Lesson 5a - Hands, Folks!

This is my try at this lesson, and I like drawing hands. There are so many subtle curves and if you get them right, they can look beautiful. Still think I have a lot to learn with hands, but tell me what you think.







John K Stuff: Animation School Lesson 5a - Hands

Inking Sody

I found these couple of frames of Sody cleaned up while browsing John K's blog, and I thought what could give me practice inking and keep my attention better than drawing beautiful women. So her they are, and they stand as my best work in inking. I also learned some more about Illustrator, so I was able to tighten up some loose ends that I have had on previous examples.














Here are the frames animated, but I don't know the timing, and I didn't feel like messing around with it too much.



The original clean-ups can be seen here.
John K Stuff: Sody Pop Models from layouts

Getting Better At Inking

Here is what I have been doing, when not working on the lessons. I like inking so this has been a lot of fun. I think I'm getting better, but as always, any critiques would be welcomed. I'm still very new to inking.





I've been working on other inks, so I will be posting those examples soon, but I've read up on Illustrator, so these next ones are a lot better (or at least I think so).

Lesson 5 - Tom and Jerry

Whew! That lesson took a while to get done. What with the holidays and snowboarding I have very little extra time, but now that the holidays are over, I have more time to draw. But going boarding a couple times a week eats into a lot of my drawing time (but I'm not complaining!).

I can definitely see an improvement in my drawings, but I am also becoming more and more picky with the quality, so they are taking just as many tries.

Tom and Jerry are fun to draw, but they are also very easy to draw ugly. Usually I would get all of the proportions down, then get an appealing picture.



















Here is the progression the drawings took to get to the good one.
















Also, I have been playing around with inking in Illustrator and that really helped me figure out where and why lines were drawn. Tracing over the pictures really helped drive home solidity and how to draw solid characters.

John K Stuff: Animation School Lesson 5 - Line Of Action, Silhouettes