Illustration Friday/Art Catchup

I'm really appreciating Illustration Friday. It's something with a deadline but it's pleasurable and lacks the stress of normal 'work'. It encourages you to try and draw different things (I think), and is nice to see everyone elses interpretation on the same theme. I can definitely recommend if you haven't started joining in yet, and you're looking to improve your drawing skills, that you should. The only way you get better at something is by constantly doing it and challenging yourself.
In other news my tumblr is going amazingly well considering I've been on there for, well, not long. I will continue to update this blog, mostly because it gives me a lot more scope to write a reasonable amount. But, possibly not with the frequency of my tumblr.
So here's a catch up of various things.

Illustration Friday: 'Vanity'

Work has suddenly got busy, which is nice but it means less time for all my extra-curricular activities. My blogs, Lang-8, comic, animation and everything else gets neglected as all I want to do is get home, lie on the couch and drink tea. But since my fiance and his mate are Spelunky addicts, it's sort of forcing me to do things. And damn, now it's too late for tea.

Pocahontas

I tried drawing her the other day and everything just looked awful. I was animating all day and it got to about 5 and I thought no, that's enough, I need to do something else. So Pocahontas it was. I got the video as an Easter present years ago so it's sort of seasonal too.

Troll run

Well, I say run. It's more of a... series of jumps. I was trying to convey that he's quite heavy and not that dextrous. Troll smash!

Illustration Friday: Natural

This started off as just me trying to paint a background quickly, but then the theme for this week came up and I thought it was rather apt.

I haven't got the balance of light/dark entirely right, or the flow of the elements, but I rather like the colours.

Running

This one I'm a little sketchy on. I wanted her hair 'wafting' but the technically correct waft was way too flicky and made it look odd. I went for more a swing. Her legs are really clicky and I've decided the way I rigged them was not the best. So I'm going to try something else tomorrow and see if that comes out a little smoother.

Waving

So I made and rigged my little character from the other day with Illustrator and After Effects. Did a little animation with her to see if it was working the way I imagined, and decided to make a gif for your enjoyment! She's waving just for you.