Rhythm

When I was a kid I saw one little example in the illusion of life. It said to use rhythm, straight vs curves, and vary your shapes. Even if you have horrible proportions, your drawings will still look pretty if you use these basic rules.

More progress on witch comic

this comic is moving along. This story was written by my good friend Howard Shum.

Bastion 7

There is a chance I might do a bastion 7 short comic for Cheeks (http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/) I did some sketches for fun

What is gesture?

A lot of people have a lot of different ideas when it comes to gesture. I'm not going to be arrogant and say this is the best approach. the truth is, you should just take the approach that is the most enjoyable to you. For me, I like to find a nice simple shape that all the lumps sit on and flow into.

Ref from: http://characterdesigns.com/

Yellow shirt

morning warm up

grey girls

how to "construct" the figure

Here is the approach I use to construct the figure. For this demo I left out the "gesture" stage. In step 2, you just have to make sure your overlaps of the contour reinforce the direction of the form.

jellycat

side characters

color/style study

I'm playing around with the style and color of this kid

more anime style

Awe, remember paper?

Morning warm up

demo 2

Here are some helpful tips

Ryu