Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Storyboards!

Sorry things have gotten so slow around here - it's been a busy semester! Here are some storyboards from a few weeks back. A silent conflict between two characters. Kevin and Daphne are taking a pop quiz... uh oh.

100 figures assignment

This past weekend was DB Dowd's famous 100 figures assignment. Basically we had one weekend to produce 100 figure drawings, at least 11" x 14". It was crazy! Some of my buddies and I were in the studio until 6 am, but we got the drawings done. It was a really useful assignment in learning a bit about your work and finding some surprises in it. I thought I'd post some of the ones I liked out of the 100.

NOTE: some of these but not all of them are from photo reference. There's a great website called characterdesigns.com that has a lot of models to browse through. Definitely worth it for figure practice! I also used some refs from the blog mentioned in the below post. I thought it would be useful to see what I could make up from my head versus what I drew from reference or from life.

sketchbook post

NOTE: Some of these images were drawn from reference posted on a wonderful blog: http://jblyth.com/blog.html It has interesting photos of so many different things that are fun to sketch! Check it out.

Special thanks to Brian over at the Saint Louis Drawing and Painting Blog for posting this entry! Check out the blog here.

character sketches