morning warm up sketches

 

I thought I'd post one of my typical morning warm up sketches - I spend my time while I eat my breakfast practicing simple intersecting shapes and similar exercises that I learnt from the drawabox course I participated in last year.

bitey: week 3 - ribbon smoke

 

 Key frames of ribbon smoke, as first assignment.

dry-brush paintings: old leather boots

 

 

This piece is a still-life dry-brush painting of some old leather boots I painted at the Leatherhead Institute as part of a fine art class run by Julia Hawkins.

 

Since earlier this year, I've been taking some local fine art classes in Farnham and Leatherhead. The tutor is a fine artist called Julia Hawkins, who is an established oil painter and artist. Just before Christmas while lockdown was brought back a step, we had a class practicing dry brush painting as a festive treat. With Julia's guidance this was the piece I painted in burnt umber. I really love these classes and I hope that covid doesn't persist to disrupt these classes come the new year. I particularly enjoyed this class as it felt a little less constrained, opposed to the typical lessons of meticulous fine art.

bitey: week 2 - matchstick flame

 

I've been slacking with studies given the last week has been a hectic Christmas. I've seen a fair few good friends, drank my fair share of beer and eaten a lot of chocolate. I should have posted this about a week ago, but I was caught up with current festivities. As a result, I'm about a week behind on the bitey course; I will continuously strive for perfection as we break through to the new year! I have a free week ahead, and I intend on finishing errands and catching up on a lot of work.

more candle flames

 

A poster on the forums mentioned that I was focusing too much on effects in my animation and not enough on the realism of the core animation. On this piece I started with the candle stick, then added the flame after. I feel that my candle flame is lacking and it needs more attention, so I may revisit this file to reanimate the flame. I need more practice when animating flames, but I will move onwards to my next assignment nonetheless.

I've kind of hit a slump this week in terms of work - I think it's because of the upcoming festivities of Christmas. I will continue to strive to curb the bad habit I've developed of being distracted by messages and stretching my attention between key animating and listening to podcasts/music.

Upwards and onwards...

bitey: week 2 - candle flame

 

First attempt at a relatively simple bobbing candle flame - more to come!

more lightning

 

bitey: week 1 - lightning

 

I've started the FX course on www.bitey.com - this is my first weekly assignment: lightning.