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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 7



We are now into color theory and tone. Tone first of all! I must completely agree with that as I now see that my paintings in the past have lacked from sense of tone. That is why my colors become confusing to the eye. Therefore, tone is number 1. Tone gives depth, gives a light source and directs the eye towards the important elements in a composition.

I really wanted to explore tone during my animatic assignment but I just got a little bit too frustrated with painting with the mouse so I gave it up after about a dozen panels. Nevertheless I am quite happy with the end product: I got to develop my skills in Flash, Photoshop, and composition.

Here are a few panels of my final storyboard.
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