Painting Project 1

Our painting prof's awesome and really relaxed, and we've been learning how to emphasize the focal point pushing contrast (both value and colour), hue intensity and lines of action

Layout Homework Assignments: learning how to draw!

draw some chairs

 now put figures in them

(wait how do people sit exactly?)

now have to characters interacting

 draw a Dodge Charger 1966 and a 67' Mustang from Bullitt

now add a figure for scale

I've been studying how to draw and not just getting them done....but then again I haven't really gotten any finished.
I'm glad I've been learning so much, but half of that should be applying it in more complete drawings; making a statement after I've collected the subtle details.

Next step: pushing camera angles, applying solid drawing to interesting compositions, and clean up

Haven't posted in a while, lots has happened. I broke my toe, possibly one of my fingers on my drawing hand, started to enjoy animating, Disney bought Lucasarts, haven't really slept since Thanksgiving.

All of our teachers this year are great and at least three of them I find awesome and Peoter is one of the greatest teachers and role models I've had. I love his approach to teaching, almost coaching, each class i leave uber motivated and ready to take on the world. He's getting us to practise our fundamentals of drawing, basic perspective etc. build up a library of props, furniture and vehicles to populate our environments, and exposing us to culture and film throughout the ages.

Abstraction and imagination
+realism as a tool perspective to ground and define space and solidity, to make sure statements win the audience's understanding through clarity
+exaggeration as a knob to crank and distort

+caricature is extracting the purest form of reality

+abstraction can distil what is real and bland to a frame of what is needed, emphasized, or a pure emotion

Storyboards 'After the Bath'

StoryBoarding Assignment 1

Pitching's a lot of fun, I had an awesome time coming up with the ideas for Hector Protector and After the Bath poems.

After boarding I found I was really struggling with basic perspective and composing shots, I'm working on that and character posing on the next assignment, which isn't as strong storywise as this.

Realistic Abstraction

Louis Gonzalas told me that silhouettes are the bee's knees. and for my style I need to emphasis them to help solidify my statement within the drawing. Another thing Woo told me is distil the abstract; start bold and shapey but then mould into shapes. I've often battled with draftsman correctness vs loose, visceral scribbles discovering how challenging it is to marry abstract and structure to the right balance.

Glen Keane does a beautiful job of birthing academic drawings with feeling and life whilst the UPA genre refreshes via colour, shape, and texture, more abstract than Keane's real volumes and animated depth.
but as I learned drawing with Ghio and Taha this year is that you must study and understand the form before achieving righteous abstraction. You can see this with Picasso's early stuff, trained in realism, but an artist pioneering cubism and movements towards abstraction. Although the journey to improving draftsmanship must be driven by vitality, it's detrimental to train in something secluded, i.e.. learning to make films without making films along the road.
I don't want to forget draftsmanship but I've awakened a vitality in more abstract drawings that are sometimes purer than more physical ones (at least as an image and maybe not as real a character as Disney but as real an emotion and feeling). It physicalises what's hard to describe but as an abstract emotion not through a relatable character.

 

These are from the mid way last semester, I wanted to rock more of these fun sketches in the summer.

That's why I was dig Norman Mclaren's work so much, and also Picasso's early stages in his unique timeline, not satisfied for mere photorealism but delving deeper into the human mind and soul, and churning the thick stew of memories, emotions and feeling.

MAY Manilla pad

I saved sustained fun drawings for the snazzy manilla pads left over from sheridan caricatures

thanks Naddya! 

:D

Caricatures during long pose

Drawing I like from April

SCRAPING AT THE TOP OF THE ICEBERG

The model was new and a little awkward, which was beautiful to capture.

any emotion is great emotion to draw

The other pose I just had fun with and a visceral experience before i started studying force or drawn to life.