Tuesday, May 22, 2012

My Sketchbook Pages: Giraffe, Camel and Kangaroo


Gesture drawing studies of giraffes, camels and a lone kangaroo! I referenced the book Drawing Animals by Hugh Laidman, 2003. This is the seventh installment!

And course I do not claim the original drawings as my own; these are just studies to practice what I have been learning in my Animal and Wildlife drawing class.

All of the drawings were done in a dark brown Prismacolor colored pencil.






Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sculpture: Dean McCoppin

This is my interpretation of the traditionally animated character "Dean McCoppin" Brad Bird's The Iron Giant (1999) as a character in the round!

Materials:  Super Sculpey, Aluminum Wire, Floral Wire, Aluminum Foil, Epoxy, and finished with Acrylic Paint

This guy was my midterm project, made using my professor's professional process! An armature secured with floral wire and epoxy putty, filled in with foil, secured with floral wire again, and then clay outside all of that! 





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Monday, May 7, 2012

My Sketchbook Pages: Pachyderm Studies

Gesture drawing studies of pachyderms! I referenced the book Drawing Animals by Hugh Laidman, 2003. This is the sixth installment!

And course I do not claim the original drawings as my own; these are just studies to practice what I have been learning in my Animal and Wildlife drawing class.

All of the drawings were done in a dark brown Prismacolor colored pencil.