For our first lesson in character design, we were taught about shape language and how different shapes, iconography, and motifs can be used to suggest meaning and personality in a design. The three most important shapes are circles, squares, and triangles. Circles are associated with friendliness and softness, often being used in children’s media andContinue reading Week 5 – Character Design
This week, I was moved into a different group: Group 8. This group’s world was based on the idea of the aftermath of the Gods fighting leaving the world in disarray, with chaotic, uninhabitable weather forcing the surviving humans to retreat underground. The protagonist, a human tasked with venturing above ground, is in search ofContinue reading Week 4 – Colour
This week, we began with some basic tone and line studies of nearby objects, which I did traditionally, one with pencil and one with pen. This was to get used to expressing form and meaning through lines and tone as opposed to colour, and to figure out the most efficient way to convey the subjectsContinue reading Week 3 – Tone and Value
After learning about the Rule of 3rds and Golden Ratio, I tested my ability to utilise them by drawing 4 rough compositions relating to the world my group had chosen, which was the concept of a post-apocalyptic world where cats have taken over as the dominant and most sapient species. I drew two rough thumbnailsContinue reading Week 2 – Composition and Perspective
For the first week, we started off with basic warm ups and a brief run through basic drawing skills. Then, we drew out various simple shapes, making them 3D and bending their forms to create new shapes. This helped us to visualise complicated shapes as more simple, recognisable ones, just warped. We were then taskedContinue reading Week 1 – Form and Shape