Week 1(2)

This week we started working with Toonboom. First we made an animation of a bouncing ball and then with imported images of a walking cycle and some other object we were supposed to make it seem like the girl walked past the object. 

The program doesn't seem too complicated, so working with it shouldn't be much of a problem.

It's not a very good animation and I didn't put too much effort into timing, but it was more about trying out Toonboom.
Bouncy ball

And here is the girl walking past a bush:
Girl

Week 3(2) - Anatomy, skelletons

In this lesson, besides the model, we also had a skeleton. I think it was a lot more difficult to draw the skeleton because a whole person can be seen as one shape, as a single object, but a skeleton has a lot more shapes and details. So even when I was trying to just draw the most important parts, there were still too many elements. The drawings could've definitely been worse, but I consider them to be some of my weaker work. 

The firs thing we did was drawing with a candle. I didn't like this very much because I couldn't see what I'm doing and I didn't have much control over the drawing. Obviously, I wasn't expecting the results to be masterpieces, but I was hoping for them to at least look vaguely humanoid.

This one was very hard to draw because of the overlapping of the model and the skeleton. I've spent most of the time on the skeleton and only at the end remembered the model is there too.

I didn't plan this one properly and the feet got cut off. It doesn't look like that much of a problem, but it wasn't intentional so it bothers me that it happened. 

 

This was the last drawing and I think also the best one. I thought it was a very dramatic pose and would look good with highly contrasting shading that would make it look more dramatic and I feel like I have achieved that. 

Week 2(2) Independent study - Portraits

Homework for this week were 4 portraits. A person from a newspaper, a friend, a favourite musician and a 1850-1980 photograph. I wanted to try crosshatching as a shading method for all of these because it seems like a fast and effective way of shading and I haven't done much of it in the past so I wanted to practice.

Person from newspaper, 10min

I liked the lighting in this picture, it was quite dramatic. It proved to be more difficult than I'd expected so I didn't have time to do the background and the whole face looks a bit off. I like how the light on the nose and lips turned out, though.

Friend (Dominika) 20 min

Musician (Marko Saaresto from Poets of The Fall) 30min

There was a blue light in the picture so I thought I'd just go with that. I don't like how the crosshatching looks on bigger areas here, but I think I've managed to capture the light in the picture well so there's at least that. 

Historical photo (Carrie Fisher) 45min

I couldn't really think of a historical figure I'd want to draw, but then I realised the person didn't have to die before 1980, the picture just had to be from before that.

This was a bit more challenging because facial expressions are very difficult for me, especially when the person is smiling.