Visualize

Visualize Visualize Visualize!

Last night I finally signed up for Don's Club, the Don Bluth Animation course, now I'm kicking myself that I didn't do it sooner. Tonight was my first class and it was chock full of information. I don't usually take notes, but I ended up with a page full of notes and a page full of drawings.
The main theme he had for us today was Visualize. What makes creative people valuable is that they can never really be replaced. As Rual from ManvsArt says, "be yourself cause no one else can be" or something to that effect. That being said our creativity and our skill come from our visualization, before you do anything visualize what you are going to do and try to get as close to that as you can. Whether it's animating, caricaturing, drawing, story-boarding, illustrating, whatever visualize, visualize, visualize!

Here's a quick glimpse at today's notes. (Note to self: use darker pencils!)


(second page of just notes and like always click to enlarge)


Today's concern week pose is Sorrowful Concern.


Here's a little concept design I'm working on that I might turn into a logo, or menu for the site later on.

(Gilligan, Claude's Turtle, Claude, and the Little Hero)

Concerned Perspective part deux

Continuing on with this week's theme here are the concerned concept sketches.

Concerned pose dos


Revised and updated the perspective work from yesterday.

Overall it turned out pretty decent, but I'm not comfortable using the softer leaded pencils in this composition ie the 4B and 6B. Hopefully it'll come easier with practice.

Concerned Perspective

This week's theme is Concerned!

Webster's Dictionary Defines concerned as : anxious, worried / interested.

Here's some extra perspective study as well.
I tried out some different pencils than what I normally use ( a 4B and 6B). While I love the dark line that they offer without have to go over the line again or press insanely hard, the soft lead will take some getting use to.

Blocking

Hey gang!

(I always want to say that for some reason)
Anyways, I've got a trip coming up this weekend, so I'm not sure how the upadates are gonna pan out, but here's what I've been working on animation wise for the last couple of days.

Here's the planning.


and the blocking!


Have a great weekend!

:P

I keep saying I'm gonna upload a bunch of drawings and I wholeheartedly intend to do so, I've just been way too busy, but here's a little Gilligan drawing from this evening. Lots more to come!

Doing a little bit of perspective study as well. I need to master this. I want to really start creating some lush backgrounds.



Today's Strength Pose is rocking the big guns!


Little collage of the last 3 weeks triple strength action!

Pages!

Hooray! It looks like blogger added a pages functionality to the site, so I can finally rearrange everything like I've been wanting to! Stay tuned to see a bunch of new drawings and a couple older ones too!

Here's today's strength pose!

Blairify!

Michael Sporn has a great post over at his splog today highlighting the wonderful magnificent lovely Mary Blair! How can anyone not just fall in love with every thing that woman touches. (I might possibly be the kid who went on It's a Small World perpetually *until my parents couldn't take it anymore* the first time I went to Disneyland). Anyways I've really got to study her style more and more. I'd love to try to implement her spectacular use of color in my work.

Here's today's strength pose!

(this one was a bit tricky I was trying to follow my initial sketch but this model didn't really want to adhere to original design. I was trying to get 2 lines of action going one on the front contour of his body and then a C like shape from the back foot to the back hand).

(click to enlarge)

As always any critiques and comments are always welcomed and appreciated!

Have a wonderful day!