Mine is going to feature Biscuit, a strange little monster/beaver/dog/platypus thing who, like Tlun, originated from a quick silly doodle. She hasn't changed in appearance quite as drastically as Tlun did, but here are some older drawings of her, going from oldest to newest (sadly I don't have the original doodle scanned):
Aaaaand now we're getting onto much more recent projects. A few weeks ago my group was set a task to create 9 animations showing our understanding of the 9 prepositions, as a sort of return to principles and to get us straight back into animating. This is what I finished with.
Almost forgot to post this! This was the animation I made towards the end of my second year, for the "Tiny Planet" brief.
Basically, we had to make an animation set on a planet based on some sort of aspect of us. I decided to base mine on my indecisiveness, and the fact that I tend to hop between ideas a lot. What I ended up with was essentially a "pizza planet", made up of several different "slices" (as my tutor and I referred to them as) that a hapless little fellow was going to have to go through to get to some (unfortunately sentient) pizza, seeing as though the direct path there was being blocked by none other than Tlun.
There are a few things I wish I'd done differently (I think I should have swapped the order of the slices around a little and had the sea monster do more than just pop up and grin), but overall it's one of my favourite finished animations.
It also won me third place out of about 50 entries in my uni's Animation Bites Festival!
Also, here's a little test animation I did with Tlun's rig.
Character line-up time! And yet more evidence of my gradual improvement with varied facial/body shapes, although as you can probably tell, I still need to work on drawing legs. (Also the bearded guy is the worst drawn of the lot, pretend he isn't there.)
These are basically my own takes on more humanoid versions of various Megaman characters (my interpretations of them anyway, as the characters have next to no official in-game information) - or at least, that's what they were originally. I've gotten so attached to them that I want to remove what little remains of their Megaman-y aspects and make them into my own characters - something I've already done with two of them, as I'm going to be using them for an animation for my course. To be honest, they barely resemble what they were initially based on these days.
I didn't really get my brother anything for his birthday last year (normally I make him a card and fill it with stupid inside jokes of ours), so to make it up to him I drew this for him this year. It's Blitzcrank from League of Legends, and as I've stated before, I find top-heavy characters pretty fun to draw. This guy was no exception. I did start to get a bit lazy with the shading towards the end though.
This is my most recent picture of Tlun, and as you can see, (issues with the anatomy of his arms aside), he's gotten pretty big now. He's just been getting bigger and bigger every time I draw him, but I think I've settled on a consistent size now.
I also added some pads on his hands, since he lives in a pretty snow-y area.
First off, since my last post was a picture of Tlun, I figured I ought to post a picture I did of him not long after that one. While in the older image he looked cheeky and mischievous, it didn't take long for him to get... not so cheeky and mischievous. He's a lot more reserved and intimidating in appearance now, as this picture shows. I do most of my digital painting in a program called Paint Tool SAI now, and I think this was the last image that I drew and painted in Photoshop. I did a fair bit of experimenting during this, including fur textures and making it look as though he's in a snowstorm.
The only problem with the latter effect was that it hid a lot of detail, so I saved a second version without the snow.
Next up we have a little something I drew as part of an art trade with one of my friends over in America. We had a little "winter" theme going on, which was the perfect opportunity for me to experiment with something I love- contrasting oranges with blues in cold scenes. Winter is my favourite season because of the atmosphere it creates, and trying to capture that atmosphere was pretty fun. Even though it's almost a year old now, I'm still pretty pleased with it.
Yet more Megaman, and a picture that I'm also still pleased with. Drawing so many characters in one picture took a while, but I had fun shading them all and getting them to all sort of subtly interact with each other and/or react to what was going on.
Another Megaman picture, and an experiment with painting a background based on the level in the game that the character's from. I'm not happy with the results because I think there's too much going on, but the experimentation was interesting.
A picture I drew for another of my American friends, of her alien character, Luna. He's basically a giant space slug, so making him all shiny was pretty fun.
A picture I drew for yet another of my American friends, which I had a lot of fun doing. Something I've always struggled with has been variation in face/head shapes, and I think this was the start of me overcoming that weakness.
And now we've gotten to the more recent stuff, and I think this picture is probably one of the best examples I have that shows that I've stopped drawing everyone with the same overly-stylized face/body shapes and have started having variety in my drawings. This was a picture I drew for - you guessed it - another of my American friends, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Aaaaand that's most of the catching up over and done with. I still have a bunch of recent pictures that I want to post, but I'm going to give them their own posts, because... well, they're recent. :P
