The needs of many...

Happy 81st Leonard Nimoy.

2429 A.D. The Sleeper

I decided to do a Buck Rogers sketch. I am going to explore on the subject more, and probably find ways to push the overall design and shape of the character to make him more appealing. This study was done for the purpose of understanding his basic color, costume, and pose. Outside of those main elements the design is pretty straight forward and basic.

As far as explorations go, I will do a few different head designs, and play around with his overall silhouette, in order to come up with the most appealing design I would prefer to give him.

Where no man has gone before

I have always enjoyed me a good ol' episode of Star Trek.

This was a fun sketch exercise focusing on the differences of facial structure. I stylized and exaggerated Spock more than I did with Kirk.

Trees of Oz

I was doing some tree sketches and some of them came out quite appealing, I like the Seussish (try saying that) look to them. These were done mostly for shape exploration purposes. I think Oz would have some interesting trees like this.

John Carter and sketches

Today I did a few fun sketches in my sketch book, and I even decided to color one after watching the Disney movie John Carter of Mars.

Finding time to sketch in the sketchbook every day is important to maintain, so one can continually develop ability and stay is "shape".

Also, today in class, we did some figure painting, I think it came out nicely in spite of the lack of completeness.

Ding Dong the witch is dead

(repetition allows each of these houses look as though they belong in the same town)

In these studies I explored the various shapes and diversity among the Munchkin homes in the Munchkin village. The color scheme follows that of the citizens and their shapes are based loosely off of farm equipment. If I were to take this further I would go in and detail the interior and exterior of each house.

It is also important to note that after I come up with one simple design through silhouette studies, I base a majority of the other designs close to the first one.

There's no place like Home

(silhouette studies are an important preliminary step)

Dorothy's house was pretty fun to do, I figured I would go for a very simple style for presentation that focuses more on shape design instead of detail. When designing and environment I feel it is important to work out the architecture and other structures first, then worry about where they are placed in the composition. Now that I have the basic idea of the house, I will base a three dimensional design off of the silhouette.