illustration + design
I have been going through a couple of Blender tutorials. The low poly building was the last one I built for a training session. The giant robot it based on an 2D-illustration. The robot spider tank was my first napkin sketch to 3D design. Also started messing around with the more advanced features in the video feature “tracking nodes” are so much fun to get tracking points lined up just right.
Part of last year I spent trying to learn a few things. At a certain point I took time away from late night drawings and filled up a notebook while learning the VERY basics of Blender. I originally wanted to learn it for grease pencil but realized I really need to know how it operates overall. These are a couple of early renders after learning the basics then branching out on my own to just experiment. I usually start with a side and top view sketch before attempting to design anything on the computer. I am starting to learn how to approach even the most complex designs by just starting with blocking it out with basic shapes.
Over the holidays watched a great Netflix series called Sweet Home based on a Korean webtoon. I drew a couple of sketches last month went back and colored up one of them. Also did a couple of great Draw This in Your Style by Max Grecke drawings. The OC designs were so unique it was so much fun to draw them.
Big fan of Attack on Titan having so much fun watching “The Final Season”. I had to do at least one fan art for the season. Working on doing smaller mechanical layouts for fun did a mecha version of the SpaceX rocket getting ready for battle. Lastly the music video for Zutomayo’s single was so well done I did a couple of illustrations based on the incredible character designs.
Really happy with how my first illustration for 2021 turned out. I changed the entire concept half way through coloring and realized the first pass was still the best. Drew a Draw this in your style for @Anjohink his characters are always so unique. The last couple of weeks I have figuring out some designs for 2021 so I need to dust off the mecha part of my brain. I missed drawing fun space stuff.
Finished up a couple of illustrations I had sitting around. During the end of year I caught up on a couple of my favorite shows and did some illustations based on the shows. I did a dance study video trying out a new iPad app and watched a really funny Larry King interview with Danny Pudi and had to do an animation of the interview.
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.
