SOOO close to being done birds...only a few short chapters more before I get into the animation chapters!

Wolf Day

The way Mr. Blair designed the face on this cat really emphasizes something that one of my AM teachers said- eyeballs with pupils that sit directly in the middle of the iris tend to give a character a vacant or strange look.

When drawing my version, I just couldn't force myself to draw the pupils directly in the center of the iris- they kept drifting towards the direction the cat is looking.
I think my version looks a bit more alive than the one in the book, but that also makes it off model.

In the week between semesters at Animation Mentor I have drawn my way through several sections of the Preston Blair book. It's been fun and my speed and accuracy have definitely improved. I will probably not be able to keep up this pace once classes resume, but I'm going to try...