Boarding a mood

Yo everyone!

I have made concepts of the main character before and now I wanted to continue working with the other elements of the show reel to be. So I decided to make mood boards for the elements that I will be working on in the near future, the alien and the passageway in which my character Logan will move in.



I have quite a clear idea of what I want the setting to look like. I am thinking that the setting should be kind of like the corridors of nowadays ships, but with a futuristic touch. I want it to be narrow and suffocating in the corridor, almost a bit claustrophobic.



For the alien I had more problems. It should be really gross and slimy and awful. I had insects as an inspiration as I wrote the manuscript for the show reel, but I looked more and more on deep sea creatures as I created the mood board. I want my alien to have lots of legs and tentacles as well as those really creepy huge eyes that the deep sea fishes has.

I started searching for insects but couldn't find that many interesting pictures. Therefore I googled instead "gross insects" but I had to go back, it was too much. It felt like there was something creeping over me as I looked at those horrid pictures. Yuck!

So anyways, this weekend my mother is coming to visit, so there will not be that much done.
Hope you have a great weekend :)

Conceptalicious!

Yo everyone!!

I have been concepting the character of a very short animatic type of film that I am working with in school. The assignment is to create a manuscript, break it down, make concepts and create a storyboard that you are supposed to animate in After Effects.

I have written a short manuscript where the female engineer Logan sneaks around on a space ship and kills aliens. She works on the ship and it has been attacked by insect-like aliens.
So, I have been drawing on the concept of the main character Logan (I know it is a man's name, but I liked the idea of it as a name on a woman :)). Last week I made some silhouettes and now I have been cleaning and put some colour on the concept. The colour really isn't necessary for the assignment, but I thought that it would be fun.

I know that the concept is very sketchy, but I really wanted to post this, so I did it anyway. Well now you can see how I work :)

So any ways, it is Saturday, and time for some cosiness :D

CIAO

Summer is over

Hi again.

Omg, my last post was right after GGC and I haven't as much as look at my blog since then. It is really time to make an update!
This summer I have been studying life drawing with Pernilla Person as our awesome teacher. I have learnt so much and I am so grateful that I have had the opportunity to take this course.

I thought I should post some of the work I did :)

During the course we worked from using simple lines to get the feeling of the pose right, not concerning ourselves with proportions and details.

The next week we added volumes! It was important to get everything at the right place this early in the drawing process, that's why using simple volumes such as boxes and cylinders are so important. That way you can easily change what you have done if you recognize that some thing doesn't fit.


Later in the course we focused more and more on details. Learning about the anatomy and putting the muscles where they were supposed to be. Now there is actually a person instead of simple volumes :)


Also we had the amazing opportunity to draw a female model in a wonderful medieval dress! It was awesome :)



In our last week our job was to build a sculpture with clay, using all that we learned during the course. It is hard to show you in a few pictures of the enormous development in my drawing techniques, but when I look back at the first pieces I made for this course I am very glad of all the things I have learnt. If you have the chance to take this course, DO IT!

Now I'm gonna watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!
Ta ta