Big Ol' Dump o' sketches

It's occurred to me that I mostly just post school work here, so here are some miscellaneous sketches I've done, either as warm-ups (really, just Thor & Spider-Man, since I only just started warm-ups), or killing time on the bus to school, or . . . in class.



Warm-up for April-15. Don't like it. The anatomy is too wonky.



Likewise the 14th's warm-up. Clearly, I need to revisit the anatomy of the human arm. =/






Couple of head sketches for a concept design class, designing Captain Shakespeare from Neil Gaiman's Stardust.




From the same movie, Yvaine.






And Tristan. These are all quick(-ish) studies, and probably nothing close to what the final outcome will be.




Went sketching at the Portland Museum of Art.

They had an original Alphonse Mucha. That was pretty cool. =P








A "bored in class" sketch.







People on the Bus. I do this often enough that I'm thinking I should create labels specifically for these sketches.


I call this guy Mexican Elvis.








The first two sketches here are of the same person; this guy looked like the grizzled ol' sea captain who calls everyone a pansy when it comes time to go after a killer shark, then dies gruesomely in the third act. Except that he was wearing a cowboy hat and leather. So... land... shark? <=/ Maybe not.














Quick sketches of the main character of a work-in-progress.













In-class sketches while people gave nervous presentations on key figures in the field of psychology. (I did Carl Jung, and was the most nervous of them all.)









Sketching in public.










I'm still not great at drawing interesting poses without a model, so I practiced some here.




Random girl in class, and random image from some random thought. I like the second drawing. It's not usually not my style (whatever that may be), but it works.








And lastly, a dragon. Cause I'm a nerrrrrrrrrd. :}P







That's (mostly) all for now, but I have these kinds of sketches spread out over a few sketchbook, so there will probably be more.


-- Cristian.

Warm-Ups for Apr. 13, 2011

I don't usually do this, but today I decided to do a couple of warm-up sketches before getting started on animation homework. I arbitrarily chose a male angel (I usually do females) and Iron Man. I must've had one funky dream I can't recall, because these two were on my mind almost since I woke up.

Anyway.

Because I tend to get distracted and focus too long on one image (which leads to overworking, and can be detrimental to the final product), I gave myself 25 minutes per sketch.


The angel turned out . . . I don't know. I like it, but it could be better. I think he could be further away, to really get a sense of those wings I didn't end up finishing. =/

(That's not a 5 o'clock shadow, by the way; his eyes and wings were supposed to glow, and I just ran out of time.)





I like this Iron Man sketch a lot better. There's more action, I think, and more anticipation. Chris Sanders says that even the quickest, looses sketch should "attend to story", and I think you can definitely tell IM is up against some pretty big foes.

Or maybe I like it because it was done largely without reference. A 5-minute Google Image search didn't result in any pics of his back, which was originally the focus of the image, so I just made up most of it as I went. (Ultimately, I had to go back to GIS for a better sense of his face, which didn't do the job to begin with.)






That's all for now, but these were fun, and I'll try to keep it up.


-- Cristian