Christmas Cards! - Tis the Season to be Squatting...

Personalised christmas card designed by myself!

Mechanical pencil, white, red, yellow, gold & green prismacolour pencils & white gel pen on brown paper.

2nd Year is Over!! So have some more sketches/paintings! :)

Inspired by @Fevur & @Robsayart on Instagram!! 

Procrastination... At least creatively...

What I want to be doing...

Deep - Store Room Details.

Store room design on isometric paper to gain better sense of the perspective...

Flickr

                         

Have had a Flickr for a few years now & has a variety of images from my personal work, from photography to paintings. So if you fancy it, check it out!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauraandrews/

Animation Background - Pencil Outlines

                                                                  Beauty & the Beast

Hercules

Lady & the Tramp

                                                                       Pocahontas

This semester's drawing project is based on animation backgrounds, with the aim of creating several backgrounds for an animation in different ways. In order to understand what makes good backgrounds I've looked at a variety of images from Disney films interiors & exteriors, within rural & urban settings from animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com. I then simply drew the basic outlines of the background concentrating on the lines as opposed to the use of shading & colours. The most difficult of images to create was the Beauty & the Beast interior just due to the amount of lines & angles in the architecture of the building, but I did find the design very interesting due to seemingly gothic influence. I think the most effective of the drawings is the Lady & the Tramp backgrounds as there is a sense of depth of field.

Kley Project - Final Pieces

These are the three final pieces created for the Kley sketchbook project. After looking in detail at skulls, bones and butterfly wings as the smaller and differently scaled objects, I combined them with the figures of the women (referencing Guido Argentini's photography collection).

The idea of scale is played with in the combination of the female character and the butterfly wings, questioning whether the figure is small with 'normal' sized butterfly wings, or the female is 'normal' sized with oversized wings. 

I've drawn the female figures within the inside of the skulls landscape, attempting to fit the poses into the different shaped crevices and holes within the formations of the bone. Some minor changes were made to skull formations in order to fit the females into the shapes, as amending the poses would be more difficult in this instance due to a lack of reference to work from.

I used the style of cross hatching I'd experimented with previously for both the figures and the skulls, creating strong definition but also looking at the details of imperfections in the bone.

My favourite of the three pieces is the centre image with the female lying down. I think this drawing captures the pose particularly well as well as the emotions portrayed, showing a sense of wanting to hide herself and also sadness. Because of the less detail background of the skull I also think the figure and the pose is the main focus, whereas in the other images I think the figures get slightly lost within the skulls.

Butterfly Wings

To look at the idea of size in a slightly different way as to the skulls, I created a variety of simplistic pencil drawings looking at the details of different butterflies wings to combine with the female figures. Ignoring the colour schemes I concentrated on looking at the shapes and lines created by the main changes in colour. Some shapes required an element of shading in order to imply a transparency of colour.

I chose to use the set of wings that I'd consider the most easily recognisable as butterfly wings, as I wanted to make this detail clear in order to play with the idea of scale more clearly. Using another Argentini pose as a reference I added the detail of the wings to her back, using cross hatching to create shading and more definition the difference the shapes in the wings.

Skulls - Looking At Detail

As part of the Kley sketchbook project, in order to look at the idea of sizing and the details of a smaller world.

I started by drawing simplistic line observational drawings directly from a variety of animal skulls, such as elephant skulls, lemur skulls and alligator skulls. As they were relatively quick drawings, I looked mainly at lines and shapes created as opposed to shadows.

Looking at photographs of rams skulls (bottom image) I had taken previously, I began to look in further detail at the shadows created within the skulls in addition to the marks which had formed from weathering and ageing of the bone. I attempted to use the style of cross hatching to create and develop shadow in fitting and inspired by Kley's style.