H.M.Punton Illustration & Animation

This was just  very small project we did for the Pictoplasma Easter Bunny competition. We were just asked to look at some different rabbit characters and then design our own. We would then upload our character onto the Pictoplasma website before the competition entry deadline.  I sketched out a bunch of different designs and ended up running with a sort of angular ghost bunny. I'm kind of happy with the design I cam up with in the little time I put in. I did really like the more renaissance portrait style designs i cam up with I just didn't feel confident enough in my skills to get them digitised in a way that looked good before the deadline. Strengths Helped get me used to creating work for a brief and also sharing said work It was good to see what everyone else was coming up with for the competition and comparing it to my own ideas. Weaknesses the short deadline made me want to avoid experimentation of techniques. I think the chara...

Character Design Illustration Animation For my contextual studies I was tasked with researching a wide range of artists. I was asked to look at 3 character designers, 3 illustrators and 3 animations. I was told to look at artists with a wide range of styles and techniques to help inform my own practice. I started off by looking through one of the Pictoplasma books and just making a list of artists I liked and then from there I chose artists from the list which stood out from each other. For charcter design I looked at a painter, Andy Kehoe, a sculptor, AJ Fosik and a print maker, Roman Klonek. I liked each of the artists unique styles and how different they were from each other in technique. Then for illustrators I did the same and chose different artists from the list. I went with a digital artist, Neil Quisaba, a graffiti artist and painter, Jon Fox and  Nick Sheehy, an artist that uses a lot of traditional techniques. Finally I chose 3 animations at random ...