Kaitlyn Merli
Tennessee, US
Practicing comic artist striving for a better understanding in visual storytelling and composition.
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Hey all! I’m Kaitlyn and I am currently pursuing a job in comics! This means drawing the same thing from various angles as the “camera” moves to keep the scene from becoming stale and boring.
So I would dearly love to learn how to rotate objects and environments in my head and create gestures that are dynamic and that complement the desired mood of the scene. I want to become proficient in visual storytelling and create believable sets, and rooms, and objects, and vehicles that do not break immersion!
I have a very basic understanding of perspective but have been functioning primarily on intuition. I am hoping that this course will give me a better and more reliable baseline for building worlds in perspective.
There’s a small handful of people who use perspective in a way that I admire. They include—
1. Ananda C. Arán 1-3(I love the way she builds environment and places people in a believable way. I want to learn to set stages as she does)
2. Gustaf Tenggren 4-6 (His concept art is so stinkin immersive! He builds his worlds on wibble-wobbles but really sells it!)
3. Aenniyam 7-9(Using perspective to dramatically push an otherwise mundane scene and really make you ‘feel’ it. Yes! I want to learn how to do that!)
4. Glen Keane 10-13 (Oh MAN! Especially in his short film “Duet” every pause was a masterpiece and his use of perspective made you feel like you were flying through the story, not just watching it through a screen, but being a part of it!)
5. Jill Barklem 14-15 (I love her work in “Brambly Hedge” there is so much going on and she uses numerous props and all of them work together to surround the reader)
There are others— Stephen McCrainie, grassflu, Paul Heaston, Nicholas Kole, Katie Dingman, — that I really look up to in the way they use perspective to story tell.