Week 4 Work

20 Action/Adventure Drawings, 5 pages of visual development, & Final Character Design.

I'm still struggling with lighting/shading/shadow.  It feels like it should be common sense where light would hit and where there'd be shadow, but really sometimes it's just confusing.  I get the concept more on simple objects, where else something like octopus tentacles...I must have corrected my shading at least six, seven times and it still doesn't look right.

I guess the other issue I had regarded the time and amount of drawings we were assigned. If my other professors didn't assign homework, I probably would have spent a lot more time on my drawings.  However, that's how life is (Long live Golden Triangle!).  I'll just have to manage my time accordingly. 

I desperately wanted my character to be as original as it can be.  However, the whole time, all I could think of was Little Mermaid's Ariel and Ursula.  I guess it'd good to run into this problem now rather than later  so next time I can learn to "purge" prior knowledge of similar character and "start with a blank mind".  

Lastly, the genre action/adventure is very vague.  Previous genres we worked on like fantasy and sci-fi had "rules".  Fantasy - orcs, renaissance, mages, etc.  Sci-fi - repetitiveness/parts/sections, robots, aliens, etc.  Even when I researched on places like Gamestop, action/adventure was more of a subgenre than an actual genre (eg. Historic action/adventure. Fantasy action/adventure.)

Special discovery: If you are clumsy like me, you most likely dropped your Prisma color pencils many, many times.  When you sharpen, the tip will break and break and break...Well I found a solution!  I microwaved my pencil for 5 seconds and the lead inside melted back together.  Now if only I knew of this before, my box of Prisma color pencils would have lasted a lot longer!  I do have to warn you, there is a small burnt scent...maybe try microwaving for 3 seconds or something...

Edited/added some contrast before class last Thursday. not an actual complete redo! (sorry about the ink on one of the pages, it's from an exercise during class...I should have scanned them in before class T^T!)