The most recent Visual Design project was another 2 week long one. This time we were given the task to create anything we wanted, as long as it was in the Steampunk style. I have known about Steampunk for some time so I had a basic understanding of it. I complied a moodboard together to give myself an overview of the Steampunk theme.
Then I started a few sketches to figure out what I wanted to do for my project. I knew I'd like to do a character but I also thought about doing a plane of some sort. After these sketches I decided I did not want to do a plane.
Next I needed to do more roughs for my character because I did not have a clear idea of hat I wanted to do. I knew I wanted it to be a robot and that I wanted it to have a weapon as a big part of the design. Instead of doing more roughs in the sketchbook I decided to do some in Photoshop because I have been finding it hard to figure out my ideas on paper.
I ended up doing a separate rough as well which I ended up not wanting to take further. These roughs led to my final three solid ideas. So I decided to go with idea number 1, even though looking back some of the others look like they could have been better ideas.
So I took idea 1 further. I used the rough for reference by keeping it on a layer under the one I was drawing on and erased it as I went. I also closely referenced my moodboard and images of brass to get the look I wanted. For the eyes I had a brief look at camera lenses to get them looking nice. I watched this video from this time stamp to look at how I might draw my robot. I found it quite useful. Anyway, here is my final design. I am very pleased with how it turned out but I know there is room for improvement in the lighting.
This week's visual design session was really fun. We had the whole 2 hours to design a 'mutated fish' without much other detail. I ended up going down a path which led me to fish covered with tumours and mouths filled with teeth. If I had had more time on this I would have detailed out the final a bit more but I am very happy with the results.
Today's life drawing was interesting as you can see from the green dots. I did this with a stamp pen in the shape of a star. It was fun to make and I like the overall effect. We also focused on feet for our final drawing today as we are going to be looking at modelling them in 3D later on.
This session got us to mix different media and focus on a specific area of the model. I found this session's methods interesting to try.
This life drawing session had us try a really interesting but challenging technique. For the last 2 images you see here we drew with both hands at the same time.
This session had us focus on the face. As you may have gathered from my other life drawings I tend to ignore the face because I'm not that good at doing them quickly. Luckily we had more time to draw the face. We drew the model's face from two different angles and with two different media.
This session of life drawing had us label the bones on the body and focus on different areas of the model. I chose to challenge myself with the hands and the neck which are also my favourite drawings from this session.
