Homework Week one

Hey Shannon,

Apologies for the delay in posting... I feel like a scruffy bear cat coming back from the wilds.
It's been a long week, lots of client meetings and bread and butter projects to push on this week.
I was hoping for a relaxed week, ie: more website/sculpting time! 
Thank you so much for your advice and encouragement. I really appreicate the time you're putting
in, to reviewing everything.

When you asked me, that you wanted to see something that says something about me... flip,
I thought dinosaurs, monsters, dragons, robots, studies in animal anatomy, fineart figureative work...
I just didn't know for sure what direction to go in. So, I made some quick drawing concepts that I could
possibly carry through into a character sculpt of some description.

It can be hit and miss when breaking into a project and I have no action plan.
By that I mean I make it up as I go along and hope I'll get lucky and hammer out
something cool, but do it in relatively good time. Otherwise it could be a miss and it
takes too long to find something that works. So I did the brain storming thing, tried
to eek out what my mindset is doing right now etc.
Outside of my obcession with dinosaurs and dragons, I stemed away from that alittle,
and tried to think alittle on the diverse side, insects, crabs, tree/humanoid things. I've been
fixated with a character idea called the Trinket thief, so there's a bit of him in there.
I feel like I'm chasing my tail abit though...  hehe.
The furthest I've gotten on this is with these drawing ideas. I wanted to paint them up
alittle with tone etc, I only have the raw drawings to show for now.

Just last month, I was at the local musesum here doing a study on their £50k replica of
a Triceratops. I'd love to push that into a sculpt, but it would probably be a reference study, as opposed to a character concept. Unless I take something from it and make something new. (Triceratops drawing at the bottom of this post)

Thanks again for your kind and helpful advice regarding my blogsite. Yeah, it's disordered and
it's hard for any new comer to the site to know properly how to navigate on there. Not good!
So my current blogsite aside, it's time I put a proper website together that
doesn't look like a discussion board! I'm glad you suggested that, it was pretty obvious to. Geez.  That's why I'm here I guess!

After looking at what everyone else is doing I'm completely gobsmacked at the pletheora
of amazing projects and volume of it to! So many improvements made in just under a week. 
I'm looking at 'Squarespace' right now, they seem to have a good reputation for building
websites, especially for artists. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.

I'm glad you like Gwangi! 
He was unfinished at the time, he has come on alot since though. I don't update enough!
I have an unfinsihed Harryhausen designed cyclops I was working on aswell, I even took all the
reference imagery I could find and started recreating the original armature (digitally) for Cyclops.
I love working on vintage dinosaur designs after spending time working on dinosaurs that are more
anatomically correct going by what we know today. I kind of miss the tail support/dragging
thing I have to say! I loved the photo you made of your dinosaur sculpt by the way. (Is it a brontosaurus?)  Love the design, the pose and the details. Your insane experience shines.

Thankyou again for your valued help and advice, looking forward to class!  

Chat soon everyone!

-Peter

haha... nice job on the SWSCA Squares. That's getting printed and put on my wall!  

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