Character Design-time

  Hello Once Again, I have been diligently plugging away for this project the last couple days for you guys and have created something I’m very proud of. So without further ado… My most recent character… *drum roll* you already know from the title… Lo-fi Zac!!! As I wrote about in my last blog post I wanted to create Zac an avatar for his lofi hip-hop music (which is his 20-time project) and the classic lofi hip-hop avatar is the stream on youtube with the anime girl studying by a window. Zac has a great post on his blog   about this stream and generally about lofi hip-hop. Last week I asked Zac what he thought about a lofi girl version of himself and he loved the idea. I first got to work with just a reference image of the lofi hip-hop girl and looking over at Zac every once in a while. I went with the same pose that the lofi girl is in with the hand under the chin and a hand working at some kind of homework. I decided to have Zac in this same pose with the room behind him h...

Hello Again, As I’m sure you have already heard, I have changed my 20-time project to *drum roll* Character Design! I have decided to do something similar to the second idea I had in the 'What This Blog is About (Part 2)' ’ post where I would learn new styles of drawing characters and then create some of my own characters.  I’ve mostly been designing characters in my own style for now, like this war hammer orc who has killed Neil Armstrong and took his spacesuit on the moon. I got the idea for this character after John told me about his project, painting Warhammer miniatures. He talked about this one set of orcs he created with his friends and referred to them as ‘space orcs’ and that just gave me an instant vision of what I needed to draw. I started by looking up pictures of Warhammer orks   and trying to nail down their key features that I would need to include with the drawing. I found that the big teeth and the snarling expression were definitely something I needed to in...

  Hello Again, I gotta say I’m struggling to care about this project. I chose something that I thought would align with my interests but I haven’t been able to find reasons to sit down to research and keep this project moving forward. So I wanted to ask you something, what I should do? Should I keep moving and try to create something for my residential Toronto housing project or should I jump ship and try something new? Before you decide, I wanted to run through some of the other ideas I thought of while thinking of a new project. The first idea that I’ve looked a little bit into is the animation process, specifically Anime. I would look into the process that popular Anime studios use to create their show and create either a slide show presentation on the process an Anime show goes through and/or an animation with my own characters. The animation idea would be very fun but very difficult to pull off. I mean just look at the kind of fight scenes these shows feature. I could d...

  Hello! Welcome to my blog, my name is Stephen Cox and this blog will detail the process in which I complete my 20 Time project. You probably want to know what my project is right? Well, I decided to research Toronto architecture from 1921-2021 and then create a model using the different styles over the century and represent the changes architecture has gone through in Toronto over the last 100 years. I arrived at this idea after brainstorming, considering, and getting rid of many ideas while trying to think of what to create. I thought of something design-like because I enjoy design and I wanted to find something fun to do in class. I also wanted to find something that would drive me to do more of the project and doing something you enjoy is a great way to get yourself to do work, at least for me. The basic idea of this project is to find the styles and different materials used in architecture through the time period (1921-2021) and then put them all into a model creating a house...