankers as evil, for example.