Staging

UPDATE!:

5th attempt.


This stuff is giving me HORRIBLE headaches!!!

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Analysis in words:
-Mickey is framed by the test tubes
-There is an interesting variety of sizes. Mickey is small and the other elements (tubes) are bigger than him.
-Lots of negative space around Mickey
-forms of elements are distinctive and varied
-mickey silhouette is clear
- test tubes have negative space between them

blocking out the things first. No details.

Check:
- Left side of the table should be more up.
- Mickey has to be more down.
- The big test tube from the left must be more to the left.
- The tube that is behind, in the left, should be thick and more hiden.
-The round container above the left side is bigger.
-the tube that passes over mickey is in a wrong angle.
-The skull in the left side is bigger, so the book.

Corrections:
More to come.

Slab construction exercise

Here is my Slab, all critiques appreciated.

Feel free to make fun of my truancy.

Hiya, fellas! Sorry I've been such a delinquent.


(I had a scan of more details added in between here-- like some major elements of clothing, some more facial features-- but I think I lost the image).

Maintaining the guts

Hi everybody,

here goes another study.

somethings that I noticed:

- I toned down the line of action (SHAME, I tried not to do this, but I failed)

- There is something strange in the right shoulder, it seems that it is also toned down.

- His mouth was touching the shoulder and I separated them.

- The negative space of the upper lip is too small.

It is sad because I just see this mistakes after I finishand scan the drawings.

that is it.

I will make more studies as soon as I finish the bunch of work that I have to do.

abraço

davi

New try

Ive put the old drawing on the light table and tried to fix all the things John said:

"TRY TO MAKE IT MORE SOLID, HAVE MOrE Weight and smooth out the sharp corners

don't give him whites in his eyes

they are dot eyes like Barney Rubble"

Construction Exercise - individual character

Hi,

Here goes my attempt to learn construction and mantain the guts of the layout.

I scaned the drawing before cleaning with the black lines, for you to compare the structure.

problems and doubts that I had while drawing:

-mantain a solid structure of the jaw.

-find the right place of his butt, it isn't right yet.

-I didn't know if I should draw his shorts more 3D or more flat (I've made it with a "3D" structure)

-I tried to put meat in his cheeks (using the classic Preston Blair's "juicy cheeks") it worked better in the meft cheek.

-I've made his right arm more curved than the original drawing, that is more straight (doubt: in this case should I keep it straight?)

-It seems that I shrunk his head and some of the negative spaces.

I am still busy for te next week, but as soon as I finish some illustrations that I have to do I will go back to my studies... I will keep working on individual characters to improve my construction.

abraço

davi

Petey Construction + Caricature

UPDATE:



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First I analyzed the drawing in words:

-Big head
-Little beak
-Little body
-Little arms and legs
-Leaning foward

Then I tried to exagerate the things that I noticed.

Maybe I should push them further.

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I've changed the face! What have I done!

The Tough but Important Thing To Remember

Well there are lots of things to remember, and they are all in my posts, so whenever you start a new exercise, click the link of my name and reread everything before starting the new exercise.

Make a list of the things I always say to you.

Like when you do a layout exercise, you still have to remember all the stuff about construction, line of action, negative spaces, MAINTAINING GUTS and not toning down the storyboards.

That's probably the number one problem I see people struggling with.

If you get that note from me, maybe you should just take some individual poses from my storyboards and practice pushing the poses - while still using construction, style, clarity, negative shapes, line of action, perspective, blah, blah, blah

In order to maintain guts, you have to understand the principles underlying the poses

If the layout poses are weaker or less clear than the storyboard poses, then the layout stage is a wasted step

Maybe I should make a checklist and you could print it out and stick it on your desk in front of you as you draw.

But you could make your own checklist from all my posts and in particular any notes I have given you personally. That would help make the ideas stick.

KEEP NOTES

Always keep your own notes. And make notes when you draw

of things you have trouble with
things you just learned from the exercise
things you notice from drawing a toy or copying a classic character

making notes enlists your mind, which can help your hand and eyes immensely

Our eyes lie to us and we have to help them see better by understanding what we are looking at

Porky from a different angle

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My try!

I tried to get as close as the sketch as I could.

SLAB BROKEN JAW 2nd attempt

I think this is a more accurate version. I feel that I toned down his expression.
It's difficult not loosing the guts .

More Application

layout, CH

Here's my try. I first made this one. Love my improvised light table :D

Retarded Cat Caricature_1st Attempt

The hair is too difficult to do. Maybe I need to study cartoony type hairs.

SLAB BROKEN JAW

here's my attempt. Is it good? bad?

A Simpler Exercise

I'm starting to think these full layout exercises are too much too soon. Esp. when a lot of folks haven't yet mastered their "guts" and negative spaces and contrasts.

I notice that everyone who has drawn this pose has:

Shrunk the negative spaces-both the ones in the air and the ones within the body and head

Toned down the line of action and pose

took out the construction: even his broken jaw should have a feeling of overall form, but most of the copies I have seen look like they were just drawn with a wiggly line and no form between the wiggles.

It might be easier for me to critique individual poses like this before we move on to complex layouts and setups with multiple poses and problems to solve.

Eh

I'm still not getting very good perspective. Sadness.

A little better, I think. I'm still shrinking the head somehow.

The ones below are by John, obviously, haha.



Update:

Trying to apply what I learned to a "doodle"

See Today's Post on Layout at my main blog

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/lo-1-what-is-hardest-job-at-spumco.html

for those of you struggling to do layouts here

Draw what you see

UPDATE:
THIRD TRY:



-body too long
-feet smaller
-Eye closer to us more ot the right
-nose bigger

I know is too stiff and angular, but I'm just blocking out the thing.

SECOND TRY:

His legs gives me the feeling that they are more skinny. Trying to capture the feeling of his face is really hard, also teh construction of his head. I'm going to do a Check in photoshop to see better the sizes and shapes.

FIRST TRY:

This is the first attempt at drawing this retarded kitten.
I'm still not happy with the result, so I'm gonna tighten up a little. Is really hard to interpret the solid masses like the head and torso, because everything is covered with hair .
Now I see that the contrasts have been toned down, like the head which is bigger. I also have problems with the perspective and the solidity of some parts, like the foot closer to us.
I cannot see how to interpret the hair, maybe yo could give me some help.

I'm gonna try this week the layout excercise.
Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been busy.

Roughs - Davi

my first tries of the exercise.

I can see some proportions that are not right... and I lost a lot of the negative space...

I will try to correct this.

Chris and Anne... your studies look good. It helped me a lot to look at yours first.

abraço,

davi