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Character : Shark

 

First version

Character Design

 If I have a goal for 2021 it's really to get back on the creative bandwagon. 

In 2019 (August), I started working freelance as a storyboard artist and it's been quite the ride for me. I've needed to put myself 100% in my job, and so on the side my output has suffered (I also had a wrist injury so I couldn't draw for more than 8 hours a day). 

But here we are..taking it one day at a time. Back with some Jodie designs :

And beneath some coronavirus mask alts:

Doodles

Doodles in storyboard pro 

ART BLOCK Doodles prt 2

Let's create some momentum. These are done in Sketchbook Pro (because i's free :D)

Use your RESOURCES

I sometime forget that Nick posts up Animatics of most of their shows, such a great learning tool! Use it :D

This is a spongebob one:

The exercise : Just draw poses from the animatic to expand your library :

Old doodles

I stumbled on these from 2018!! I didn't post them so here they are:

T Shirt Design - Limited Edition

So my t-shirt design for the coathangers is back in stock in a limited color treatment:  LINK 

RESOURCES: FILM COURAGE (Youtube)

I recently discovered the youtube channel film courage, and I've been consuming these detailed interviews that are super helpful if you are writing a story. This is a good interview to get started:

Sailor doodles

There is a thing on twitter where people redraw Sailor Moon, no idea why? but I did my take...you can never unsee it!

And then just drew her in Storyboard format :D

Lunchtime!

random doodles

I have not doodled for ... months...just downloaded a trial of photoshop and sketched a teeny bit.

Goodby doodles

For some reason I stumbled on these little sketches I did for a goodbye email at my last job (Brownbag Films), without context these might seem random but here we are:

Blender Grease Pencil Tutorial by Spitfire Storyboards

Just throwing this up here for my own records, but great resource for blending 2D/3D storyboarding techniques:



Part 1: LINK

Composition Thumnails: Yuzo Kawashima

Half assed calling this a study, but really this is just couch sketching :P

I once read it's a good idea to look at a sequence that takes place in a room, and look at how the camera is handled. See if you can draw the room and figure out how they planned it.

In this sequence they got a lot of cool compositions by having the characters move through the scene and change their poses, and so without creating new camera angles, they get a lot of new compositions and keep it interesting.

Freelance Taxes etc UK

I am posting this mainly for reference for myself when I need to do my taxes later this year :P

How to fill in self assessment guide:
https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/how-to-fill-in-a-self-assessment-tax-return

Really good tip on how to calculate your rent and other home utility expenses:
https://www.freeagent.com/guides/expenses/working-from-home-expenses-sole-traders/

Another page with ink studies

Reference- Cinematic Storboard artists

Got a couple of links to some awesome story artists' websites. I stick 'em up here for myself as reference (and anybody who stumbles on this blog :D)

First is a guy who I currently have the pleasure of working with:

Ernest Agullo :
https://ernestagullo.carbonmade.com/
http://ernestagullo.blogspot.com/

Rembert Montald: https://www.artstation.com/sharkyspoon

Seung Eun Kim: https://www.artstation.com/kse332

Jane Wu : https://www.janewu.net/

Dan Milligan: https://www.danmilligan.com/

Masashi Kishimoto Ink Studies 2

This has been a nice new habit, I can't say I will fill an entire sketchbook with this, but at least until I feel I have internalised this style a bit more.

Masashi Kishimoto Ink Studies

15 minutes a day I try and do some copies in a sketchbook, currently looking at the manga Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. He's really got a great simplified drawing style, and in storyboards simplified can save your life :D