Hello! With the Covid19 situation putting the world (and my employment) on hold.  I needed something to pass the time in addition to my Anatomy April study project. My coworker Kevin told me about the  free class through Vertex School and I jumped on it.  The full course is eight weeks long and covers a full workflow for building a stylized character, later weeks are for clothes, retopo, substance textures and final presentation. I haven't done this before so I'm excited to learn the process! 

Here's my progress so far. Concept by Patri Balanovsky and Ewald Wip who've I've followed for some time.

Continuing the anatomy studies into May.. Here's a planar head WIP for a class.

We'll see if I have time for another hurler this month. :D

And here's the final post for Anatomy April- In glorious green, white  and orange.

Lessons / things I'd fix

• There's some inconsistency in the treatment of the study- or indecision about the amount of body fat vs showing pure muscle
• There's something odd in the shoulder and arms
• The hands and feet are just blocked in, without much study
• No wrinkle detail
• Deeper dive into flexed vs relaxed muscles.

Just one more day before the end of the month and I call this practice done. It's not perfect, but for my first try at a anatomy study I'm calling it a success. 

Joining my friend Alex in his Anatomy April project, follow his blog and see his cool shit here: https://www.artstation.com/itchyninja/blog. For anyone interested there is rough schedule laid out. See it below: 

Week 1: Block in gesture and proportions. Define Torso (specifically bony landmarks like the pelvis, rib cage, clavicles, scapula, etc)

Week 2: Define Limbs

Week 3: Define Hands and Feet

Week 4: Head/Hair

Anyway- here's the good stuff. Since Covid19 has basically put my sports season on hold, I decided to base "Anatomy April!!"practice off of a Hurling player. Hurling is Ireland's national sport and whatever your feeling about sportsball are you should check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biFcgUB98ns

Progress shots-

Week 1

Week 2

Plenty to fix and work on, but that's all for now!