Foxy Duke of Connaught

John Singer Sargent inspired character design - completed!

Star Wars Waiter

This concept was created with some art friends where we passed around the paper and each got to spend 2mins drawing something.. This is the character is what came out of it.. So turned it into a waiter for a Star Wars bar type scene..

And also played with some head and horn variations

Form Studies

5 typical form changes from Sam Neilson's Schoolism course, Fundamentals of Light

Character Development

Here are the developing sketches for the Twizzler Warrior Princess and Coconut Boy

Sun set Study

A study for sunset colours for a private commission..

Revised Characters

Here are two characters I repainted and designed with background environments..

Sun Planets Colliding Sketch Study

Head Study

Head Study

To more accurately understand the proportions in this head study, I first did a trace study then repeated the study from observation.

Wreck It Ralph Colour Studies

The brief for the Twizzler Princess character originated from the Wreck It Ralph movie. At the time I had not seen the movie so after doing some background studies, I continued with a colour study to tie in the character for a sequel. There's no real concept design in the background, just an exercise to show a storytelling theme. After the study, I created a colour for my character and background.. very simple using a textured oil brush.

 

Jakub Rozalski Process Study

I love Jakub Rozalski's work. He incorporates wonderful polish landscapes with a 1920's time period and some awesome mechs.  He has some work showing his process on his Artstation site, jakubrozalski.artstation.com. I chose to follow his process of his "1920 - don't play with the strangers" piece. I completed to a point where I felt I learned what I needed to, so there is a bear and a foreground character missing from my study.

Ref: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/QxLLr 

Head Drawing Studies

Moving on to Head Construction, here is study done on the steps from Micheal Hampton's book

Figure Drawing Studies #2

Studying Michael Hamptons book, Figure Drawing: Design and Invention I did some homework to understand Connections, Shape and Perspective Volumes. And in doing so, I practiced another 100 gestures to work from.

Twizzler Warrior Princess Background Design

I started re-working my second ever character design that I created at the Imaginism In-House Workshop by designing a background. At the time of concepting the character, I hadn't actually watched the movie from which the brief was taken from. So, I watched it a while back and recently decided to implement a background for the character. Here are some value studies and the character to be reworked

Coconut Boy Warrior Revision No.3

I redesigned my character design by changing the pose, facial features and coconut strands on the top half. Much happier with the outcome.

Beach Sunrise Colour Study

Value Studies - Beaches at Sunset and Sunrise

Sunset Colour Study

#JDHuang, picture sourced from pinterest

Chris Oatley's Magic Box Lesson 01

Lesson 01 Homework, playing with atmospheric lighting using masks and the gradient tool to create colour compositions

JSSargent Painting as source of Ref to study and re-illustrate as fox

  

Colour Studies

In trying to understand how the colours would work in one of my characters, I researched some screenshots to figure out how blue can work... I've used screenshots from Avatar,  Guardians of the Galaxy and Mr. Peabody and Sherman (which is more for lighting). Also I studied the concept artist, Michael Kutsche and his awesome blue caterpillar designed for the 2010 Alice in Wonderland movie. And in trying to understand the value and lighting on a child face, I found a photograph by Heidi Harting who specialises in portraits. Finally, below is a form study from Pixar's Luna Boy.