Some new sketches =)

I did a cou­ple of sketches today, one was for a stu­dent, the other just to record the process and prac­tice some tonal work.

Enjoy!

Here is the YouTube video of the last one:

Ideation Process: Part 2

Now, up to this point, we’ve been think­ing of the sketches as a per­sonal tool, that is, an exter­nal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of a myr­iad of inter­nal ideas in an attempt to organ­ise free flow­ing thoughts into a struc­tured pat­tern for our own per­sonal use.

We have part of the design in our minds and this can often cause us to stop short of cre­at­ing sketches that mean any­thing to any­one but ourselves.

This sit­u­a­tion would be fine if the work we are doing is only for our­selves, how­ever, most often the art we doing isn’t just for fun, it’s because some­one is pay­ing us to deliver.

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Ideation Process: Part 1

Cre­at­ing art­work is a won­der­ful gift, a plea­sure that I cher­ish and indulge in on a daily basis because it is both my favourite past time and because it is also my profession.

For myself (and undoubt­edly many of you read­ing this) there is no com­pa­ra­ble expe­ri­ence of div­ing sty­lus first into an alter­nate real­ity, indulging our coolest ideas and danc­ing the tango with plain old creativity.

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Rejuvenate Old Ideas…

Com­ing up with new ideas is part of our job as con­cept artists, but every now and then, it really does pay to look back at your old sketches to mine them for gold.

I did this recently and found some stuff that I liked, but the qual­ity level no longer indi­cates my skill pro­gres­sion over the years. This I find is par­tic­u­larly true of my per­sonal port­fo­lio too.

The strength of your port­fo­lio is essen­tially the key to how much work and what your earn­ing poten­tial will be like, so it always pays to put your best foot for­ward when­ever you can.

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Art Tips: Facial Proportions…

Hey guys,

Just wanted to give some quick art tips to those who are try­ing to fig­ure out facial pro­por­tions — that is, where do all the facial land­marks tend to sit on an aver­age face? The nose, the eyes, the lips, etc.

One way to go about plac­ing these ele­ments is to guess, but that’s not a very accu­rate method and so your results will be mixed.

A more con­sis­tent method is to under­stand some basic foun­da­tional points about the con­struc­tion of the face from a for­ward fac­ing perspective.

So what I will do, is to take a ran­dom image from the Inter­net, and to decon­struct the aver­age place­ment of the major features.

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