You will develop a series of images and designs for 3 different specifications to introduce you to new processes, tools and applications. Your focus is to iterate and improve your designs through silhouettes, thumbnails, studies and digital painting. You will be supported through workshops, lectures and tutorials throughout.
Life Drawing:
The life drawing session was a great way for me to start working on my anatomy skills. I have participated in life drawing sessions in the past and have always been interested in it because I am drawn to character design. I think solid fundamental anatomy skills are essential to concept art.
Silhouettes:
After being briefed I started creating my silhouettes (click link to see research post). As I explained on my post, I felt that creating thumbnails without some sort of plan would have resulted in me progressing very slowly with this task. By choosing to create an original non-fiction insect, I was able to create better and quicker thumbnails using alchemy.
Additionally, I created 8 second thumbnails on Photoshop at the beginning but chose not to develop them as I feel that Alchemy is more suitable to use for this project. It was a great way to get the pre-conceived ideas out of my head so that I could make better designs.
While making the silhouettes, I began asking myself if my designs are actually 'original'. There’s always been a grey area when it comes to ‘original’ designs. At first I was worried that my silhouettes are of insects that already exist. However I realised that it doesn’t really matter because as long as I’m creating content, I’m learning and developing as an artist. If my final design does end up being extremely similar to an existing insect, then I can just learn from it, possibly develop it and move on.
I think the only problem I encountered this week was time keeping. To solve this problem, I have created a loose plan that I will try to stick to next week in order to finish the project in time.
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