Daily Sketches 4/17/11 - 4/23/11

Updating a day late because of Easter. (And Portal 2 may have also had something to do with it...)

Not as strong as last week, but I did spend more time working on IO stuff, so here's what we have. No sketches for the end of the week due to IO work, like a couple of weeks ago.


Sunday:



Wanted to try playing with some more extreme facial expressions, focusing on where the face stretches and bunches up. I was going for something kinda gross/scary, heh.


Monday:



Bit of a cat movement study. I really want to do a cat animation sometime...


Tuesday:



Portal 2 Day!!! Wanted to draw something fairly non-spoilery to celebrate the occasion.

Wednesday:



I had been in the mood to draw a fish all week, for some reason. Based on a photo of a goldfish I found online. I liked the pose.

Thursday:



This is when I kinda started to go hardcore into IO stuff, but I did a little doodle of Mr. Saturn shortly before I started working, heh.

Friday & Saturday:

Worked on IO stuff that's not ready to be seen at this time.

And that's it for this week!

Daily Sketches 4/10/11 - 4/16/11

To make up for a kind of blah week last week and a potentially very-busy-with-IO-stuff week in the coming week, I wanted to push myself a little harder this time. Some of them are even scanned. Holy crap. :O


Sunday:



This is the dieffenbachia that lives in my cubicle at work. I've had it for over five years now. It's crazy overgrown and has stalks twisting around everywhere, and that's the way I like it. :) This is just a small section of it.


Monday:



Adrian is waiting for his chance to fire.


Tuesday:



She wants to be a mad scientist when she grows up.


Wednesday:



I wasn't sure what to draw, so I looked through photos on my camera until I found one that had a bunch of people in a crowd. I tried to find a person in that crowd who seemed to be telling a story, and I ended up going with this girl.


Thursday:



I really liked the angles in this guy's pose.


Friday:



My sister is away this weekend, so my mom and I are ratsitting her three rats. This is one of her rats, Gwen (same rat, drawn three times). Gwen is such a sweetie. Here we have hungry Gwen, curious Gwen, and sleepy Gwen.


Saturday:



I had some delicious angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries for dessert Saturday night. So, after eating that, I decided to draw Yoshi enjoying some delicious angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries. I was trying to go for a more SNES-era Yoshi.

Daily Sketches 4/3/11 - 4/9/11

Unfortunately, it's been kind of a blah week in sketchblog land. As I mentioned before, some of the stuff I'm working on is under NDA, so I won't be able to post it at this point in time. But, anyway, here's my week in drawing.


Sunday:

Worked on a box concept. First real one I tried putting on paper for this game, but it's definitely missing something. Can't post this now, though.


Monday:



Quick doodle while on break at work, based on a photo reference. I just liked the way the dog's paws were positioned and wanted to try drawing them. Nothing special.


Tuesday:

Spent more time studying boxes than drawing them, but I did mess around with our logo a bit. I didn't design the logo (logos are unfortunately not a strong point of mine), but we're trying to figure out a final version based on group feedback. Again, can't really post anything. I literally can't, in this case. I did try to put together some mock up stuff on my computer, but my poor laptop ended up bluescreening on me while trying to save it. I ended up getting frustrated and going to bed. Really need to save up for a new computer.


Wednesday:




I needed a break from boxes on Wednesday and decided to randomly study bird wings instead. I was trying to figure out the shape breakdown and feather layout. It's something I'd like to study further, especially if I ever want to try some decent wing animation.


Thursday:

On Thursday, it was back to trying out more box art ideas. Tried one with color, but ultimately, I think it was too busy and didn't direct the eye properly. Can't post, though.


Friday:

Another day of stuff I can't post. Did another pencil sketch box concept that wasn't really doing anything for me, and also tried my hand at refining part of someone else's idea, which I'm going to play with some more. We did some group critiques the following day of everyone's concepts, so hopefully that'll give everyone some more direction and ideas to draw from going into next week.


Saturday:



Spent a lot of time doing box critiques on Saturday, but I wanted to do something unrelated when I got home from our meeting. Just a simple sketch.

And that's it for this week! Hopefully next week will be more fun. Though I suspect it will still be full of box studying...

Daily Sketches 3/27/11 - 4/2/11

Hey, I made it through week 2!


Sunday:



This is the boy with the balloon from Hands On! Tangrams. He gets bored easily and wishes he was out on an adventure.


Monday:



Quick character rotation sketches of the boy.


Tuesday:



I bought an Oswald plush at the Disney Store. I'm telling myself it's for Easter, but I really just wanted an excuse to have an Oswald plush. I had watched the old Oswald cartoon "Oh What a Knight" recently, so that's why he's holding the sword.


Wednesday:



Face! I really like the way his nose came out.



Thursday & Friday:





In response to Tomm Guycot's thingy on Talking Time:

"The all-ages saturday morning spinoff of Konami's premier horror series: Silent High"

Worked on sketches throughout the day on Thursday into Friday. Perhaps other characters will pop up eventually, too. I think my favorite is still Vice Principal Pyramid Head.


Saturday:



I think the only time Xena holds still is when she's sleeping. I took advantage of this!