illustration + design
My end of the year animation 2020 wrap up video. Another year I learned a lot about the process and continue to get more confident with the software. I really enjoyed the Netflix series The Queens Gambit and did a couple of fanarts based on the lead character. Besides that a couple of weekend illustrations and my annual holiday card.
I have been just doing some model studies in Procreate lately. Besides that I completed a couple of animations and designed a Fox adventurer for the December character design topic.
Character design topic for November was to design a Yokai, I drew a Tanuki. A couple of weeks ago Adidas released the design collection for Ivy Park season 2. I did a couple of fashion illustrations based on the designs. On repeat the last couple of weeks I have been streaming Black Thought’s Streams of Thought Vol. 3. One night I did a couple of frames and ended up to a quick animation to a couple of verses from the track called “State Prisoner”.
During the online CTX expo one of the topics was about more diversity in animation. One of the host brought up the drawing challenge for October called #blacktober just redraw a character for a series you enjoy but make them black. I did a couple themed all around my favorite series: Evangelion, Gurren Langan, You’re Lie in April, Eureka Seven and Persona 5 to wrap it all up.
I had a couple of themed reference studies to finish up almost done with the last one. I wanted to do a couple of weekend illustrations Halloween themed and I was able to do all of the concepts I wanted to do for it. I really enjoy the Procreate rendering process but I am still running into a layers limitation towards the end of completing an illustration it’s kind of a pain but trying to condense the number of layers so it’s not a problem.
For Octobers character design challenge the theme was Aztec warrior. As usual I had a couple of rough pencil sketches and in the end just worked with a mash of a couple of them into one final illustration. I have a number of weekend model reference studies this is just another in a series. Finally I am big fan of animator @rocketboiart his characters really stand out. I did a weekend personal challenge I took one of his characters and did a small animation featuring her.
Cleaned up a couple of illustrations I had on my drive. The Kipo poster was done after finishing up watching season 2 of Kipo I need to have it printed and hug up in my office. The other couple were rendering exercises I wanted to try using some brushes I never use to render folds and shadows. The woman with the sword was my just having fun illustration I am a huge fan of just modern fashion with cool stylized characters.
Finishing up a summer project but still doing small late night illustrations and animations when I can. I found a couple of shortcuts that help me do quicker animations in Clip Studio studying a lot of frames has helped me realize I can do more with less. I watched Beastars a while back and never got around to posting this fan art. Also a couple of draw this in your style challenges it’s always so much fun to interpret another artist work.
I have been doing 3 hour portrait studies in waves. One night I do a couple of sketches, the next night some rendering and the next night add colors and play with the layers a bit. I have a few more to upload at some point. For this months character design challenge the theme was animal skatepark. I designed a 60’s poodle skateboarder.
Getting back to posting more regularly now. Did a series of studies 1 hour a day I gave myself a week to work on each study avg 4 hours each. Besides that went though a couple of tutorials for audio integration in Clip Studio it’s really coming together. The illustrations posted below are for the monthly character design challenge topic fairy and the other I just wanted to draw an archer.
For this months character design challenge the theme was dinosaur racer. I liked what the initial first concept was in my head and just ran with it. A fan art in honor of finishing Gundam 08th Team fantastic series. Looking at a number of animation books I am still experimenting with a concise animation workflow. I do 90% of the work in Clip Studio select fill paint is pure magic.
I think I am done with my Control illustrations that game really made an impression on me. Besides that going all in on some fan art lately a couple of illustrations from Ghost in the Shell and BNA. I did a couple of concepts but went with a different character for the monthly character design topic Final Fantasy. I went with Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy VII.
