Thoughts on drawing for storyboards-PT 2

So once again, now that I don't have any blogger issues I wanted to dish out part 2 of my tips on drawing for story. These pages were given to the Cal Arts kids a while back and I hope that this can inspire others as well.

the principles that weren't highlighted with visual aid in the last post were;

Line Density
Perspective and overlap
and Leaning the pose

I'm not going to go into heavy detail on these subjects, so I hope these pages are treated more like cheat sheets to remind us of the principles.

The "letter" panels on the left, really helped me understand this idea.

Leaning in the pose was something that Walt Stanchfield always knocked into my head. Certainly the straight poses in my examples have a place in this world but an ever so slight lean or a large lean, in any drawing helps give movement and wieght. Bill Peet does this constantly.


Once again, the perspective panels I drew were really more of a cheat sheet idea to remind us to overlap within perspective. Otherwise the drawings can be flat such as in the example third panel down on the right.

And last a few quick examples of high constrast and rhythm

Thoughts on drawing for storyboards-PT 1

I recently took some of the great illustrations from Bill Peet's autobio book and decided to draw over them and find out why I liked them so much. Aside from his artistic charm and wonderful acting and posing choices, there where things about his work that I thought supported what we do in the gesture class. We always look at these and grasp a bit of inspiration from them but then we keep on moving without considering how we can disect them. I know there are many ways of looking at art but for me this is how I looked at it and learned from it.

The terms that came to mind for me where:

Directional Rhythm- Using the lines and composition of the drawing to direct the eye to the point of interest.

High contrast- the point of highest contrast usually helps define the point of interest or the character you want the viewer to see.

Other terms {that will be on the next post, blogger issues} that I didn't write on these overlays, but it is evident in them, where;

Lean- do it when ever possible, even in the slightest way. only draw striaght up and down if the character calls for it. the more straight up and down the drawings, the less life it could have, so if your character is scared stiff maybe straight up and down is what you need. But lean when ever possible.

Perspective and overlap- We've all studied perspective and any book out there on the subject is usually fairly good to explain it but Overlap it extremely important to execute perspective Be it a flower pot, a car, a person or a building you need visual cues of diminishing sizes and shapes relating to each other to really get the effect working.

line density- the best way to understand this one is, if the object is further away, the lines should be thinner. If the object is close the lines should be thicker.

Tone and Value- Again, simply put, the closer to screen the darker it gets.


Life drawing and gesture drawing do translate to story sketching if we know how to bridge the gap. Hopefully these pics will help.

Look back

Only look back to learn.

Red Envelope

A friend gave me a gift in a red envelope
so I did this sketch on it for fun.

skribbl's right

Here's one more!

Capt.Yolk!

I don't think my drawings of Jeremy Bernstein are as nutty as his but I tried. His link is on the right> check him out!

Devin Crane

His gestures from the class are one of a kind...Enjoy!!!

Lombardi Ranch

Out in Canyon Country there lies a ranch where the people go to take their children for all of their Halloween tricks and treats. They have hundreds of pumpkins to choose from and the photo ops are excellent, {Drawing too}. We had a chance to go out on sunday and have some fun.


This guy was impressive without trying, he had firey orange hair, a freckled face and jet black clothes on. Very Halloween.


this old guy really didn't want to be there. He was just there to be on grandpa duty.


My son forgot his belt.



My son Diego looking like an Oxford kid on the hay stacks.

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Nicoli Valuev

This is the russian mountain who won the heavyweight boxing title recently.
He really looks like this. He was an awesome sight to see.

Another cool model

Jason Naylor hooked us up with some great modeling. I'm sure he works at most of the major studios.
Thanks Jason...

Phone Doodle Friday

Martha Baxton Auction at CalArts

This piece is going to be for sale at the aution this saturday. The auction is for Martha's husband's hospital bills, which are a big stain on our honorary den mother. God bless you Martha!

Finally!

Here's something to prove I'm alive. I've been racing at work, ya'll know how it is.

She's gone!

Casandra Siegler was our model yesterday and everyone was inspired by her grace and style. Looking at her pose, you couldn't help but sit and make art. After we all were completely into the class, we asked if she would be our model again and she dropped the bomb on us..."I'm off to New York".

We've lost a great model to the east coast!