Jason's super rad odd bodds - image 1 - student project

Exercises 1 & 2  

It’’s difficult for me to not automatically try to render something that I’m referencing into a three dimensional form so I’m trying to think in shapes here. I’m not sure how successful I was in making the figure iconic as opposed to representative of the photo - - Could have used more iterations, maybe. I was surprised by how much I remembered with the second exercise but I totally botched the gesture - - kinda looks like an animation rather than I redraw, hah. Also, I accidentally deleted my iteration layers - - oops!

Jason's super rad odd bodds - image 2 - student project Exercise 3  I had a bit of difficulty trying to reconcile the flatness of the figures I was trying to draw with the somewhat inherent three dimensionality of some of the poses that I referenced and had to make a few choices to completely change aspects of the poses that I was referencing. Some more successful than others. Learned a lot from these, though.

Jason's super rad odd bodds - image 3 - student project

Exercise 4

This one was a hell of a lot of fun. Fun to completely ignore so many “rules” of drawing that are etched into my brain. Definitely going to return to this exercise in the future.

Jason's super rad odd bodds - image 4 - student project

Exercise 5

This one frustrated me. I made a bunch more but these are the only ones that I felt really "fit" together

Jason's super rad odd bodds - image 5 - student project

Exercise 6  

This one was fun, too. I kinda of used this as an extension of Exercise 4 in that I drew a vertical rectangle, then cut it into two shapes - - one bigger and one smaller - - then doodled the rest in.

Jason's super rad odd bodds - image 6 - student project

Jason's super rad odd bodds - image 7 - student project

Final!  

I decided to do two final illustrations cause I knew I was going to draw my backpacker from the start but I was into the vibe of my skateboard dude, too. I’m super green at working in colour and trying to apply textures and whatnot but I gave it my best go. They feel a bit clunky to me but I’m happy with what I’ve learned through the course of making them.  

Thanks, Tom!

Jason Bradshaw

Here to learn!

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