119 Faces..

..That's how many I've drawn today in life-drawing sessions!

Today I attempted to work in the style of this really awesome character designer from Laika - Jesse Aclin, I've been admiring his work on instagram for a while now. Granted, my drawings really lack in a number of ways compared to his awesome natural style, but I still had fun! It's definitely a style I'm going to try and work into my own drawings :-)

Most of these drawings are of my class-mates, rather than the models, but they pull some brilliant faces when they're drawing!

They're all in dip-pen and ink..

What a load of bulls.

Here's some stuff I've been working on (in Photoshop) these past two weeks:

They were a lot of fun to create, hopefully they will both go all the way into actual production and I'll be able to make them into actual 3D props for the background of the stop-motion film I'm working on :-)

Sugar Over-Dose.

Today I made cupcakes with a friend for a project she's doing at uni.

It was all going fine and dandy until she left..

I guess that's what several spoons of cake mix, three cupcakes, a couple of spoonfuls of icing and two cups of tea do to you..

No more cake, please.

A little something I actually finished!

Here's something I started and actually finished! *dance* - I admit, this doesn't happen nearly as often as it should.

So, about a week ago I watched Coraline for the first time, and I absolutely loved it. Laika are incredible, but you already knew that. Anyway, she pulls this really awesome pose (really early on in the film). And I was so taken by how great the acting was in this pose that I roughed it out (admittedly it doesn't look much like her)

Which I left in a corner of one of my many sheets of paper on my desk for a few days, but then I found myself sketching out ideas for a new Twitter icon and this pose creeped back into my drawings..

Thus, I ended up scanning it in, twiddling around with it on Photoshop and getting totally wrapped up in the line drawing (above), that I just had to colour it. Though I like the line-drawing slightly more :-)

But hey, I actually finished a personal piece! Even in my current lazy summer holiday state!

Some dooodless.

Here's a bunch of pages from my sketchbook, of things I've been doodling during the first month of my summer holidays (Mainly trees and heads). Using dip-pen and ink, Artline fine-liners and blue pencils..

 

I started working on an idea for a layout/illustration based on 'Summer' but never followed it through to the end - maybe it's because it's too heavily inspired from my FMP work from last year.

 

Pretty sure that tent in the top right corner is inspired by one in 'The Emperor's New Groove'.

I *might* have been watching Scott Pilgrim...?

 Also, just the beginnings of a head.

I'm as chuffed as a...

Cheesecake!

(..Since I've heard they're often a pretty pleased sort of cake.)

Because I finally found a Coca-Cola bottle with my name on it! 

..Oh yeah, and also because I passed my first year of animation.

Bring on the second year! And also maybe some cheesecake, please.

Here's a bird.

Nicked from my previous post, but this heat is making it difficult to sleep!