Character Sketchbook Project

Since the beginning of second year
our character teacher asked us to get a sketchbook for drawing characters
We have to fill it up before the end of this semester
And pick 30 best ones to hand them in
So here are my sketches
The colored ones were my first attempts of doing watercolor
I had so much fun and achieved what I always wanted to do with watercolor

Original Storyboard

Here is my color key
And the original storyboards are down below

The story is created based on the conflict "get rid of it"

It's about a farmer driving on his way home, and then he encounters a muddy skunk, but he recognizes as a cute squirrel / kitten (either one). He pets it, but the skunk sneezes and shakes off all the mud that covered it. The farmer laughs so hard that he didn't notice until later that it is actually a skunk. He gets mad and throws the skunk out of the truck. At the same time, the wheel steers and before he can get back in control, the truck smashes into a tree. Unfortunately, the fire burns down all the trees including his house. And the poor innocent skunk just sadly walks away.

Added: 4 main color keys for painting class

Animal Skeletons Cat & Dog

 


Here are my drawings of cat's and dog's skeletons. We had to draw these during life drawing class within 3 hours. I'm quite happy with my first attempt doing animal skeletons. We will have to choose one animal and draw the silhouette of it and figure out 3 parts of muscles. Gonna choose the dog and draw it as a husky. =)

Painting: Japanese Tea Room Interior

Contrasting Characters: Bobson & Niki

Just did a quick coloring with dry brush in photoshop, and I actually like these rough lines more than the final cleaned-up lines. It's really rough, but it's my first time putting out a PNG image because I wanted no backgrounds.


Hope you like the little romance going on here. =)

Color Pose

As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to color my bike rider character =)

Here it is. Basically just colored it in a flat tone, and did a tiny bit of shading.

Maybe I could try a different color for the body though, because it felt too similar to a human's skin tone.... Oh well, I'm happy about it anyways.

Character Rotation

Here is my character for Weight, Lift & Toss Assignment.

My original idea was a boy scout wolf, but then I wanted to simplify it more. Therefore, I resulted with this pilot/ bike rider-like character.
It was fun designing the 3/4 front view, but then the profile and 3/4 back were really hard for me. I suppose I wasn't familiar enough with the character, so it was kind of hard to visualize it in different views.

Moving on to the actual poses... I hope I can finish it on time!

And also, if I have time later on, I would love to color this character~