Well this blog is meant to be a place where i can show my ideas and how they develop etc (and also write a few random mumblings along the way - try and make this a bit interesting for whichever tutor chooses to read this), but just now i thought i might as well share another kind of development!
Earlier today, once i realised drawing curves of the human body with a mouse is extremely difficult for a beginner such as myself, i borrowed a bamboo pen tablet off my flatmate Sean. I thought hey it should be just like drawing in real life! I found to my surprise it really isnt, and im currently in the process of shaking off the awkwardness of drawing without looking at my hand. Came up with some "interesting" first attempts before i realised i should really start from the basics of drawing and work my way up till i felt confident enough to attempt a proper character sketch (so i made a coffee: Its going to be another long night/day/night again)
As you might see i ended up having quite a bit of fun drawing basic shapes, and elaborated with a bit of randomness. Did a few more of these and thought yeah i might as well try a character sketch
Not too displeased by the result of my first pen tablet character!(sorry inga for drawing a cliche pirate if you see this!) Although he is far too cartoony for what i want to achieve once i master the art of the bamboo, so im going to keep working at it till i feel i can start my proper character sketch (The real ones not a pirate dont worry). Hopefully ill have something to show for it before i go to the Audio lecture tomorrow.
2:00am: figured instead of spamming everyone with new blog posts every few hours ill just update this one (what can i say im really into this blog now, it doesnt even seem like a bit of coursework anymore)
Been working away at my figures, and i thought it about time to try my character out, its a very rough sketch, and most of the pose i still find horrible as, but it gets the general idea across as to what my image will look like, and im hoping that as i progress through the layers (lesson learnt from previous post!) that the pose will sort itself out a bit better. I think by day-break ill have come a long way from my simple shapes and silly pirates (although my pirate has given me possible future inspiration for some non-uni work, ill see how things go)
Say Hello to Cadvan
7:43am: iv re-worked the pose quite a bit and i think its nearly right, noticed the shoulders were a bit too wide in proportion to everything else, but that can be easily fixed. The blue outline is temporary while i work on the image (its basically just a refined version of the sketch). Sorted out most of the colours and through experimentation got quite a cool effect on the cloak using the dodge and burn tools,
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