memory sketching - Character Design course with Stephen Silver - III

This is a memory sketch done within the schoolism class with Stephen Silver - final drawing and doodles of a man spotted while waiting at the traffic lights on a sunny day this summer. As I rarely draw muscles at all I picked him for the assignment. Also, I've never seen such a muscle-man in real life. He really looked like he was pumped up with air...

Character Design course with Stephen Silver - II

In lesson 2 we started working on two characters inspired by "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde". I came up with a shy, nerdy school kid, called Ben Timidson, aged 9 to 10, placed in the late 70's, who is afraid of everything and his vicious, arrogant mutation Jack Debacle, who has a huge temper problem and loves exploring and (then) destroying things.

These are some of the first sketches for the mousy Ben and the punky Jack. 

With the help of Stephen Silvers critique I mashed up some parts of the sketches with my favorite one, (which got his approval as well - wohoo :) and started the clean up, so this fellow on the right ended up to be the final one. During the remaining weeks of the class we then had to make turns, expressions and attitudes with the final version of character 1. - might post them as well soon.

Character Design course with Stephen Silver - I

This year I treated myself to an online class at schoolism, Character Design with Sephen Silver. My course started in the middle of May and went on for about 9 weeks. Each week you get access to a new lesson to watch online as well as exercises and an assignment. You have the whole week to upload your work so it can get critiqued by Mr. Silver via video which you can then watch online and download. 

The following pic shows the first and the last assignment. We were asked to design a character based on a given description - a wealthy, jolly, elderly entrepreneur from London. At the end of the course we re-did the design we submitted in week 1. I find it pretty nice how he changed...

left - 1st week, right - last week

rough sketches from week 1

The whole course was great, inspiring and motivating and above all very helpful also in kicking my behind to exercise more on a daily basis and in blowing away the dust from some topics like perspective/construction which -I'm a bit ashamed to admit- I used to neglect a little... and it made me rediscover the fun in practicing them. Stephen Silvers critiques are easy to follow, he takes time to attentively look at the work and always comes up with helpful suggestions and tips. If you are wondering if you can do a course while working - I'd say yes. It was a tiny bit stressful at times due to some colliding work-deadlines (but that's the curse of a freelancer anyway) and besides a lot of fun it was still manageable to do the assignments. 

So, to sum up, I can definitely recommend it and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna enroll at schoolism again. Yay.

P.S.:

Miss Queen Mob did the course as well, a few months before me, which is why I stayed away from her blog from winter till the end of my class... :) very nice work there -LOuOK

tangled up

a very cutesy, 'hearty' submission with two jellyfish

for the threadless loves Gap challenge

two days left to score

previous sketch..

I like the more intense 'canoodling' but the eyelids

are hard to recognize as such

threadless collab - luchadores/muscle men - sketch n doodles

for about a week I am doodling little muscle men every now and then for a threadless colab initiated by 'Isaboa' (Joe Carr) - check out the last one 'Monster Mash Collaboration of HORROR' here.

Really like the whole mass-collaboration-idea and also the theme for this one got me 'pumped'.

I thought an interaction between the fighters would be kinda nice... when I saw 'citizen riffersons' character this is

what happened:

above the luchador in his original state and glory

CREDITS: Anthony Sekyere aka Tony Riff >>> http://www.behance.net/TonyRiff

gottcha! - quick digital sketch of a little 'sucker'

I really like it but I hope he doesn't virtually kick my butt for doing this!!!

...have mercy!

...some more sketches and doodles...

slap-bang-joe

(don't really have a name for this one.. mm .. quick-kick-zig .. )

sparkles and sweat pants

owl-howl-man

drunk-slob

cupcake man aka sweet pain

So, let's see what the threadless-guys are thinking...

tumblr

I finally got a tumblr account...

and I have the dim feeling that I am going to waste a lot of time there... well, first I have to figure out how this thing works though...

sloth doodles

some loose sketches and doodles of sloths I did on New Years day... in bed...

could become a nice tradition...

allergy sufferers

Sketches for a character that shows the symptoms of a dust-mite-allergy but gets along just fine with the mites after learning about how to live with them and is meant for the 'kids' corner' of a biopharmaceutical companies website.

I was looking for an animal with no hairs so there wouldn't be a confusion with fleas or e.g. cats allergy and the cat would be allergic to him/herself... (well, would be fun too, though... or its only allergic to its sibling or parents... when turning thirteen... anyways, I'm rambling ..)

And the mites are too creepy as big like this :) in the final version it hugs a teddybear full of mites.

KP - early character sketches

some early, rough character sketches for the Illustration project

I did for the learning system 'KnowldegePulse' (see below).

The idea here was to show the un-informed people, that do not use or know the learning software, suffer from high pressure, work stress and insecurity so they keep their heads down and loose a few feet (well, legs…).

...still like the faces and simple shapes a lot...

birdie

a little bird seeing... a worm eating an owl... or something like that.

October trees

hm...just as the trees are getting their colour back I'm posting autumn watercolour sketches...

next week's post: christmas cards...;)

some doodle-creatures

Yeti spotting

crayon

As the annual Pictoplasma Festival approaches (jipee!) Yetis seem to pop up all over the internet :)

Especially coming from a country where one of the local 'heros' claims to have shaken hands with the mighty "Schneemensch" I just had to look out for such a hairy creature myself.

So here are a few pics of mountain-top-beasts I was able to spot over the last few weeks…

although they were hiding pretty well...

sketch

hat's off - Threadless Submission

Hui, just submitted a new design at Threadless and it is up for scoring!

This time it is about a mushroom that lost its hat and feels a bit embarrassed about his unfortunate hairdo being revealed.

For Kids Tee and Onesie.

The illustration was based on a doodle that 'happened' ages ago when I was drawing mushrooms for Maria and Torben at Studio Soi.

... I still like this doodle... OuO anyways,

please give weird fungi and friends your vote!

Cheers and have a good weekend,

i

tiefgründiges Gedicht zum Frühlingsanfang...

Die kleine Motte

namens Lotte

freut sich schon

auf Winterklamotte.

full moon

found this monster in a pile of scribbles done for a job during summer.

I like his shape and thought he deserved better fostering...