Diyana Abbasali

Having been blessed with a talent to draw I always try to make birthdays cards for my friends and family. As well as drawings pictures of things that they like, e.g. cars for my dad, anime characters for my friends etc.

Being a huge dog fan, I loved to draw the famous Disney dog - Pluto!! And on the release of Disney's Bolt, I found another Disney dog to draw and gain inspiration from :) These pictures where drawn from artbooks, pictures and films. (All Copyrights to Disney)

I have been a fan of Disney ever since I can remember. My favourite Disney film is 'The Lion King', and it was from watching that film that I aspired to persue a career in animation. :) Being a fan of Disney I was always asked to draw some of their most well-known and loveable caharacters for either friends or family.

During the three years of my course I have had the great pleasure of being able to draw some of the animals at Marwell Zoo. Posted above are a few examples of my work.

It was in my second year that I discovered my passion for character design, having worked on the 2009 gradation film 'Misiba', I was given the chance to design one of the main characters within the film, that of the lion. For which I did reference drawings, and then from I there begun to create some lion designs.

As well as life drawing, we were encouraged to gain inspiration from the great masters, by doing artist studies and going out to museums to drawing sculptures, to further improve our sense of three dimensionality. The artist studies that I have referenced are taken from Durer, Rembrandt and Delacroix. My sculpture drawings are from the British Museum in London.

Here are a few examples of some my life drawing, I have mainly selected pieces from my second year and third year.