Thesis Forum - Spring 2013 with Tim Hodge - week of March 11

Goals:

This week, Tim suggested creating templates of my main characters and putting them in a library in Storyboard Pro.  I am really excited about the idea of concentrating on drawing my main characters for purposes of building a library of poses.  It will help me with general simplified drawing, and having a library of the main characters, will leave me free to draw in any secondaries like the TV executives and the bikers from the pilot, and the "Rise and Shiners" and zombies from the other episode.

I meant to ask Tim during our face to face meeting, about building sets in the same manner and for the same purpose.  For this, I'm talking about places that turn up a LOT such as the garage where the kids' show is filmed.  As with having a library of main characters, having these background sets could speed up the process quite a bit.  I have asked him about this and am waiting to hear his opinion.

Also, Tim and I discussed the "Drawn to Life" books from Walt Stanchfield, and I think following Tim's suggestion of going through these books is going to be a really good experience.  If I work through and practice as though I'm attending a lecture/figure session, I think that will also go a long way toward improving my simplified drawing.

If necessary, I will divide the drawings of the poses the way I did for the general designs:  concentrate of the four kids one week, then the angels the next.  With that in mind, I intend to have some library poses for at least the four kids by my next meeting with Tim.

 I am attaching the work I've completed so far on the storyboard.

Issues Covered:

Storyboard Pro libraries

traditional vs. digital drawing technique

poses and acting

Walt Stanchfield's "Drawn to Life" books and "The Illusion of Life"

Goals for next week:

work through first part of first Stanchfield book.

Create library poses of four main characters (Sam, Kimi, Tony, Maria)

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