One of the things I noticed in my last project was how un life-like my figures were. They had no sense of presence and were very wooden looking. Everything looked so unnatural.
I want the figures in this project to have a lot of movement, so i felt it was important to do some work on them! I used a website called Posemaniancs (
http://www.posemaniacs.com/) to go through some 30 second drawings and try and capture some energy, along with how the body looks whilst in movement. I also worked with their silhouettes to try and gauge an idea of general shape as opposed to details. I found this immensely useful, the more drawings I did, the better they became. Things I had often struggled with, like foreshortening, soon became less (not much less, but less all the same!) of a challenge.
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| Early Robot sketch 1 |
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| Early Robot sketch 2 |
The simple line drawings were great, and it gave me the idea to use the human form as a container, instead of drawing it precisely. I could add in machine parts to create my robot, which seemed to work better on my later sketches.
They became less stylised, which is what I was aiming for, as my previous, very early sketches (Early Robot sketches 1 and 2), had been showing a very square and cliched looking robot.
There were much more fluid, more modern, yet organic in the way that they moved like a human would.
One of the things I noticed in my last project was how un life-like my figures were. They had no sense of presence and were very wooden looking. Everything looked so unnatural.
I want the figures in this project to have a lot of movement, so i felt it was important to do some work on them! I used a website called Posemaniancs (http://www.posemaniacs.com/) to go through some 30 second drawings and try and capture some energy, along with how the body looks whilst in movement. I also worked with their silhouettes to try and gauge an idea of general shape as opposed to details. I found this immensely useful, the more drawings I did, the better they became. Things I had often struggled with, like foreshortening, soon became less (not much less, but less all the same!) of a challenge.
They became less stylised, which is what I was aiming for, as my previous, very early sketches (Early Robot sketches 1 and 2), had been showing a very square and cliched looking robot.
There were much more fluid, more modern, yet organic in the way that they moved like a human would. 
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