sketches portraying "exhaustion"

I notice that the weeks are flying by here and it's getting harder and harder to keep up with this blog. School is keeping me pretty busy.

Not that I'm very surpsrised at all my missing updates, I have seen this thing happen to other AM students before me. Their blogs seems to be best updated just before class 1 starts and a couple of weeks into the school. Every second day there is a new update. Then - suddenly - there is a HUGE gap to the next post which usually is posted somewhere in class 3, half a year later... :-)


Well, I'm going to try and NOT let it get that far. I'll try and keep up!

Here are some recent sketches from an assignment where we are meant to catch the feeling of EXHAUSTION...

And this is the final Maya pose...

 ......'til next time..... so long.

Nice to do life drawing when you have a talented model

Here are some more sketches from the life drawing class I'm taking outside the AM curriculum. I stick to charcoal pen, trying to concentrate on body shape, line of action, proportions...  But when I look around me among my classmates, who are pretty much more advanced than me and work in all kinds of different techniques and materials, I really feel like a hopless beginner.  :-)
They are sooo talented, some of them! I hope I will develop some kind of drawing skill too, eventually.

a weird thing...

I just went to the first life drawing class of my entire life yesterday. I have never been to one of those occasions before. It wasn't uncomfortable or embarrassing - it was nice. And I even ran into an old friend there.
But still it was somehow weird! Maybe you get used to it after a little while, but there is just something odd about the whole situation; 10 or 15 people flock together in a room, most seem aquainted and the the friendly small talk is on, people socialize normally, nothing strange is going on. Then suddenly one person takes off his clothes and gets up on this podium - completely naked.

I mean... that doesn't happen very often in everyday life  :-)

Sketches, sketches...

One week to go before start of class 1 in the core program of Animation mentor. Yipee! Can't wait!

Meanwhile, here are some more sketches for you...

and even more drawings...

I had a really enjoyable day today. I have been drawing all day, which is fun in itself - but it got even better because while drawing I listened to a webinar from Jason Ryan's site with storyboard artist Robb Pratt.
Very interesting interview! I recommend it. (It's long, over 2 hours, but it's reaally worth tuning into!)

Here's the link to Jason Ryan's site, thanks, Ryan for putting this one out there!
http://www.jrawebinar.com/Robb_webinars/interview/

And here are some of the drawings I did while listening:

Books: Mattesi; Force - the key to capturing life through drawing

I am reading this book now, highly recommended by many people who went through animationmentor before me. Between each chapter I sit down and draw, draw, draw. Mattesi's book is very inspiring and the illustrations in it are absolutely beautiful. But I have to admit that I have a hard time understanding the main concept of "force". Lots of arrows and arcs everywhere... 

- Oh well, maybe I'm not just smart enough. :-)

OR then I am going to have a big moment someday soon when I finally get it.

Until then I keep drawing.

Here is a new sketch... (trying to incorporate some 4-point perspective into it)

Some more exercise drawings, full body and sleep poses

Some sleep poses, drawn from photos...

 

And some full body poses drawn from head...

More life drawing exercises...

My first scene ever in Maya...!

Hey, this is fun! After a couple of weeks of Maya training we still haven't seen one moving image... And that's really a good thing. There are TONS of stuff to learn in this 3D world, all new to me; modeling, shading, textures, rendering - and a ZILLION of menus and functions and commands.

Luckily I had SOME background in photoshopping and working in 2D... But there's is really more than enough new stuff to take in...

This little scene with Harry going to the outhouse was totally, from top to bottom, made by *me*. :-)

Some more fast drawings...

A couple of drawings again...

Trying NOT to look at all those fabulous women, just lines, shapes and volumes

I am trying to train my eye looking for SHAPES and VOLUMES by making fast sketches from random photographs from photosites... these are from some nice photos I found yesterday... kinda artsy fartsy perhaps, but the poses and the compositions are very nice, they look almost like classic paintings... I tried to catch that...