2 point Perspective, BURST of colours and..... a shoe

 The above piece is a 2 point perspective illustration I worked on sometime ago. I loved working on this (as with all my other work) especially the construction lines that are all around the arms and body. If you look at her right arm you can even see that I thought of giving her long sleeves. I'm not really a big fan of hiding my character's arms but sleeves would have helped in giving the free-falling (wind) effect. I then realized that, hey! I can just use a bangle to enhance the pictures free falling feel. Lastly I think not erasing the construction lines seem to do wonders in "creating a feel" for this piece.

Burst of colour. In the above piece I stepped out of my comfort zone and..... used markers, again. If you look closely though you can see a bit of coloured pencil-work in it. Symbiosis? I wanted to portray how connected Zimbabwe and South Africa (in fact..... the WHOLE of Africa) We are somewhat, connected. One can also not how yellow (wealth/Gold), green (Vegetation/ natural resources), and red [blood shed during independence war(s)] are colours we all have in most if not all African flags Zim and S.A included.

Speaking of markers and fine liners, I also used them to draw my shoe below.






Well..... I think thats everything for now, Thank you for reading my post today. Enjoy your Weekend.

All the best
Tafadzwa Tarumbwa

Zama - licious

 In order to improve on my photography skills I shall be practising in random shoots with some of my model friends. Zama did a great job in understanding the emotion I wanted. Thanks love, these are some great head shots.I shall also do another shoot soon with Tash from my "Addicted to Jeans" photo-shoot I posted earlier in this blog.

Beautiful

Come to me...  Took this one so that I can play around with the 'depth of field'. Which allows me to blur the hand and focus on the gorgeous Zama.

In the above photograph I just wanted to highlight how I personally don't like ugly horizontal lines on my photos. I prefer to slant my buildings/ furniture at an angle. The only time i would allow some straight/ horizontal subject can work for me is when I'm working on some cooperate work. It all just depends on what project you're working on.

After I had all the photos I wanted I took the one above after asking Zama to give me a random pose. I really enjoyed working on these pics with her. 

Thanks Zama, these are some great head shots.

The above picture was one of my first attempts at HDR photography. I took 5 pictures and layered them one on top of other in photoshop. I ended up using only 3 of the images to compose the hdr fill you can see on the right of the above picture. What I love about hdr is the way detail is enhanced in this case you can see how detailed the tree's reflection is on the rear window. I wish I had a better sky to work with to have more defined cloud detail. I shall keep working on my hdr skills, and those who want to learn about how to achieve hdr photography can visit http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-photoshop/

For some inspiration on how amazing HDR photography is visit www.davehillphoto.com/



 

Charcoal illustrations

The world is a BIG place, and in it we have the rich and the poor, the healthy and those dying from preventable diseases, the happy and the depressed, the fat and the starving majority found in Africa, and Asia. This was a depressing illustration to create, based on the late Kevin Carter's famous photograph. May his soul rest in the arms of our Lord. Being an African I have seen first hand some of this suffering, that pregnant mothers and society are faced with during high inflation, corrupt goverments and drought. May God heal Africa.

A2 is a VERY BIG canvas to work on (for me) when one is illustrating keys! This was my first charcoal piece, before I did the other two. Ever since then I really love working with "The black chalk" (as I call it). I had to wrestle with a massive mental block before I could do this piece. I never thought I could enlarge such simple object to such a big scale. This is the piece that introduced me to charcoal's great abilities.

Someone told me that this piece kind of reveals to people my 'animation side'. I really enjoyed the strokes that went into these wild stallions. Out of the three, this artwork took me the least time but involved the most intimate strokes I've ever made in charcoal. The Starving child/ opharn was depressing but I really really poured my heart into it especially when it came to the kinky hair and the exposed rib cage. The keys in the middle of the blog were overwhelming since I had to enlarge something that fits into your pocket to fill an A2 page, but these horses were..... fun! If you look closely the strokes on the horses spell ou my name. Enjoy the rest of my blog.

Cheers
Tafadzwa

Random photography

I decided to share a few random photographs I took. I've always been a HUGE fan of black and white photography until today!

I never thought colour could "properly" capture emotion in a photograph. In my opinion it at times feels as if the presence of colour takes away emotion. B&W photography leaves you curious, it kind of.... stimulates the mind more. I was however wrong in assuming colour photography has less emotion in it because Dave Hill's works are AMAZING (google him!) his website www.davehillphoto.com has the most moving colour photo collection I've ever seen! Its what the 'professionals' call hdr photography. Hdr involves at lest 3 photographs that are layered/ merged together to create one HIGHLY DETAILED piece of art. It can tend to look a bit animated but make no mistake, its photography! GREAT photography, its so great I want to venture in a similar path from now. B&W photography has brought me up to here but HDR is the future, you can see it being applied on Movie posters, and wrestling merchandise! Its AMAZING....

Thanks (Linky: my photography lecturer) for introducing me to this great world I didn't know was out there. Black and white photography, and Hdr are the only photography roads to take.

cheers guys!

Tafadzwa

Welcome to my Blog!

 

Hi there, thank you for coming! My name is Tafadzwa Tarumbwa I'm Graphics student/ animator. (The above profile picture was taken by my classmate Jovante Spies - she did an amazing job!). I hope you enjoy some of my thoughts you'll find posted on this blog, if a blog is not enough try CLICKING HERE to visit my website. For the next few days I shall be quietly working on the Hooked Alive script along with a few other secret projects. Enjoy my blog:

Tafadzwa Tarumbwa

contact@totally2d.org

Salad chick comic strips [flashback]

Hello reader! Before I created Totally2d's website or even this blog. I animated a mini series which had mixed language both English and Shona. Salad chick was the name of the show and below i've attached some of the comic strips I made after the animation. I still have more Salad chick episodes pending for animation. I love creating the show! Here is the website for Noble Savage whom I worked with on Salad Chick, and an NAMA nominated musical video (you can watch on www.totally2d.org/Watch_animations.html)












 

Hooked alive [Progress report]

Things are looking up! I've designed the above characters  and I'm currently in the process of drafting the third episode. So far episode 1 and 2's script has been finalized, and the Afrikaans translation (yes! part of the script is in Africaans) the translation for episode 1 is sounding AMAZING thanks to Angelique.
 


Thanks to my co-producer Trent we have recorded one of the scenes for the show, but the best part is Trent did an AMAZING with Hooked Alive's theme song. It sounds perfect for this show, progress has been made! I've tagged some of my peers involved with the voice acting on the Facebook group. In a mildly related issue, I once made a mini PC game featuring Stunt Goat. The project is still under wraps, and hasn't circled online YET but Hooked alive might later adopt the same route if the animation continues to flow as smoothly as it is. Fingers crossed guys! Last but not least, THANK YOU for visiting my humble blog.




cheers