Episodes of Sophie’s Art Podcast.
Jesus! Who was Jesus? What did he do? Where did he go? And what would happen to him if he was alive today?
That’s what we’re talking about on this one, as we’re joined by Betty the Easter Bunny in the Plymbridge Woods.
Hope you like it :)
Out in nature for this one, as we continue with part four of our Face Masks and Freedom series.
Lots and lots of stuff on this one, but the mainly it’s about Dealing with Conflict, Getting Dirty Looks, and Finding Balance between Fear and Courage.
Hope you enjoy this one filmed in Plymbridge Woods :)
The second part of our look at the ickle article ‘Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem’, from the Art Book ‘Creating Stylized Characters by 3dtotal Publishing’.
Last week we looked at – What is Gesture?, Squashing and Stretching, and Building up from a Gesture; this week we look at the rest of this ickle Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem article, which covers Capturing Gestures, and Exploring Personality & Gesture.
Topics include:
Reference vs Imagination,
Questions to Ask Yourself as you’re Capturing Gestures,
Balance between Opposites,
Simplifying Lines,
Visual Flow and The Line of Action,
Comparing Good and Bad Character Poses,
Why does America use Z’s instead of S’s?
How Less is More,
How Knowing What to Exaggerate is Key,
Technical vs Feeling,
Shifting Characters Weight via Contrapposto (Counterpoise),
And lilDENNiS starts humping Kitty.
This was such a fantastic article to study from, hope you enjoyed it :)
What is Gesture? Let’s find out, as we look at an Art-ickle called ‘Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem’, from the Art Book ‘Creating Stylized Characters by 3dtotal Publishing’.
This is part one of two, and focuses on: What is Gesture? Squash and Stretch, and Building up from a Gesture. Next week we’ll be looking at the rest of this ickle Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem article, which covers Capturing Gestures, and Exploring Personality & Gesture.
Topics include:
What Do You Think Gesture Is?,
The Line of Action,
How We Don’t Like Stiffys,
How Gesture helps to create powerful Silhouettes,
How Shapes Tell Stories,
Bert Dodson and Trigger Words,
Becoming the Character by Physically Posing,
How Squashing and Stretching is like Pinching and Pulling,
Comparing Good and Bad Poses,
The process of Building Up From a Gesture,
lil Art Tip of Visualising String being Attached to your Characters,
Exaggeration is key for Dynamic Poses,
Facing Your Art Fears,
Body Language,
Shifting Characters Weight via Contrapposto (Counterpoise),
What Are T-Poses?
And there’s a click review of the book ‘The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho’.
I learnt a lot studying from this article, hope you do too :)
This Walk and Talk episode sees me walking around the local woods of Saltrum, while talking about random topics.
lilDENNiS and Kitty joined me on this adventure, as we talked about various tings like:
Breaking my Camcorder,
Spontaneity,
Rereading My Transgender Diary,
Why I Disabled Comments on my website,
Taking Photos,
Connecting with Nature,
The Mind,
Why Start a Podcast?,
English Accents and Impressions,
Suicide and Spirituality,
Dealing with Child Abuse,
Lucid Dreaming and Healing,
Life without Life Drawing,
Why I left SeanWes in 2015,
Do we each live in our own Universe?,
Talking about lilSOPHiE,
Do I still want to Draw?,
and I go for a lil bike ride, ding ding!
Hope you enjoy the atmospheric sounds on this one.
This ‘About The Tings’ episode is the first installment of a new series I’m calling, That’s What She Said, where I’ll be sharing and discussing various clips from inspirational podcasts and videos like Leak Project, Matt Belair, and Russel Brand.
Lots of interesting stuff on this one, such as:
Carbon Nano-tubes,
An Important Message from a Native American,
Who Built the Pyramids?,
Sumerian Decipherments,
The Beauty of Mooji’s voice,
Regrowing Vegetable Scraps,
The Anunnaki, Hopi, and the Ancient Past,
Learning to Let Go,
Lucid Dreaming Interviews with Dr Clare Johnson and Robert Waggoner,
Cardinal Burke Talking about the Great Reset,
Terence McKenna’s Time Travel Theory,
The Gods of the Past are Personifications of the Planets,
Pixie sightings with Erwin Saunders,
Wanders on Earth Channeling with Susan Plunet,
Joseph Gallenberge quoting The Kybalion,
Ascension Symptoms and saying Thank You,
My UFO Experience,
An Amazing TedX Talk from Martin Pistorius,
How Beliefs Create Reality,
and I have to nip out for a wee :)
Really hope you enjoy this one and follow some of these inspirational people and podcasts.
This ‘About The Tings’ episode is all about a beautiful blue book called The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. A guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.
Enjoyed reading this book, and doing the book review; it really is a powerful, yet practical, lil book.
Some of the topics include:
Eckhart Tolle and Mooji,
Lucid Dreaming,
The Void,
Consciousness,
The Power of Presence,
Seeing Through The Illusion,
Lies of the Mind,
Negative Thoughts,
We are Beings of Light,
Entanglement,
Going Towards the Energy,
The Paradox of How Trying To Let Go Stops You From Letting Go,
and I have a sip of Lemon with Warm Water :)
Hope you like this one.
Mermaid time, as we take a look at another Art-ickle from the Art Book ‘The Art of Pernille Ørum’, this one’s called Painting with Gouache.
Last week we studied a Pernille Ørum art-ickle called Clean Character Design, which was a Digital Drawing Process, but this time we look at a Traditional Painting Process, so one of the main topics is comparing Traditional and Digital.
Other topics include:
Planning,
Working from Simple to Details,
Risk Taking,
The unforgivingness of Traditional Painting,
Scotch Magic Tape,
Recreating Digital Layers with Masking Tape,
How lil Details are Powerful,
Frisket Paper and Clipping Masks,
Questions for Pernille,
Why use Red Pencils for the Sketching Phase?,
and we celebrate episode 150 :)
Hope you have enjoy this one!
lilDENNiS and Kitty help us go through an Art-ickle called Clean Character Design, from the Art Book ‘The Art of Pernille Ørum’.
Not only is the female character Pernille Ørum creates beautiful, but so is the art-ickle itself, and her drawing process.
Topics include:
Starting with Sketching instead of Writing,
Subtle tings are Powerful,
Having a Playful Process,
Taking Risks,
The Importance of the Base Colour,
Working from Simple to Detailed,
How Character’s Props tell Stories,
Having Fun while Drawing,
Planning your Drawing Process,
Colour Thumbnails,
Using Multiple Layers,
Making it Up while still Following the Rules,
and Kitty Dies :)
Hope you have love this one!
