Book Revue - Big Bad Wolf study

This is one of my favorite scenes from this cartoon! The animation is incredible! Especially when he swings the axe around and the axe gets right in your face. Looks amazing! Really inspiring stuff!

I got this image from John's blog. I think this was a key pose in the cartoon, but I'm not sure. I still think it was pretty good to copy from.

So here we go! Verbal analysis:

*His snout area really sticks out
*Long torso
*Big wolf feet
*Big bushy tail
*Right arm longer than left arm
*Big foreshortened axe


I tried emphasizing those observations a bit more. Trying to make the pose more expressive than the original.

Study: Porky by Scribner

I really enjoy making this studies from Clampett cartoons. I don't know why, maybe because they are funny, cartoony, extremly appealing and very solid.

I crush his head a little and made his body a little long.

And I change his expression too! the right cheek has to be more squached

Basil Wolverton study

I've never did an study from this guy. It's pretty scary for the first time, it's so great.
First, the verbal analysis:
-BIG head
-BIG Teeth
-Little face
-Little body
-Long hair vertical, which breaks the monotony with the horizontal teeth.

Level1:Level1_check1:

this first step always came out pretty stiff. Im doing it with some fear.
-The head was too little, so the body.
- the upper part of the cranium, where the upper lip begins, it's smaller.

Level1_2:

Level1_check2:
-The back of the head it's more curvy in the neck. It forms an "S" that is attached to the neck.
- The upper lip goes up
- the neck has to be strongger
- the chest is bigger

Level2:

Level2_check2:

- The up hair is even more big. Im still a little timid with contrasts.
- more prominent teeth
- The chest is a little bigger. the right arm shows more.
- The inside hair form is bigger.

Level2_3:
Level2_check3:


- Upper teeth less prominent
- adjust the hair that falls and it's form.
- adjust the form of the cranium, more solid.

Level3:

Level3_check1:

- Nose is bigger and solid.
- Fix the eye line.
- more stronger smile, the whole expression fell because of this.
- Upper teeth bigger.

Level3_check2:


- Adjust hair that falls.

Final details:

Final check:

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Later I did this version by memory trying to apply the things that I noticed.

Shan and Roxie walking

Paul now totally owns this blog! And he's improving so much. It's great to see. Unfortunately, I've been really caught up in school (and my job), lately. But I graduate soon, and before I have to start paying off my student loans I want to finally have some time to commit to studying, again.

Anyway, here's my Shaniqua and Roxie:



I wanted to get more specific about Shan's eyes. I also more clearly made the jaw and cranium two separate forms:


Again, trying to make Shaniqua's eyes less rounded-out, and trying to adjust her mouth/cheek area to be more loyal to the original.



I think I could have made the hands more solid, and I think there was some loss incurred in Shaniqua's facial region. It looks to me like her cranium got a little mushy. I think I should have placed Shaniqua just a bit more to the left so that Roxie's hair didn't come quite so close to her sleeve.

I graduate on the 8th, then I need to visit my grandmother (who lives many states away) for a few days. Then I'll be delightfully underemployed. I'm trying to find a new part-time job that is better than minimum wage but low-impact (maybe temping) so I can devote most of my energy to studying. Unless anyone around here wants to hire a personal assistant. Or adopt a 22 year old.

Tom chest pose

Observations:
- The left side of tom is less curved than the right side (see silhouette)
- The left arm (the arm more close to us) has a curve inside and the outside is made of two "straight".
- The hands are big, the exterior side it almost follows the line of the arm and in the inside the thumb sticks out. It also the index finger sticks out.


I feel something wrong in the face, maybe I put it in the wrong angle.

Eisenberg Tom

Verbal Analysis

- The LOA of Tom it's defined and it points to the mice
- Tom has a BIG rounded head, the mice are more like ovals.
- Tom's head is turned slightly toward us.
- He has one eye closed and one eye open.
- The eye that is open pushes the eyebrow up and this makes a wrinkle.
- the eyebrows follow the mechanics of the eyes.
-The center line of the muzzle is different from the head, It's a secondary form attached to the cranium.
- lots of neg space inside tom's head. There's also great space between tom and the mice.
- The back of tom's is curved, following the line of action.
- the spaces between the hairs are not equal.
- The three characters have different expressions, The three are saying different things.

Eisenberg Tom & Jerry Study

Here's my verbal analysis for this study:

-Opposing lines of action on each character
-Tom has a backwards "s" curve line of action at almost a 45 degree angle
-Jerry has a backwards "c" curve for LOA
-Tuffy has a regular "c" curve for LOA
-Tom has a surprised look (not just in the face, but in his body as well, like raised shoulder's, big surprised eyes, raised eyebrows, raised knee, raised foot)
-Jerry has his eyes closed and Tuffy's are wide open looking directly at Tom
-Jerry is immensely happy to eat some fried chicken and Tuffy is happy with his cupcake
-Tuffy is raised higher than Jerry inside lunch pail
-Tuffy's on top a higher stack of sandwiches making him higher than Jerry
-Jerry is slightly bigger than Tuffy
-Jerry and Tuffy's torsos are each 1 and half heads long
-Tom's torso is 2 heads long
-Lots of space between ears and eyes in each character
-Lots of space inside each characters ears (very big ears)

I wrote down the analysis on my paper, but I thought it would be best to type it up here rather than for you to struggle through my handwriting.

So I first put in the lines of action of each character...


Then I put in the primary forms on top of their LOAs and checked my proportions...


Here I've put in the secondary forms and details on top...


And cleaned it up a bit, but not too much to loose all the underlying structure.