Some of the character sketches that I drew for the animation short storyboard. The opening shot is from a low-angle perspective, through tall grass, which might explain the drawings of grass stems. These can be layered, and reversed / resized. to suit the desired density.

The above image might not make much sense as it is, but I tend to scan collective images and then select separate elements which I can then save to their own file. This allows more freedom to rearrange the composition later.

After inking in the pencil sketches onto tracing paper I scanned them as usual. On this occasion I used the college scanner and didn't realise until it was too late that it was leaving marks on the copies. I learnt the hard way that a sheet of clean paper needs to be placed on top of any traced artwork before scanning.

Having a few extra body parts on file helps to add a bit of variation to the characters poses.

The following images haven't been inked in yet as they probably won't be used, they were from the original character design ideas.

The ink line around the image above is relative to the actual frame dimensions, which is considerably different to the A4 sheets I use for sketching. Having a cut-out of the frame size allows for composing the frame pre-scanning.