Life Drawing practice

Trying to regularly go life drawing in and around uni work, its proving difficult but every little counts, here are a few from the past couple of days. These range from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. Soon i'll be converting to pen to improve my use of line and try to speed up my sketching, whilst still improving my observational skills.

Animation has begun!!

So, I'm currently in the process of making my first animated short film, animation is in progress with hopefully the first 30 second to be completed within the next 2 weeks. At least I hope so otherwise I'll fail my uni module :P
Here's a quick snap of the opening sequence, its just a piece of simple animation to run along side the title at the start but every little counts :)

Preparation for CalArts 2014

So, im looking into applying to CalArts for 2014 and will be trying to constantly practice life drawing until then, obviously uni will get in the way over the next couple of months but after that, i am not going to stop drawing! For those who don't know CalArts is ranked the 2nd best animation school in the world (1st in my opinion) so doesn't just accept anyone and everyone. This is something ive been considering for a good 2 years and have only recently decided heck, i'll probably not get in, but just lets go for it and see what happens. I'd really appreciate any feedback what-so-ever so please :)

Ive recently joint a lil' group with a few other budding animators all looking to apply to CalArts 2014, we've decided to set small assignments to keep us drawing ready to apply. Hopefully we'll all improve to awesome extents and be accepted into there with open arms... Well we can dream, anyway.

Heres a few life drawing scribbles ive recently done, the task was 100 hands but with uni biting down hard i only managed 50, but its better than nothing so its all positive progress!

And lastly a few sketches from an external life drawing class i attended when i had time, im looking to go to a lot more of these but unfortunately not until uni's out of the way. 

Spoiler Alert: My first animated short film in the works

So, to those who arn't connected to my facebook page, im currently working on my own personal short film for film festival/competition http://www.depict.org/. This will be the first short film ive ever made so should be a nice eye opener to the process of making an independent film ready for next year where i make my final film for my degree.

The storyboard process is pretty much finalised given the short time scale and animation has begun (yey, my favourite part XD). Im not going to give away to much for now, but expect the final character design and various other work for it coming soon!!!

Doodlin'

YEY, i reached 1000 views on here :D probably not a big deal to many but it is to me, it means that people are actually looking at this and im not just talking to myself ... Anyway, heres just a random doodle i did to test out a new brush in photoshop. Everyday when i walk through the park and see people walking there dogs, i realise how much i miss mine. Ooh the pains of living far away from home ... 

Life Drawing

Some life drawing sketches ranging from 30 seconds to 4 minutes. haven't really put much detail into heads, hands and feet, was mainly focusing improving my understanding of curves and economy of line.

LOTS O' SKETCHES!

So, i thought i'd stop uploading one thing at a time and upload in chunks, so here come the first semi-mass upload ... still in keeping with my current theme 'The circus'.

Circus tent: practicing everything but design

I didnt use this so much for a design sketch but more of a  practice for pretty much everything else. ive just recently found out where the dry medium brushes are hidden in photoshop so im playing with them, had a tinker at coming out of my comfort zone when it comes to colour pallets, bit of perspective play, and i need a lot more practice with shadows. i seem to keep the shadows ver grey scale, hopefully i'll change that from now on.