Because I've been drawing characters with childlike features for so long (anime/disney style) I had little problems drawing the line art for Ryan. It wasn't until I tried shading the line art or drawing the mature face of Brooke, I realised how little I knew of the mechanics going on under the skin. This opened up a whole new research into the studies of face muscle anatomy, skulls, face proportions and defining the features.
After spending a day on basic face proportions and their angles and another day on drawing a skull from different sides I began to see beyond the tip of the iceberg and panicked on how little time I had to research all of this. Unfortunately a lot of projects I have done so far didn't gave me time for this kind of research as well, for this reason I still went ahead with the research.
To keep a clear goal in mind here is a list of what I want to have before the Mid-term (April 20th):
- 2D modelsheet of Brooke and Ryan
- Emotion Sheet of Brooke and Ryan
For this research I referred to the book on Hands and Heads by Andrew Loomis, Proko's channel on youtube and RKingslien channel on youtube as well.
vrijdag 25 maart 2016
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Ryan Goodwin Face study
In the face study I tried to figure out what it was about faces that made people capable of distinguishing one face from another.
From some articles I learned that people subconsciously analyse the distance and shapes of the eyes, nose and lips. Some people are better at reading these features than others, which makes them better at recognising people. There is a disability called Prosopagnosia, also known as Face Blindness which makes a person unable to remember faces.
It took me a few days of sketching from digital images before I found out what it was that made Jonathan's face different from others. I started with rough sketching and sometimes even tracing, but it was the critical examination that lead me forward. Every time a sketch didn't work out, I challenged myself to look at why and what I needed to do different. I remember a quote from -originally from Rita Mae Brown but made popular by -Einstein:
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results"
Below are some of the sketches as well as a final drawing:
Ryan Goodwin
A part of this project focused on facial recognition. For the design of Ryan Goodwin I choose the actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas at age 10 because I found his face unique and easy to recognize.
I remembered him from several movies when I was younger such as Pinocchio, Man of the House and the serie Home Improvement.
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