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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Alice in Space - in Color!
At this in time point I got busy with a ton of projects, going to comic-con for the first time, and getting ready for my mission so I stopped posting in the Mentorship forum but I kept working on the characters. I really struggled with feeling like anything I drew had that illusion of life...they all seemed so dead...so I decided to draw the queen in 100 different poses/expressions to force myself out of my comfort zone. I attacked that goal with gusto and by the end I felt like I had overcome some wall - It was a great feeling. The page below was just a page of some of my favorites from the results. I still have alot to learn and I want to continue pushing myself but I admit I was super happy with that feeling of something starting to click. I also created a page of color variations for Alice.
Back to the Future...aka Present - October 4th, 2011, 2:24 am
After having plenty of time of time away from these, I feel like I can finally see them with fresh eyes. I need to totally redo the King and take a fresh clean pass at the all my characters. I know now that my lack of solid plot and character development has led me to fight myself a ton during this process. Who are they really? I kept changing my mind and that made it hard for me to push the designs and make decisions. I didn't really know who they were so I was trying to make up for that confusion by creating tons of variations and hoping one would just look cool enough to work. Story is everything! So I'm now working that out so I can take a fresh pass at this idea.
NINETEENTH POST - April 6th, 2009, 1:14 am
Anatomy Adjustments...
I've been revising each of my characters in separate files and I felt that I was losing a bit of the cohesiveness so I lined them back up and worked on them next to eachother.
Hope you're having a great spring break! ^^
JASON:
it's looking really good.
- king's glove and alice's boot look really similar, king's right forearm is longer than his left forearm. try experimenting with the shape of the armthing on the king. near the wrist it looks like a tube - maybe come in at an angle and queen's staff things are tangent with her boot - looks like it has tags. but I'm just nit picking here - overall it's really nice. cats feet are looking nice. - I guess you could design the king's gun thing now - unless you're happy with what it is.
good job. keep it up. :)
EIGHTEENTH POST - March 31st, 2009, 12:10 am
curiouser and curiouser...
Thanks for the critique ^^ It's helping alot as I look for ways to streamline the design and how it all works :) I'll probably be hammering it out over the next two weeks-ish so till then I'll go back to the other characters. For now here's the mischievous Cheshire ;) I worked on it's silhouette a bit to make it a little more interesting and I was just thinking of keeping it a solid color to focus on the grin but I tried a few other things to see what would happen.
-The alien Cheshire cat can camouflage itself like a chameleon, thus "disappearing" so I don't think it needs to be too complicated but I did think maybe Alice might spruce it up with a little cat space suit at some point, I don't know...
| JASON: I really like the idea of changing colors like a chameleon. That's great. Now you just need to decide on a pattern. I like how the circles in the first one contrast the sweeping lines of the cat. the long lines of the second one are nice - surfboard-like - and say "fast" - they're speed stripes. I don't think the little shirt works for him. I like the tiger stripes, the wrap around lines break up the form too much, having no inner designs seems naked, and the sparse sploches could work. since you've changed the ears (not iconic "cat" ears) - I think you should have a nose - well put one on and see how it looks - you don't have to keep it if you don't want to. It's up to you, I love the tail. as for the front legs on this cat are different sizes (left leg longer and that the paw isn't flat with the other paw, but supposed to be right next to it, looks weird). don't just stop that one near us at the body, give a line (at least on one side) to show it goes to the shoulder. you might want to draw a skeleton for it. (also a great piece for your portfolio - it shows a lot of thought and proves it can be built and rigged in 3D). |
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