I’m still making a point of drawing every day, always trying to improve. Recently I’ve been drawing from the Boxtrolls art book and still images of classic movie stars from the early days of cinema. The lack of colour and the high contrast in those images seems to help me to simplify them. Capturing their beauty is always the challenge though!

I’m trying to get better at drawing stylized female faces so that I can make clearer animatics when planning animation. This one feels like one of my more successful attempts.
Drawn digitally in Manga Studio using a Cintiq

Still drawing every day. These started as 30 second sketches and then I went back and detailed them a little.

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The ongoing fight between me and my drawing ability continues. It’s never really been something that comes naturally to me but I made a vow last summer to start drawing every day and I’ve kept it since. I keep it varied by alternating between 30 second gesture sketches done on the computer with a tablet and head doodles/studies on paper with pencil. A lot of these were done while thinking about a particular character I’m animating in CG at the moment. I find it helps me explore ideas and think about the personality of who I’m trying to get across, so that feels useful and productive to me even if I’m rarely satisfied with the finished drawings.

Learning how to use the Fibermesh tool in ZBrush for creating different hairstyles. A nice interactive way to do this kind of thing and pretty fast too.