Week 1: Progress

Things I learned this week: It takes longer than you think to draw props.

Good Molly: It's Sunday. You need to get cracking on your props. I know you've had a busy week but you can't fail your own self-project on week one. That is just sad.


Bad Molly: Psh. How hard can 5 props be? I'll do them in my sleep. I draw people all the time, they must be WAY more complicated.


~3 hours later~


Bad Molly: What the hell? Why are props so complicated!?


Good Molly: I told you this would happen. Now you're tired and out of time and you rushed through it. I hope you've learned your lesson.


Bad Molly: *grumble*

Here are my week one attempts for the toys project.

Rocking horse! Horse legs? Tough to draw!

Rubber duck!

Jack-In-The-Box: closed edition.

Simple toy car.

Doll house: eat your heart out, Joss Whedon.

I'd like to color these and do an open version of the jack-in-the-box, but we'll have to wait and see. There are more prop topics to explore! And hopefully future, wiser Molly won't leave it until the last minute. Eheh.

Oh, another thing I focused on when making my props was to really try to make them toy-like. Which seems self explanatory, but I think it's easy for a doll house or a toy car to look like a real house or real car. I approached that challenge by giving my doll house a base and emphasizing the design on the car, pushing it towards fun and less towards realism. I tried to stay conscious of this in all of my toys.