The Dalek Movie

The Dalek

So, I found my video file for my Dalek animation - unfortunately, this is the one before the sound file was added. I'm still looking for that menacing machine voice yelling 'Exterminate!'. But, you can see how smooth the motion is, and catch a glimpse of the gun firing off in the last frames.

Modeled and animated in Blender.

The Final

Our final was a full figure drawing, with a backdrop, on colored paper with highlights and shadows. Compare this to the very first model drawing I did. Thanks again to Jane Fisher for moving me out of stick figure drawing and into a real where I can finally create actual human beings.

Muybridge Study Boy's Jump

This was our final motion study piece; we were required to do a motion study - Muybridge's photographs were suggested as a source. To get a further sense of this drawing from old photograph, I drew it on distressed paper I found in my wife's collection. that bright fade line you see in the center is an artifact of the paper, not my camera. The whole thing turned out really well.

Motion Studies

A quick sketch in Conte crayon of the same figure at four points of motion (the white figure in the back is barely noticeable). Even though this was a fast sketch, I really like the way it works.

The Singer

The point of the exercise here was to take a photograph and reproduce it as a sketch. Or, in my case, look at the photograph, make the right arm twice the length it should be, then realize what you've done when it was too late. :P

Reclining Nude

Our one and only traditionally posed nude, mostly as an exercise in foreshortening. Not my best execution.

More Full Figure

Three more figures, again in chronological order. The first one is on white paper, the second two on colored paper