Monday, November 26, 2007

$100,000 Drawing Course - Lesson 9 Hands

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 9
Lesson 9 is drawing hands. This has been the easiest lesson yet for me. I had been using the concept of drawing the palm then the thumb then the fingers for years. The Challenge of this lesson was copying Preston Blair's beautiful line work. Also in doing this I realized that I often make the fingers to long in relation to the size of the palm.


Saturday, November 24, 2007

$100,000 Drawing Course - Lesson 8

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 8
These are my drawings for Lesson 8, proportion and contrast. First are studies of Tex Avery's bulldog. These are more cartoony and have exaggerated proportions.





These are Hanna Barbera's bulldog. He is more evenly proportioned.









Now for the fun part. The top drawing is the more generic version of Hanna Barbera's Bulldog. The bottom drawing is the same bulldog with more exaggerated proportions.The Left drawing is Tex Avery's bulldog with even more exaggerated proportions. The right drawing is Tex Avery's bulldog with more generic proportion
I decided to do a little more experimenting with proportions on my own. Here are three versions of the Yankee's Fan Rat. Each is fatter than the last. I think the fattest one is the best, it could even stand to be fatter.
Finally, how much junk in the trunk is too much? It's up to you.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

$100,000 Drawing Course - Lesson 7 Popeye, Disney, and Slap Happy Lion

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 7
Here are my last drawings for Lesson 7. Popeye, some assorted Disney Characters and Slap Happy Lion.




Now moving on to Lesson 8

Friday, November 16, 2007

$100,000 Drawing Course - Lesson 7 Mickey Mouse and Elmer Fudd

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson
7
More corrected drawings for Lesson 7. Here is Elmer Fudd.

And Mickey Mouse.




I didn't study drawing Mickey to not draw him boning Minnie

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

$100,000 Drawing Course - Lesson 8 - Pinocchio

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 7
These are my first Pinocchio Drawings, checked against the originals.
I went back and drew them again with corrections in mind.
Here are the corrected versions against the originals More corrected studies to come.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

$100,000 Drawing Course - lesson 8

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 7
For starting Lesson 8 I studied some of the model sheets from the lesson and some others from Kevin Langley's excellent blog. Can anyone guess which Mickey Mouse isn't from Disney! I will check all of these drawings for accuracy. Then I will go through and draw accurate versions of most.