Study Task 1 (Week Commencing: 07/10/19)

At the beginning of the week, I decided to rough out the proportions of the beast character. When I was happy, I sent my progress to my team and when they were happy, I began my turn-around.

As the week progressed, I also worked on my human turn-around. However, I ran into a few problems regarding the profile.

I had a similar issue with the wolf. I found I was relying too heavily on both the front view, and the human turn-around. I was so scared to lose any likeness, that I restricted how expressive my lines were and it shows.

I voiced my concerns with my team who agreed that the faces for both profiles were too flat and that something needed to change.

For a while it seemed I was unable to get over this mental block so I decided to take a short break, clear my head, and start over.

I sketched out roughly in red, many corrections to the head and then tidied it up in black. Once myself and my group were happy, I could start to think about colour. At this point I had received some sketches for the background art and a few potential colour schemes we would be using.

I began adding colour to my human turn-around.

I thought the piece above was too contrasting in certain areas so I brightened up the tones in his hair and made his pants darker. I also added bags under his eyes.

I then sent this to my group chat however the settings on my laptop screen and phone screen are very different so on Monday in class, I will look at my turn-around sheet using one of the macs to see if I need to change anything or if my laptop colours are accurate.

Then in Friday's lesson, we were given a lecture on acting and using references, and also a quick Maya recap session.

I started by making the first thing that came to my head which, for some reason, was a gate.

Then as a class, we were instructed on how to make an office chair.

At the weekend, I attacked the wolf turn-around in a similar fashion.

I am worried that the tones once again are too contrasting so, I may need to make the fur lighter and stain the pants a little more. Once I have the finished background art, I can use this to help give me a sense of how dark or light the scene will be and how much I need to alter this.