FFA 121 Character Design Progress #2

So this is the continuance of the previous post. 

I thought I'd submit the coloured one before, but then I was affected by the submitted works of friends (it resulted me being late at submitting this assignment) and put some shades on them by making a new layer and used grey for the shades layer. 

After that, I placed the coloured layer above the shade layer and put the layer on the mode [Overlay] so that the colour and the shade could merge together. 

Then I did the same to the second character with less complicated shading since I don't have much experience shading character with such features.

For the girl, I put the colour layer in [Linear Light] mode as [Overlay] layer makes it look quite dark.

For the last character, I used the [Overlay] mode for the colour layer again. So this marks the end of this post as this state of drawing is how I submitted for this assignment.

I enjoyed drawing these characters, I really do even though it is way far different from what I usually draw. I don't have much hope for this assignment so I plan to do better next time.

Have a good day !

FFA 121 Character Design Progress

The next assignment is quite challenging since we have to draw a cartoon character based on basic shapes such as circle, square and rectangle. For my assignment, I chose two triangles, a circle (not quite) and a rectangle.

 And so I did actually started the assignment by drawing the shapes as my earliest sketch. After that, I tried putting on limbs and such to make it more human-like, and yes, I don't prefer to draw animals. 

So this is my rough sketches painfully made from the shapes. It doesn't look all that complicated but it serves as a challenge to me nevertheless as I've never done such a thing like drawing people from shapes. It's a good kind of change once in a while.

After that I started to do the lineart of the sketches. Some don't end up like how they were initially planned to be but I tried to make do with what I could muster up from my inability to make a drawing I'm satisfied with.

So this is how it looks like without the sketch
layer.

Then I put some character colours on them. The left-most looks brave and has the look of a typical main character of certain stories, so red suits him just right. The second from left looks like a fat but cheerful kind of person so yellow kind of suits his character. The second from right is made to look like a girl with a good-natured smile and temper, sort of like those who gives you the calm feeling when you look at them so green is my choice. Lastly, I give blue to the right-most for his lankiness and how he looks awkward most of the time, how he is not known for easily getting angry, some sort of a bullied character.

Because of some technical reasons, I'll continue on the second post of this assignment progress.

FFA 121 Shapes

Greetings,,

This'll be my first post of the blog and saying embarrassing things is not an option. 

And so our second class started with watching a video about the making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Thousands of drawings were drawn to make a movie, and a factory worth of workers were needed to make it happen. Being amazed is an understatement.

Ms Sheila then instructed us to use graphic tablet and Adobe Photoshop and taught us basic things about it including hotkeys to brushes, eraser, etc.

In order to make sure we students get used to using graphic tablet, she told us to draw circles, squares/rectangles and triangles, and post it here.

Thus.

Ah, have a good day.

Circles and rounds and gross-looking fluffy thing broke through.

Somehow I'm quite proud of this.

I wanted to make it like some sort of a pattern but nah, forget it.