Here are a few things I've been doing this week. I'm spending the rest of my Summer developing my style and drawing as much as I can to build up my portfolio before Uni starts again. I'm finally starting to have a little more confidence in myself, and I am developing a clear plan of where I will take my work in the future...I am feeling very motivated!

I'm back!

After an unintentional 3-month holiday from updating my blog, (and an actual sort-of holiday...!) I am back with lots of new work and ideas to post here. After the stress of deadlines at the end of term, I spent a month in China on an internship at Golden Oak Pictures in Nanjing. My role was character design, but there were very relaxed in letting me do pretty much whatever I wanted to in creating some ideas for their film- they are in the very early stages of pre-production, so it was nice to have the freedom to develop my own ideas and contribute to some changes to the story. Here are some of the images I produced in China. I've started to become less into character design, and more interested in developing my own illustration style, and I also found it really fun to draw these houses so I just kept going!

China is a completely crazy country, and I will definitely be back!

Character Designs

I spent most of my day sitting on a wall in Bournemouth town centre, drawing people. There were lots of people sitting outside because it was so sunny today, and I'm really pleased with how these drawings have turned out- I finally feel like I am improving with my character designs!

Character Designs

Here is a character that I have been working on today- she started off as a wacky old lady with big blue glasses who I drew in the queue in Starbucks last week, and I've been drawing her ever since...she's lost a few years in age, but kept the glasses. I'd like to make her a little crazier, but I'm pleased with these sketches so far.

I've been spending a lot of time (and money!) in Starbucks lately, doing some people-watching in my sketchbook. It's my favourite way to gain inspiration for new character designs, and I love watching how people interact and behave.

Here are a few recent pages from my sketchbook. I had a drawing trip to Oxford last week with my Animation course- I visit Oxford often, but rarely have time to draw as much as I would like to, and so it was really nice to spend a whole day drawing the buildings, and of course some people watching in Starbucks, too!