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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

100th Member, Biggest and Smallest turnout.

As to the Cartoon Figure Drawing group - we had our 100th member the other day. I might give him a prize if he actually turns up to any events.
Monday at the Hub we had the lowest ever turn out, which was a shame as the model had great costumes. I was very inspired and felt my drawing was really improving. Initially my plan was just to record the figure in a rough way even if ugly but now I'm getting into making pretty drawings too. I like line drawing - comitting to the line. You really have to focus. Check out my sketches and Drew's sketches.
Sunday at Dr Sketchy was the highest ever turn out - I guess it sounded exotic. Lots of argument and comments about the session afterwards. People didn't like the compere trying to teach and there were so many breaks, it was annoying. I uploaded some of my drawings.

Here's one of Millie Dollar, the performer at Dr Sketchy's:

sketch of Millie Dollar

and here's one of the model with his ugly fantastic troll mask:

sketch of man in Troll mask

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Coming to life

The first month at work full-time has been pretty busy and stressful (only because it was new) so not much time to do character design. However, here is the finished Water Kid. The first version shows the character drinking from a bottle, but the client asked me to change it as they are a plumbed in water company and discourage bottled water. Lesson there - maybe run a written description past the client first? I was planning to send a sketch, but decided against, as they look a bit messy and I don't think clients can imagine the final version.
Water Kid drinking from bottle graphic
This is the 2nd version, with a glass. I liked the bottle so it was tricky to get the same simple feel with the glass. Ended up over working it and then starting over in a simpler way.
Water Kid drinking from glass graphic
For the characters representing emotions, (client Phil Reed who works with troubled kids in schools) I have worked up the happy and the jealous characters. Jealous needs more work. Happy: I think I'll drop the patterned fill as it looks more like fabric than a t-shirt. I like the symbol on the front of the shirt though. Can be eyes or something like a star, flower, even an exclamation mark... anything that helps convey the emotion, feeling or thought the character should express.
Jealous T-shirt graphic
Happy T-shirt graphics
Finally, I worked up in Illustrator some of the Camera Man designs. I think they look better than they did as sketches! I like the bottom three which look kind of 50s. I'll make a final version combining those three. Haven't heard from the client so not sure if he likes them. Since none of these clients are paying, I'm not too worried about chasing but will try and contact him. Water Kid client loved the character and called it 'amazing' : ) so that was nice.
Camera man logo graphics - ideas

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Alot of things get on my nerves for a moment but then I think just let it go, let it go! Like people who stand in front of magazine racks blocking the way and they're not even looking at the magazines, they're on the phone. Yeah anyone who stands around in shops on the phone.

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