Trees again

I heart fall.

Heroes and Villains

Assignment: create four heroes, four villains, male and female, stereotypical and non-stereotypical. Some of these I like. Some not so much. The spoils of procrastination. I did attempt to do some different styles though. That was fun.

Heroes:







Villains:

(Umm... I down the "stereotypical" villains. I just really don't like them. sorry.)




But all that really matters is now I can get some dang sleep.

Reflection

As part of my figure drawing midterm I had to do a self-portrait:



And then in character design we had to design ourself as five different personalities... We were told to focus on getting the personality across more than the likeness. Which is excuse as to why they don't really look like me. The personalities were: Silent Leader, Fancy Free, Quiet Killer, Easily Irritated, and Vain.



So. Lots of mirror time.

On another note... My favorite TV shows these days are So You Think You Can Dance and Project Runway. An interesting side effect of watching too much reality TV... I almost expect to walk into a class one day and have my professors stand us up in a straight line, tell someone to step forward, and then with a parting zinger, kick them out out of the classroom...

Which... kind of makes me work harder.

Terminé

We finished the silhouette project! Here are the finalists:

Space Robot



Construction Girl



Witch



Butler



I really enjoyed this project... It made me think a lot more than I normally would have. And I never attempt mechanics or guns or skulls... so it was good for me.

At the Lake

We've spent the past month out at Utah Lake for one of my classes. Then we had to take that plein-air study and turn it into an illustration.

Maid and Hillbilly

These are from my first week in character design. The assignment was a french maid and a hillbilly with a gun.

Silhouettes

For our current project in character design we are following the "Skillful Huntsman" process of design... which means... silhouettes. This is the first stage of an assignment that will last a couple of weeks. We had to come up with 8 silhouette designs for each of the four characters. Today in the critique, the Ryan chose the one that's going to be developed over the next two weeks.

These are some that I liked but weren't chosen. It was a cool assignment. Very stress free. I have like 20 pages of these guys littering my bedroom... but it was fun.

Spaceman



Female Construction Worker



Butler



Witch



It's late. I'm still up because I just watched Coraline , and while a super cool movie... umm.. I was rather afraid for that little girl. CREEPY villain. I liked the movie. I just don't want to dream about button eyes.