Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Foundation Group - Term 5 - Sketching for Env part 2






Foundation Group - Term 5 - Sketching for Env part 2
WIP, planning to finish with the markers.
And might cleaner version, was my first experience with such a drawing.



Monday, October 19, 2015

Fundamentals of Character Design WK_03


Some drawings and caricatures. was not so ease, as it looked from the beginning!

Bobby Chiu's Routine for the Perfect day


The Imaginism Canvas — Canvas #3 — ARTIST 360

When I was a student in college working on my skills as a character designer, I’d had periods where I would sit at my desk working as hard as I could but having little to show for my efforts at the end of the day. I remember sitting there surrounded by blank pieces of paper, trying to come up with an amazing style that nobody had ever seen before. I would do one drawing and not be satisfied, so I would lay a new piece of paper over it, re-draw it with slight changes to features here and there. This would still not be good enough so I would put another piece of paper over my revision, make more minor adjustments trying to perfect this new style I was searching for. 

I did this for weeks on end, tweaking and polishing over and over, working hard every day. But in the end, did I come up with a brand new style, something amazing that nobody had ever seen before? 

No, unfortunately I didn’t.

Friday, October 2, 2015

Symbols and Motifs Cheat Sheet by Sam Nielson!


I've been wanting to make something like this to use in my design classes for a long time now: a quick reference guide for visual symbols. If contrast is the key to visual communication, symbols are the vehicle we use to create contrasts and making those contrasts meaningful, like words that make up a sentence, or sentences that make up a story. Having useful symbols at your fingertips is essential if you want to create designs that have a high propositional density (the link talks about graphic design only; maybe another post on how this applies to visual development later!).