Nullibicity - visual research

We've decided to make the animation in  kind of futuristic cyberpunk style which I think is very aesthetically appealing. It also makes the script work much better in animation rather than live action.

here are some pictures we could take inspiration from...

 

                           

Week 5 - Patterns

This week we made patterns from our drawings. The process wasn't too difficult and the results are nice. 

Th first pattern is probably my favorite one. I was a bit worried that it would look like square tiles, but because of how I've placed the snakes and jellyfish, it looks fine.

This one looks a bit boring in my opinion. Maybe I could've tried colouring it to make it better. 

I've tried several versions, but I should've played with placement more.

 This was a line drawing too, but I coloured it in photoshop. Maybe it would look better with a background or some other objects inbetween.

Here I've added background. I guess it would look better with one more fish in the middle

 This is the last pattern I did. 

 And here is my patterned snake.

Week 6(2) - Drawing movement

First we did some quick warm up sketches. I think I'm actually getting a bit better at these.

I did't know if I'd be able to catch the poses while the model is moving, but I've managed. I felt like I was overworking the drawings so I did two very quick sketches of some transition poses.

 

I couldn't see the whole line of movement because of how my easel was turned, but I drew what I could see. I found this very difficult because the poses were changing all the time and I had to work very fast, but I think I've managed to get a good result, at least for a first attempt. I've noticed that I tend to keep working on a drawing even when it sufficiently shows the pose and that can make it look static.

This was, in my opinion, my most successful movement drawing. It captures the important poses and there aren't too many unnecessary lines so it looks dynamic.

For the extended poses I've decided to focus on some details first. Because we were doing quick drawings before I was still trying to work as fast as possible and I had to go get another paper. I did some continuous line drawings and a silhouette.

                                   

For the next extended drawing I slowed down a bit. I tried to only use blocks of colour and as few lines as possible. I'm not very satisfied with this drawing, the foreshadowing seems off, some parts are shaded completely differently than others and as a whole it just doesn't look like a good drawing to me. At the end I did a detail of her hand.

Week 5(2) Independent study

This week our homework was to use the techniques we used in class. 

For the continuous line I drew my room. I slightly squished some things to get as wide an angle as possible. It doesn't look very three dimensional because I kind of forgot to draw the corner as a corner, but there are some parts that I like.

The other picture I drew from a photograph of me sitting on a rock. I thought the group of rocks would work well for this as they clearly indicate foreground, background and middle, but the figure is a bit lost in it all. I probably should've distinguished it more from its surroundings. I like how the charcoal creates a sort of natural rock texture, though.