Sunday 22 January 2012
Thursday 19 January 2012
Chilly
Venturing into a teeny, tiny bit of colour...I still prefer plain old graphite. Stick with what's comfortable?
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Monday 16 January 2012
Pillows
Pillows are always useful things during tantrums. I've been enjoying rendering my sketches much more than normal recently, I think because I'm just approaching them with tone in mind rather than full blown colour (I hope this kind of confidence comes yet!). It certainly encourages more drawing when you can get nice results fairly fast, and where it's probably not technically accurate, the idea makes me smile. :)
Sunday 15 January 2012
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Autumn Sun
When we're out on walks, my dog likes to stand in patches of long grass, soaking up sunshine where possible. When I get stuck for something to draw, she provides a little bit of inspiration. :)
Wednesday 28 September 2011
FX Drip Test
Ok, this is the first bit of fx animation I've done using Flash (so go easy on me!) :)
I recently decided to brush up my skills again with Flash as it's been quite a while since I used it. I didn't really know what kind of character to animate so I opted to do some water dripping instead - after all, I have been animating various effects for over a year now.
I was pretty pleased with the results although the timing isn't right in places. It was a good exercise and I learned lots from it which I'm now using to do a short character thing, so stay tuned!
I recently decided to brush up my skills again with Flash as it's been quite a while since I used it. I didn't really know what kind of character to animate so I opted to do some water dripping instead - after all, I have been animating various effects for over a year now.
I was pretty pleased with the results although the timing isn't right in places. It was a good exercise and I learned lots from it which I'm now using to do a short character thing, so stay tuned!
FX Drip Test from Iona Whytock on Vimeo.
Saturday 23 April 2011
IRN BRU!
Here is what I just finished working on -
I was an FX animator for this project, animating various elements such as water and mud splashes/waves/ripples. Also animated the shadows and highlights on the characters frame by frame. This one was fun, I learned lots from it and can't wait to do more effects animation. :]
I was an FX animator for this project, animating various elements such as water and mud splashes/waves/ripples. Also animated the shadows and highlights on the characters frame by frame. This one was fun, I learned lots from it and can't wait to do more effects animation. :]
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Titeuf, Le Film
While I'm in trailer-mode, here is the trailer for the Pathe produced animated feature I just recently worked on - Titeuf, Le Film. For this project, I was producing 2-d effects animation and spot keys for characters.
Much like during The Illusionist production, I got to work with some fantastic artists and came away with some great friends.
Much like during The Illusionist production, I got to work with some fantastic artists and came away with some great friends.
The Illusionist
If you haven't watched the trailer for the Sylvain Chomet animated feature film, The Illusionist, please take a look just now! It has had great reviews worldwide and received nominations for both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best animated feature film.
I really loved working on this film, I met some amazingly talented people and made some great friends. :-)
I really loved working on this film, I met some amazingly talented people and made some great friends. :-)
Watercolours From Last Year
Even though most of my colouring is done digitally now, I still like to get the watercolours out every so often. Here's a couple of pieces I made for friends, the first one is my own, the second is of course Hayao Miyazaki's Totoro characters which I don't lay claim to! :-)
More Being Victor
Ok, here's some coloured images I created for Being Victor. Check out Jeremy Smile at the bottom, he's my favourite. I forgot to say in the previous post, all these images were drawn and coloured by me and are the property of Shed Media. :-)
Friday 22 October 2010
Being Victor
At last, an update! I've been really busy with the day job and, in honesty, a little bit lazy at night. So anyway, here's some new stuff - these are just a few of the character designs I created for a tv programme called Being Victor that aired at the start of September this year on MTV. My job involved creating the character designs and scene elements which were scanned in and coloured before being handed on to my colleague who made short animations using them. The animations appear on the blog as accompaniments for the live action series. The art style - established by another artist - was very different to my own, so it was a good challenge for me to try something new. A stickler for proportion and anatomy, I found it a bit disconcerting in the beginning to draw like this! I've been eager to put some of these up for a while though, so I hope you like what you see.
If you're interested, here's the website -
http://www.mtv.co.uk/shows/being-victor
And now, on to the drawings! Thanks for looking.
If you're interested, here's the website -
http://www.mtv.co.uk/shows/being-victor
And now, on to the drawings! Thanks for looking.
Wednesday 11 August 2010
El Matador! #2
I did another sketch of the Matador character for the game, tried to simplify the shapes a bit for modelling in maya/zbrush...I'm quite happy with this.
Sketchbook: August 2010 #1
Keep dreaming about a bear living in the garden where I grew up, so I think that influenced these little sketches.
Wednesday 4 August 2010
Bull Run: Runner #1 #2 and #3
Quick character design ideas for a game called Bull Run that my boyfriend is working on with a mutual pal of ours. It's based on the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
Sunday 25 July 2010
Urban Red #5
Been dabbling in maya this week so didn't get as much drawing done as I'd have liked...
Here's the wee red guy playing with his burger :-)
Here's the wee red guy playing with his burger :-)
Saturday 17 July 2010
Friday 16 July 2010
Studies: Hands
A selection of some hand studies I did in May after a ridiculously long, shameful break away from drawing! Finally got round to making a wee collage of them for the blog.
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Monday 12 July 2010
Friday 9 July 2010
Thursday 8 July 2010
Urban Red #1
We have an urban fox (or possibly more than one) living very close by that likes to wake us up at odd hours of the night, this is the first of some sketches I did featuring the little beggar.
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Friday 11 June 2010
Sketchbook: June 2010 #1
....Six months after I started this, I've finally got my act together. So here's a doodle from my sketchbook, I did it while back home last week and coloured it up today.
Monday 7 December 2009
Got to start somewhere...
...so this can be the first. A bit of life drawing, not done any in well over a year so I'm a little rusty. Seems brown parcel paper has more than one use!
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