Elena Odriozola

I can't upload anything at the moment, as I am at home without a scanner. I've been continuing with my character designs in my sketchbook, ready for my hand-in when I get back to Uni in January. My project brief this term has been very broad, but I am fairly sure that I have to include 3 artist studies into my work. Rather than literally copying the work of other artists like I had to last year, I'm looking into the work of some of my favourite artists and illustrators which are all fairly similar to my own style anyway, and using a few aspects of their work as inspiration to develop my own character designs. I've already been studying Edward Gorey, and recently I've been looking at Elena Odriozola because I just love her style.

A few more character development pages in my sketchbook from yesterday. I love how my drawing style is developing throughout my sketchbooks this term, especially the over-sized and elongated faces, I'm excited to continue establishing my style over the Christmas holidays (today was the last day of term!)

I really love these two pages of people watching, I used my usual watercolours, but it is the first time I've used so much colour for quick sketches and I am so pleased with the outcome.

Here are a few more pages of people watching from the weekend.

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.

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