Digital Painting

I'm really loving painting on the computer.
Especially how I can work in layers, it makes things so much easier.

Here's my process of designing a character as of now (I'm sure it'll change soon).















I really like starting my design in silhouette because it makes you ignore all the unnecessary details and focus on the character as a whole.
This method was adopted from Florian Satzinger.

Also there's a reason as to why I designed this nerd, the Spline Doctors are having an animation contest. A walk cycle of one of four choices has to be animated by May 14th, and I chose the one involving a child on his way to or from school.

Updates soon!

My Mural

I'm going to be painting this in the Drama room at my school.
A lot of pressure but it should be fun.
















Oh yeah, I'm the one in the orange.

Digital Painting

I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of digital painting!
Here's my caricature of me, much better in structure, composition, color, and resemblance than my first one.
I think it's safe to say I've been improving!





















It's actually pretty fun now!

Running

Another non-character exercise.



I don't really like this one.. It just doesn't feel right to me.
I'm thinking it's because I have to much action (tall character) in too short a time, but single inbetweens (giving more time) would probably make it too slow.
Who knows, maybe I'll try it.

Lifedrawing

I'm actually really happy about the first one. Although I know I need to improve a lot.
Especially with hands..

More Basic's pt 2

Here's that same vanilla walk but with single inbetweens putting it on 1's.




EDIT* Just for those who don't understand how difficult animation is, here are all the drawings laid on top of each other.

And that's just for a 32 frame walk.