More Life Drawing

 This week I was particularly proud of these life drawings, especially the first image where I added a lot of shading and detail to the drawings. The other two images show an exercise where I had to draw the same figure in the same position multiple times, going from detailed to it's most simple shapes. A few of them have also been done left-handed (not my drawing hand).

Pre-Production Concept Art

Below shows multiple concept art for my pre-production film idea Got Lamb?, about a farm girl, Young Atoms, who gets revenge on a flock of sheep for trampling her father, Farmer Atoms, to death.

Enjoying Life Drawing

 Showing are my favourite life drawings that I made in the past two weeks. I never used to feel comfortable doing life drawings or showing them to anyone, but after some encouragement I can now point out which parts I excel in. I do a lot better when I make a sketch in pencil and then shade with charcoal, at least if I want to make my drawings neat and detailed.

Be Prepared To Step Up

 Starting a new year at university, naturally the fresher's flu begins to spread from student to student and naturally I happen to catch it, even though I'm not a fresher. It hasn't been an easy first week back. I may have had worse colds than this to the point where I can't get out of bed, but doing work whilst feeling like s**t isn't a nice feeling.

 I'm talking about my cold because whilst I complained that I couldn't do work up to professional standard this week because I was ill, everyone else had the same cold as me and got on with it, still providing good work whilst being sick. I don't know whether colds affect me more or if I'm just lazy but either way, as I get closer going into the professional working world, I have to learn to keep working no matter what state I'm in.

 As I'm talking to people who have worked in the animation or illustration industry, I'm slowly realising that you need to learn to provide constant high-standard work for the company you work for or for your own business if you want to go far in these industries. Of course there are circumstances where you have no choice but to lay off work for a bit! But if it's just a cold, you still have to do something. Yes, many companies say that your work is not as important as your health, but let's face it, they'll be pretty impressed if you still give everything you got into your work when you feel like you're at death's door! At least that's what I've learned from other people working in 'the real world'.

 I had to draw parts of an animatic and do some storyboards this week and they did not look good at all. They were lazy and inconsistent compared to the rest of the animatic made by other students in my team. If other students can make high quality work when they're ill, then why shouldn't I? It's a really cruel thing to learn, but it's the price artists pay when they want to be the best at what they do.