Character Design with Stephen Silver

I just signed up for Stephen Silver's Character Design class.  The class is through an online school called Schoolism.  It's a six week course where assignments are given and then critiqued by Stephen.  This drawing is the first assignment.  I'm happy with it, but some of the proportions are off and his arms look funny.  That's okay though!  With the help of Mr. Silver, I will improve in such weaknesses as this.  The picture was drawn, scanned in, and colored in photoshop.

Mr. Waxman

I'm trying to be more productive over this winter break and attempt to draw everyday and post one of my drawings from that day. Here is today's. Still trying to work with caricatures and still struggling to push the features more to make it more caricature rather than portrait. I also used crosshatching which I am not very familiar with, but would like to practice more. Lately I've been inspired by Tom Richmond's work in MAD Magazine. He does great caricatures and shares some of his techniques on his blog. Pretty soon here, he will be posting a tutorial on drawing noses. Check tomorrow for new drawing.

"Cody"

Model: Done... for now?

Well we just finished our animation!  It was a fun class and the students all produced nice work.  After long hours of work and multiple computer crashes, my model is finally done.... well for now.  I didn't have much time to really look into coloring the model using UV maps (where the model is broken up into pieces, and exported to photoshop for coloring), so I'd like to come back to it using this method after some research.  Overall, I am happy with the piece.  It is my second 3D rendering and I plan on making plenty more! 

The Team

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Ceramics

I've shown these before, but these are better pictures.  

Model Update

Okay, yall are probably tired of looking at this guy, but all I need to do now is color.  I thought I'd show yall a comparison of the two, from the original drawing to the model.  Its hard drawing exactly what will go into 3D - there are a few changes in the model as you can see.