How I Create 2

Ok first off I missed last weeks post. So let me explain Uni work is taking a lot of my time along with trying to find a paying job so there might be a interruption in my posting over the next few weeks. 

So this is the second post on how I go about creating stuff.

So when I start drawing I normally let my mind wonder and do doodles on the paper on the paper most of these would be basic stick men in different poses. 

from after doing that for a while creating quite a few of these drawings I then move onto making one as a toon in the drawing adding more and more detail to them. Till I'm happy enough to try and create a full image. The top image is a good example of this strange process that I do as all the lines are still visible on it. So that is it for this week hoping to get some more stuff done and upload it on here, till then have a nice weekend.

Some thing New

So this is a really early edit for me but hey why not. Today (Monday) I had a couple of really good ideas during a lecture for motion graphics (and yea I was paying attention to the lecture) so during it I was trying to scribble these ideas down and add more to them. Now your asking what are those ideas? well one is for the motion graphics final hand so I'm not saying anything just now, but the other one is for my portfolio site. and yea its Awesome!

can't really put it in words so I will show you.

Whats THIS!? Glad you asked.

Well this is the overall look to the new portfolio site. The gray hills with the trees in the back will be moving from one side to the other and repeat it self so its a constant moving image. There will be a sign that appears when you click on a menu item that holds the content of that. The next stage after getting those things working will be moving it into Drupal if that works (fingers crossed).

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour..."

Ok so a bit of a quick update this week, me and my friend Myles were chatting away on Saturday morning, and I was talking about how I didn't want to be stuck in one style, for example I always start with the same shapes for faces and heads. And I've been thinking about it since. My problem seems to be that there is no thought to my characters personality, who they are? what they do?

So I end up just starting, not really thinking about height, weight, are they scary? goofy? moody? nerdy? These are all things that eventually I want the drawing to portray before someones even read a word. big friendly eyes, little beady eyes, messy thick eye brows or tidy plucked ones; they all make a difference.

So earlier today I figured I'd try and change it up a bit, even if it meant things looked goofy so here is the first three I did. I deliberately kept them quick so I didn't have a chance to go back and change them or think too hard about it.

Anyways I want to end this before I get too in depth, it's maybe a topic I'll cover another time, but next time you doodle someone think about who they are and try to exaggerate the bits that show that.