Charlie the dog!

I did a new Charlie. (above)

Update:
I did an expiriment with doing some own expresions, I used a bugs bunny sheet as reference. But I don't have a good feeling about it... When I whas making this one's I had the feeling that I didn't knew good what to do. I think that I need to practise more to get more confident about it.

George

I did some study's to practise how to deal with flesh and bones.

I wanted to know how to draw George, because I got a hard time with flesh and bones. Amir gave me this examples to help me understand it (thanks!).

I really like the whole sculpting idea. It helps me understanding and visualize the forms.

Here is my study (I got two poses from ren and stimpy, man's best friend):

George is a great character, my girlfriend finds him scary

I did charlie the dog as well, can anyone tell me how I should aproach the cheecks? Do you need to think about bones? Or is the cheek just pure flesh with lots of mass? I hope you can see my problem in the drawings.

Elmer in steps

STEP 1OK, I'm going to make a post in steps. I just did this one above. It's better then my last one. I find the feets it difficults to do. Another thing that I find tricky is the jaw, I can't find a proper way to measure it (I now make the cranium 2,5 times as big as the jaw).

STEP2

OK, I added the details. There are allot of subtle things that aren't right... And the nose and the eyes are too big..
Stephen Worth comment one time "Those little variations in a drawing are what give it natural vitality."
I need to work on that.

STEP3



OK, I tried a pose from a sheet of foghorn. What do you think?

Update:

Elmer construction

Before adding the details I scannend this one in.

I still keep doin mistakes in proportions and the angle of the forms... I want to be able to do this whitout too many troubles in 1 time.

More Elmer

More practise from Elmer. I hope I will be able to try some own poses of Elmer, but first I need to be able to make a good copy of him.

I have some problems with the eyes. I think the main problem is what I am doing wrong is that I don't wrap them good around the shape of the head, the jaw is an other problem I need to do better.

What do you think?
Does someone else have other modelsheets of Elmer?

-update
I did the body. I did it too fast. Allot of parts aren't the right angle or the right proportion, I think I need to take more time and compare it while I'm drawing more with the original. Previous study's I did before of other charachters I took more time for, I compared it all the time when drawing.

Elmer Fudd

original:

I wanna try to know how to draw Elmer Fudd, so I can try other posses. First I tried to learn some things about the character design. I did make allot of mistakes but I will try to fix them in the next round.

My first study's:

Drawing

Hmmm I really wanna practise my classic cartoon skills like inking and construction because I still have a long road to go and it's something I really reallyyyyyy wanna do... But in the meantime I need/wanna earn money with a job I learn from and I have a fun time with.

I have a new job, I'm working for a talanted dutch illustrator/graphic designer with lots of experience. The job is really cool and I am learning allot of stuff. But it takes allot of time even my spare time, because I need to learn many new things to do a good job (and school starts next month :( ). And because of that I can't spend as mutch time as I would like too on classic cartoons. It's hard to find a balance....

I forced some time to make this practise drawing of betty boop. You can see that I'm struggeling with it from the shabby lines.... I'm going to find some time to practise more. But Im thinking about doing an Elmer Fudd... Mayby I can try to do an own pose and then ink it. That would be cool!

And oyeah, a cartoon I worked on as an Intern aired last month in Holland! It's called Kika and Bob. It's fun to see you're name in the credits on TV :D

Jinks

John K had another toy construction lesson on his blog:
Update:



Hmm the lines are a bit sloppy...

And some other thing.
I want to be able to draw decent poses (for animation). So I thought it would help to study some acting and posing from the flinstones. The originals are from Carlo Vince, I got them from John K's blog.

Learning

And then I found this course from Preston Blair! (all kids on skools should get this book)
And now again I copy allot of old drawings to learn the basics and principles, at least that is what I am trying to do.

Inking is really a good way to learn it.
When I ink a drawing I really need to think about the drawing. You need to understand it to do a good job, just like copying a modelsheet.

A ink I did of a sketch of John K's George.

The original drawing of John K:

I really had to analyze the drawing and think about it. Now I see my ink again I see things that I can do better the next time, especialy some of the forms and corners.

I'm thinking what the next step is, drawing a character like bugs bunny in you're own poses? Or should I just keep inking and copying. I still can learn allot from that.

back

Hola, I didn't post for a while...

But from now on I am going to post some more again!

I did this study (I used a daffy duck sheet). It is not much, but I wanted to post something again.


Update:

The second one I did with a softer pencil and I tried to be more free/sketchy, I think it's because of that it turned out better than the first one. But I could have done this one better, there are allot of subtle things that are wrong. Like the fingers or the feets..

Here is the modelsheet I used.

I didn't compared it jet. I want to make a better try.