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Hello bloggers and bloggers, and hi Mark. Welcome to my blog! In the exciting first week back at school, I have done a little bit of research on 16th Century architecture in order to portray a Grimms fairy tale in pictures. Unfortunately, I should've been researching 18th Century architecture as that is the time period when the fairy tale 'The Three Army Surgeons"takes place. Lesson number 1, don't take what the tutor says as truth; research the authors and the background of the story thoroughly! I used the Google Image search engine to try and find pictures of a 16th Century Inn. The assignment was to draw the main hall of the inn, but all I kept finding was pictures of the exterior. However, after researching the furniture of the time, I could imagine roughly what the interior would look like. I proceeded to draw different thumbnails of what I thought the hall would look like. After choosing my favorite, I sketched it out in A4 size and then cleaned it up on the light box. It wasn't quite the same as my thumbnail so I've learned that photocopying is a good way of staying accurate when switching from thumbnail to larger drawing. The following drawings demonstrate the process I took.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Week_3


Let's start storyboarding! Having done script breakdowns and shot breakdowns, plus some research for our visual elements, we now begin with thumbnails.

Here, we want to draw quickly so as to let our hand flow, and not get caught up on the same panel. Draw quickly, if it sucks, do another one. By seeing what doesn't work, we'll be able to draw what does.

We have to pay extreme atention to composition, and Brad Bird has some great suggestions on this subject. Look it up!

Ok, here are a few thumbnail drawings . I've cleaned them up a little, and yes, I'll admit it, I didn't do any research, that's why my sub looks awful.
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