Sketchbook sketches

 

I bought myself a miniature palstic skull from Amazon a little while ago to help guide me draw the head at different angles. I also followed some of the free Proko tutorials on the torso, which have been quite useful. I'm going to work harder on visualising what I'm drawing before touching pen to paper, because my lack of this often leads to less organised sketches.

Recent lifedrawing classes

I've somewhat recently found a Lifedrawing class local to me that I can just about make it on my 9-6 shift coming back from work. Although, as it starts at 7pm, so if I'm on my late shifts I can't make the classes. It's a shame I can't conistently go every week, but I'm glad I have the opportunity to make it to some of them every other couple of weeks. I've noticed that if I take the train back home opposed to cycling, my drawings tend to be more composed and less erratic. I've taken quite the hiatus from lifedrawing, so I'm a bit rough; I'll try to make up for this by getting in some more consistent practice.

Particle simulation with polygons

 

 These renders were made following the 'Houdini: Particles' tutorial by Scott Pagano, which I learnt a lot from relating to particle effects and the node tree.

Houdini smoke exercise

I followed an Applied Houdini tutorial for establishing smoke simulations in Houdini and this was the result. I replaced the source object with a cube and changed some minor settings, but otherwise followed the tutorial example.