Sunday Doodles #2

This wasn't done during church, but it was on Sunday.  It was my brother's birthday on Monday so I decided to draw him a robot.  I haven't seen him for a year since he's on a church mission in Brazil, but e-mail is a beautiful thing.  

I hope he enjoys it. :)

Hey guess what?

A Bamboo Capture, to be precise.  I was able to afford it because of Amazon and because of a gift card we got for our wedding (Amazon gift card = an excellent wedding present, if you're looking for ideas).  It's the first piece of new hardware that I've gotten basically since I started college four years ago, so I'm kinda stoked.  Mostly because I no longer have to stalk the "open" labs in the basement of the HFAC to get anything done...  Hopefully it will make this crazy semester that much easier.

And the black-and-silver color scheme matches my computer.  I am quite pleased.

An influence map

For my concept design class we had to create an "influence map," a compilation of artists (or musicians or movies or whatever) that have influenced us or have qualities to their work that we want to emulate.  

It was actually lots of fun to make.  "Oh, my homework is to look at cool art online for a few hours and pick out my favorite stuff, how will I manage..."

Silhouettes!

I'm already loving my character design class.  I am pretty sure that this is what I have been looking to do with my life all along, and I only just discovered precisely what it is.  Now I just have to get good enough that people will want to pay me to do it...

We're designing characters from Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three, which is great because I like those books and because few people have preconceived notions of what the characters look like.  I'm still getting practice at pushing the shapes to the limit, but so far I'm having fun with them.  Doing silhouettes is great because it's only about shape, not value or color or anything else, so you can experiment a lot without having to niggle out all the details.

Sunday Doodles #1

I doodle during church.  I never quite got over my childhood need for coloring books and crayons to keep me sitting still for three hours. Even now it helps to have something to do with my hands while I listen.  And occasionally I manage to produce a good design or two while my mind is only half-focused.

Lately I've been practicing body types for character designs.