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Monster Lab Critiques - Ideation Part 1

by Scott Flanders in Character Design Monster Lab

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The negative space advice is a game changer, now you got me going back filling older pages :D

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Scott reviews ideation sketches that were submitted for his Monster Lab assignment. This clip is from the full critique where Scott reviews a student page that has empty space. While the sketches are good, Scott points out there’s a missed opportunity to create more sketches and to use the negative space as a challenge to create characters out of it. He’ll show you how he fills the page with character ideas and why it’s important for artists to really utilize the negative space with additional sketches.

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COMMENTS

Scott Flanders

Let me show you how I create characters out of the negative space on my page!

Sergio Fernandez

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2mo

Sorry Scott for mixing up the assignment in the comment section and I’m also sorry for drawing too big and wasting time by coloring.

M B

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3yr

Design ideation sketches built on random shapes. Which ones are you favorites? Can’t seem to decide whether or not I want to draw environments, creatures/characters, armour or even abstract - so I tend to do all and none of it at the same time :D Starting with random shapes was a great way to start exploring new, surprising ideas.

Andrew Schlageter

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3yr

so question: I misinterpreted the assignment and thought we were supposed to do an ideation page with a prompt we pick, rather than just harvestman. Should I just keep going with my prompt or should I start the assignments over? I know there's really no consequence either way but I'm taking this class to improve so whichever way benefits me better.

Andre Camargo

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4yr

Hey Scott, thank you for the extensive critiques. I did enjoy the spacemans! :) I guess I took out the most of the suggestion of using negative space on the sheet. Useful tipp, if one gets stuck with the ideation flow! Up to the next critique video :) You are really putting in effort in this course.

Crowspace

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4yr

Thanks for the critique Scott! The assignment was done using procreate so I can erase and fill but thanks for the advice!

Germán Olivera

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4yr

The negative space advice is a game changer, now you got me going back filling older pages :D

Kolja Kaehler

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4yr

Man, this is a long video, but well worth watching! So much information, it's a miniworkshop in itself! Also love how you can barely hold back and go off playing all the time ("I'm supposed to be giving feedback" while drawing a spaceman :D :D ) - very inspiring! Thanks for putting in the time, Scott!

Kolja Kaehler

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4yr

As a side note, after having watched the whole video: There were plenty more submissions all over the place... as was said, new platform is bound to produce some chaos, but we should probably make sure to have all the submissions collected in one place for upcoming assignments.

@sean_wolfe

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4yr

Thank-you, thank-you Scott. I greatly appreciate your expertise and commendation. I'll have to take notes on your insights about contrast beyond the visuals, among other things. Eagerly looking forward to progressing with this course!

Will David

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4yr

Thanks so much for the critique Scott! Here’s my second page that I did a little while after the first. I just didn’t get around to posting it ;p. Hope you like them, thanks, Will.

Adrian Potato

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4yr

Daaamn thats is soo cool that you actually went through every assignment love it!!!. Could you maybe announce when you will do the next assignment video :P?

Scott Flanders

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4yr

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate everyone who is supporting me and my course and stuff. Gonna try to give you my best :)