People and Character Studies in November

[Heather Boyd]

@burvantill I will post a series probably at the end of each week to show progress and/ or a mid Tuesday week short.

[LauraA]

@Aleksey I'm interested in hearing how this goes, because I really like Weston's work. (I've also tried to mimic his lovely chalk strokes digitally, to no avail ) Could you please let us know how it goes?

Wouter Tulp is another really good character designer to study.

[ArtofAleksey]

@LauraA will do! Next paycheck haha

[NicolaSchofield]

This weekend I've been working on a character creation task for a course I'm doing so I thought I would join in your thread for November. The task was to sketch nine little characters, just made up as you go along from random shapes, give them sidekicks and names and then pick one to draw up in a couple of poses. I chose Cyril the wannabe circus strongman and his pet cat Rory. I watched the 'how to stylise human characters' video for a little help and I'd like to look at some of your other video suggestions and maybe work up a couple of the other pairings or more of Cyril & Rory with some backgrounds / context.

I was pretty happy with those two final drawings until I showed my other half his only comment was "that's a loud pattern" (on the chair) * sigh *

[Heather Boyd]

@neschof nice to see these on your Instagram and keeping practising I like it

[NicolaSchofield]

@Heather-Boyd Good idea, I'm very bad at keeping up with Instagram

[Meta]

@neschof I like your strong man! Mostly the upper illustration. (I must admit I thought the same about the pattern, lol! I think it's because of the combination of two strong patterns). Which course are you taking? Will you do more of the tiny characters? My favourite is Russel and his eager doggy. Nice contrast!
I hope it's okay to pop up in this thrat from time to time. Don't see that I have much time to join, but I like the topic and to see peoples progress.

[Heather Boyd]

@Meta absolutely! Join in

[burvantill]

After a busy weekend I am back to lessons. These are from the fundamental drawing class. It’s kinda nice to go back to basics and learn a different approach. I didn’t understand what he wanted us to do for the worksheets so sheet 1 is more developed. I was just supposed to draw basic shapes

[NicolaSchofield]

@Meta Thanks, I didn't really think about people not liking the pattern combo - I would totally wear this blue floral with leopard print

The course is illustrating picture books, taught by Sarah Mcintyre via CBCreative. There's some discussion and help with technique but it's mostly about getting stuff done and creating / finishing tasks in the short time frame. Very good accountability. Last week we made complete little books.

[burvantill]

Worksheet 3 from FUN dement all’s.

Weird. For some weird reason it’s coming in sideways, it doesn’t look sideways in my photos, I guess it’s a sideways day

[Heather Boyd]

So this week I am working on drawing human legs, feet and gestures. Last image has nudity due to practising gestures just to let you know upfront. I used a combination of body and leg references found on Pinterest and Proko poses. And yes my gesture sketches are sometimes more contour but I am happy nonetheless. In order except gestures did yesterday and today. Thanks,

[burvantill]

Drawing fundamentals
I’m glad I did this class. It gave me a different perspective on how to see the things I’m drawing.
Next, Gesture! I’m looking forward to this one.

[Roxane Ferreira]

Huuuge program but sounds like a lot of fun I'll be joining too !! Thank you for putting all of that together !!
Edit: did the 1st sheet + a study of a crow using his techniques. My biggest struggle is proportions, any feedback welcome!
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[burvantill]

Drew a couple cuties from my Pinterest board. I meant to do more. I think I get too focused on detail and need to focus on shapes instead. I probably would’ve got more done. Oh well, I guess it all helps because it’s practice right?

[Heather Boyd]

Brief but good introduction to legs mainly women’s. Nudity in the last two. Gestured and Feet better improved. Used references for all.

Next week I’m working on hips and torsos so legs will probably show up again.

[burvantill]

It was a gestures day

[Heather Boyd]

@burvantill looks good when I tilted my head to the left lols

[Roxane Ferreira]

You guys rock with the gestures, I see it improving your work a lot ! I’m a bit behind still on the drawing fundamentals class, finished the second sheet today. I definitly have trouble with getting the head the right size.

[burvantill]

@Heather-Boyd For some weird reason my photos are loading sideways... obviously . I didn’t have the patience yesterday to try and figure out that puzzle.