What does the fox say?

Doing foxy sketches! :) This exercise is for you to develop your skill to create different characters using a single reference. I tried to do this by creating varying shapes for the head and body and adding other elements to differentiate the characters. After the pencil sketch, I inked these using speedball ink (Since I'm saving up the ink of my brushpen for our comic). So there you have it a foxy musician. A hungry swinging fox. A sexy female fox. A cute innocent baby fox. :) Which one do you like best? :)

Invest in Yourself

One of my goal this year is to improve my skill, especially in children's book illustration. So I looked at classes online and found SVS (School of Visual Storytelling) class. Although it took a bit of my savings (ouch!) $320 is a lot here in the Philippines (Same price to get that 3 days and 2 nights vacation trip to Bangkok!). Spending for my education is one of the best decisions I've made (...or that's what I tell myself, really that trip to Bangkok is really nice haha). ;)

I just finished part 1 of the video and I'm doing the workbook exercises. First task is to design a simplified character. I did a few sketches and decided to render one of them. :) And the winner is this cute pudgy-fied baby bear! :)

Took a photo from my sketch and did the rendered illustration digitally using photoshop. You can see the steps below. As always I started with getting the sketch done, and blocking out the colors using one color to get the values right, then adding color overlays to finish it off. :)

I'm looking forward to do the rest of the exercises in the workbook, will be posting them so stay tuned. :) 

How about you how do you invest in yourself?