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Maquette!

Here are some photos of my very first maquette! It was a lot of fun to do.. probably the most fun I've had all semester. Super Sculpey is nice to work with, though it does get really soft after a while if your hands are kinda hot, so doing thin areas like the eyes were pretty challenging.

I know in the last post I said that I needed to go to workshops.. but it's been hard for me to find time or energy for them with all the homework I've been given every week. Hopefully I can go to some during summer. In the meantime, here are some quick 2 minute drawings that I did in class. They're all the same model, but the goal was to characterize and exaggerate proportions and stuff. The model we had that day was really great - he really got into character and did some nice dynamic poses that were a lot of fun to draw. I've never seen him model in any of my other classes before, but hopefully he'll be back some time.

Where are all the bodies?

I realized that most of the work posted on my blog are heads - not too many full figure drawings. This led me to go through my stack of in-class drawings, only to find a few that I felt were somewhat decent. It made me see that I really need to start hitting those workshops...

Anyway, here are some more drawings from Heads & Hands 2. Some are attempts at characterizing the models which was a nice change. We also started using pastels in class, which was a whole new experience for me. Unfortunately, I didn't have the soft pastels that we were supposed to have, so I was limited to a few colors of nupastel, which I have used before, but not to "paint" with. I also started learning Corel Painter in my Illustrative Digital Imaging class - extremely frustrating at first, but watching a couple tutorials helped.


First attempt at painting with pastel. Struggled.

Here's my second attempt. There was much less resistance with this one.
First painting in Painter. I tried to apply what I learned in Heads and Hands 2 in this one. Sorry for the weird grumpy face.

Here are those few in-class drawings of full figures I mentioned earlier... Yeah. Need to go to workshop...

Whoa.. an update

A self-aging assignment (scary), head studies, some hands, digital painting practice with screencaps, random skull thing to try out a custom brush, and some photo manipulations. I don't think I would normally post up photo manipulations, but they were assignments and I kinda like how they came out, so I thought I'd share them. Sorry for the bad scans. =/