Peter & The Wolf 3: The Wolfening : Character Edition

I've been a bit scatter brained (final semesters will do that to you!) So I've missed posting a few 'milestones' in this thing as it were. In this post I'll post the progress on the characters!

Size comparison! The wolf is still a bit too small I think.

Peter

Here's Peter at his current stage! I haven't yet completed the turn around of him in his coat. I'll add that in a separate post when it's done. :D

Some rough action poses, some better than others.  I'm pretty bad at staying on model with this guy (I seem to like making him 4 heads?)

The Wolf

Almost final character turn for the wolf! (needs a 3/4 and some color tweaks, also some texturing?)

Some wolf action! 

Peter Progress

Here's where we came from, so remember Peter in the older posts? I hadn't yet decided what to do with the guy, so this was what I did the following week:

Peter rough turn, I was pretty happy with this at the time, now I don't like his face.

Some color for Peter, feedback was these were all a bit 'dirty' which is truth.

Peter in his coat! (matches his regular outfit)

Wolf Progress

Here's where the wolf came from! Really had difficulty pushing the size of this creature at first. The wolf is the bad guy, and a threat to tiny Peter, needs to be huge.

Almost there, but not as hulking as it should be, I liked the legs/face silhouette here.

still a bit too scrawny here, figuring out the ears as well.

Better expressions than last time but NOT THERE YET.

Some wolf colors (also too dirty) I was partial to the white though. :D

A revised turn around, but again, too scrawny!

Other Things!

FINALLY here's the birds I did last week, trying to figure out color schemes and shapes, looked at a lot of Charlie Harper's stuff for inspiration. I'm leaning toward either yellow or blue depending on the final composition she ends up in.

And the duck, he needed to be fatter and rounder than I had been drawing him in my other iterations. Also tried some color stuff, I wanted to sort of hint at what Peter was wearing.

and that's it! Next up, environments?? I guess.

SUPER BONUSSS

A really really really old something from 4 years ago, rest your eyes upon the purple.

Peter & The Wolf 2: The Journey Continues

This is a little late, I finished these last week, BUT here is another roundup of these sketches. Peter slowly taking shape (SLOWLY) the wolf still refuses facial expressions and we discover that environments/layout is not my forte.

mostly the same head here, was trying out different eyes and noses though.

I wanted the wolf to look lithe and snakelike

wolf faces are hard :C

rough model sheet, some feedback I got was it needs to be more 'menacing' this wolf looks too much like a helpful wolf rather than a mean wolf

some rough environment stuff, I am bad at environments!

size tryouts, the peter on the top there was the 'winner' design wise, probably gonna go with a variation of him for the final.

SUPA BONASUUUU

An alternate coloring of the viking lady I posted over on my tumblr (bottom of the post) a bit ago. These were the first colors I chose since blue and purple are my defaults, I figured I should mix it up so I changed it to red and teal. :B

Peter & The Wolf - a lot of text and a lot of pictures

For my final semester (yay!) I'm doing an independent study. I chose to focus on visual development for a project, as there isn't really a program at the school for it, and it's something I'd like to try out and I really miss drawing. I'm sort of copying other programs at other schools I've heard of and using Mike Yamada & Victoria Ying's Rough Draft as kind of a guide.

So the thing is to pick an established story and develop the characters, environments, etc. as if it was going to go into production. I chose Peter & The Wolf by Prokofiev. It's not a fairy tale really but I grew up in a very musical family (piano teacher mom) so I am quite familiar with the musical piece and always loved it as a kid. Plus I thought it would be interesting to have musical instruments/performance as an inspiration behind the characters.

SO ONWARD, these are the very very early sketches for this thing, mostly getting the bad ideas out and trying to figure out wolves and burly men. I've decided Peter lives in rural Mongolia, probably in the 19th century or before, so the costumes are based on rough early research of that area. These are all pretty quick, I didn't allow myself to spend too long on one drawing.

So there they are, still need to show a bit more personality in many of these, and break up proportions, but I drew a lot more than I have in a while and it was great. Look for these to get more refined as the semester continues. :D

BONUSSS

The werebear I drew for a Twitter art challenge yesterday, yupp.

just let it go man

So this thing

went through an interesting process. I had just seen Frozen at CTN, and Elsa is neat so, for the first time in forever (ha) , I wanted to do some fan art. I scrawled out these sad attempts before giving up in frustration.

Being annoyed with myself and knowing I could do better I decided to do some studies of the pose, how can I get her to look more joyous, free, uplifted, I sketched some junk in my sketchbook. Trying to emphasize up in her pose.  I realized that my straight on approach in the above was super boring, and 3/4 kind of gives her more elegance as well.

(no picture because they are jumbled among other sketches at this point and decipherable only by an ancient code unknowable by man at this current time)

So then I tried again, I drew this on my Surface pro entirely, because I could be huddled among blankets while drawing. Also trying out a process gif rather than a huge line of images. I had some issues with her chin being kind of big early on for some reason.

and there you go!

BONASUUU

A drawing of the girl from previous posts

 (who thanks to an awesome comment is now named Lenna)

Statue Falls Process

I should just hire someone to title my stuff. IT IS HARD.

This was done for an illustration class at school which I love, I wish I could take 500000 more of them :C

So I wanted to do a series of illustrations with generally the same characters kind of telling a story, but more just stand alone pieces. The first I wanted to do a big statue kinda thing

thumbnails, yep. I did more of these but these were my favorites.

I took a lot of really hilarious ref pictures of myself in the statue pose and did a weird paintover of the thumbnail.

Attempted to fix the statue face a little and figure out the foreground. Added some god rays. *hallelujah*

I sized the characters up per class feedback and moved the statue to the background a bit more. (thank you skew tool).

Added some quick color on an overlay layer.
Decided figures were going to have a picnic in the foreground (cute factor).
Got bored of painting and decided to work on the line art (ie fix that statue 1000%). I wanted this thing to be all about lineart anyway.

Tightened up the painting parts a bit, finished lineart in background, finished up picnic, added even more god rays.  This was for the final turn in.

At final turn in, it was suggested the foreground didn't really mach the background, epic statue vs adorable picnic. So on a new layer I drew the characters just admiring the waterfall and the majesty of it all and then made the picnic a whole new piece on its own. I also moved that cliff up in the back to break up the background's silhouette more.

Here's the picnic by itself. I found I enjoy painting grass.

BONUSS

A really quick character drawing of the girl and dog. Currently nameless and pictured cloakless here.