Evening Sketching

I've just been itching to just sit home and sketch, so that's what I did this evening.

First a Flash based on a pose I drew yesterday:

Then a random character in a post apocalyptic world, selling chopped off arms to hungry bypassers.

Figures from imagination

There's a weekly sketchgroup with Android 18 as a theme, so I drew a couple of gestures (no reference) and fleshed them out a bit. It's a great exercise to practice your ability to draw figures from memory. I've come a long way since last year, but lots more ground to cover. The idea is to then pick one pose for a finished sketch.

So I picked a pose and drew a (very sketchy) android 18 on top..I might clean this up and put a background in...just to practice finishing up stuff.

STUDY: Persona 3 - Run Cycle Part 2

Ok, so just to clarify, I did not pick this run (or the previous) because they are amazing pieces of animation. I picked these because they work really well with very little effort put into them. Working in tv animation and eventually (hopefully) working on my own shorts, cutting corners is something I'm really into. :D

Here's the breakdown of that run animation (complete with lots of spelling mistakes..I should try and read stuff before I save a jpg).

I then did my own version (based on a character Kamendude > LINK drew for me. This literally took me 5 minutes to do.

And once again for those people interested, this is the magic sketch brush! I honestly can't stress enough how important a nice brush to sketch with is. Everybody has their own preferences, but sketching should never be a struggle (as it was in flash).

And below I also included a pretty cool running scene for that same movie (well, they call it movie, but it's clearly a tv budget production)

STUDY: Persona 3 - Run Cycle Part 1

I looked at some animation of the movie Persona 3: Spring of Birth.  This movie is an adaptation of the video game Persona 3, and apart from looking really pretty, I couldn't really recommend it ..things that work well in a videogame just make no sense in a film.

In preparation for a runcycle, I picked 2 cuts of a running scene:

(above) The close up on the foot works actually works surprisingly well considering that we're looking at 1 stride looped. The foot always lands in the same spot (I checked), this is animated on 1's.

(above) First of all I'd like to point out that I really love how this movie looks. The designs by Shigenori Soejima are just so nice and well respected in the transition to the film.  Anyway you can look at my breakdown for this run below, the animation was done on 2's. On a side note, the background pans while the character art is held for that extra frame..oddly enough it doesn't cause any strobing.

I also just sketched some characters in the film for fun:

Wonder Woman

I couldn't even name you 2 comicbooks with WonderWoman but I just love how this character looks which is why you'll see me draw her every so often. Anyway, this is a sketch from a few days ago that I decided to color.

Final Fantasy XII - Fran

The lack of drawing as of late has sparked the desire to draw more characters again..but instead of doing quick ones I want to try and do some more finished sketches..I even tried to include a background! :D

People wear clothes

All this life drawing makes you forget that people occasionally wear clothes, I drew these little sketches based on some doodles in my sketchbook from observing people on Grafton Street.