I still have quite a bit of work to do in clarifying the designs, but I thought it might help to flesh out their personalities if I did these quick story/gesture sketches first.
My idea for a fresh take on Jekyll & Hyde was to make Jekyll a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor who's obsessed with potency herbs. Hyde would be his wild party-animal state after taking the concoction of herbs.
4 weeks in, and the course has been a lot of fun, a lot of drawing, and a lot of eye-opening. My biggest challenge has been simplifying the design and making it read clearly. The biggest eye-opener has been thinking more of shape than anatomy.
Visual story telling, it's finally starting to click for me what this means. I'm really excited about the possibilities after doing
Alex Woo's gesture drawing course. These sketches are based on an experience growing up. One of my first jobs was helping a milko after school. I have fond memories of that job. I've also been reading about story structure. Hopefully I can find the essence of the story that I feel lurks in these memories. The idea will keep warm on the back burner until then. I hope you enjoy these scraps.
I'm nearing the end of a gesture drawing course with
Alex Woo. Here's some of my homework practice from an earlier lesson on exaggeration. It has been a challenge and made me feel like a complete beginner, but I think I've found a few ingredients that have been missing in my past work.
Still with the fox project, here are some concept sketches for the children in the story.
the ultimate 'gesture' of friendship...a hug! AND a bear hug at that...;)
my contribution to this week's illustration friday theme of 'gesture'.
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Armed with only wings, hooves and oinking, Ignatz found articulating irony a bit difficult. Luckily, having mastered the art of winking, Iggy was able to use this gesture liberally while doling out the hogwash.
Wink wink, get it? Hogwash? Anybody?
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This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “gesture” and once again I am really reaching to fit something in. A very nice person, commissioned me to draw a flying pig for a piece she is working on. I figured I could also make it work for an IF post, since otherwise, I’ve been busy, feverishly working on stuff for the L.A. SCBWI conference in a few weeks.
Hey, is anyone else going? Let me know!
Some observational drawing practice done in the mall.
Some super fast gestural sketches done from a cafe. These particular poses would probably make a bit more sense if I had drawn in the partners as well. Both ladies were walking hand in hand. It was a bit too much information for me to take in on the spot, and I was running out of space on the page. I was happy with the rhythms and movement. More practice needed..
Have a great time and I hope you get a lot out of it
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