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Artist, Animator & Filmmaker 🎨🎥🖌️ | Diving into personal projects & trying to make some magic ✨ | #Artstr #Animation #Film #Community
It has been a while since I painted something. Here are some mountains! #dailypainting #artstr #paintstr #art #paint image
Next step in character design. I draw the turnaround on top of each other and "animate' it. It helps me visualize the actual volume and form as well as the proportions. This is just a rough. I think I like the face proportions, or at least where it is headed. The body could maybe use tweeks. Also once you draw one side you can just flip it over and you got the full turnaround and tweek it. No need to do extra work! #dailydrawing #artstr #animation #characterdesign
Character design is not my strong point. As you can see I started out with a more detailed design at firs. But then that just seemed too tedious. So I simplified dramatically. The closer to a stick figure the better! #dailydrawing #artstr #sketchstr #comicstr #art #sketch #comic #characterdesign
Comic Study Day 3. Tank Girl and "Camera" Placement. I came across this page, and I noticed something off. Haha. image Let me explain. I don't know if this is taught or focused on in comics, but in Film/Animation we are taught the 180 degree rule. Which is where the camera should not cross the 180 degree line of the stage. "The rule states that the camera should be kept on one side of an imaginary axis between two characters, so that the first character is always frame right of the second character. Moving the camera over the axis is called jumping the line or crossing the line; breaking the 180-degree rule by shooting on all sides is known as shooting in the round." This helps keep things visually clear. Of course it is broken intentionally on occasion to convey to the viewer something is wrong, a jarring and confusing moment. It is usually intentionally done. image Tank Girl breaks that in panel 3 where ponytail girl flings milk at Tank Girl. Which is confusing because Tank Girl is established on screen Left, the Kangaroo is in the Middle, and ponytail is screen Right. I redrew it with the "proper" placement. image As I drew I realized why Ashley Wood did it that way, it was because of the flow of the dialogue/speech bubbles. I imagine he did it that way so your eye would flow smoothly from one panel to the next. So that is interesting how the flow of speech can sometimes disrupt the flow of the images. The last panel with the cow is fine because he is establishing this is a new location, so the rules/camera placement can be different, I think the placement change also helps establish that time passed and they are somewhere different because there is literally no background. An article explaining more about the 180 degree rule with examples if you are curious:
Comic Study Day 2 the importance of half tones. There is a lot going on in this page. I like how Ashley Wood used half tones to separate important things and add depth to the comic. As you can see my line drawings are hard to follow. I think the first two panels are a bit too crammed and using exposition in dialogue is not great. But I think there was no easy way around that. #comic #study #comicstr #artstr