Wide Angle Lenz [beta]

I am going to use this blog for is to get some feedback on various projects I am working on. One of which will be the half-hour sketch project. Each week I will spend at least a half-hour with a sketchbook and put what I come up with online. Please feel free to leave some feedback, I am hoping that someone is willing to give me some tips that will help me hone in on what my style is. I love drawing and art but have never given it the proper attention to help cultivate it personally, this gives me a set time to do it every week.

As something to look forward to, I will be illustrating a children’s story that the author and I hope to publish in the future. There is a potential that the progress of the story’s development will be documented here on Wide Angle Lenz, and that the book will be available via a downloadable PDF.

For my first half-hour sketch session I went back to some of the basics I learned in my Architecture Drawing 1001 class. Below are contour drawings I did referencing the Pixar Animations book To Infinity and Beyond! (which is an awesome coffee table book, if you’re looking). After the contours I wanted to see how much of Buzz Lightyear I could sketch in the remaining 15 minutes. Please feel free to leave some feedback. Thanks everyone!

(My scanner couldn’t handle the size of my sketch pad, so I had to get images of my work via my iPhone)

Here are the contour drawings:

Alien

Mike

Dory

Buzz

Fifteen-minute sketch of Buzz