HEY LOOK!!: Kurtzman composition study.

Analysis:
- The focus on the picture is the guy in the rock on the right side. Putting the focus on the right side makes the picture less monotonous that if you put the focus in the center.
- There's a wide open sky that leaves enogh space for the reading of elements.
- The general shape of the mountain flow through the guy, it also the arrangement of the trees.
- The big rock also has a inclination through the guy. Everything points to the main focus.
- The big pine on the left creates a great contrast with the little fellow on the right.

starting some flintstones bg practice

I feel a little rusty, this doesn't feel rich enough. Looking forward to getting Painter 11, I think it might help my work.

Eisenberg Composition Study: Yogi panel

Sorry for the lack of posts in this last time, I've been very busy, but always drawing. I returned to start my studies, here's one recent study from a comic drawn by Harvey Eisenberg.



Let me know what do you think.
Bye!

caricature of a friend

This is my first attempt. It's really stiff and not so cartoony. I'm gonna give it another try.

Eager Beaver: Composition Study.

Observations:

- Why this BG is well balanced?

- The big tree contrasts with the small tree behind, also cuts the image leaving the area more focused to the action
¿it's really a very necessary element?

- The ground is curved. It leaves more space in the area of action. (I'm ok?)

- The white tree is curved to the little brown tree. ¿it's there to break with the vertical elements? Also creates a contrast with the little brown tree. It also participates in the frame for the characters.

- Is there any point for the red bush?

- The big white cloud at the right side (with the white curved tree) creates a frame for the character. Is there any reason to be so big and takes up so much space?

- There's a little white cloud curved towards the character. Maybe it's there to guide the eye to the action.

If I had to do this scene, I would have removed the white tree and make the big white cloud smaller, that would leave more space to the action.

Clara Bow Caricature

After this first attempt, I made a comparision to see better the mistakes:



2nd Attempt:

tomorrow I will post the observations.

Contrasts: Irv Spence Mouse

UPDATE: I don't know if the feet and arms are good now. This same thing happened to me months ago with the bulldog caricature exercise .
I think I missed the funny factor here and the nose seems to be bad conected.

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UPDATE:


Better?

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Verbal Analysis:
-BIG head compared with little body.
-Little nose compared with the head.
-Little arms and legs.
- Little ears.

Here's my first attempt. What do you think?

Sterrett and Chuck Studies.

I Don't know what attracts me from Sterrett drawings but I think they have lots of appeal.

Verbal Analysis:
- Little head
- "normal"body
- Huge legs and arms.
- Little eyes and nose
- Big Mustache

His head is not oval, has a more organic and imperfect form, more natural. None of his lines are perfectly straight or perfectly curved, tweens are avoids placing one leg in a different position to the other. He use contrast to make his characters more entertaining, but not in a exaggerated way as Tex Avery for example.

Dog:
- Big Head (organic oval)
- little body (organic oval)
- Long legs (organic cylinders)
- Little paws.

The face has a small part of the skull, leaving a large space on the left. Again, he's using organic and imperfect forms, but you can see that these forms are based on basic shapes such as cylinders and ovals. Also here is a use of contrast but not too exaggerated.







I think these are not the exact frames, but they are close enough.

- Little cranium
- Huge jaw

Chuck Jones used the contrast more exaggerated.

- Between the eye and the back of the skull is a large space. Chuck Jones (as Sterrett) occupies part of the skull to place the face, leaving space at the opposite side.
- All parts follow the skull shape, the same with the wrinkles, eyes and cheeks in the jaw.
- Clear and clean silhouette.

This is the same dog from the same cartoon, but here his skull is longer than the previous frame. Now his skull has the same size of his jaw. Is this another cartoonist?
The rest of his body still important differences:

- Big Head.
- Big Chest
- Little Butt
- Long and Skinny legs
- Big Paws.


This rear view of the skull is very interesting.
- The skull is not a perfect egg, is another form with interesting angles that define the face, neck and front of the head.
- The jaw connects perfectly with the skull following form and all the secondary forms (cheeks, lip, wrinkles and nose) follow the shape of the jaw.
- The eye is tricked, because from this angle we could not see the eye.

Bob Clampett Wolf

This drawing is from a great complexity. My copy has a lot of mistakes.

-First, I should have drawn the chair first and then the wolf above, it would be more easy because I was struggling trying to guess the parts that were behind the wolf.
- The line of action was right, the body flows through it.
- The body have to be bigger.
- The hands have to be bigger
- Legs bigger.
-The chair is bigger.
- Head must feel that it is more tucked in between the shoulders. I have to exaggerate the attitude.

Comic Cover Study

Here's my try at this Mickey Mouse Cover.

Howie Post House

I wanted to try some of the Howie Post houses because I'm not good at drawing that kind of things, like props, Backgrounds, etc... elements that is.
I've been reading the Famous Artist Course and they talk a lot about the concepts that John have been taught us. They talk about the FORM, to think about the FORM of the boject while you're drawing, not just the shape but thw whole form and draw even the parts that we cannot see to meake the form solid and well constructed.

I tried some of that at this house. The house has a rectangular and the roof is a cube rotated to fit within the rectangular box. The chimney has a cylindrical shape with two cylindrical tubes. The step of entry is also a rectangular shape and all wood in the house are reduced to this form.

After drawing the roof, I covered it with straw, trying to guess how this material would behave if placed on top of this roof that had already drawn. Having drawn first the roof without the straw helped so much because I had a solid form to dress.

Sad Sack and Roger Ramjet studies

I always have trouble finding new shapes for my drawings. Most of the time I fall in the sphere and pear shapes forms from the 40's so here I tried some Roger Ramjet and Sad Sack because they have another forms in his constructions.

I started with Sad Sack. He actually had a classic construction, an egg for head and a tube for neck. He had great contrasts in his face, like tiny eyes against big ears and nose. The eyes doesn't have the white part, they are lines.
Then I think, What would happen if the features were proportional?
Not much funny, isn't it? So, contrasts are very important in cartoons.

Then I tried some Roger Ramjet characters, these have another type of shapes in his mayor forms.


These are very funny to draw! I had a great time with it, that's something very important I think. In the bottom part, I tried new angles, I think the front came up pretty well, I tried to preserve the asymmetry, the organic and contrasts. I think I failed at the 3/4 angle.


There's some things that these designs have in common, like the great contrasts they have in his mayor forms, the great amount of space inside and outside, the placement of the feet (not in the center), the limited details.

Dakin Dream Owl

I like Dakin Dream Pets, they all have different shapes, great appealing, nice colors, they are all fun to me. I take this picture from an angry sleepy Owl because it seems to be a simple character to draw with great things in it.

Obesrvations:
- He's big, it has like a thumb shape, big at the top getting more little at the bottom. It's a great shape.
- He has a little face, angry looking and a tiny pointy beak. He has a lot of space in the face, that's great for expressions I think.
- He has little flat feet, no legs, so I assumed he walks in short steps and moves his feet really fast.
- He's in pijamas. I like the hat, is small compared to the body and has a nice fall.
- He seems to have strong arms.

This is my stiff study, then I tried to do it more loose:

trying to get another view and giving him another attitude

I like this drawing, I give him another expression, like he's very tired and cannot sleep

DOWNWARDS 2

I tried to focus just in the general forms, i'ts better this way, much more easy and simple.
I was pretty close in the first try!!
This way is much more easy to understand the things. I forgot the base, sorry!

Porky toy construction: downwards

Tomorrow I'll put some observations and I 'll fix my mistakes.