London

Sketching

Went to London sketching today with Tim and Iain. After a bit of a slow start at the British Museum we moved out onto the streets to get away from all the people (half term see), and it turned out to be a really good day. Had really good fun doing the long ones over two pages! It's good to see the Chinatown one scanned in actually, because it was a bit hard to see if it was working in my sketchbook, but digital it actually looks alright! Was good fun playing with markers for the London skyline too.

Teaching

Yesterday I went to my old art college to teach the first year students background painting for animation. Here are some of the examples I did for them in our lesson on textures.










I did this one for myself before the lessons to remind myself how to paint! I took one of Marcelo Vignali's development sketches for Lilo and Stich and just painted a small colour key of it.

I've gotten so much out of preparing and teaching these sessions, it's been really great. I'm really looking forward trying to take across some of the things I learnt, (and re-learnt!) into my digital painting. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy real painting! I can't wait to do some more!