Summer Holidays= practice, practice, PRACTICE!!

Over the summer, I worked on a few little projects of my own to keep myself busy whilst I wasn't at college. I saw the summer as an opportunity to better myself in all aspects of illustration such as learning anatomy, poses and expressions as well as practicing my digital painting.

Here I was practicing painting semi-realistic skin

I also wanted to pay attention to how light and shade affects a picture and so I practiced with something simple

The red lines show where I planned to shade and the green represent highlights 

I'm quite pleased with the outcome!

Here is the finished result

In college our current project is character design which is my favourite aspect of animation and illustration. I threw myself in the deep end by creating a rather complex character but i'm pleased with how he turned out.

Turnarounds of the character I created for my Character Design module

Another piece I worked on was a picture of Summer Finn and Tom Hansen from the film 500 Days of Summer. I felt inspired after watching it for what must be the 100th time (I just love Zooey Deschanel!!) Backgrounds aren't my forte so I decided to include one here for good practice. Since Tom is an architect I thought a nice cityscape would fit the bill whilst editing some antique looking wallpaper over it to pay homage to Summer's vintage sense of fashion.

500 Days of summer

One piece I did recently was for a Charity Ball auction where I was asked to do a picture of Elsa from the Disney film Frozen. I loved doing this piece but it was 24hrs+ work being a perfectionist and all!

I was thrilled to find out it sold at the auction for £255 so I'm glad I did my part in raising a good amount of money for charity! 

Frozen Charity Ball portrait

Close up- 

Included in this sketch dump are a couple of my favourite characters from shows like Death Note and Attack on Titan in addition to Snow White from Disney. There are a couple of my own characters included here. David bowie has even made an appearance too!

Sketch dump