Film Noir

Last assignment of the schoolyear. Take a life drawing from one of our costumed sessions and further develop it. The idea is to take the characters we drew and put them into a setting, using dramatic lighting and the scene to tell a story. At least a little. I chose something from our Film Noir class because I could really see a story I could create with the two characters we had.

And definitely not because it's really easy to make a film noir story because all you need is black and white, a woman, and a cigarette. Definitely not. Don't be absurd.

Even more awesome boards.

More boards! These ones timed to "Poules et Coqs" by Georges Pretre. It's just a minute-long bit of fun. And antics. And cake.

Researching this bit of boards was maybe the funnest research I have ever done in my life. I had this (http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-904564-stock-footage-a-lovely-layered-cake-with-white-and-pastel-green-icing.html) open in my browser for TWO. DAYS. It loops. Sweet merciful heaven, it loops.

Strong Independent Black Women Don't Need No Cheap Weave

Got into drawing some hairstyles for my fourth year thesis film exploration. I'm leaning towards a sort of shadow-puppet style for the look. It's incredibly fun to draw and looks...snappy. I don't know what it is with me lately. I must be getting bored of drawing like myself. Trying new things! Hooray!

Also, black hairstyles really look good when you simplify them.

Designing things

It's a horrwonderful process, it really is. Horrible: spent all day throwing drawings out, feeling like I'd never be able to chug out anything worthwhile. Wonderful: finally got something that doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out and feeling somewhat proud.

But then, I suppose that's what art is all about.

Here's designs for a new board I'm doing, set to a 45-second long clip of music. Here's a hint: It's about chefs.

I also got back into using Adobe Illustrator. We don't get taught Illustrator at school, sadly. It led to me, last week, fumbling around trying to remember how to draw anything. Pen tool? What's that? Illustrator is actually the first drawing program I learned how to use (MS Paint never counts), but when you don't use something for 3 years you get rusty. SO, here's some Mini Coopers I drew to get back into it!

Miscetera

Now a bunch of stuff that you never wanted to see, but are going to anyway because this is my blog and I do what I want! The rest of this stuff doesn't really have a category. It's mostly things I drew because I felt like it and should probably not be showing the world. But, again, this is my blog and I'll do what I want, sir.

Good day.

Animation

This animation is featured in my demo reel, but here it is on its own. Let me just say that animating in flash is so much more fun than animating traditionally. You have so much more freedom to just shift things around, erase certain parts. Oh, technology.

Storyboards 2.0

This board needed a post of its own. It's a board from second year that I updated. It turned out a bit longer than expected. So much so that I needed to shove 12 boards on a page so that this one board didn't take up all the space.

Anteaters! Yay!