Week 08 - Life Drawing

The last couple of weeks we didn't have life drawing. This week was also only a short session as we had a lecture in the morning.

The model we had this week, we had actually had before so it felt familiar and easier to draw her body. We drew four 3 minute poses to start with.

Next we were told to pick one medium other than charcoal. We started to draw the model with one of the medium we chose. I knew we would be going over with the charcoal after and seeing as biro doesn't work well over charcoal I chose the red pen first. Then we went over in charcoal but using our other hand. I always find this difficult as I barely have any control so I used the side of the charcoal to shade instead of add detail.

Then we went back over with the biro. I added extra detail and made the edges more visible. I ended up having the biro in my right hand and charcoal in my left and alternating which one I used when needed. The charcoal is messy but I feel it looks better than if I had used the biro in my left hand.

Next we were told to enlarge the body and focus on just one part. I thought that meant one feature so I worked on drawing the hand. Hands are something most people struggle with so I was being quite brave to try it. I sketched most of the surrounding body before focusing on the hand.

I found drawing hands much easier when you have something to draw from. Although I wasted all that time by focusing on such a small feature, I am really happy with how it came out.

Lastly we did one 5 minute pose. Knowing we didn't have long, I blocked it out very roughly but I think that captures the shape of the body well.

Week 08 - Zombie Model

Last lesson we looked at a Maya model of a zombie.

The zombie movement was already made as well as this diffuse. Obviously this doesn't look much like a realistic zombie so using the Photoshop file which had all the layers separate we edited them to make our own zombie.

We were asked to change the colour of the jacket, change the face, make a different logo and add blood and other bits to make it look more like a zombie should. I used different layers and experimented with layer styles to make the dirt and blood look more realistic.

This is what the final textured model looked like. I realized the face looked a bit thin and the handprint had stretched but otherwise I like how it looks.

Week 07 - Sci-Fi Enviroment

After the session on perspective, we were given the assignment to create our own sci-fi room using two-point perspective.

I had a rough idea of the style of room I wanted so I searched for rooms with lots of panels and pipes.

I used the perspective lines to first make the room shape. I made it a bit more difficult for myself by adding a corner so there are three visible walls instead of two.