Baked not fried WIP 1

I'm trying to put together some fun designs to submit to Threadless... these are still very much WIPs but this is some posing I've drawn for one of my ideas. 10 points if you get what this is a pun about.

Figure drawing dump #05

Most of August I didn't end up drawing much, because I was busy animating my entry for the 11 Second Club competition. So when I finally got back to it after a few weeks of no drawing, I was glad to find I wasn't too rusty. Here's just a page to track my progress.

Chel

Next from Road to El Dorado was Chel; again from model sheets. It was particularly interesting drawing her because her proportions were much more voluptuous than the Disney female characters I've given a go drawing.

Miguel

Watched Road to El Dorado and wanted to draw some of those characters. Started with Miguel, using some model sheets I found.

Flynn Rider

Found some awesome model sheets of Flynn Rider from Tangled, which was a perfect illustration of the anatomy of a stylized character. Probably the best animation reference I've found; wish I could get my hands on this kind of reference for a whole lot more characters! I'll keep searching.

Tarantella

I've been working on a dance for a little while, set to tarantella music, about encroaching fear & suffocation. Was struggling a bit to wrap my head around it so I thought I'd draw some poses that I thought represented it well...

Mickey Mouse

Found some great model sheets of Mickey Mouse and couldn't resist.

Like the drawings from Gravity Falls it took a few tries to get into the right style and proportions but I think towards the end I was getting pretty decent. I'm particularly happy with the pose on the very right, second from the bottom.

Figure drawing dump #03

Some more figure drawings. I've been doing a lot but they get quite repetitive so I thought I'd pick out a single page of ones I was happy with to show progress. These are 60 second sketches. I'm slowly feeling more confident in speed drawing, and am finding over time I'm progressively adding more details (ie. I've noticed it really helps drawing a couple of lines to define the ribcage more obviously for certain poses).

Peter and the Wolf

Tried drawing some poses from "Peter and the Wolf", using choreography from the ballet I've done of the story for years. I'm hoping to try doing the same thing but with the figures less human-like. Baby steps.

Figure drawing dump #02

 Some more figure drawing...

Original sketch dump #03

 A bit of pose drawing and some expressions a bit later. Took some inspiration from the TV show I was half watching simultaneously, to practice capturing the essence of a pose quickly.

Figure drawing dump #01

 Found another great life drawing resource online, with photos of actual models rather than the 3D muscle models used at posemaniacs. It has timed drawings as well as "classes" that begin with quick gesture drawings and gradually building into longer poses. Pretty much the next best thing to an actual life drawing class.

I was happy that this had real people since I can focus more on general shapes of skin and flesh, with decent lighting.

Here's some of the sketches I've done using that tool; they vary in length of time drawing. Still got a long way to go, but it's a start.

Original sketch dump #01

Finally some original drawings without any ref pictures. I've only included the ones I didn't think were atrocious, and there are a couple in here I'm really happy with.


I started experimenting a bit with eye shapes, but eventually started doing whole faces and poses as well. This session highlighted how far I still am from where I want to be, since these expressions still weren't coming to me all that naturally. Need to keep practicing and get out and find more inspiration especially!! I definitely to broaden my range of what I draw too.


One step at a time!