In this weeks lesson we learnt about protagonists and antagonists and the characteristics of each one and what makes them definitive. We also learnt about the key features of each and how to make someone look like either a hero or dark and intimidating like a villain.
For this assignment we were tasked with creating either a hero or a villain that needed to be digitally sketched, coloured and shaded and needed to include a back story about the reason they were good or evil.
I was very very happy with the overall outcome of this piece and looking at the art i am creating now compared to the first week is a massive improvement. I still have a lot to learn and master but i am pleased with the overall progress i have made. Below is the finished picture;
For the next assignment we were given the task of designing, planning and then finally creating a clay sculpture. I was very apprehensive about this task as i have never used clay before and had no experience sculpting.
I started off with an initial plan of a samurai and wanted to go down that sort of road with my sculpting After finishing my design and getting it approved i then started to create a wire frame to get the pose of my character and proceeded to bulk that out with tinfoil.
Once i had got the basic shape of the character i then started to place a layer of clay onto the wire frame and shape it to the desired shape. After completing this task i was very disappointed with my overall sculpture due to the fact that i had bulked out the body too much with tinfoil so it began to show through when applying the clay and i could not get the eyes to look how i wanted them to.
All that aside i still continued to bake the character and then take pictures of the sculpture which dint look nearly as bad as i initially thought. Below is a picture of the front view of my finished sculpture;
In this lesson we started to learn about colouring and touched briefly on shading and colours that work well together. We were given one of marks drawings to colour in to get used to digitally painting in Photoshop.
Once i had got used to using a tablet and was comfortable using one we were then given the task to design a completely different character which this time needed to be coloured and needed to have a background. We were given two weeks to complete this assignment as it was a bigger task that the a fore mentioned assignments.
I was very happy with the way my finished character turned out considering i had only been using a tablet for a few weeks. Below is the final piece i created;
For the following two weeks we continued to focus on the proportions and features of a human body and looked more into details of the face and where each part should be in relation to the rest. We also began to learn about how to use Adobe Photoshop and all the features that were available within the program.
In order to do the next task we needed to purchase a graphics tablet which allows the user to create drawings/paintings on the tablet which will appear on the computer screen. The one we were advised to purchase as starting artists was the Wacom bamboo which is a cheap graphics tablet but very good.
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For our next task we needed to create a non- colour, black and white character which this time needed to be done on Photoshop with a graphics tablet. I enjoyed this assignment as it was a chance to try out a completely different style of sketching and although it was frustrating at first, it was very effective once the basics had been learnt. Below is my final black and white tablet drawing;
In the first week of this class we were introduced to the module and what we would need and how we would be graded for our work etc.
Once this was completed we then started of our first lesson of creative thinking, we started off by learning the basics of the human anatomy and how to draw proportions and characters correctly in order to make our sketches look as realistic as possible.
Our task for the following week was to draw ourselves as a character from our favourite game and include an front and side view of the head. Having had no experience or lessons beforehand i was happy with the overall drawing i had done although there were a few things that i would have changed. Below is my finished design;
