Model Sheet, King

This is my model sheet for the character project, this also shows my  final design of my king character. I have drawn a front view, side and back view of my character. I placed the character in a T pose position, I have seen in the past a few character model sheets using this pose. It seems to be the most efficient way of modelling from a sketch in a T pose.  I'm happy with the final design of my character. The clothing seems to match well with the time era, and the colours. I added a gold detailed pattern to his undercoat . I think it gives the king a richer look. I chose a blue/purple colour for his undercoat because this is a colour that has been used for centuries in royalty, as it represents power, wealth etc.. I decided to stick with my idea for the characters hairstyle to be the classic bushy wig a lot of the men especially kings wore in the Georgian times. With doing a model sheet I always find the side view to be the hardest. I struggle more with the proportions of the character, It took me  a little time to get the side view  correct enough.

My character idea designs, King

 

These are some quick design sketches of different styles that my king character could look like. With these drawings I used a silhouette of a human figure first then I put my design on top.

Week 6 summary

This week I have been busy with experimental practice with realistic painting, and generally just doing more development work for my  character. I have found my work flow is a little show but I believe I have produced a few ideas. I am worried that I will get a little dragged down into improving my skills on one area and not developing the idea and making something final. I will start from early next week to start and then complete by the end of next week a model sheet, character sheet and final design idea and piece for my character. In a lecture this week I was working on my project and I was sitting next to another student, I glanced at his work a few times and was admiring his work. I saw something I really liked which was a series of realistic painted faces. I Told him that I really liked that piece of work and how did he accomplished it, he went through step by step, start to finish how he did a particular face. I watched and listened for over 30 minutes. I thought it was so nice of him to show me, I learn a bit from watching him. I would love to be able to achieve a similar style in digital painting, it will be hard work but I am eager to learn and become better.

I also had life drawing this week, I enjoyed this session a lot more than my first one. We were told about lighting, we had to draw the model without using line, we had to use white chalk to sketch only the light that form the structure of the model.

Workshop, Life drawing 2

These sketches were drawn on my second life drawing session. I found that this session was a lot more successful than my first. I believe my drawings that are showing here show improvement, such as the 16 quick sketches , at least most are showing a full body sketch were previous they were not. The sketches were white chalk was my media these drawings are showing lighting on the model but without using a solid line first. It was interesting to use this techniques as it really made me think strongly how lighting and shadow casting on a figure.

Portraits, Research

Some images of different portrait styles.

Images

Allan Ramsay, Portrait of George III, c. (1761–1762), Art of the United Kingdom [ONLINE]. Available at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Allan_Ramsay_-_King_George_III_in_coronation_robes_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg [Accessed 30 October 15].

by Thomas Gainsborough, circa (1781) “Portrait of King George III” by Thomas Gainsborough, circa 1781 [ONLINE]. Available at: https://thepragmaticcostumer.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/keeping-track-of-time-georgian-watch-chains-equipages-fobs-and-chatelaines/ [Accessed 30 October 15].

unidentified artist after Sir Peter Lely, (1630-85), Portrait of King Charles II [ONLINE]. Available at: http://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/files/2012/04/New-France_2_6_Portrait-of-King-Charles-II.jpg [Accessed 30 October 15].