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November 16, 2004

[visual analysis] ^{10:59 PM}

If you're bored:

When it comes to drawing there are lots of stylistic choices you can make. These choices not only help describe your style, but also help convey what you're trying to say as well as who and what your influences were.

Every-so-often I find myself in the 2D trap — which provides a very flat geometric look like Luc Latulippe, Shag, and Tim Biskup. 2D can be very simple or complicated from a drawing standpoint, the removal of a three dimensional appearance is really tricky. It can be hard to slim down shapes and forms and having them still be recognizable. I used to be in a pretty standard rotation of slipping into flat vector art, but I think I've kicked the habit. It's a lot of fun to doodle in this manner (a very Cartoon Network/Hana-Barbera style), but I find that spending effort on final pieces based off of it just doesn't provide much, if any, satisfaction for me (hence, increasing trouble on getting the otters to even be enjoyable to draw anymore).

Much, if not all, cartooning tends to wind up lumped into that view of art — the flat art — simply because society (newspaper strips, greeting cards) conditions a viewer to think that anything without absolute implied depth is "cartoony."

When it comes to my own personal style (and the evolution of it), I find myself intigrating more and more influences. When I draw (which is on everything, all the time) I try to think in three dimensional shapes, how these things would interact in the real world with real form. You could delve into this way of thinking infinitely, but the truth (for me) is that I was raised in an environment of toys, small sculptures, and puppets. I want my drawings to appear as tho the Henson Creature Shop can take the sketch to a chunk of foam and make it real. Sculpted foam is key in my illustrative thought. The idea of having something made into a PVC figure to sit on my desk also greatly appeals to me.

For the past few months I've been having a little battle of pencil vs. ink when it comes to "finished" work. Pencil is winning, and the only conclusion to this I can find (outside of outright personal preference) is my love animation concept art and the xerox age of disney films (101 Dalmations, Robin Hood, Jungle Book etc).

Did you know Disney helped develop Xerox for 101 Dalmations? All those spots...

Anyway, my fervent love for those films, aside from being good movies (Jungle Book is a debatable call) was based on their visual makeup. Watercolor backgrounds that openly bled, rough pencil lines that occasionally gave way to the structure of the character always fascinated me.

Last night when I couldn't sleep (again) I popped in the bonus disc to Disney's Tarzan where Glen Keane's work on Tarzan himself is celebrated and shown throughout the disc. Keane himself, and his team's drawings even have their own featurette on making Tarzan work as a believable human character raised in the jungle. It's a fascinating thing to watch (for me anyways) and after seeing so much pencil work, one almost wishes that Disney would've made a stylistic choice to go back to the Xeroxed pencil method of animating so the texture and emotion of the line work could really show through.

I like the ability to capture movement in pencil work, and if I'm honest with myself, I have far more control over a pencil and it's weight than I think I ever will with a brush or quill pen. Not that I don't enjoy playing with both of them (especially in larger works), but I have the most fun when it's just me and a pencil and I should really embrace that.

Jus' something that was on my mind.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. prozac buy prozac 'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

Posted by: prozac at November 26, 2004 10:57 AM

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! norvasc buy norvasc Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Posted by: norvasc at November 26, 2004 10:59 AM



	« sketchbook \| Main \| ta-da » November 16, 2004 [visual analysis] ^{10:59 PM} If you're bored: When it comes to drawing there are lots of stylistic choices you can make. These choices not only help describe your style, but also help convey what you're trying to say as well as who and what your influences were. Every-so-often I find myself in the 2D trap — which provides a very flat geometric look like Luc Latulippe, Shag, and Tim Biskup. 2D can be very simple or complicated from a drawing standpoint, the removal of a three dimensional appearance is really tricky. It can be hard to slim down shapes and forms and having them still be recognizable. I used to be in a pretty standard rotation of slipping into flat vector art, but I think I've kicked the habit. It's a lot of fun to doodle in this manner (a very Cartoon Network/Hana-Barbera style), but I find that spending effort on final pieces based off of it just doesn't provide much, if any, satisfaction for me (hence, increasing trouble on getting the otters to even be enjoyable to draw anymore). Much, if not all, cartooning tends to wind up lumped into that view of art — the flat art — simply because society (newspaper strips, greeting cards) conditions a viewer to think that anything without absolute implied depth is "cartoony." When it comes to my own personal style (and the evolution of it), I find myself intigrating more and more influences. When I draw (which is on everything, all the time) I try to think in three dimensional shapes, how these things would interact in the real world with real form. You could delve into this way of thinking infinitely, but the truth (for me) is that I was raised in an environment of toys, small sculptures, and puppets. I want my drawings to appear as tho the Henson Creature Shop can take the sketch to a chunk of foam and make it real. Sculpted foam is key in my illustrative thought. The idea of having something made into a PVC figure to sit on my desk also greatly appeals to me. For the past few months I've been having a little battle of pencil vs. ink when it comes to "finished" work. Pencil is winning, and the only conclusion to this I can find (outside of outright personal preference) is my love animation concept art and the xerox age of disney films (101 Dalmations, Robin Hood, Jungle Book etc). Did you know Disney helped develop Xerox for 101 Dalmations? All those spots... Anyway, my fervent love for those films, aside from being good movies (Jungle Book is a debatable call) was based on their visual makeup. Watercolor backgrounds that openly bled, rough pencil lines that occasionally gave way to the structure of the character always fascinated me. Last night when I couldn't sleep (again) I popped in the bonus disc to Disney's Tarzan where Glen Keane's work on Tarzan himself is celebrated and shown throughout the disc. Keane himself, and his team's drawings even have their own featurette on making Tarzan work as a believable human character raised in the jungle. It's a fascinating thing to watch (for me anyways) and after seeing so much pencil work, one almost wishes that Disney would've made a stylistic choice to go back to the Xeroxed pencil method of animating so the texture and emotion of the line work could really show through. I like the ability to capture movement in pencil work, and if I'm honest with myself, I have far more control over a pencil and it's weight than I think I ever will with a brush or quill pen. Not that I don't enjoy playing with both of them (especially in larger works), but I have the most fun when it's just me and a pencil and I should really embrace that. Jus' something that was on my mind. Comments You see, I NEVER would have gotten all that out of Disney movie without the intellignce of my talented brother... Posted by: Katie at November 17, 2004 6:01 AM Nope...I've never gotten that much out of a Disney movie. It's fascinating to see how your mind works though... Posted by: Katie at November 17, 2004 6:02 AM HaHa, I didn't think the first one went through and I couldn't remember what I wrote. Aren't you just flattered tonight? Posted by: Katie at November 17, 2004 6:06 AM your sister is cool. :) Posted by: paul at November 17, 2004 12:09 PM My sister rocks. I also think the 3 posts above are proof that my sister (my mother) and a computer could carry a show. Posted by: kyle at November 17, 2004 1:26 PM ha! yeah, a very cool read. I enjoy the insight to your creativity. Posted by: gurton at November 18, 2004 11:03 PM A little more than kin, and less than kind. proscar buy proscar The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. Posted by: proscar at November 26, 2004 10:53 AM O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. prozac buy prozac 'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Posted by: prozac at November 26, 2004 10:57 AM A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! norvasc buy norvasc Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Posted by: norvasc at November 26, 2004 10:59 AM Post A Comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? YesNo Comments:

November 16, 2004

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