2 Slabs and a Bastard *EDIT*

*EDIT* I tried to fix the mistakes I had on the previous drawings. The fixed versions are underneath each one of the storyboard sketches. Let me know what you think! I'd like to hear some feedback!

Hey, I'm back! And it's been forever.

Here's some Slab practices so I can try to maintain the guts of the characters from the storyboard sketch. Right now I feel like I got a long way to go for me to start staging characters within backgrounds, so I figured I'd practice doing some more of these until I get good enough with actual layout making.

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*OLD*

The Slab on top came out pretty good I think. I made his head and cheek area a bit slender. I could've moved the head a bit to the right more and also add more tilt. I do like how the perspective on his feet came out though.

*FIXED*

*OLD*

I tried pushing his pose a bit further in the top one. I could've added more perspective in the head by making it smaller while his body is more closer and bigger towards us. I noticed I strectched out the arm that connects to the big fist too much. Gotta fix that.

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*OLD*

This Donald Bastard was fun to do. I like that I added more perspective on his feet to make his stance seem more balanced. I could've made his arm on the right a bit bigger for it to seem more solid and have his hat stretched out a bit on top, but I had to cramp it a bit for it to fit on the page. I'll fix it though.

I'd like to hear what you guys think!

Chloe Kaspar Kalamities

Many doodles and drawings have gone down, some better than others.







I like the top one (reproduced above) better.. it felt more dynamic, then again, maybe the other one has a more focused expression. Then again again, maybe I'm committing the cardinal sin of changing them arbitrarily.





I studied these Tom Oreb rabbits alongside Kaspar because they seemed to have a good balance of angles, relatively straighter lines, and curves, whilst still feeling organic. I find keeping my hand in studying something good helps me be less spazzy when I draw 'my own' things. I naturally tend toward abundant curves and waves, so I was just making an effort to be more balanced.





Hand probably not far apart enough, stretch not tense enough:





The arm probably could have been more solid and manly, and it's gone off the edge of the page too. (My scanner's not quite big enough for this animation paper)





I preferred the way the nose nestled in the central one of these: (By the way I work from right to left, I'm left handed, so often the worst and more primitive ones will be on the far right)





And I did find the arms on this one tricky to interpret





These were a bit poor, the middle one looks like a monkey, too symmetrical and boring. Also, the tug has become a bit slack:















Liberties taken, and failiure in the middle. Left one less even out, prob a step too wrong though:





And with bunnies:





I seem to be spreading him out and making him wider than he is tall. I guess this is me tending to slightly caricature his girth in an effort to avoid toning him down.





More shite, messy and doodly:





I did more perhaps too pointless to post.

Anthony's Dad by Becky

I finally drew Anthony's Dad. I was pretty intimidated at first since I don't draw people much, especially people with any anatomy. I used my new brush pen for this, I still want to practice my inking more with it.

Anthony's Dad 1





I was surprised at how easy it was to break him down into shapes, I thought that it was going to be impossible. After I did it though I noticed how a lot of lines wrapped around his form and how the details really worked. For example, after I broke him down into shapes I had put an oval for his abdomen and noticed that the outline of the oval matched up with those two curved lines. His fingers together form one shape, so I drew a rectangle for them and then broke down each finger.

There is almost a seam going down his center that follows the shapes of his body. I noticed that his head isn't completely separate from his body like most cartoon characters, the chin line doesn't close and it forms part of his neck. His hair is the same way, it isn't just on his head, it goes onto his neck as well.


I drew his head too big and too far to the left, his right arm is way too foreshortened and his chest isn't far up enough.

Anthony's Dad 2




His finger is in perspective so it is larger at the tip. There are no straight lines on him, even the vertical lines on the left arm aren't perfectly straight. There aren't too many wrinkles, they are only put in places where they would be most prominent such as his elbow and around the knee.


I didn't draw the left hand large enough, the left leg is too far right and he should be hunched over a bit more.

Anthony's Dad 3



The veins on his neck aren't staight, they form around the contours of his neck. Lines that aren't needed are left out. His trapezius muscle is made up of three small lines that curve around his body, most would have put a horizontal line underneath them. Because those three lines indicate the shape of the muscle without the typical horizontal line and it show the strain and anger in the subject.


I drew his neck too far down and made his stomach too fat. His hand should be down a bit lower as well.

Anthony's Dad 4



That arm vein is so frightening.


I made the line of action too up and down, it should instead be more angled and his neck should be more stretched out. For once I drew a head too small! And his hand should be more to the right.