Friday, June 09, 2006

Lesson 6 - Katie Rice heads

Whoooee. This was tricky shit. It was like i was learning head construction all over again. You can see that there's a lot of problems with these.

The most trouble i had was with perspective and proportion. The space between face parts is off for a lot of the drawings, and the faces themselves are squahed and stretched wrongly. Eyes don't look like they're on a 3d head, but tend to float around the face. The noses and lips are ok. I'm somewhat happy with those. The jaws were interesting. I experimented a little with how to draw them when constructing the head. At the start, i made broad ovals and then sketched in the details. Later on, i actually draw the shape of the jaw descending from the skull. This seemed to work the best.

The hair was fun because it looks like the hair is draped on the drawing as an afterthought, but it ends up completing it. Even though these sketches of Katie's ooze style, and it was hard to keep up while learning the lessons hidden within, it was still fun and educational.

The lesson can be found here, ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 6

Monday, June 05, 2006

Line of Action, part 2

Here's the rest of the Tom & Jerry pics. There were a blast to draw! Tom & Jerry has always been one of my favourite cartoons, and being able to draw them was very gratifying.

I'm getting the hang of line of action. There are a couple good examples in the pics. Some of them i didn't push it far enough, and some have the curve off. It just shows you how important a proper line of action is for a drawing to show decent movement. I still had some trouble with body proportion but i managed to get better at it near the end (Tom's really threw me off for most of his drawings).

I'm also starting to understand the use of negative space. When trying to get a drawing to look right, it can be more important than trying to see if your lines are correct.

I might give the Disney and Clampett drawings a go later this week. I want to give those Katie Rice heads a go first.

The lesson can be found here, ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 5

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Break Time!

So i got through about a third of the Tom & Jerry line of action drawings when i decided i needed a break.

I started drawing some charactures of wrestlers from the WWE (I am a huge wrestling fan).

















I think you can tell who this is if you're into wrestling. This was the 2nd characture i drew. The first one i wasn't happy with when i inked it, so i decided to draw it again from memory and really exaggerate the features. I also didn't ink it but instead used pencil. I like how it came out.




















[edit] A friend of mine asked me to draw RVD for him after i showed these off. Here we go!



















[last edit, i promise] Here's one more for ya. A certain olympic champion. Oh it's true! It's damn true!

Line of Action, part 1

This is the first part of the line of action lesson. I just wanted to post something and perhaps get some feedback.

This is really challenging stuff. I spent a couple hours alone erasing and redrawing Tom punching the other cat. In the end i was satisfied it was in the ballpark, but upon comparing it with the original drawing, i still have a ways to go. I think the main problem with the other two is the body proportion. I also need to follow through with my line of action, and make sure i get the curves right.

I'll be paying more attention to the line and proportion when i complete all the other drawings.

The lesson can be found here, ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 5