This year I discovered that I actually want to specialise in character design. I have had this idea before but then I thought it is too difficult. Especially during first year I was not so sure about what it is I actually want to do. I guess the breaking point was the animated documentary brief. Before hand we had the 3d character and narrative brief where we had to model a 3d character, I thought maybe it was fun but then again I still did not think I have that back for it. Then during the animated documentary brief I started sketching a lot more and the character designs turned out better and better. I never seemed to get them look exactly how I want them to but this time I just kept redrawing until it looked exactly the way it was supposed to. I will admit, a lot of ctrl+z's add up to one sketch, and redrawing the same thing a hundred time felt really unsparing. But then once I got it right it took me less an less times to get it right. I looked at other artist work, such Randy Bishop for reference, proportions and what not.
After a lot of painful drawing and deleting I finally got in the zone. Now I can't go through a day without drawing something. But the surgeon character in the FOOD documentary was the point where I really found myself.
This particular sketch took me ages to make, it might not look that way but I assure you it took a while.
But afterwards I kept doodling on my own time and it seemed to get better, sketch by sketch I started looking for style I like. So far so good.
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