Quick sketch 

Butterfly... with feeling

Live brief - James Henry - Sketches

Random biro Sketches

Practice

More Christmas Stuff - Pets are family too

christmas stuff

Been working on portraits from the last holiday... i think its off to a decent start :)

NO MORE HEROS

PKMN

So after 9 hours in the studio without moving except to the loos, Jack, Ben and I decided to take a break from deadline work and just muck about for an hour away from essays and animations in styles we dislike or project reports and that ear bleeding 11 second club track. 

Where we got the idea from:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/incredible-pokemon-mash-ups?utm_term=.kv0868KZk8#.miQnxnabKn\

What we used as reference:

http://pokemon.alexonsager.net

Musical inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XvsTYq9INU

and incase you want to see how much of a plan nerd you are:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/secondplaceeagle/allpokemon 

time spent: 1.5 hours cumulatively 

Deflated - Pet shop owner - Character design

So recently i went to my first Deflated meeting. Id already been set the task of finishing a turn around sheet for the maid character, but in the end they changed the design and started over -.- what a waste.... oh well...

so they set me this on Wednesday and its now... Friday. so this is what i achieved on day on... just a couple of simple sketches and ideas on paper as i didnt have a wire to use a wacom tablet -.-

so you see my first design was an old asian lady with an apron in a hopefully recoginsable chinese - white outfit...  (based on how my grandma used to dress when she came to england, minus the fleece jacket)

the other image has some simpler variations, no colour.... 

please excuse the random half compliments written at the bottom of my page, if you follow my blog you'll see them jotted around as a little gift from my boyf -.- cute and sad at the same time i know...

so i scanned the drawings in and traced the outlines a little, cleaned up the drawings, coloured it all in ... and this photoshop file appeared:

I've yet to have any feed back on it but i think theyre adorable as hell and they match the style i believe they have :) hopefully these will get used... or atleast one of them...
i used different colours in each outfit in the hopes theyll like bits and pieces, mix and match them to make a character if they dont like any one individual drawing :)

Pick n Mix Project (Instalment no. 6 - we bear bears)

SO

i started with character designs after the animatic went horrifically wrong... but before the final animatic... if you can be bothered to watch them.. youll see his character changes half way through one of them and stays that way from then on... So basically... i went for three designs after trolling through google images for what felt like an hour, looking for some inspiration. 

bear no.1 was a design from the teddybears made during the art nouveau period (kind of fluffy, moving joints, human like stature, beer belly, glass eyes)

bear no.2  bear no. 2 is kind of a take of from Disney's Brave, but smother with fur, short arms and big claws, which i though could be funny, animating him scraping claw marks into the panel desk or cutting through the back drop...

and  bear no.3  was a mix between the two but with pointier ears, shorter less promenant muzzle, shorter arms, mid chubbiness, and shorter rounder claws

i think no. 3 won... and i continued to use him for the animatic. he seems smoothest, curlier, and i thought could draw him in photoshop in like 20% opacity and under animation have a texture background so when he moved the pattern changed, if you get that idea.. Ill probably do a text animation if i get a chance from the other impending projects.

Summer 2016

So the start of summer is officiated by my leavers photo, my true goodbye to Penryn Campus for the summer, and Cottages for good.

I absolutely loved my room last year, the memories, the antics, the neighbours, the friends... the speakers. I know my room next year won't be anywhere near as nice, I know I probably won't have a window to sit out, stables opposite, my best friends just a courtyard tiptoe away in my slippers or socks. but next year ill make nee friends, and keep the old too. not going to miss the ants in the kitchen and the birds flying in and out of the house, probably won't miss the cats 'presents' of dead mice, but couscous the cat.... i will miss your tail flicking my face till i sneeze, kind of.






while you may think theres only architecture in london to draw, well.. you're right, apart from the few parks, the scenery isn't much to look at if I'm honest. it doesn't really inspire the animator in me. so, i spent a substantial amount of time on the trains. i started drawing pokemon over the summer, inspired by the release of Pokemon Go, everyone was playing it. Any time a person mentioned a pokemon in conversation (eves dropping is wrong i know, whatever) id start drawing that pokemon, and sometimes a person would remind me of a pokemon by their scarf or outfit, weird shoes or strange hairdo. these were my two favourite of the summer, till the pokemon hype slowed somewhat.







this is the first drawing in my new home. it is, september now, and classes start in a couple of days. charcoal on my massive pink rubber, a pencil that understands me, a drawing that expresses my love of disney, mac beneath, and a cup of tea on the side.

now, its nothing like my darkrai drawing in pen, but it somewhat shares features to my other pen drawing of a Cubone above. Im looking forward to the next semester, but yet still in fear of what it will bring. Maybe the briefs make the course look scarier than they really are... we can only hope..

in the mean time...

i guess enjoy my freedom for now, and just forget about it :)

Photoshop Trees

So, since the deadlines a couple of weeks ago.. i haven't really done much. Ive been lacking motivation, without a task and a deadline I don't know where to begin let alone if i find a start point i never finish anything. So, today I've decided that i have to start and finish something.

Trees were always my go to object to draw when bored on the bus or stuck in lectures on thermodynamics (chemistry classes) 

I tried to create something less 'fine art' and more 'animation cartoon cute' kind of thing... played with some designs and for once they're not all green! and that in itself is an achievement for me. 

Self Portrat Project - the Experimental Project.

This piece is a quick drawing then coloured with berol felt tips. the overall piece is sketchy, taking only 20 minutes, but as i had to speed it up to 20 seconds, i kept the drawing pretty quick.
it was originally a photo taken 3 years ago when i finished my A2 exams, when we first got the pup, Jasper, in our back garden.

i like this piece, but I'm going to keep trying with more drawings, hoping that i improve, and next time, i don't move the camera and get my hair infront of the lens. Practice makes perfect :)

Sadbuthappy

A double take image to really make you think