Inktober 2015

I decided to take part in this artistic challenge called Inktober. As far as I know, this is quiete a new event that's probably been around for two years. It takes place in October and the aim is to produce a drawing every day for 31 days using ink based tools. This is supposed to make you gain confidence using this wonderful but unforgiven tool. I'm a massive fan of he media, and I really enjoyed participating, even though I didn't achieve the one drawing a day goal. Theese are some highlights. There're few more on my instagram account.

Natural History Museum Sketches

Some sketches I did during a visit to my favourite museum in London, The Natural History Museum.

Sketches, Sketches and even more sketches

As mentioned before, I've been quite busy working on my graduation film, meaning I could not spend much time drawing from myself.  In those little few breaks though, I've come to experiment a little bit more with mediums and styles, which is definitely something I loved doing. I picked up watercolours and I'm slowly learning how to use them.

Scavengers Linetests

Scavengers linetests from Eleonora Di Massimo on Vimeo.

I collected few line tests from my graduation film and decided to put them together. I can finally see some progress in the animation, where I put most of my energies this year. Also, I'm a fan of rough line tests, and in the case of my film, these lines make look the character a little bit more "alive".

Scavengers- early concepts

These are some early concepts/ presentation storyboard frames from when I was still developing the film idea. When I came up with the final design for the foxes, I had this crazy idea of inking all the frame traditionally using ink and nib. When I came to realise that i could not make it in the time given, I  tried to re-create the bold lines digitally. Didn't work quite well, and it would have still slowed down the production, but I like how the lines work. Colour, on the other hand, has been an issue I didn't solve until the week before the hand in, after some precious suggestions from my main tutor.

Foxes, foxes and more foxes!

Because foxes was all I saw for quite a while this year.
I have been quite busy working on my graduation film lately and that's the main reason why I haven't updated this blog in a while.
Here's an early storyboard I did back in February.

Goodbye 2014

I'm going to say goodbye to the old year with the last drawings i produced in 2014.
I decided to experiment with a different style in the first picture, going for a sort of Sergio Toppi style, a famous Italian graphic novel artist/illustrator.
Also trying to make my sketches a little bit interesting by adding few background elements with Pentel brushes.