Hand practice ...

Random sketches ...

More crit notes ...

Another draw-over crit addressing structure and appeal in profile. Thought these notes were relevant for our current project in class as students are creating model sheets for an upcoming animation project. Thanks to Kristen G. for permission to share!

Character Draw-over Crit ...

Above is an example of a draw-over critique that I occasionally do for students who send me work for feedback. The drawing on the left was done by a student, who sent it to me for some input. The drawing on the right is my response (along with some rambling notes). While the comments are specific to this design, I see the same issues occurring in much of the work sent to me so I think (er ... hope) this will be relevant for many. In my drawing I was concentrating primarily on clarifying and separating shapes and creating more form, expression, and personality through specificity, variation of line weight, etc.

Thanks to Christine for her permission to share, and kudos on the fun little old lady design!

Process Post #11: Final

So, for this last phase of the painting I just jumped around from detail to detail making minor fixes, etc. I also went back into some of the important elements like the central pomegranate and punched up the saturation. I developed its form a bit so it would pop more than the rest. If you look closely you'll see that many of those focal points (Eve's face, the pomegranate, the passion flower, etc) have been pulled forward by laying in a slightly darker shadow around them so they have more contrast with the background. The shadows were applied with the New Simple Water digital watercolor brush, while most of the highlights and more saturated touches were done with the conte brush (Dull Conte 15).

Enjoy :)

Pay-rits ... Arrghh!!

Some pirate sketches for a side project ...

Theologian