Wednesday: The Queen of Evil

I love Maleficent, she is my favourite female Disney villain. I've been dying to draw her ever since I started this drawing project. I didn't want to draw her yet as I wanted to wait until my drawing skills had improved slightly. But after hearing about the Maleficent movie that's currently in production from last weeks D23, I thought I can't wait anymore!

I think the proportions of the face and Maleficent's hat thing are correct, it's her facial features that let the sketch down. I love the way I've drawn her eyebrows, they look really evil. The eyes aren't too bad, but they could be better.And the nose is ok, although her nostril is a bit too high. I really need to learn to draw lips properly, because the lips ruin this sketch for me.

Tuesday: I've Shocked Myself

Today's animal sketch really surprised me, it can fool people into thinking I can actually draw. I don't like drawing things from books, because it makes me feel like I'm not really that good. But anyway what has become traditional in my sketches, I've managed to mess some of it up… again. This time it's the beak, it is slightly crooked and longer than it should be. But other than that I really like it!

Monday: Hoping It Will Get Better

It hasn't been a very good week for me. I've been really worried about university, mainly because I don't know if I can progress onto the second year of my animation course. I love my friends, my class and everything about uni, so I hate the fact that I might not be able to go back. I only need twenty points in order to continue. I re-submitted some work for two of my modules, but I still didn't have enough points. I don't know if any of my lecturers recieved my work and I won't find out till September. The only thing that's stopping me from going totally insane with worry is my drawing project.

Sadly I couldn't go to the life drawing class in Birmingham this week, so it was back to random images from Google.

This week's and last week's sketches haven't been too bad, to be honest. But the above images were kind of easy to draw, I need more of a challenge. So hopefully the life drawing class in Birmingham will be that challenge and I will get better!

Thursday: Everyone's favourite Slayer

I know you can't tell, but it really is Buffy! I've really wanted to draw something from Buffy's world for a while now, because Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off show Angel are two of my favourite shows of all time. I decided to start with the main slayer herself… Buffy. Her hair is a bit weird and her left eye is too big, but it does look a lot like Miss Summers if you see it from the corner of your eye!

There won't be any face emotions this week, but everything will be back to normal next week!

Wednesday: Back to Disney

After hearing the news about Disney's latest movie The Pirate Fairy from this year's D23, I decided to draw two of the stars from that movie. The first character I have chosen is Tinker Bell, she and her friends go to a mystical island and get their powers switched. The second character I've chosen is James, who you should recognise because he will one day become Captain Hook!

I'm really pleased with these sketches, apart from maybe Mickey or Goofy, I think Tinker Bell and Captain Hook are the best Disney drawings I've done since the dwarfs. My Tinker Bell sketch is pretty much perfect apart from the right eye, it looks like its been stretched and so doesn't match her other eye. My Captain Hook sketch is great too, but there are two things that just aren't right. The first thing is his arm that is stretched out, it might just be me but it looks weird and I should've drawn it better. Secondly the way I've drawn the bottom of his jacket makes it look like he's wearing a dress!

Tuesday: Overgrown Face

I enjoyed drawing a guinea pig, because to  be honest it's quite easy. Although as usual I've managed to slightly mess it up. When I first started everything was going fine, because guinea pigs are basically big fluffy balls. It was great… until I added the face. The face is too big for its body, but for some reason the more I look at it, the more it grows on me. I kinda like it, but I think in future I should stay away from guinea pigs!

Monday: Slightly Better...

I'm quite pleased that my life drawing sketches are a bit better this week. The past couple of weeks have been stressful, I've to deal with stuff in my uni life and personal life, that's why I think my sketches have been really crappy. There are still major problems with these sketches (as usual): firstly the woman has a really long torso, weird boobs and don't get me started on the hands. Secondly the way I've drawn the next sketch, it looks like the Hunchback of Notre Dame posed for me.

Hopefully this will be the last time I'll have to use random images from Google. With any luck next week I should be going to a life drawing class in Birmingham, as suggested to me by my friend Reg (make sure you check out his blog, he's an awesome animator).