Tuesday, 19 November 2013

drawing for concept artists


drawing for concept artists

# Termite brief work Decided ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Drawing for Concept Artists


Drawing for Concept Artists

Further developed the city scape, though I've started loosing readability within the design. Added a character based on one of the lifedrawings from a previous class ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Thursday, 7 November 2013

5/11/13 life drawing & Digital processes


5/11/13 life drawing & Digital processes

This week I brought a watercolours set with me to evening lifeclass. Mostly because it's been a long time since I've worked brush in hand, but also because I'd never used that particular medium for quick, loose drawings. Certainly got some nice marks, but I need ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Drawing for Concept Artists Week 4- Identify resources and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques required for a range of drawing tasks


Drawing for Concept Artists Week 4- Identify resources and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques required for a range of drawing tasks

a quick painting over of the gryphon in the style of the american bald eagle, a lioness and the secretary bird.  Feedback: Chunkier feet! Give him more of a feathery ruff/mane looking effect to reinforce the join between fur and feather Look into albino lions/fur patterns Will ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Character & Environment design Brief: Excelsior and Blue BeetleCurrent progress


Character & Environment design Brief: Excelsior and Blue BeetleCurrent progress

"Scenario:A science fiction or fantasy world. This world may be futuristic or may have a feel of an ancient culture. In this society the population is divided into the rich and the poor. The city is built on a platform and is supported on some kind of series of pillars. The rich ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Life Drawing for concept artists week 3


Life Drawing for concept artists week 3

For Dave this week, musculature maps of our creatures.  Lost some of its sleekness from the side view to the front view widen the hips and make the feet chunkier Life drawing with Maggie in afternoon ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Life drawing for concept artists; week 2


Life drawing for concept artists; week 2

First off, I received some great feedback from Dave on the Gryphon skeletons and also to further the assignment for next week by creating a muscle map on top of the skeleton (front and side views); paying attention to where the bone pushes through the muscle and can be seen through ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Gryphon skeleton assignment


Gryphon skeleton assignment

(click images for larger version) For drawing for concept artists last week, I received the assignment "draw the skeleton for a fantasy creature, but make it believable". I'm not quite sure I've managed the last part, but I chose the Gryphon/Griffin; head, wings and ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Blue Beetle assignment: Update


Blue Beetle assignment: Update

Next thing I did with the Blue Beetle brief was to scour google images and my own hard drive of reference images for anything that might be remotely useful in early concepts. At this point, I'm not exactly focused on one idea or time period or even reality. I then sketched out ...

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Sam Cuddy
Sam Cuddy Artist

Alumni of Aberystwyth and Teesside Univeristies, now fulltime member of the Belfast Printworkshop. One day hopes to travel around Japan!