Harper Illustration

Hey everyone who reads this! I’ve been attempting to sort out all my assignments, not long till the deadlines now! But i thought i’d share some of what I’m up to with you all, ill prob post the playblast of my maya bouncing ball project sometime soon, but for now, ill just post the rough panel sketches of the beginning middle and end of my animation. We were instructed to do them in a comic like format to attempt to give an idea of narrative flow and timing. Hope you all enjoy (working on the final full colour ones as I type)…

EDIT: Just thought, these images have no background info. Sorry people! Other than being for a Pre-Production brief these images are from the opening, roughly middle, and end sequences of my animation. Can’t really say what its about yet… not sure about copyright etc.

Just a very quick post.

Found someone on my travels who has a very interesting fantasy style, worth a checking out if you ask me…

Keith Thompson

Hey, was going to post some early concept work for my short animation, however thats going to take a bit more work than I thought before its ready. However, as its International Self Portrait day (well unofficial…) Decided to do another one, in acrylic this time. Hope you like =)

Sorry for the bad quality of the image, had to take a photo… no A3 scanner =(

I only have a small self portrait image to upload today, just an exercise for life drawing… Hope you like!

National Self Portrait day on Nov 1st as well (conceptart.org), think I might try another one for then =)

Well I have been phenomenally busy over the last few weeks with project work, who knew Uni was this hard…? We have started looking at basic creative techniques, pretty simple to be honest, the mindmap… however I must say, when I used it properly has helped me come up with more ideas than I would normally, seems to work better than I remember it at school, however I have done more of my own research into other ideas/methods… such as Edward de Bonos “Six Hats” lateral thinking exercise, which seems quite powerful, I was wondering if anyone had any other techniques or methods they use to create or find a new idea?

Apologies for the bad scanning in the larger image files – I have been scanning in A3 pages with an A4 scanner and having to recompose the image, getting better each time though so should have better scans with good colour consistency soon!

EDIT: I also just realised that the first image is missing my compound word from the top corner, have no reuploaded with the word there!

EDIT: Feedback on my work has said that I should add colour and experiment more with colour in the mindmaps to come up with colour palettes for the work.

Been away for what seems ages now! Sorry to all who come buy and take a look at how I am getting along… I have just moved close to my Uni and have just finished sorting all my junk out… I should have some new material up very soon. Including evolutions of many scribbles into full pieces of work!

Considering starting some video tutorials of my work soon, try and give me something to aim for… so you may well see some test videos, please tell me what you think!

As promised here is a sample of some of what I have been working on over the last few days. I have been trying to improve line and form and actually understand how it works to be able to apply it to my life studies and works from imagination.

So far I feel I can find and block out the masses of the human body and work out other simple masses of the body also (such as the hands)

And as regards to line, a dark thick line can be used to denote shadow or a darker area (without shading) – line thickness also tends to make an area more “heavy set” and as such would not be found in abudance on softer more feminine form.

Lighter lines work conversely, giving finer or lighter areas. It is rare to see light thick lines as this tends to confuse the eye due its expectations.

Breaking lines can allow the drawing to “breath” – suggesting a line and or learning where the actually isn’t a line but a soft change of plane. Also breaks can be a good way to suggest a highlighted area.

I would like to note the above is what I “feel” I have learnt, if there is anything I have missed or things that you feel I may have gotten wrong I would love to hear your comments.

After my initial studies, I read about a method of studyin Bridgman which makes you think about the forms more by adding a third stage (blocking out the basic form, drawing the lines/planes, tonal representation) normall Bridgman only does “light” tonal representation. Also just I understand simply copying Bridgman will not bring as much understanding as I would like.

Anyway… enough rambling… here they are.

Oh and the link to that Bridgman method (some good drawings there too!)

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Although its been ages since I have made a post, I haven’t given up on art or anything, just been so busy with preparing to move to Bournemouth and working flat out all week that I haven’t been able to do much other than anatomy studies. I am to produce studies of high enough quality to post on here later today, let see shall we?

P.s This is a link to a website which has helped me recently, has some very good tunes for getting “in the zone”. CLICK.

Although its a shame England lost, I feel that the afternoon wasn’t too downbeat as I managed to complete a piece with my old nemisis, the oil pastels… Its a simple collection of objects that mean something to me. I’m pretty sure many of you will recognise them.

Plus I got my hair cut finally and managed to do a couple of pages of people up town, when I have a decent collect I will upload them to the Life Drawing section of my gallery (which has now been updated, new theme for it coming soon!)

Anyway, hope you enjoy the above picture, let me know what you think!

Busy day tomorrow, haircut, drawing session in the town around the coffee shops, back home for some furious painting then back here to upload and continue updating the website. As you may have noticed with a few minor changes here and there, version 1.1 is on the way. Any feedback on what could be improved here, or what you would like to see more of would be great! Thanks