Toby Tortoise analysis continuation

Getting the shapes right

The shape of the head is more like a thumb, is not a perfect circle, you can see that in the cartoon, check it out!. Also the chest is not a perfect oval or sphere.


The turtle has a ovale shape for the head.
The neck is made from two lines, not perfectly parallels.

1.- General forms - 5th attempt - new drawing


Yep, the head fits better with this new shape
Now, the second level of forms.

New drawing

2.- 2nd Level of Forms - 1st attempt


-The arm of the girl, who is closer to the turtle, is well. Her hand is in a wrong angle
-The arm of the girl who goes to the hip must be bigger
- Hat of girl must be bigger
- Eye of the turtle must be bigger
- Turtle "muzzle-nose" must be bigger
- Turtle hat must be bigger

2.- 2nd Level of Forms - 2nd attempt

- The "muzzle-nose" from the turtle is a bit more bigger, and the smile line has to be more short.
- give more form to the hat of the girl, is a little more big the area in which is the hand
- the hand in the hat is still wrong.

2.- 2nd Level of Forms - 3rd attempt


- The forearm of the girl, the one that touch the hip, has to be more up.
- The hat is too big now, have to fix the feathers too.
- The neck of the turtle is more wide.

2.- 2nd Level of Forms - 4th attempt

Uf! ok, now the details are minimum, I think I can go on to the next step.

To be Continued!

observation drawings of animals

Hi everybody,

here are some drawings that I made at the zoo of Berlin.

They are quick drawings, because the animals don't wait for us to draw.. they move a lot...

I tried to follow these steps:

- hierarchy: to find a clear shape that could give me something close to the silhouette of the animal that I was drawing.

- construction: to find the limbs.

- observation: to put a the details after the animals moved from the position that I started.

I tried not to add anything... to practice observation...

I will do in some buildings around here soon.

abraço

davi

analysis

I like this picture, hahahaha
naughty turtle...

Emotional Statement of the whole picture.

This bird chick is showing him his "goods" and the turtle seems to say: WHOA! what do we have here!

Turtle:
- Emotional Statemen.
The turtle is impressed, his eye has grown more than the normal. Something that it sees impresses it and he likes, the impression is agreeable for him. It has a light happy grimace.

- Visual Contrasts.
-The neck is very long, The turtle should have raised his head to be able to see the "feathers".
-head is small compared with the chest
-little hat compared with the head.
-BIG eye
-Clear silhouette

Birdy Chick:
-Emotional Statemen.
-the girl is flirting, there is no doubt of that, in fact the action and emotion of the turtle also is clear and direct.
-She knows what the turtle sees, but she doesn't demonstrate it.

Visual Statements:
-HUGE chest
-Small head compared to the body
-BIG hat compared with the head
-Her face is small
-Clear Silhouette

-Line of actions are opposed
-Birdy LOA is rounded
-Turtle LOA is more straight.

-There's some space between the characters to separate them, and lots around them.


- The features inside the characters are minimum
- there are lots of neg space around the features to see them

the eyes show the action very clear, the looks are direct.

here it comes the messy part!

1.- Lines of Action


After 8 attempts I could do them right (I think so...)

2.- General Forms 1st attempt


- The forms are too small!

2.- General Forms 2nd attempt



-the bird chick is better, the chest line has to be in another angle.
-the eye line has to be more down
-the chest has to be more big
-The forms on the turtle are still too small

2.- General Forms 3rd attempt

-The turtle is better, his shell has to be more big downward
- the back of the shell have another shape
-The head of the turtle has to be more big and more straight up.
-Now the chick have very big chest, has to be smaller


2.- General Forms 4th attempt

- The line of the chest in the girl is still wrong. Have to fix that
The rest of the mistakes seems to be minimal.
Now I can continue with the second level of forms.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Magician and Kaspar

Hey again!

I finally got around to drawing some magicians. For the first one, he has a very clear shilloute which easily shows his action. His mustache is in perspective and follows the form of his face. His pupils jut almost out of his eyes.

For the second one the line of action is very strong, you can feel the force of it. Bugs is following the line of action and every one of his bones is probably breaking at this point. The mustache is used to frame the eyes. His hat is in perspective and indicates that his head is tilted back. There are lots of detailed areas next to large spaces, for example the cape is next to his jacket and the negative space. The bow on his cape is next to his dress shirt.





Small shapes are next to large shapes to give periods of rest. The tie and button are next to the large shapes of the jacket and the belt is also next to large shapes like the pants and jacket. His eyes are large enough to tell his emotions yet small enough to allow his eyebrow to emote as well. He is resting on the basket, his feet are further away which normally would look unbalanced but actually due to him supporting his weight it works.






And for the last one, each positive shapes fits into the negative shapes so well. And the guns are used to point at each character. Bug's head fits right underneath the man's arm and is by his stomach. The guns create an interesting composition with the two parallel lines that are pointing into opposite directions.





And now time for some more Kaspar drawings, this time I tried to make him more on model, be more balanced, and not to smooth out too many shapes.

Cartoon Study and a Hello to Everyone!

Hi, my name is Pedro Vargas and I'm new to this blog!

I'm super psyched that I get to participate in all these cartoon studies along with all the talented people here!

I've been looking back at some the old posts of everyone's work here and I'm really amazed how extremely dedicated everyone is into doing some well made cartoon-type drawings. And everyone's showing some vast improvements! I'm really impressed!

Nobody wants cartoons to die and everyone here is supporting to save it, which is awesome!

Watching everyone's work along with reading all the critiques has motivated me to improve my skills as a cartoonist.

So here's my first study. I chose something basic to start off and here it is:


Here I made the TV, characters, and couch into two separate clear shapes, which are the two overall forms you see below in the drawing. I left out the rope and lettering to focus more on what was going on in the drawing.

The characters and the chair are in one big shape and the TV shape is the other. That way it would be obvious for me to see the composition as a whole.


I made a transparency in Photoshop so you can see how I fit things together and also checked my proportions...

I then fixed both the shapes more here.


I also added some more distinctive features like the overall shape of the two characters, which is the big oval over the chair and started to build up the chair more by adding the arm and back rest.

I checked to see my proportions in PS and then fixed them.


I then added the construction of both characters and added more details on the TV like the screen and buttons.

fixed the proportions in PS...
and then added all the details that were in the drawing
I really liked how it came out except, of course, for a couple of little things. They look a bit squashed on the left and right sides of their heads. I made both their heads way too distorted and threw all the features inside their heads WAY out of proportion.


I tend to sort of warp things like that especially with heads on characters. Too wonky like John says.

I used to not pay attention to it before, but I'm trying to avoid that. I want to make sure everything makes sense in a drawing and for the viewer to see it like that as well.

Pixies top part of his ear is a bit high up and the screen on the TV could be fixed up a bit more. Other than that I think it looks pretty good overall. At least I got the feel of the drawing down I think.

Next time when I do a study I'll be more conscious and try to take things little by little and not warp and distort things too much.


I want to to do more studies like this as I continue to progress.

Feel free to critique this and any comments are highly appreciated!

exercise of analysis

I tried to make an analysis of the original drawing as suggested... I still think that I don' t get to the important points as Mr. John K does in his analysis... but I will keep trying.

After the analysis I made a drawing, that in my opinion is too mechanical...

The frog looks terrible, I lost his mouth, and his size is wrong... but as the analysis I think it will get better with more practice.

I went to the Zoo and made a bunch of drawings of animals... I will post them tomorrow.

It was very fun.

abraço

davi

Someone Try This

1)

What Does The Drawing Say Emotionally?

2)

ANALYZE THE VISUAL CONTRASTS

http://cartooncollege.blogspot.com/2009/10/caricatured-bulldog.html?zx=7dd09a77d61db067

Go Farther Than The Original By Enlisting Your Mind

1) Feel Before You Copy - analyze the emotional statement: What is the drawing telling us? What's the point of it?

2) Think before copying. Analyze what visually is making the emotional statement. What principles are being used?

3) Now Draw.
First Line of Action.
Then check line of action -is it as strong as the original, or have you toned it down already?

4) Construction.
Block in the construction following the line of action. Check it before going to the next step! Did you tone it down? Did you make it lumpy and less direct? If so where? Write it down and then fix it.

5) Proportions and contrasts. Analyze the contrasts. Then draw them. THEN CHECK THEM. Did you tone them down? So far everyone has every time.

6) Negative shapes: Both outside the form, and within the form. Are they disappearing in your copy? Getting smaller? Less distinct?
Fix them.

7) Stop. Don't add final details like fur and stuff. Make a solidly constructed cartoony copy that retains the guts of the original.

We can worry about fur and clean lines later.

8) JUDGE THE APPEAL AND GUTS - Now stare at your copy and at the original. Flick your eye back and forth between the 2 drawings and watch it change. Is the copy as strong and funny? As appealing? Does the statement come across as well? If not, then go back and analyze what is toning the drawing down.