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Maren
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26d
added comment inHow Animators Use Basic Shapes with Aaron Blaise
My attempt to find the flow and stick to basic shapes.
Carlos Pérez
21d
graceful
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24d
Nailed it.
@brimarie
26d
They look fantastic and you've definitely hit the flow:-)
Maren
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1mo
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I went too far with my shapes I think, not as simple as the homework assignment asked for, but I had so much fun with these!
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1mo
Excellent!! I love the characterization of each, the shape language really informs the personality. The anxious one reminds me of Courage the Cowardly Dog! Awesome work!
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1mo
Great shape language! These are fun.
Maren
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1mo
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Glen Keane is one of my favorite animators. His lines are messy but so expressive. This a still from Duet. Since the background is dark I had to do the line art inverted, with the thickest and lightest parts being the brightest.
My lines are shaky and not very confident unfortunately. My sketch always looks so nice, then my lineart looks awful. 😞
Maren
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3mo
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It feels like I missed something on the Shadows and Light method, it seems off to me.
Maren
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4mo
After watching the critiques I figured I’d better try again and not be so precious with drawing. It’s very hard not to. I wanted the weasel on the right to emphasize how long and tube-y they are with those funny round haunches, top middle to show some personality, but I think the bottom left is my favorite.
These are excellent! I love the gesture in the 3 lower drawings. Great work suggesting the fur, I wonder if the one on the right could be more successful if you added the pinch. We certainly have a beautiful stretch on the opposite side. How can you add a pinch while thinking about the underlying anatomy to bring that one more to life?
Great work!
Maren
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4mo
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something I can tell I need to work on is figuring out how to size the image to the canvas. For instance, even though I mapped out the general shape of the penguin first, I ended up going off the canvas because my spacing of things wasn’t right. I can resize easily when I’m working digitally, but that’s not an option when working on actual paper. Some instruction on that would be appreciated.
Ha! I just did the same thing! Tried to get all 3 on 1 piece of paper. I must have been feeling a bit lazy or cheap (or as Stan says: "precious" with the sketch book). You made a nice penguin though! 🐧 Maybe just lightly draw a box on your section of paper or tape on some construction paper, to give yourself a smaller work window. That's what I'll try next time. But I think we were supposed to go a little bigger, so we could get "sweeping shoulder movement". 🎨 James Gurney and his wife Jeanette always amaze me by creating these super beautiful, detailed paintings that are not much bigger than a postcard.
