Illustration A: WDP #7: In-class drawings

In-class for Illustration we were tasked with drawing  and practicing in applications to put towards our project and development as artists. The following are the first ones done, a variety of different orientations and sketches of ideas for Project 2.

Getting the right angle in these drawings to really show the feeling of the three pigs and the wolf were all very difficult, and in the end I went back to an earlier composition made in thumbnails.

The following was a simple expression exercise to further explore the facial expressions that the characters depicted would make in the final results, running through different facial expressions using simplified faces.

I remember doing these in Life Drawing for Animation and they're still fun to do; though I already had ideas for the facial expressions for each of my characters.

Finally, some in-class sketches I did later in the semester were for Project 4, following critiques about my ideas for the illustration.

This is pretty helpful with roughing out ideas or finding them, especially for the last page.

Illustration A: WDP #6: Value and Color Studies Project 2

For Project 2 I had three color and value studies I needed to do. I'm not too familiar with color, the concentration of my animation courses rarely touches on it, but I was very comfortable with the value experiments!

From top to bottom: Light characters and dark background, dark characters and light background, and high contrast rendering.

I felt like I preferred the middle and even used it for the final basis of my project, but I was a bit fond of the high contrast if only due to the fact that it made the pigs look all the more menacing.

With the colors I really struggle with it, I don't use color at all typically. I do really like how the wolf came out in the top image, the analogous colors test using shades of reds and blues/purples. I feel I need to revisit this option for a redo of the project, as it has something to it with the warm interior and cold exterior of the brick house.

Illustration A: WDP #5: Sculpey References

For my narrative illustration I was tasked with making clay representations of my characters shown in the piece. The story was about inverting the roles of antagonist and protagonist, making the three pigs cruel and the wolf in need.

I love playing with clay, and specifically wi
th this sculpture of the wolf head I was able to determine how the ears were supposed to lay on the angle I wanted to draw from! Super useful!

Pictured: Some drawings I did using these references:

Sculpture: Pabu!

He's done! How cute is a fire ferret really?