Animation Portfolio/Book 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After updating and re-updating, the time has finally come to just accept the portfolio as it is, and leave it alone. So voila the 38 page fruit of my toil! This portfolio will be sent to Georges Mélies, La Poudierre and most importantly, Gobelins. There will be a few changes regarding Gobs...but it's 2 in the morning and I'm not much for coherent thoughts right now.

I am super excited to get back to actual projects though, even though I only have one month left before

 

50th Post!

One of my favourite models in terms of body shape and attitude. Haven't drawn her in ages.

One of the older models who is super good at modeling but I happen to suck at drawing her most of the time.

Probably 2 minute poses...maybe 3?

1-2 minutes. All about the flow here.

The missing hand bugs me too I know.

5s and a 10 in the middle I think.

 

Some sexy bodies as promised! : )

The ones I really liked went to portfolio and I was a bit lazy to go

look for them again to repost here..you'll have to wait. But a few of

these will probably make it there. Like the ones below. : )

Boy You Got Swagga

 

I know I promised life drawing but....it's been incredibly gloomy and cloudy this weekend and my photo-taking skills combined with a dark apartment equal nothing pleasant. Tomorrow is meant to be sunny so I'll try to post some more. (Isn't all this activity just exciting??) 

But I'm not going to leave you empty handed now, am I? So I drew you this curious old man I saw on my bus ride a few days ago. He definitely had some swagga. Especially his Beleiber shoes. (yes I just made a reference to that boy)

Now back to work and listening to some shiny new tunes! Good week to everyone!

Récherches: Arbres/Trees

 Pastel on sketchbook....scanned these as soon as I finished them as I realized how bad of an idea it was to draw with something so messy in a sketchbook you bring everywhere...

Back in...7th grade or so, a friend went homw to Korea and brought me back a bunch of cutesy stationery. (think sharpener with cutesy bunny ears and unicorns vomiting rainbows...) Obviously you don't ever actually use souvenirs...so I took a bunch of erasers and made stencils with woodcarving tools I have. Then I used some nearly dry acrylic paint to make a few of these! The color choices are a bit boring but..

Pastel on actual pastel paper. So nice to have a medium tones bg to work with.

Watercolor on paper. Referenced a few old russian art books I had for color mixing and such. Gotta admit...russian how to books (on anything) are sooooo much better.

Chinese Ink stick ground into powder and calligraphy brush. Had no idea I owned a kit...

Bilingual tree studies! Now you know 4 useless words in french. : ) You can thank me later.

 

And my usual favorite...putting in colors that don't really belong and trying to make it work. Watercolor.

 It's ironic how now that it's actually cold and snowing and generally unpleasant, all I want to do is go outside and adventure. BUT. Of course, portfolio comes first...one more month! As much fun as it can be, and as much learning as I'm getting done, I'm really keen to get back to my own projects with actual...you know, meaning and humor in them! But still, I'm not one to get bored easily, so I decided since I was going to spend a few days drawing trees, I'm gonna spend a few days EXPERIMENTING!!  And what does that mean exactly? Elementary: gather any and all old art supplies from good old highschool days (where you blew 50 bucks on wood carving and sculpting tools you never used....that kind of crap) and see what happens. So....these are all pretty varied. I'm still trying to settle on a style for my current animation pitch..but that's next.   

Also coming this weekend: new lifedrawing! It's been a while, so don't expect too much.