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OMG! WTF! Its been 2 whole weeks since my last post! And I was doing so well! Ive been slaving away on my portfolio aswell as having a little trip back to London to see Matt Timms at his new job on The Amazing World Of Gumball.

So here's a bit of my expression page for a character Im working on for my portfolio. Ill put them all up as soon as they are all cleaned up.

And thank you to those of you who are following this blog and leaving comments. It makes my day, it does! Over 100 followers! Yeeeeey!

Jerry Loomy #2

The end has come for my Stephen Silver course on Schoolism. The last assignment was to redo a character design we did based on a brief from the first assignment. The blue one below is the revised version and at the bottom one is a comparison of the two.

The course has been so good! I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve the foundations of their drawing and design. He covers a lot of bases, from shapes, silhouettes and rhythm, to hands, faces and feet, the importance of a sketchbook and also tips on being a professional in the industry.
Originally when I did my first Jerry Loomy, I felt pretty happy with the design but now in comparison to the newest one I can see all the weaknesses I had at the beginning but luckily Ive been able to improve on them and hopefully I will be able to keep up the motivation to carry on with Stephen's word of advice and inspiration.

New Project

Now I am almost finished my Stephen SIlver Character Design course, Ive started a few other projects. One of which is a little cowboy story. Here I have redesigned an old character and hopefully Ill find the time to design some other characters to go with this guy. Still feeling him out trying to find the right design.

Doodle

Parc Merveilleux...Encore!

Another trip to Parc Merveilleux in Luxembourg for more animal drawing practice. Been doing some more Mike Mattessi studies on his WEBSITE which helped me loads on this trip. Possibly developing an obsession with raccoons! They have 3 there, I call them Fatty, Shakers and Number 3. Shakers is really old and walks kind of funny, he is my favourite!

Mmmmm....Noodle Soup.

Sorry! ANOTHER Madame Cecile post! Sorry if my blog is getting boring cause all I'm posting at the moment is this stuff. I'm just updating my portfolio with this work so I'm spending all my time on these images. So please stick with me! And have a look at some of my new PORTFOLIO images and tell me what you think!

Oh and also! The show I was working on over the last months is on TV now, so my SHOWREEL is now unlocked! Please have a look and again...any comments and criticism is greatly welcome!

Conjuring Time.

Madame Cecile is coming to life!

Really got to work hard on this character this weekend, and I think that I'm starting to really get a sense of who she is. Designing the face is so damn hard but I guess it is the most important feature for a character!

What do you think? What kind of person is she coming across to you as?

Les Visages

Some different head designs for my Madame Cecile character. I have the terrible habit of drawing one face shape and then drawing the same face over and over and over again, thinking that Im exploring different ideas, but really Im not! Here Ive really tried to explore various head shapes, facial proportions and expressions. What ones are you feeling?

Madame Cecile Poses

Candles

Parc Merveilleux - Luxembourg

Last weekend I went to a local animal park (not technically a zoo...I dont know why) and I wasnt expecting much but it was actually brilliant!!! A cracking array of animals on show. My favourites were probably the Raccoons, they were so sweet, in particular a really old one who couldnt quite walk straight and sporadically feel over. So CUTE!

Hopefully Ill make a few more trips there before the weather turns mean and then try making some characters from my studies. Im thinking the Emus could be really fun. So keep coming back to see how that goes!

Animal drawing has always been a weak point of mine, so any pointers or comments would be greatly appreciated!

Fierce FX!

http://mattmantimms.blogspot.com/

Just a quick post about a wonderful short Street Fight animation featuring mind blowing FX animation by my boyfriend Matt Timms and character animation by Laurent Rossi. Click on the image or link to see the MAGIC!

Going to the Zoo

Bit of an unusual post for me this evening. In preparation for going to this 'zoo' (it's more like a small animal park, no lions or tigers or bears, oh my) weekend because the sunshine has finally come to Luxembourg this summer, I like to be a bit of a drawing nerd and research animal anatomy and do artist studies as a starting point and get myself into the mind frame for drawing. I know that there will be parrots at the zoo this weekend, so after reading Mike Mattesi's new FORCE book on animals drawing, I did some sketches and also tried doing character sketches like the ones above. Ill scan in my other with my results from Saturday's session.

Faces Progress

For those of you beautiful people who stop by fairly often, I'm sure you have noticed the abundance of facial studies I've been doing. The 100 faces was challenging and to be honest by the time I got to 40, I was pretty bored, but I knew that I had to stick as it to learn more about distinctive traits of older and older faces.

By no means would I consider myself good at faces/heads now, but as I sat down tonight to do some face ideas for my Madame Cecile character, I did notice a new found confidence in my drawing and by doing the 100 faces I discovered some useful traits that I could put in her design as she is in her mid 30s and looking a bit tired.

So I wanted to share with you 2 sets of heads I have drawn recently. The top ones in grey, I drew this evening after doing some more studies but this time just on the eyes. The ones below I drew about a week or two ago before studying heads at all. I think the difference is pretty evident!!! To my surprise! I'm feeling quite chuffed with myself cause forever, faces have been (one of) my Achilles' heel! I avoided them as much as I could but now I just wanna draw more and more!

If I can find the time...I have a little game I'd like you all to play! Stay tuned...

0 to 100

So it took my 2 days to do! Probably about 4 hours in total. Who'd have thunk it would take that long to draw 100 of something. Above is a low res image of all 100 (cause some are shockingly bad and I dont want you to see them :P) but below are some of my stronger ones.