Gesture Drawing w. Niall Laverty

This week we had Teacher/animator Niall Laverty in a gesture drawing workshop. The main focus was to make us loosen up and get more story and character in our life drawing. I really had a good time and I think I'm going to focus more on creating character and story when I do life drawing in the future.

The drawing are all between 1 and 5 min. I experimented with different media like knifes and chalk and markers.

I think this is around 15 % of all the drawings from this week.

 

Bean Beard the Oracle

It's been a while since my last post. I've making my new web comic BEAN BEARD THE ORACLE .
It's a crazy tale of navel visions and other wonderful stuff. The first post is already up and new post will be on Wednesdays.

I'm also still working on my 20 pages story from the last workshop. But it's taking a little longer since I can only do after school.

But here's the first page as a teaser

 

World Creation and story W. Steve Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen

 

Steve Seagle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The first assignment in Steve's workshop was to autobio in 6 min and then we switched stories and got 1h 30min to tell the story in 3 panels. 

 

 

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9 panel story based on the world "Woodstick" we created during the week.

 

 

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We also had to re-write another's 12 page autobiographical comic from last semester. The assignment was inspired by the comic Steve and Teddy made called The red diary/The re(a)d diary. I got Cathrin's http://cathrinpeterslund.blogspot.dk/ story

 

 

 

Teddy Kristiansen

 

The first assignment was to improve the first comic from the week before

 

Then we had to choose a character or slice from Steve and Teddy'  comic house of secrets. We then had to make a story where we used the style to amplify the situation and feeling in the scene. 

 

 

We had to tell a story about a person in love without mentioning Love, or the lover and a mother who had lost her son in a war with mentioning war, the son, death. There had to be the same building and weather in the stories.  

 

The final page assignment was to make a comic from an anecdote from a historical figure. I chose Freud.

 

 

Most of the stuff only had to be turned in as sketches since we didn't have that much time for each assignment.

weekend photoshop fun

We had a small photoshop course this weekend. Most of it I knew but I picked up a few hot keys and I got to play around a bit and finally made a concert scene here is the result. (MORE SMOKE WUHUU)

 

ps. We had an awesome weekend with Steven T. Seagle this week. More about that next weekend since it's some what combined with the coming week with Teddy Kristiansen.

Christmass update

Here is some of the things I've been doing for the last few months. I've been quit busy I haven't been the as consistent as I wanted to. 

 

We had a classic drawing workshop with  Artem Alexev, Professor of Fine Arts from the St. Petersburg Academy of the Arts. 

portrait of my classmate Albert

 

3 min. inkwash croquis

A couple of ink croquis. I think it was 10 min.

 

 

We had another drawing workshop with Lawrence Marvit. The workshop focused on drawing perpective and contrucktion, etc. constructing objekts into general shapes so they appear more dimensional.

 

The first assignment was to design an Atlantian weapon/Underwater weapon. Using only lines. I came up with  this underwater sonic amplifier helmet inspired by a spermwhales sonic attack.

 

 

The next assignment was to do an epic environment of Atlantis using only lines.

 

For the last assignment was to draw a grayscale interior perspective scene. We could choose to either draw an antique shop or a Sci-fi lab. I of course chose the sci-fi lab. 

 

 

Our last workshop of the semester was with Matt Madden. The workshop was based on Matt Madden's book "99 ways to tell a story". We had to make a template 1 page comic from a script had made.

 

Student 1 drawing a comic in a classroom

 

Student 2 enters

 

S2 sits down next to S1

 

S1 slids the page to S2

 

S1 says "She's all yours"

 

S2 starts to draw 

 

The workshop's goal was to show how setting obstructions for your story, can free it rather then kill it. The idea is inspired by "The 5 obstructions" with Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth. 

Template 

 

 

 Above: The story made in the style of Illustrator/Comic artist Dave Cooper

Above: Story in pencil POV

 

 

 

 

Above: The last assingment was to make obstruction for a classmate. My classmate Jam found quit amusing to force me to make Manga Lucky Star style.

Well I wish every a Marry Christmass. I promise to try and be better at upload what I next year.

 

Happy year Zero ;)

http://vimeo.com/63234507

Test pages for 20 page story

We have mostly been learning about story structure and scripting for the last month. So haven't done as much drawing. But yesterday  I had to do a style test page for a 20 page comic that is going to be finished late January. I did a couple of tests, so far it's going to be black only.