#workshop2

The final product, although VERY rough, I’m exceptionally pleased with. I ended up using woven as the prompt for the scarf, a defining feature in the characters silhouette along with his ears. In closing Zbrush felt incredibly fun and easy to use, and although it is actually incredibly confusing to navigate, to model it felt natural and fun and as responsive as painting in photoshop.

Next came the actual sketching in traditional media. I first used reference on how exactly rabbits look/stand, and with my partner joseph we decided on a theme together. Something Eldritch in nature, and with every good monster there is a good noir detective! And although making him woven/out of wool wouldve been fun, I had absolutely no idea how to texture, and if I did I felt like simply doing a rabbit made from wool seemed like a cop out.  Though i came across issues the first go around when although cool, having a more realistic bunny figure felt like it would be too difficult with my limited skillset. I researched and sketched out some reference from Zootopia of Judy Hopps, to attempt to get the idea of just how an anthropomorphic would look. I was content with my final design and moved onto the modelling. 

For workshop 2, “character design”, we were using Zbrush. But before we got down to doing that we had to use the random prompt we were given, (in my case it was “woven bunny”) and create silhouettes. These were created using ‘webchemy’, and while I was unaware of such a simplistic browser based way to design silhouettes and I was very pleased with how it worked and how quick it made the original process.

 and see the beauty beneath the surface of the blue-lining.

Jotting down notes and making sketches are a crucial part of the artmaking process. Girls can write their observations and record their ideas in their very own handsewn sketchbooks!

   Just finished this second workshop and it was really great!   It was my first time using ZBrush (I’ll post some progress of this work later).          My theme was an “Old Fashioned Sheep” and as my classmate had “ A Liver” and mine was more flexible to put any theme into it, we decided that I would make a Hippie Sheep drunk and on drugs so it could somehow connect to an unhealthy liver.     We started by creating the silhouettes on WebChemy and make them look appealing. Then we made quick sketches of the main character aesthetics.    After this we started modelling our characters on ZBrush.   Cheers, Íris 🌸

☾ Collaboration BA Animation ☾ A futurist clown & A cute mouse (with Alexandra Martinho) ☾