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Exercises and exercises
In the first weeks we started practicing.
I had never seriously picked up signs at that time and that is also visible.

In the first few assignments, I was meant to draw random subjects.
Eventually, combinations were made between words, as a kind of test in creativity.
Then came the first “big” drawing command: an Anti-Portrait.
I generally work very accurately and digitally, both things I was not allowed to do now.
I signed an Anti-Portret on paper with pastel chalk within 5 minutes for this assignment.

Key-words

After the above-mentioned assignments came the following:
A classmate pointed out words from which I had to choose 5 keywords.
These keywords were created a mind map.
This mind map is then used to create a Mood & Styleboard.
The image indicates which words are assigned to the left.
On the right side, these words have been converted into a mind map

Based on those 5 words, we had to make a sketch for our avatar.
Those 5 sketches are visible at the bottom right, my very first digital sketches.

Mood & Style-board

The next assignment was to create a mood & style board.

The mood board had to portray the idea of the project.
The style board out more denotes the (art) style and color palette.

I went for a simpler approach that affects style and alternative as a mood.

The Avatar

This is the biggest project to date: creating the avatar.
This assignment is all about the student:
To design an avatar that expresses you.
I learned a lot during this project.

This is the first project where I have taken drawing seriously.
I had never signed digitally before for this project.
I used multiple references to help me.

I ran into anatomy and shadows, especially the first.
In the end I am proud that I succeeded; the anatomy worked out well.
I can still grow in adding shadows in my work.

In my second impression I want to work with more colors and textures.

“Purple” Hands

This project drew inspiration from the game “OMORI”.
From there I wanted to add my own version of the “red hands”.

Red hands are a metaphor for creativity,
But also for the reluctance of perfectionism.

I started analyzing forms in reference art.
From in the beginning, trace it to finally try it yourself.
I finally copied the first hand and arm to position four.

I colored these purple with a chalk brush.
I chose purple because I have been associating myself with it for a while.

In the end, I chose to animate the hands.
Then I added VFX with a glitch theme.
In the end I changed the colors a bit in Premiere.

This was an intensive but fun project;
I have learned to draw digitally and to orientate myself in it.
I also learned that my original plan for this project was too ambitious.

In the end I am still very happy with the end result,
that you can look at down here.