This lesson we continued morphing Moom into various poses, but this time we had to look at dramatic poses and take into consideration more detail, such as the ways fingers moved and be more careful about not warping the figure. After last week I defiantly felt a lot more confident doing this task and even starting experimenting with facial expressions to make the character appear more realistic and the pose make more sense, and this I feel defiant worked, especially on the first pose where there wasn't a lot of movement but the face gives a way a lot of the emotion of the characters pose.

Continued doing research for my astronaut character, looking at more helmets and outfits to see what would suit the time period of the character and what I might want to use that might suit the characters personality. I'm still trying to stay in the 60's for the suits and the toy gun that I might want to accompany the character, so I looked at a range of various, older models and styles to give me a good range to explore and develop when I decide what I want the character to be.

For our first lesson we had to research and practice drawing items that were specifically assigned to use to help us practice research for our own assigned characters and to get an idea of how to research items fro assigned projects in the future. This element of the lesson I found difficult at first to get into, as I struggled to let myself research the item and then take the time to draw it, rather than just drawing as many reference images as I could so I could get a better grasp on the item I was assigned, but eventually I got the hang of it and got used to putting the research first and exploring different images of the item (mine was a Traffic wardens hat). We then got asked to design a character for the item, and for mine I went with a giant, angry traffic warden which I had to show in the characters outfit and expression, this along with the caricature bit I still find a bit difficult as I'm still trying to be more experimental with my drawing style and show more...