Sketching Class: Week 1 (Pt. 1) + Classmates.

For week 1, we were made to sketch a head bust, a plaster flayed head bust, and a plaster skull in reference to a live model's facial features.

Day 1. Meet model #1. My classmates draw fast -- they're used to doing a single head bust in just three hours. Liu Hao, the guy on the left, seems to sketch really efficiently... *awe*







Model #2 -- we got this guy.



Meet Gu laoshi, our lady professor who came home from Italy -- to teach our class? She's super nice and encouraging, and I really, really like her... apart from the amount of homework she gave us last week, that is. TTDTT









This is how my classmates drew in order to pass the entrams. The outcome doesn't have to look 100% like the model -- the fact that the drawing looks 3D is more important. This means having a good grasp of human head proportions, flesh-and-bone anatomy, balance / contrast, and overall rendering technique. Superficial elements, such as pin-point-accurate facial features, came in last.

Lu Chen made made a heartthrob out of our model. 8D



I'll show you guys my sketch in a separate post. *cough cough*

As for the weather, by 4:30 PM these days, we have a sun...



and a moon. oOo The sky starts getting dark at around 5:30! Winter n00berrr.



Goat herd! So that's where all the goat-poo comes from.



Sketching class: Day 2.





It's called, signature style. Though the concept isn't really exclusive to one person. ; )



Art History class discussion group, for which we each had to write a 1,200-word essay. We had to choose three people whose essays to read aloud in front of the class tomorrow, and mine was among those chosen, cos it's in English -- amusement -- and no one else was volunteering their essay. We are so 无聊! XDDD



Meet Lu Chen (and myself)...



and Liu Man.



Now see them on the poster of the loli-cafe cosplay event organized by the Qingniao, the school's ultimate animanga org.



Oh. My. God.

Animanga Fans: Vol. 5 Feature.

Here are some photos of the issues I have of 动漫游 -- that's Animanga Fans in English -- just so you guys know how the mag actually looks like in case you're looking to submit your works.

First off, the mag is just a little smaller than A4. See pencil by the lower left corner for reference. On the left is a 2005 issue, and on the right is a 2007 issue, one of the latest.



Here are the back covers. The 2005 issue featured the cover submissions that didn't make it to the front cover, as thumbnails on the back cover. The 2007 issue featured a cover art runner-up on the back cover.



This is the first page of the 2007 issue, the left page of which features the cover art runner-ups for that issue. Please note that I probably won't be able to afford to send copies to people who sent in illusts that don't make it solo, either on the front or back of the mag. Sorry!



Aside from Feature articles and manga, exceptional school projects by Cartoon & Animation as well as Manga & Illustration students are also featured. This is animation storyboarding.



Finally, for those who sent in manga, your work might be published 1:1 -- that's one manga page per magazine page -- ...





or, 2:1 -- two manga pages per magazine page, in landscape. Oh, and, we accept submissions no matter the reading direction. XD



After talking with my editor Zhang Cong, I've decided, for now, to submit per issue, only (a) 3-6 pieces of colored illusts, and (b) as many manga titles (usually oneshots) it takes to reach 10-20 pages, since that's how much they probably need from each of us Features peons within that time frame.

You'll always be welcome to submit your works, and, though you'll probably be on the waiting list, just know that you'll be published eventually. ; ) First come, first publish. If I get a lot of submissions, however, I'll probably start pitching more per issue.

For the next issue, which is scheduled to be out by late November - early December 2009, I'm pitching Rei-nee's Karma.



Aaand, for some sample pages. If I wasn't so anal with translating text and editing SFX, I would consider a job as a manga editor. @v@





For those interested, the original, colored English version is up and available for online reading over here.

I do have a question for Rei-nee: I'm really curious as to why Dominic and Reign seem to be... stripping in the last few panels... ; ) ; ) ; )

WHY.

Xiangshan Campus + Basic Form Grading.

More interesting architecture within the Xiangshan campus.





Tennis lecture. o___o



Basic Form grading time! >___< Our sleepless nights are over... temporarily, anyway!





I climbed this thing, but I don't think I could have sat on it... @___@



Projects: Weeks 1 and 2. My classmates' works.







and mine. I carelessly arranged my work on the cardstock not as Gu laoshi instructed, i.e. 3x3. Luckily, as the foreign student of our class, I'm always the last on the class list... This time, I got to use the extra space at the end of the wall and posted my work in landscape. ^___^v



Close-up of my first project, which I redid. I used photography.



Project: Week 2. Here are some of my classmates' works.











Mine. I used watercolor pencils.



Project: Week 3. Again, here are some of my classmates' works...









I used a black dermatograph / crayon for mine. Again, I went for a weird layout. But, I forgot to leave a border around it so I had to cut it up, and, yeah... *looks at the fourth drawing* It looked much better IRL. TTATT



The next class's final projects (for a different subject).