Life Drawing - Session 5

Life drawing, but this time Robin had some clothes on... mostly.

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5 Minutes looking, solely, at the face

5 Minutes looking, solely, at the face

5 Minutes looking, solely, at the face

5 Minutes looking, solely, at the face

15 Minutes

15 Minutes

Character Design - Session 4

This session of Character Design was all about body language.

For our morning lesson, Justin put us into random groups and then, in rotation, one of us had to stand and do a pose from a list on the board, while the rest of us drew the pose.
My group was: Myself, Coyle, Vincent and Alexandra.
Our first task was to draw the general shape and position.

A boss firing an employee (Coyle)

The policeman (Alexandra) and The drunk (Vincent)

Wedding proposal gone wrong (Alexandra and Coyle)

The bored student (Vincent)

The conman (Coyle)

The werewolf (Vincent)

The hiker (Alexandra)

Our second task had us adding muscle.

Vincent getting knocked out

Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde (Coyle)

Vampire Hunter (Alexandra)

Angry Lawyer (Alexandra) vs Defendant (Coyle)

Evil baby (Vincent) and a Loving parent (Alexandra)

Our third task was to create a character based on the poses.

Boxer guy

In the afternoon we continued onto our overarching project.

The Archer
Needs a bit more definition

The knight
I'm actually quite proud of this one

Life Drawing - Session 4

This session of Life Drawing saw the return of Robin and his insane shenanigans.

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20 Minutes focusing on the face

20 Minutes focusing on the face

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Collaboration - Scripts

For part of my collaboration project, I've written the script for our project. I've written two drafts as of right now and you can find both of them on our collaboration blog:

https://naminastudios.blogspot.com/2019/11/script-first-and-second-drafts.html

But I'm including the 2nd draft here as well as evidence that I've actually done work.

Script - Second Draft by Terry Brunt on Scribd

Character Design - Session 3

For the morning task Justin gave us a building/monument and a style for us to remake the structure in.
I was given the Roman Colosseum and subterranean.

I started by trying to draw the Colosseum as it is. Honestly I've never actually seen what the Colosseum looks like, I had only ever seen restorations in media.

Then I had to try and make it subterranean. My first idea was to set it in a cave and have all the openings in the Colosseum be holes. However this idea lost the Roman architecture.

Attempt #2: This time trying to keep the ancient style, but still setting it underground.

Justin asked us to think about what the structure is for and what kind of story would happen here. So I thought of 2 different ideas.
1. It's a Roman Arena. This is the most logical idea as this is what the Colosseum was anyway, this fact however does make the idea kinda bland and unoriginal.
2. A quarry. So when thinking about the word "subterranean" the first thing that came to my mind was fantasy dwarves. Dwarves in fantasy are mostly known for their massive underground cities and mines, so I thought an underground quarry would be cool. Also considering it would possibly work well considering the Colosseum has multiple layers, much like an actual quarry.

After Justin came round, we discussed the idea of it being an ancient marble arena that is being excavated for rare stone. It's a shame I never had time to finish this concept.

In the afternoon we went back to working on our projects. This time working on the world/environment.

Since my subject is medieval England, I decided my setting should be a castle. So I looked up a load of references for old British castles and drew them.

Justin quite liked where I was going with the castle, but wanted me to focus more on the story and layout of the environment. So with this drawing you can see where the two characters will be.

Life Drawing - Session 3

This session consisted of five 5 minute drawings, two 30 minute drawings and ending with one more 5 minute drawing.

For this drawing we were challenged to only draw 10 lines, I actually quite enjoyed this limitation.

For this drawing we had to draw with one continuous line for all 5 minutes.

Same limitation as the last drawing, however we were given the extra challenge of only being allowed to draw in straight lines up and down, kind of like an Etch-a-Sketch.

With this 30 minute drawing, Simon allocated the first 15 minutes to having us pay close attention to the shapes in the anatomy. After the first 15 minutes, Simon turned down the lights and we were tasked with focusing on shadows.