Monday 28 February 2011

SketcHHousE 'POWER HOUR' [Week: 03]

"Week #3's sessions combined... [PERSPECTIVE]

" [21st feb] Day #11 Morning: Max..."

" [22nd feb] Day #12 Morning: Max..."











" [23rd feb] Day #13 Morning: Max..."







" [24th feb] Day #14 Morning: Bernie..."








" [24th feb] Day #14 Morning: Max..."







" [25th feb] Day #15 Morning: Max..."







[Posted by Bernie]


Sunday 20 February 2011

SketcHHousE 'POWER HOUR' [Week: 02]

Week #2's sessions combined... [DYNAMIC POSES]

[14th feb] Day #6 Morning: Bernie...








[14th feb] Day #6 Morning: Max...








[15th feb] Day #7 Morning: Bernie...










 [15th feb] Day #7 Morning: Max...







 [15th feb] Day #7 Evening: Tee Jay...












 [15th feb] Day #7 Evening: Bernie...










[16th feb] Day #8 Morning: Max...







[16th feb] Day #8 Morning: Bernie...










[17th feb] Day #9 Morning: Max...

[18th feb] Day #10 Morning: Max...







[18th feb] Day #10 Morning: Tee Jay...









[18th feb] Day #10 Morning: Bernie...









[Posted by Max]

Saturday 19 February 2011

SketcHHousE 'POWER HOUR' [Week: 01]

Hey all. So this being the inaugural month, we decided to kick things off with the theme 'DYNAMIC POSES'... Here are week #1's sessions combined:

[7th feb] Day #1 Morning: Tee Jay...











[7th feb] Day #1 Morning: Max...





 

[8th feb] Day #2 Morning: Tee Jay...






















 [8th feb] Day #2 Morning: Max...







[9th feb] Day #3 Morning: Max...







[10th feb] Day #4 Morning: Tee Jay...













[10th feb] Day #4 Morning: Max...








[10th feb] Day #4 Morning: Bernie...




















[11th feb] Day #5 Morning: Tee Jay...












[11th feb] Day #5 Morning: Max...







[11th feb] Day #5 Morning: Bernie...









 [Posted by Max]

Friday 18 February 2011

What's it all about?

Well I'll tell you...

#1 [The Plan]: we meet online each morning [Monday-Friday via Skype] & spend an hour sketching together [SketcHHousE 'POWER HOUR']

#2 [The outline]: to give ourselves Two to Three -MONTHLY- themes to focus on... [we figure this is a good amount to get the most out of in a month without spreading ourselves too thinly]... After Two weeks pass, we then move onto the next theme & so on.

#3 [Outcome]: to see the level of our/ your drawings, construction, speed, anatomy & dynamism IMPROVE! [& to ENJOY doing it]... [REMEMBER: it's the amount of time & focus you put in that will determine what you get out.]

#4 [Mediums]: we use any medium really, including traditional pencil/ paper.

#5 [Feedback]: It's not necessary [& we're by no means "masters" ourselves] but if you'd like to send in your sketches for feedback etc, feel free to email them over to: [mail.sketchhouse@gmail.com]. We'll aim to get back to at least one feedback submission per person at the end of the week... unless of course thousands of people join up with our little sketch group... then that would be kinda difficult = )

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SESSION TIMES/ CONTACT INFO... 

Mornings: 7am-8am GMT [UK TIME]
Evenings: 9pm-10pm GMT [UK TIME]
Skype: To join in, do a Skype search & add us as [sketch lounge] or [mail.sketchhouse@gmail.com]
Email: mail.sketchhouse@gmail.com

Hope you'll come join us...
[Posted by Max]

Thursday 17 February 2011

The Inauguration

Hello Hello Hello to you all!!!

Welcome to 'Sketch House', a blog dedicated to all things... Sketchy [?]... & by that we just mean, the basic fundamentals & practices of a serious artist/ animator/ illustrator/ painter/ sculptor etc. As working artists we often find ourselves getting caught up in busy day to day commission work & lose track of the most important aspects of nurturing & evolving our God given talents.... I for one am embarrassed to even admit the last Figure drawing class I attended... even going out during an off day purely to draw people... [I actually can't remember!].

Commissioned or "regular" 9 to 5 work [as any type of artist] is great but at the same time not every project you do will satisfy you creatively & after all -REAL ART- is all about personal creativity isn't it? The danger here is that after a while of only doing work that doesn't feed your 'personal creativity', inevitably that creativity will begin to starve; to the point even thinking of doing personal work becomes a chore. A lot of us are trapped in this cycle now... ART is supposed to be FUN [remember that], we all just need to find that love we had for it again!... hens ***SKETCH HOUSE***.

Professional or not, this blog is aimed at encouraging fellow artists [ourselves] to develop & maintain a good habit of keeping our skills & talents fresh & constantly growing. We're here to push each other! 


WHO ARE WE??

NAME: Bernie Bakari Liumako... [Bernie]
BIO: CG Generalist// Art Lover and Lover of Cake....Lots of Cake!
PERSONAL QUOTE: "Where the cake at?"
[Link]


NAME: Maxwell. A. Oginni... [Max]
BIO: Animation director// Animator// Illustrator... Lover
QUOTE: "Whether you think you can or can't... you're right" -Stewie Griffin- -Henry Ford-


NAME: Tayo Olarewaji... [Tee Jay]
BIO: Animator// Storyboard Artist. Founder & Animation director for Perpetual Arts Studio; dedicated to animation & illustration for mainstream TV.

QUOTE: "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
-Albert Einstein-
[Link] 

[Posted by Max]