Sunday, January 26, 2014

Week 3 & 4 assignment - Rad's Figure Invention Class










Here's some of the drawings I did for the class I'm taking; Figure Invention for Animation. Class is great! Drawings in the style of an existing animated film and some invented characters for my assignment about the torso. Cheese! Dirk.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Week 2 assignment Figure Invention Class

For the 2nd week assignment for Radhowtoschool Figure Invention class we had to pick one of your favourite animated characters. Study it via modelsheet and film stills, draw some invented poses with that character and clean up your favourite invented pose trying to stay on model as best as possible. I had only a few hours tonight to work on this assignment. Here's what I produced...

Sketches invented poses


Clean up 



Great exercise, definitely going to try to do this one more often. Very interesting to spend some time looking and studying a character so up close. Cheese! Dirk.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Radford Sechrist Figure Invention Class Week 1


Next week the first class of Radford Sechrist's Figure Invention Class starts, and I'm looking forward to the class! This is a sketch of a female Lepidopterist I posted to be critiqued the first class. I've been practicing drawing female characters lately. Digital cleanup based on a sketch I did in my sketchbook. 

Friday, January 3, 2014

Happy New Year! and DFL January sketchbook

Here are some random pages from my Drawing from Life - January Sketchbook. In order of appearance: some random tough guys and girls, still learning to draw appealing female characters, Happy New Year, went to see Frozen and did this drawing to remember it,  me drawing me, myself and I and I'm going to try and do more short comic strip kinda drawing from life kinda things, here's one... 2014 has begun! Cheese, D.
( ...and I've started drawing with Faber Castell PITT artist pens, had a bunch of them lying around and thought I should finish them before I went out and bought some new pens...)