Creative Research - Just Keep Drawing

Through out the course of this year, I have tried to structure my time in a way that would give me free time to draw, because I often struggle to juggle this when I have several briefs on the go. I did manage to get some character sketchbook work done, however not a massive amount.

You may be wondering, why do I have pages filled with just noses, moths and eyes? WELL, nearer the start of the year, I felt as though id hit a bit of a brick wall in terms of ideas. I had all of these ideas in my head in terms of character based drawings, however every time I sat down to draw I would just go blank. I realised that something I really needed to do was spend some time focusing on doodling some of the many ways that facial features could be represented. This was something I set myself to do because I knew in the long run, it would really help me out. On many of the occasions since, when ever I have felt like I can't draw something, or I struggle to convey what is in my head onto the paper, I often flick back to these pages, just to remind myself that I do have the ability to get my ideas down, it just might mean that I have to chill out and stop worrying about the final outcome and just DRAW!

Looking at these earlier pages rom my sketchbook, I can already see a huge change in the standard of my drawings in terms of character design. Also, I have become a lot more comfortable with drawing and producing design digitally. I think this has come about through the amount of hand-drawn digital animation I have done this year, a long with the amount of pre-production work. I'm really glad about this, because this time, instead of feeling nervous about he summer and trying to figure out what i'm going to do, I'm really excited to sit down and produce some really goos stuff!