Week 14 cont...

Christmas was awesome! How was yours?

But enough of that!
Managed to push an final kind of sketch out that I'm just going to go with!
No time to fanny about anymore!

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Week 14 - Christmas!

I go away for Christmas tomorrow so don't imagine I'll get too much done this week that doesn't involve stuffing my face or having some noisy child jumping on my head! Aint family grand!

But just developed a few more of the best silhouettes!

Week 13 cont...

I thought about the wisdom thing and looked into some symbols of wisdom in cultures!
Obviously there is the usual Owl, but I made a moodboard with a few more!

I also started to develop some of the silhouettes that were my favourite to see if I can't progress towards some sort of design!
I suddenly got the idea of a cape made of light.... I'm sure that'll be easy to do.... lol >.<

Week 13

It's good being out of class! Sometimes it just feels like it gets in the way, although I am my own worst enemy!

I did a few more scribbles and picked a few of them that seemed interesting.
I've never really worked so loosely! I really kind of enjoyed just making shapes and marks and then trying to imagine what shapes could come out of them.

Silhouettes is something I am not very good at so I've found it better than thinking about how it's supposed to be.  It's really difficult not to let the idea "taint" the image. But at this point I'm not trying to come up with an idea just flesh it out a bit so I'm okay with it!

I keep imagining someone adorned with technology or old broken armour so there's some wires and stuff going about!
Some of them look almost childlike so I want to avoid that!

Traditionally the elder/sage type characters in films etc seem to be older - obviously showing some wisdom!

Week 12

Gaahhhh last week already! There was no lecture since we all finished our presentations!

I haven't really fleshed out a look yet mostly I have spent the week scribbling and gathering more images.

I filled about 5 pages of sketchbook before I was all scribbled out!  There are some interesting shapes appearing!

I did a couple of anatomy sketches but I really need to get more into it.

Any characters I have made in the past have always been quite cartoony.  This is partially a deliberate choice to avoid realistic looking images as it isn't easy to do and any time I have made a realistic character it has been a bit off.  Not awful or anything just a bit off.

Week 11

I finally did my presentation this week!
It went okay but I never made a slide show so I have to do that lol

In class Ryan had me choose a brief. Shame on me for leaving it too late!
Definitely too late now to do something like the VFX!

I contemplated the environments - I really liked the image of the cave!
Buuuuuut I also like the idea of creating the Shaman/Sage game character!

So I made some mood boards on the subject!

Ryan had me think about it a little differently by considering some real life potential Sages! People like Willie Nelson! I like the idea but I think I've already started forming an idea...

The brief calls for the character to be based on futuristic technology so I kind of want to create a character that is from a society of people that use (or have discovered) some technology that they adorn their selves with but don't necessarily know how it works as intended!

I'll need to get sketching!