AWKWARD ZOMBIE

So like, now that my portfolios are handed in people are asking for me to show what I have done for my own. I'm going to wait till the end of march to post it officially so that other people may use it as a reference to help build their own.

So if anyone wants to see the stuff I put butt loads of hard work into I guess the best thing you can do is PM me, or else wait till the end of the month when I make a master post.

I should scan some of my stuff, it's been gettin rave reviews so I think it's a decent reference point

I've had the Protomen albums on mind a lot lately

and judge dredd apparently

him too

Meet Jack and Siffy, two buds that do adventures

Oh hey, it's been a while since I posted in here. Sketch time?


Sketch time.



On the back of my +6 chord notes for theory, we have a lore sketch of Death's Daughter (for the Hunter story [man, I need to come up with an actual title]) that I'll likely repaint into a finished version later:


The really messy writing (writing on a shitty music stand is harrrrrd) was more just notes for me, but if anyone wants (which I doubt), I can translate the chickenscratch into readable script.



Senka (also for the Hunter story) holding an azureblossom, a (very uncreatively named) flower that blooms in the world the story takes place in:



(I'll probably work that one into a full painting with color later, too.)


And then just miscellaneous scribbles from being bored during history class. Including Chuck's face, Senka's pendant, and playing around with a whiskey label design. (I need to practice drawing clear crystal and glass)

So Zang and I were chatting, and he was celebrating because I finished chapter nine for the story (it had taken me a while to get it to him due to a massive sweep of editing), and he decided to sketch some quick fanart, because he is just the best dude ever. I'm posting them because it's late over there and he needed to sleep. (sorry for rehosting them, man. I figured it would be best to size them down.)

His rendition of Senka with a very Senka-ish expression:


A couple sketches of Chuck in Zang's style:




And then Chuck's ma creepin' on Senka (man I love the faces he did in this one):

I like your facial expressions

aight like I promised here's the portfolio I have been using at my university interviews (for animation).

It has been going down really well and I've been offered places at all of my choices so I guess it's a pretty alright portfolio

It's for animation but it aught to help with illustration and sequential art too

I'm gonna post everything in the order it was presented, it's important and I was complemented on it B)

So I start with this piece http://afternoon.heliohost.org/692/nymphhsmll.png
You're supposed to start with your strongest piece so I just picked the most colourful thing I've done lol. My environment game is weak but whatever it's pretty and stuff

Then some life drawings.
http://imgur.com/a/0zYxo#0
I had more but 2 lazy to scan

These are quick observational sketches. They go down well in animation and I presume it's the same on other courses.
http://imgur.com/a/45V7d#0
Again there were more but 2 lazy

I had some hand and foot studies but they are boring and my scanner is slow

Then a perspective drawing, it's important to show perspective skill. The pages in my portfolio kept sticking, making me skip this, the interviewer would say "I'd would've liked to have seen some perspective work" and I'd go "Oh shit wait hold on"
http://imgur.com/6qLflun

bears lol
http://imgur.com/IC8M2Pf
fill your portfolio with bears
I had some from reference too, they weren't good drawings but people like to know that you look at life

Karacter Design Korner

http://31.media.tumblr.com/cf8fd0d28c1e ... 1_1280.png
This was the oldest thing in my portfolio. It's not super important but they don't want to see old stuff and it's important to me personally to be fresh. I'm so fresh those observation drawings were actually done on my way to an interview.

Some expressions
http://imgur.com/a/1FAXt#0
These are the protagonists of this buddy adventure fighting thing I've been thinking about. It's about hair and fashion and punching people.

Storyboards
One of my interviews required I do this exercise where you draw a storyboard about a matchstick that wants to get back inside its box and this is the result.
http://imgur.com/a/6raTT#0
Just so u know how devil-may-care I am I finished this on the way there too
kurazy

Then I finished with this piece
http://afternoon.heliohost.org/691/lake.png
At my top choice the guy identified that I was influenced by Eyvind Earle without me even having to tell him. Things like that are how you know, y'know

As additional material I had a short written piece about One Hundred and One Dalmations and a sketchbook
http://imgur.com/a/zXPAd#0
Here are some typical sketchbook pages, I was told "It's nice to see a sketchbook that's full of drawings, so many people come in with sketchbooks just full of pictures of work they like and shit"

Critique I received:
-Not enough colour
-Lacking design sense
-Calf muscles too pronounced (fuck you it's cool)

Hope this is helpful to some people.

This is fucking fantastic. Thank you for sharing all of this.

Good stuff. Now I'm tempted to post my portfolio on here, though I haven't submitted it to any place yet.

I can totally see why you ace every interview princess brothel, thanks for sharing this!

thanx

Another thing I forgot to mention is that they like to see construction since it shows you know how to draw and aren't a copy cat.