2D-graphics, theory and application I – Week 4
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This week we learned the basics of Photoshop and how to do a clean line-art. Our assignment for this week was to draw the best lineart we could of our character and write a reflection about it. To do this we were provided various resources, amongst others a video by Leo Sandberg about cleaning up your lines. Even if the drawing itself isn’t very advanced, it gives useful tips about lines, Link to video. For my hand-in, I started out with quick paper-and-pen sketches to find a pose I liked:
I then quickly copied the pose digitally and started applying what we’d learnt sofar with constructing the character with shapes:
Then I added clothes and details, keeping the turnaround we’d been assigned to do the week before open to make sure it came out right:
Then I lowered the opacity on both layers and drew my clean lineart on top. When I’d gotten all the lines down and adjusted things like the size of feet and hands until it felt right I went over the lines again and added emphasis as described in Leo Sandberg’s video above. This was the final result:
I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out and what we learned about using lines for depth, form and shadow really helped bring out the best of the picture. Things I wasn’t really happy about in the character construction-assignment and turnaround turned out well here like the face and the folds on the clothes. Over all I think I managed to capture a good sense of movement in the picture. Sketching out a pose with pen and paper first was really helpful and also listening to music. I found that these two tracks from How to Train Your Dragon 2 really captured the adventurous, playful feeling I was going for. Alexander Rybak – Into a Fantasy and John Powell – Flying with Mother. Since I had some time left I began reading Fundamentals of Game Design by Ernest Adams (On page 97 at this moment) but I also had time to do another lineart practice. The approach was basically the same as above, except for this one I didn’t use a pen-and-paper sketch as a base but used a reference picture for the poses instead. I watched “AristoCats” two days ago and got the inspiration for this:
Everybody wants to be a cat! I was helped along by this groovy rendition of the song by The Electric Swing Circus. The movie is supposedly set in 1910 so I googled for haircuts, jewelry, shoes and clothes for inspiration but I stuck very loosely to the source material. Fact is however that you can’t lecture people on historical accuracy based on a Disney movie. Period (pun intended).  |
