im still alive

Hee all.

Didn't post anything here for awhile. And to be honest, I feel a bit ashamed that I didn't. I feel guilty that I don't try to study more. Especially that I have the privilege to get on this blog (actually I have the feeling that Im not good enough to be part of this blog). But in my daily life I need to draw my own "style" to eventually get a job, I need to fill my portfolio with drawings I don't like. So it's hard to find time to study. Especially studying takes allot of time for me, a really good study takes me almost a day.. If I want to compete with all these great study's I see on this blog.

But enough wining. I want to get better. So I started working on these layouts. Actually I think they are too bad and to rushed and rough to post here. But what the heck, I want to progress and wanted to post something again after a long time.

*I don't have an scanner at the moment, so I have to make photo's. So the quality is kinda bad.

^I had the most trouble with him. So I drew him separate to practice it. His forehead and eyes are kinda strange in the drawing above...

I have the feeling I keep learning by redoing them. I notice all the things that I learned by studying other drawings. I still have some trouble manage all the different objects in one drawing. I will try to do some more tomorrow and push myself more. And my next goal is to make them more clean.

Does anyone have some feedback? How bad is it, drawing this rough? Should I take more time to do one drawing, or should I go for allot of different takes?

Did everyone die?

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This started out pretty good, but seems like everyone fizzled out

Layout Study - "Slab & Ernie"

Hello everybody,

here comes my studies of the last exercise.

it was harder than the one with Kaspar, specially because I haven't practiced a lot the model of these characters.

I just finished the drawings (I need to rest) so I can not see the mistakes yet.

I will take a look tomorrow and I will be able to post a self critique of the exercise.

I want to do more of this, it is very cool.

abraço

davi

Setups 1 - planning for multiple scenes to use the same setup - long shots

when you read through a storyboard, you look for scenes that use the same angle and same camera distance

http://jkcartoonstories.blogspot.com/2009/12/slabs-first-fist.html

when you find them, you try to design a layout that can use the same "setup" for all the scenes



In other words, one master Background that all the action can take place in

That means you have to plan how much space you need around the characters in order to be able to draw all the most extreme poses

Like all these images can use 1 setup:

This is a "long shot" That means the camera is far away enough to show the whole bodies of the characters.


so you have to plan all the drawings to work on the same background, and the sixes of the characters have to make sense from pose to pose

if they are on the bed they are smaller

if they are on the floor in the foreground they are bigger

if there are consecutive poses within a scene, the poses have to "flip" between each other

This lesson is to draw all these poses, so they use the same background, and that the consecutive poses flip.

You also of course have to remember everything from previous lessons - like negative space, style, not toning down the poses etc.

Questions?

What Do You Need?

I noticed that this site is slowing down. I haven't seen anything from Ann, Kali, Geneva, Mitch, Kelly, Becky and others lately.

Do you need new lessons?

One thing I gotta stress is that constant practice and applications of each lesson is what makes you good and functional.

Just doing a lesson once is not enough to make the concepts stick.

My goal is to get you out of sketchbook scribbling and into practical drawing with control.

If you're just stuck on a concept, ask a question.

very difficult pose to do

This was my third attempt and is still BAD
This is a very hard pose to do, look at the head! is a very difficult angle, too many subtleties, the left foot has a rare knee, very difficult to interpret.
In this drawing every line is there for a reason, there is no line that exists by itself or random. I was impressed that even the tail is solid.
The cheek that is close to us was the hardest part I think.

A Corny Bugs

It's a very hard pose to translate, very curvy, solid, full of life, appealing and funny.

First I layout his basic general structure and made some lines for his arms and legs just to make a path for the positions. It flows better this way, with the lines.


Then I made the forms, the second level of forms. I had a very hard time with the legs and hands, I really don't know how to block the form of his fingers.

The 3rd level of forms...

And finally de details.

I made right his line of action!
His head fits almost very well, I hae to make his mouth more open and the nose more down.
His hands and arms are bigger, and they have to be more up.
His body should be slightly thicker, also his legs.
The ears are not in the right place.