Assignment #5- Turtles

  

You must pre sketch under your drawing with light blue of light red gesture drawings! Then draw on top with dark grey, or black.

 Please design 3 characters ,1 large, 1 medium, 1 small . Please consider size differences large/med/small, age difference with height and width. Yes, you can add small props like shoes or hats that might have a theme. 

Step 1-  3 Pages Loose Rough Sketching-Rough Body Shapes 11x17- 10 images per page 

 (1 page per character) Rough body shapes and construction.  No Detail - 

Step 2- Favorite 3- Rough Drawing Pass

Step 3- Finished Color or tonal values

   STYLE SAMPLES WITH ROUGH SKECTHING

REFERENCE

Assignment #4- Birds

 

Rough Sketching Birds Character Design Construction

Create 3 different birds that are totally different in body shape & design. Birds are a perfect example of design variations in shape language ranging from a chicken to a penguin, a pigeon, blue jay, ostridge, to a flamingo.

This exercise focuses on rough sketching with an emphasis on shape construction.

The looser you are the better off you will be. Loose drawings will have centerlines and construction lines, otherwise moving to detail will not work without proper shape construction. 

Step 1- Gather 2 pages of reference.

Step 2- Create 2 pages of 11 x 17 rough drawings with construction and shape variations, then create 1 page of squash and stretch from your favorite

Step 3- Create 2 pages of variations. Take your favorite construction designs and bring them to one page, find 3 favorite to develop more. Yes you can do more than three. 

Step 4- Light cleanup of thick and thin line, and will then add color or light value. Keep your lines rough and loose. You can still draw over your rough drawings if you like.

-Due in 2 weeks-

Construction Basics

Directional Lines the create movement and flow

Sample Reference

Student samples