SEQUENCE STUDY-ish

 So somebody pointed me to this show on Netflix called Dorohedoro, and it is pretty freaking awesome. Cool looking characters, amazing backgrounds and lots of blood :D

Some reason I decided to do a quick thumbnail study of a sequence. Mainly it was about how satisfying a punch was because of 1 shot (Panel 13)

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Storyboarding is a lot like animating, It's the old principle of Anticipation and follow through. That close up really soaking in that punch connecting with the face, and then BAM .. release and follow through in the next shot. Interestingly, in shot 14 the body is already far away form the fist, so technically it doesn't hook, but it feels awesome. I think missing information is so important for things to feel good. 

also note that the camera follows the movement for emphasis, until he hits the wall.

Mannikin Time

 Still trying to do this daily. I should put some new information into my brain soon, but for now enjoying trying this exercise:

Mannikin no reference:

followed by 30 second poses: 

CHAR DESIGN

Little ghost girl able to transform as she gets angry. 

some initial ideas below, but not going down this path

TURNING POINT - Design Sheet

 So I found a great title for my vampire story: TURNING POINT. 
Anyway I did a design sheet based on a character sheet from a show, for practice :

and still practicing drawing this mannikin: 

And here are 30 second studies using it:

Head practice

Based on a turnaround sheet, I tried doing a turn around for my own character: 

a few corrections:

1 minute gestures from ref:

And some studies from Akira and another manga: 

Heads

 practice drawing heads

turned into full body:

and some studies of JoJo's

Doodles

It's Pony sketches

 

Figure Studies

 Some (bad) copies from Loomis:

Some figures with no ref

And some sketches from Miyazaki's Lupin

Heads

Very anime looking, but fun practice!

More heads

 Did a profile view:

And this off-model one

Mannikin + Akira Heads

Sticking with these mannikin warm ups still, and doing some more head stuies using the simple frame. My new motto is SIMPLE and BASIC. 

 

More Doodles

 

Doodles

some doodles trying to work out some character / story ideas:

Another head

Same technique, this time doing a Foxy Brown type character.

 

Character Head Turnaround

 So after doing those anime studies, I decided I'd try and apply the same method to a recent character I drew. And I think it works quite nice to keep a sort of consistent and simple head design.