This walk and talk was recorded in the rain, as I splashed about with the topic of Discipline.
Some of the other tings covered on this one include:
Desire,
Determination,
How Children Are Fearless,
How Meditation Improves Discipline,
Lucid Dreaming Practice,
Procreate Studying,
Seagulls Eating Apples,
Getting Wet Feet,
How Past Experiences Help You In The Future,
and Shopping Trolley Nostalgia :)
Hope you enjoy this lil walk and talk around the local park.
Study Notes from week 1 of my adventures Learning Procreate: Procreate Gestures, Distractions, and Sexy Menus
A look at a lickle ickle article entitled ‘Characterize This: Angry Cloud with Emma Cormarie’, from issue 15 of the Character Design Quarterly magazine, by 3dtotal publishing.
This was such a cool article to study from, leaving me super inspired to give it a go myself!
Some of the topics include:
Textures and Shapes,
Being Mindful of Your Keywords,
Drawing Exercises,
What Makes a Character Angry?,
Unity in your Design,
The Relationship between Background and Character,
Using Yourself as Reference,
and lilDENNiS sees his reflection for the first time.
Thumbnail for this episode shows the Angry Cloud illustration by Emma Cormarie.
Hope you love this one as much as I did.
An Introduction into my adventures Learning Procreate: iPad Pro Accessories, Facing Fears, and Inspirational Procreate Artists
Studying time! In this one, lilDENNiS and I talk about Studying, and why I prefer Studying from Art Books vs Online Courses.
This episode came about after I set the date for my Procreate studying, of the 1st of August 2021.
Repetition and Practice … that’s all Studying is about really, but some of the other topics included:
Studying from Art Books vs Online Courses,
The Power of Repetition,
Traditional vs Digital Note Taking,
My Fear of Drawing Bad Drawings,
Slow and Steady wins the Study,
How I Study,
Sketching in Cheap Sketchbooks,
Procreate Studying,
and I have a good old slurp :)
Hope you find this one useful.
A look at an ickle article entitled ‘Storytelling and Atmosphere with Raquel Villanueva’, from issue 16 of the Character Design Quarterly magazine, by 3dtotal publishing.
This was a brilliant article to study, I came away from it with a greater appreciation of the power of Colour in telling a Story.
Some of the topics include:
How Everything has Story,
The Power of Exploration,
Ways to Keep it Simple,
Pushing Yourself without Taking Too Many Risks,
How the Initial Idea is Key,
The Connection between Artist, Character, and Viewer,
Exploring Designs, Colours, Inspiration,
Keeping the Feelings Flowing,
Being Mindful of the Story You Want To Tell,
Shape Language,
Using Reference,
and we look at Raquel Villanueva’s cute lil nose.
Thumbnail for this episode shows the articles finished illustration by Raquel Villanueva.
Hope you love this one.
A look at an ickle article entitled ’15 Tips for Better Character Design with David Melling’, from issue 201 of the art magazine ImagineFX.
This was such a cool article to study from; not only is it full of cute characters, and beautiful images, but it’s bursting with character design wisdom bombs too!
Some of the topics include:
Character Connection and Relationships,
Gesture Drawing,
Character Sheets,
Character Design Body Language,
How Everything has Story,
A new Fun Drawing Exercise called Sequential Drawing,
Anthropomorphic Design,
Exaggeration,
Expressive Silhouettes,
Being Open Minded,
How Keywords are Key,
Mickey Mouse’s Ears,
Silent Narrative,
and we have some Kitty Kisses :)
The thumbnail for this episode shows the character Ruffles by David Melling.
Hope you enjoy this one.
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 :)
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!