Intro:
As the title suggest, I am hoping to do a series of sketch for League of Legends,I have been looking at the artist artwork for some time now and decided to give that a go.
In my two previous videos I try to pay attention to the presentation and spent quite a lot of time planning those.
But are really getting in the way! so I decide to do the intro just doing some quite sketches, which I really enjoy doing.
I does not look very professional but I really want these videos to be have a sketchy feeling.
So I did some little sketch on the presentation page, It does not really make any sense, they are just sketches, more like doodling. It take the pressure off which is the idea of sketching.
The Making off:
Google for reference image:
As always I did a google search to get a feel of what the character should look like.
I than came accross some very interesting site which list the character along with their Bio.
http://gameinfo.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/
http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champions/
I also look this short film https://youtu.be/vzHrjOMfHPY
which I think is really really cool (Reminded me that I need to go back to doing some animations!)
I will just use those for future reference because there is more than enough reference on these two websites alone.
These professional artists find way to introduce their character which I really need to study and understand how to present a character is such an interesting way.
Let's start sketching
I usually sketch directly in Inkscape but since the Minion Sketch I started to plan what I was going to draw on my physical sketch book; Inkscape being my virtual Sketchbook :) .So I started sketching Arhi and did a page to get a feel of the character (sound weird I know)
After filling a page of my sketchbook, I felt like I understood the character enought to start Sketching in Inkscape.
The drawing process is similar to my two other videos, starting with the sketches, then adding the shadows, and one to the colours and highlights.
Midway through the Video you will notice that I painted the Whole background reason being the bright background worked very well for the Sketching and the Highlights but did not work so well on when the colour are added on top.
I took an opportunity to change the music too, for those who where falling asleep :).
I have spoken briefly about better colour management in Inkscape in my previous post and I have decided to show a couple of skin created as a result.
For those images I have also decided to add some blur to the shadows. I am not a fan of blur in general but I have to say to I quite like it.
What have I learned in the process?
For this sketch I decided to draw bigger "sprites", allowing me to put more details in and potentially have more impact.I think It worked well as the 2 "Sprites" really stand out.
The inconvenience is that I didn't have as much space left to explore the character.
Originally I wanted the do some sketched of her Running, Jumping, Escaping, Attacking, but I ran out of space in the canvas.
Maybe in the future I could do 1 big sprite on the right/Left hand side of the page and the other I would explore the character small size sketches.
When I started the sketch I tried to pay attention to the character outfit, but this goes completely again the process of sketching. So I ended up inventing her outfit while trying to keep some features of her original outfit.
I am also thinking more and more of a formula for sketching so that I know if advance what I will be doing for example I should for example always show a run action but the how he/she run would be left to the creative side of my brain!
What's Next?
The list is huge ... the concept art for the League of Legend characters are awe inspiring.What I am hoping to learn from those and hopefully create new and powerful actions for characters where you can guess their personalities just by looking at the composition.
I have been thinking about doing Movie Sketch too!
Terminator 2, Jurassic park, Matrix (Just came to my mind actually)
Robocop, Batman.
I have actually started some sketches on paper for Starship troopers undeniably one of my favourite scifi movie .
I also want to blog/facebook/youtube about my animation too! so in the coming days and I will be posting some animation test I have been working on, so stay tune!!!
