Here are a few pages from my sketchbook this week- lots more people watching, I find it so interesting to study people and how they act, and it's a perfect starting point for my character designs.

I'm not sure why these have scanned so badly, but here are a few recent pages from my sketchbook. I've been continuing to look at Edward Gorey as inspiration for my character design Artist Study project- I've used Gorey's muted colours in these first two pages, which I really love.

Life Drawing

An update

Here are a few things I've been doing recently- a bit of research into bullfighting arenas for the film, some drawings from another day of working in Starbucks, and some life drawing from last Tuesday. I've been super busy lately so haven't had time to update as much as usual, and I've started animating my baseball project so not much to show on here until that's finished in 2 weeks' time (hopefully!!)

I've been trying to start doing more work digitally, and so today I drew a few facial expressions of my ballerina character on Photoshop, using my Wacom tablet.

I've finally updated my portfolio! ameliaflowerportfolio.wordpress.com

People Watching

Yesterday, I spent my day in Starbucks drawing people as inspiration for some new character designs (making use of the free refills on filter coffee!) People watching is one of my favourite things to do. I've always been fairly observant and so I find it so interesting to study how people act. Starbucks was surprisingly busy all day, so there were all sorts of different people to draw. At the end of the day, I started drawing one girl in the queue who was perfect to start developing into a character, and so I've started drawing some ideas based on this today!

Life Drawing

We had a female model in life drawing today which was nice because I find women so much nicer to draw. I am pleased with my drawings from today, and I briefly tried out some Edward Gorey-esque line drawing, from my previous post!

I also started a few silhouettes of some new character designs. I'm not too sure of who my character will be at the moment, but I find it relaxing drawing these so I did these quickly on my lunch break today.

Inspiration

I love love love Edward Gorey, and so I've decided to study his work in a bit more detail as inspiration for a new project. I find monochrome pen and ink so interesting, and I'm always drawn to anything surreal or a bit dark, and so obviously Edward Gorey is one of my favourite influences.

I've been mainly studying Gorey's use of lines, and I'm excited to use some new techniques in my character designs.