Characters From Reference

This is the week 3 Assignment for Amanda Jolly's Character Design class at CDA. The assignment was to create appealing character designs based on three of the provided images.

Master Study

 More homework from Amanda Jolly's Character Design class at CDA. The assignment was to do copies of an artist and then try to apply things from those studies to last weeks animal drawings. I chose Nico Marlet.

Emotional Animals

I just started Amanda Jolly's Character Design class at CDA.  This is the homework for week 1. Only 3 drawings for each animal were required but I was both enjoying the exercise and struggling to exaggerate the emotion, so I kept going.  

Proportion Practice

Not looking at reference, trying to see what I can do on my own.  

Figures with tone

From Karl Gnass's Figure Drawing Class 

It's the Drawing Anatomy with Light and Tone class so the poses are longer than what I normally do.  

Cartoon Head Turn

15° up and 15° down

Box Figures Continued

I've skipped ahead a bit from the last set.  I'm not happy with any from the past few weeks.  I struggled a lot with maintaining proportion and getting the gesture. I would get caught up thinking about how to do the boxes and start breaking it down before getting the full figure laid out, losing  sense of what the big idea was.  

In this set I started each drawing by clearly marking the top of the head, the bottom of the feet and the the half point. I made sure to put the whole pelvis box above the half mark to prevent the torso from getting to big.  I also focused more on making sure to get the whole figure laid out before starting the breakdown.   I'm still really struggling with the the shoulder area but I think breaking it down like this is helping me work it out.

Above: Sara Streeter in Karl Gnass's Figure Drawing Class

Below: Luca Cambiasi figure studies from the mid 1560's