Meaza
Content Before and After How to test skills
Welcome Editorial Our first issue is looking on how I
quite rough pieces, dedicated to training or
went over a couple of old rough sketches to
created as work towards a larger project.
see how my skills and techniques have
In both cases they are an honest
changed. I have found redoing sketches a
demonstration of you thinking pattern.
great way to measure
style and skill
Over these months
We hope you enjoy our issue and
that it inspires you.
I have
development, especially when the sketches
concentrated in moving my work away
are several months old. Using too old work
from the manga style, based on a critique I
is not helpfull as you forget what you tried
recieved from two industry people about a
to advance in by that time, and very recent
year ago. Criticism is good to hear, but
pictures leave one feeling no progress has
often does little for showing the right
been made.
direction instead, focussing more on ‚do
I usually select sketches from
not‘ rather than ‚do‘... The best way to
around six months ago to see what can be
figure out the „do“ is to experiment as
done with them now. Sketches are usually
much as possible and as crazy as possible.
Your MeazA
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Before and After How to test skills Here are a couple of sketches from my first character „Fox and Bear“ . These sketches show a typical style I was
Snokrelling In this scene the bear and the fox look just alike: two floating blobs.
using when drawing animals, I was going for chubby and cute... but they lack distinctive features, poor fox is just a smaller version of bear, and look at bear, there is no difference in his facial expression
between
swimming
or
building his sand castle. I
took
the
two scenerio
„snorkelling“ and „at the beach“ as an
exmaple to test my skills.
At the beach I liked to imagine a bear and fox in carzy places outside the forest. 3
Here‘s the first of my two redraws of bear, with expressive features this time. I took snorkelling bear and
The bear has more features of a bear and is a happy bear.
made a new complete digital version. Bear is looking straight ahead, searching for interaction, querky and happy. In his posture I am trying to show how he is heavy on land but floaty and elegant in water.
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I did the secound redrawing scenery in water colours and changed the
posture
of
bear.
We see his profile and are not interacting with him. He is looking up with focused eyes and no smile. I drew him realaxed, like he is carefully observing something floating on the surface. The water waves surround his body and the seaweeds gentle waves, tring to add to the calm atmosphere.
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As you can see, when I work in
paintings is just not the same. Rather than
outside the lines is fun too). Here the
different media the style and feeling of the
imitating pencil work with the pad, I
figures tell the story of how fox and bear
figure itself changes.
instead experiment with brushes. The
are engrossed in their work and how fox is
I feel I am much more accurate with
second edition of „at the beach“ shows
having trouble reaching over bear.
pencil and paper, and the pad for digital
how lovely rough lines can be (colouring
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