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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.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Week 4



An image is worth a thousand words and that's because you have to take into consideration a thousand things when creating it.

Composition, composition, composition! Brad Bird's got the goods on this one. so much to know I don't know where to put anything in my drawings anymore! Just kidding, on the contrary, all these compositional strategies help us create drawings that are more cohesive and direct the viewers to what we want them to see. Also through composition one can create meaning in very subtle but powerful ways. Very important not to create lines that intersect characters' eyes, or chop their heads off. Oblique lines are so much more interesting than lines square to the viewer. There is so much to composition and if I can one day become a master of it I will be a happy man.

Ok, here's a couple of roughs and research drawings for our next assignment: the Animatic!
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