Kariya Park Sketch Session!

Had a great day today with my second year mentors Kimberly Luu and Al Jerek.
It was crazy cold but we did some plant studies before we headed home, I think I focused too much on textures though.

Fun day!

Info Meet Yesterday

Yesterday was SO much fun, but crazy tiring. Met some of my new classmates, and everyone was really cool-- which was great. The whole atmosphere of the school is generally welcoming and friendly, and everyone was pretty much like that yesterday.

 

Re-met Ventastic, whom I met at the first animation open house for applicants, god his sketches were intensely awesome. We seriously need to hang out some time!

  

Met a lot of new cool people, and I'm glad I've heard back from most of you already! 

Hopefully we can all go sketch together some time, but I know some of you guys live pretty far out-- Hopefully we can figure something out anyways :)

  

Theses are some sketches from yesterday's trip, and a few doodles here and there:

(The picture of the people were done from a staircase in the bar we ended up collecting in to wait for parents after the tour... Perspective is off because I drew them separately and realized too late...)  

Getting scared that all of my sketches are looking pretty much the same, so I'm gonna do more structural studies and probably some layout and environment studies. I think I'm getting better control of the markers, though.

  

Thanks and happy days!

Alison

Finally got my acceptance package!

YES. I finally have my rite of passage in my hands.

Got duplicate acceptance packages because I had to sort out the mailing address? Everything else seemed to come within 2-3 days. But I'm happy I have it now.

Kept drawing after the last post, almost continuously whenever it was possible, here's some of the better stuff:

Memory practice for anatomy + Top and Bottom angles practice. No reference. I like how it turned out! But I need to work on my shading. Guy sitting at the bottom isn't very accurate. :(

  

  

Creature Doodle, Pseudo-Kraken. I actually only drew this guy to have an adult form of some little ammonite-esque baby creatures I was drawing through a fossil-presentation. I love doodling animals.

 

  

 Some mall sketches from yesterday. I need to get faster, and to get shapes down more quickly. Once I get good at this, I'll try getting the personality and main shapes rather than a kind of quick likeness. 

  

  

Some doodles on the ride home. The man wearing the pagri that was sitting in front of me had AMAZING facial structure, and tied his head dress so well. Wicked beard too.

   

Thanks and happy days!

      

Learning the Materials

Hey,

  

I haven't forgotten about this blog. I just recently got some toned paper, copics and the like. I'm currently trying to learn how to use the materials effectively while I'm working on my structural studies and loosening up to work on personal art again (since the portfolio stuff required ALL of my time). No a lot of cool stuff to show yet, but once I get the hand of the materials I'm going to post a sketch composite (or something just as valid?) to show what I've learned with it.

   

Lots of bus drawing. Trying to break way from angles and facial types/ structures I'm used to already and to really get a firmer grasp on the whole form rather than details.

   

Edit: After posting this post I did two new sketches I kind of liked.

Here are some of the things I've been drawing (except for the hand, everything was straight from my head... and it shows.):

  

First attempt at using the markers: 

 Kind of hard to control, but fun.

  

First Sketch on Tonal Sketchbook:

 Poor anatomy and lighting, but all the same, I loved drawing it. I learned the marker outline from one of my mentors, it really seems to make the image pop.



   

The first sketch I did after this post:

The shadows are TERRIBLE. They completely ruin the highlights I actually liked and are... misdirected. Gotta be more careful and mindful of the planes. Also very blank on the sleeve. Bright screens seem to wipe out the highlights. And, you can't see that close, but the girl's right eye is open.

 

      

  

My most recent sketch:

Anatomy and proportions are nonexistent. I really need to stress my structural studies. 

  

  

  I have a lot of complaints, but overall I'm happy I'm progressing. C: Gotta sketch more.

   

Thanks, and Happy days.

Awesome, awesome day.

Today I had a GREAT day, I got to hang out with my amazing 2nd year mentors, Kimberly Luu and Al Jerek Torrijas. There guys are my HEROES, and they work so crazy hard (and therefore have intensely high calibre work). I also got introduced to other cool second years, namely Steve (also a cool guy), Chris and James.

They taught me a lot and I am so stoked to be friends with them and get to learn from them. Rest time is over, it's time to boot camp it to prepare for first semester. 

I also wandered around Sheridan for a few hours yesterday, got a tour from one of my buddies Matt. I got to see interesting parts of the school I would've never otherwise gotten to see-- also introduced to two other cool guys C: . It's been an amazing week.

Still waiting for the acceptance package and related info, but that's ok.

Happy days!

Alison

Rough Work (Layout and Personals)

  

Just a few rough pieces for the object and room drawings. To get perspective right, I extended the paper by taping a few extra sheets on, and drawing the perspective points (thanks Adi!) . Drawing the perspective lines can be crazy, and redoing the objects repeatedly can drive anyone insane, so make sure to plan composition carefully so that you don't have to re-draw it too many times.

 

These two might have been included in the personal art, but were just a little too anime-y, and didn't add much strength to the portfolio. Andrew (from Blue Tadpole Studios) wisely told me to exclude them.

Rough Work (Story Boarding)

Figuring out Alex's Anatomy was fun, and great for understanding constructions. I did a lot of practice to try and get his proportion right, but to be brief I will just post the roughs for the storyboard:

The scenes below had to be adjusted for perspective and angle issues.

This one has the adjusted scenes 2&3, but ends up getting tweaked during clean up to make it simpler and easier to read.