Here was my assignment from last week. It was to design an animal character. After careful decisions design wise I chose the Raccoon Dog. I felt it gave me the most options when it came to creating a graphic styled character that still felt like it was designed by me. My instructor loved it! He didn’t give me any critiques to improve it, so that’s awesome. Thanks everyone for the ideas There were other animals that once the class is over I might explore further.
For this weeks assignment we had to design a dragon character based off the style of Ronald Searle and Jay Ward. They are two extremely different artists when figuring out characteristics of their work. My instructor gave me some really good feedback so I’ll be going back into these and updating them per his suggestions. Only two more weeks to go!
In this week’s assignment we had to have at least two characters that are interacting with each other in either a park bench or a bus stop. Naturally I had to add Death at the park lol Enjoy.
This weeks assignment was literally a last minute thing. I’ve been pretty busy all week in preparation of leaving my current job at IKEA for my first industry job as a concept artist. So I’ve been running around crazy. So today I actually had time to work on my homework assignment. It was pretty hard considering we were making just character faces for librarians. And it was not an easy task. I hope you enjoy 🙂
In this one I focused more on the quality of the character designs and less on rendering. This one was a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy it 🙂
Here is today’s warm up. I always loved getting balloons when I was a kid. Here is the feeling I would have when my mom or dad would buy me one. Enjoy 🙂
Hi everyone. Its been a long semester with lots continuing to happen. I’m currently taking a character design class (my first one ever) and I needed a warm up today so I made a new Starbucks lid character. I named him Frenchy since I was thinking of a french bulldog.
Enjoy 🙂
So I knew that this semester was gong to be busy. Working my day job, then teaching my two classes during the evening, then running my “Cauldron Bubbles” animated short during all my free time. Not to mention the hours of grading, and preparing for my lectures and communicating with my animation team.
But I’m going to try to be sure I post any work, even as loose as it might be, on my blog. So here were a few sketches from the last two days. Since I’ve been planning on autoCAD, I sometimes need to take a break from looking at my monitor. These are some results.
I signed up for my very first character design class that starts in April. I’m so excited. Since I’ve been teaching myself primarily through looking at other artists’ work and any tutorials they may have, I look forward to someone actually critiquing my work and giving me one on one advice. The goal again is to have pieces to put in my portfolio so that I can potential seek out employment as an artist in the game or animation field.
I’ll be keeping you guys posted. Thanks for your interest and support. It means a lot when people enjoy what I do.
Cheers!
Playing around with some of the new brushes in Photoshop along with making a few of my own. Enjoy
Edwardian Taylor 