The Nose Knows

 

    Trying to squeezed-in some drawing before Christmas, so I decided to do Creamy again. This is the typical thing that Creamy does. Ever curious and obliviously preoccupied with whatever it is that interests her.  Everything seems interesting and warrants a closer investigation.  Never a dull moment for this canine.  If only she pays attention to me when I call her name.  The only thing that would break her sniffing trance is when I have some food.and she would want some.  

Shy Snowy

 

 I feel like drawing a dog again today. It's my sister's pet, Snowie. a fearful and shy dog but can be naughty, sneaky, and can jump really high with her hind legs when trying to catch my attention during feeding time. I sometimes call her kangaroo.

 

Thumper Sketch

      Just a quick sketch of one of my fave Disney character -- Thumper, the inspiration behind the design of my animated blue bunny icon.  I had fun animating this character for Bambi 2, way back when I was working at Disney Australia. It's been awhile since I drew this character, but because someone actually requested me for this sketch recently, and so I took the chance to revisit this character and did this sketch. 

 

Head Drawing - Marlon Brando

     Today's head drawing is the young Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. He was not only very gorgeous in this film but his acting style was revolutionary at that time.  Drawing his likeness took me some time and was a bit tricky, because it can easily looked like a generic handsome face.   But it was fun just the same. 

Head Drawing - Al Pacino

   Today's head drawing is the young Al Pacino in his role as Michael Corleone, from the film classic The Godfather. 

Head Drawing - Michelle Pfeiffer

     Continuing with the head drawing practice using some drawing methods I've learned from the just concluded class, here's a drawing of Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame de Tourvel from the film Dangerous Liaisons. 

Head Drawing - Jeff Bridges

        This is my week 5 and final head drawing assignment. Rendering was the topic. It was about design and edges. I still have a long way to go in terms of polishing my rendering, but in the span of 5 weeks, I think I made quite a progress.  I enjoyed doing theses assignments that I will be continuing doing these head drawings for days to come. Till the next one....

Head Drawing - Stan Lee (28Dec1922 - 12Nov.2018) R.I.P.

       Today, I learned of Stan Lee's passing at the ripe old age of 95 years.     I wasn't a Marvel comic reader. I was more of a Dennis the Menace, Snoopy, Garfield comics reader. Even if I'm not much of a comic book reader these days, nevertheless, some of the best movies and series I've enjoyed for the past decade or so, had been the Marvel superheroes like the Iron Man, Captain America, Spiderman, and the Daredevil. They were all based on comicbook characters created by Stan Lee.

       When I was still starting out to become an animator many years ago, I was terrible with drawing humans.  In fact, I was terrible in drawing from imagination, a crucial skill an animator needs to be able to animate different characters effectively.  One of the books that helped me draw people from imagination was the book, How to Draw Comics The Marvel Way by Stan Lee and John Buscema.  Even if the book was tailored for comicbook artists, the fundamental lessons were very much applicable to a budding animator like me at that time. 

         And so, in a small way, I'd like to pay tribute to Stan Lee, with this drawing.  May he rest in peace.

 

Head Drawing - Alan Rickman (Updated)

      It's really important to have a good solid construction and correct proportion as the foundation, but that doesn't mean there won't be no changes along the way. This happened with this drawing. Shadow shapes were further refined and adjusted. The neck and shoulder proportions were also broadened.  But once the basic structure and the general shapes were laid-in, adding the details of eyes and mouth were like icing on the cake. 

Head Drawing - Bruce Willis (Updated)

     This week is the final week and the focus is rendering. Since I've done so many heads in the past 4 weeks, and most of  them are in different stages of completion, I decided to go back and finalized some of them. 

     Here's the updated version of my drawing of Bruce Willis, finally with eyes and mouth.