Life Drawing That Didn't Get Picked

So here are a bunch of life drawings that didn't get picked to put in for our life drawing portfolios we hand in every 7 weeks. I forgot to take a picture of the entire batch before handing it in, so I'll probably get the ones I liked back with notes on them and unfortunately I won't be able to post them.

We usually bring in 25 drawings and we get help from our instructor to choose 2 from each time category, here's some that were from that batch that didn't get chosen:

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The one above is my favourite from this bunch.

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Here's a bonus doodle I like that I made during one life drawing session as I was getting tired. I've been itching to create some artsy stuff lately.

Character Walk Cycle

So my clean up didn't turn out so nice, I need more practice with clean up. Although my rough looks better so here's the rough!

This was difficult to wrap my head around at first but I understood it more and more as I worked on it. I would like to redo this or do another and better cleaned up walk cycle sometime soon though.

Here is my original sketch of my character at the top and below it a redesign and playing with proportions.

More redesign and I was originally going to have the character pull a train, but this walk proved more troublesome for me than I thought and I had to scrap the idea. Maybe I'll throw it in if I redo this walk...

This was an animation test I did of my character early on before even starting the walk. I wanted to figure out how his hair and hat reacted in relation to his head moving. 

Master Copy Painting

For painting we had to recreate an existing painting and also do a tonal study of it. I decided to do one from What's Opera, Doc? because I just love the colour schemes of the many scenes present in that short. 

The most difficult part was trying to get the saturated pink and purple, I spent about 1 hour mixing pinks trying to find the nearest one I can get or an alternative to it. I managed to get a decent pink that was a good substitute, but the purple was more difficult and I had to settle for something else. Apart from that, I think it turned out pretty good! I definitely learned a lot from this assignment mostly about colour values.

Definitely a great learning exercise, I'm tempted to do another one in my spare time. Although this one alone took waaaaaaay longer than I thought it would.

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Original painting from What's Opera, Doc?

Flash Background and Animation

To learn flash we had to create a background in the program and do an animation in it. I like my background and I enjoyed making something with a cartoon modern style since you can get a nice graphic look on flash. The animation on the other hand is...something else... 

You can see the animation on my tumblr page here.

The Keyframes Podcast Episode 2 - Sheridan Portfolio Edition

HEY YOU! Yeah you! 

Chances are, especially at this time of the year, you're someone who stumbled upon this art blog to creep and see if I posted my portfolio. Well, here it is and it can also be found through the sidebar under the tag "Portfolio":

http://www.artofmarcorivera.blogspot.ca/2013/04/animation-portfolio-2013.html

Above is the second episode to the Keyframes podcast that I participate in and in it we talk about how we approached the portfolio and give some advice for those who are working on theirs right now. So give it a listen while you're working on the portfolio!

Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-vWNCEDAYT6UFN0QWxJSkdKdEk/edit?usp=sharing

Welcome to another exciting episode of The Keyframes Podcast!

On this weeks episode we do our best to help all of the 2014-2018 Sheridan Animation Hopefuls! That's right, an entire episode dedicated to offering the tips and tricks we learned along the way when we were creating our Sheridan Animation entrance portfolios just 1 year ago. We walk through each of the pieces required for the portfolio and share our experiences, pass on advice we were given, and give our thoughts on how to give your portfolio that extra edge among the rest.

We hope this episode will make creating your portfolio just that much more an enjoyable experience, and will hopefully will help you in accomplishing your goal in joining the Sheridan Animation Elite!

Goooooodluck!

Studio Mongoose: http://studiomongoose.tumblr.com 

The Keyframes Podcast: http://the-keyframes.tumblr.com

The Team:

Matthew Ramirez: http://ramirezart.tumblr.com/

Melissa Cho: http://cheeeesu.tumblr.com/

Marc Lefevre: http://maclefame.tumblr.com/

Marco Rivera: http://artofmarcorivera.tumblr.com/ 

Raymond Dunster: http://raymonddunster.tumblr.com/

Kennith Concelos: http://kennith-concelos.tumblr.com/

Kathleen Martin: http://martinartin.tumblr.com

Life Drawing First Semester

Here's some life drawing from first semester that I considered not to post at first due to an unfortunate apathy I have on the subject now. I need something to rekindle the passion I once had for life drawing, it's not the same anymore when I'm drawing in class but outside during extra life or in public cafe sketching, I still enjoy it a ton but something is still...different. It may be due to the pressure and the confusing, inconsistent, and muddled expectations of the work that is required in that class. 

Aside from that, at least I started noticing that I drew differently and better after the first month. The second half of the semester didn't have much progress due to other work getting in the way of life drawing. 

A few of these were submitted for the portfolios we had to hand in twice throughout the semester and a bunch not from the portfolios. 

Most of the ones I handed in for portfolio were drawn on top with a pencil crayon by my instructor with corrections and helpful guides, so most of those portfolio pieces are unfortunately not in this set and will not be posted.  I'll remember next time to take photos before submitting. There are a few drawings below with just circle marks though, just ignore those...even with those notes I still like the drawings.

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Ball and Tail

This year they decided to give us more work than last year's as per usual. This time we had to make 2 balls with tails or ears and a personality and have them interact with each other in some way.

     Timing on this was the most difficult part. It was a lot of work figuring out certain events that happen at the same time such as the small ball turning and zipping to its destination right in time for the big ball to squish it. But most of the frustration I had when making this was due to the awful Flipbook program we use and not the work itself. I wish someone can create a similar program that's more robust and not lacking basic program functions.

     Through this assignment I've grown accustomed to the motto: "Always Keep Flipping". I always kept flipping, a few people even pointed it out. I also finally got the inbetweening page flipping technique down! But I can't do the inbetween flip like the third year animation teacher who can do it at 24 frames a second. One day...one day I'll be able to.