Archer Redesign - Color Exploration Part 2

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  Color palette options 4 and 5 were the most popular last week, so I delved into further exploration of those flat local colors!

   It was really interesting getting the opinions of some of the other people around me. Multiple people said that the orange/blue/brown combo really reminded them of fall or another season of the year, and his analogous blueish costume felt reminiscent of water. Isn't color cool? It pulls such different feelings from people.

Archer Redesign - Color Options

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  Finally, after a year of monotony and painstaking labor I have accomplished something so groundbreaking, so earth shattering that you may not even believe I have done it: I stopped putting the date in the title....because blogspot already lists the date above each post for me! Yes, bask in my glory. 

  Oh and here are some color options for the archer redesign. Cheers!

020115 - Gesture Sketches

Major Flow Traceover

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  Behind every great character sketch is a life-filled gesture--a flow, or rhythm throughout the forms and how they relate to each other. To improve my ability to breathe life into my own sketches through posing I busted out the ol' 2B pencil and did some study sketches focusing on this flow. In the top image the majority of the gestures are copy sketches of master animator Glen Keane's characters. I sketched the major flow of action over a few of my favorite gestures to show just how much Glen pushes his poses. Amazing!