Schoolism SALE!!!

We must have all been very good this year as Santa has persuaded Schoolism to do another $100 off SALE!

They've got great courses in Character Design, Digital Painting, Storyboarding, Gesture Drawing, Caricature and more!

Anyone who has been following this blog for a few months will know that I did Stephen Silver's Character Design Course and I was very good! I learned so much and he is such an inspiring teacher. I have a few friends who have also done some of the other classes and they have also reported on how much theyve learned and are glad they signed up. Well worth the money!

So if your new years resolution is to get better at design, or painting, or drawing, why not treat yourself to one of these courses with your Christmas money?

If you miss out on the sale then you can still you my special discount code to get $50 OFF!

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

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...

Madame Cecile

Madame Cecile, your friendly Voodoo Queen of Louisiana.

This is a plain 3/4 view of Madame Cecile, developed from the thumbnail above. Apparently it's good to just pose the character like this before posing them in character poses. Not 100% happy with this, I dont think you can quite tell who she is supposed to be. I'm hoping when it comes to posing her character will really come out.