Drawrings o' life

Here's some more life drawings / caffe sketches from the last couple weeks of life drawing class. We are working on drapery, tone and lighting....and did I mention drawing 2 models is tough!

Once again, I feel the more I learn, the more I need to learn.......the more I want to learn!

I hope that feeling never goes away, 'cause isn't that what life is all about??

Craft paper concepts pour moi Story

So I pitched my current film concept today for my mentor Barry, and a few fellow 4th years, and I got some great crits/idears - thanks Guys! This will definitely continue to morph and change, but I'd like to get to the leica reel stage earlier than later so I can work with the timing of the music and such.

ANYhooooo, getting ahead of me-self.

For the pitch today, I decided to do something totally different and dragged out my scissors and craft paper. It was fun - I was back in grade 2! Ah, the good ol' days. And a nice change from the constant drawring.....plus it forced me to think of basic shapes, silhouettes, contrasting elements, etc.

Read below each panel to get an idear of where my story is now. Stay tuned for the changes to come!

Open with EXT shot of farm; broken music notes emanating from a large willow tree.

Cross dissolve to INT shot of farmer playing his cello. Badly. All broken/sour notes are coming out from the cello, but farmer loves to play anyway.

Follow broken notes to bug up in the corner of the room - he is disgruntled, as he is just trying to enjoy his meal and cannot eat in peace with all the sour notes.

Bug decides to take matters into his own hands, flies down to the farmer's cello and begins to pick the strings to show him how to play properly.

Man notices bug on cello and tries to chase him off - but in the process of chasing the bug he is able to play a beautiful cello solo.

Man realizes that he needs bugs help / good luck to bring out his buried talent of cello genius.

Bug realizes he not only stopped the sour notes, but became the farmer's musical mentor. He can now eat in peace! He does a 4-legged "Tah-dah!"

------- iris out -------


That's it for now - comments and crits always welcomed and appreciated! I will continue to post updates as the story evolves in the coming days/weeks.

[Side note: Working title for this short is "Tah-dah!"]

Stylin'

A life drawring from last week's class; trying to emulate a given style of an existing artist whilst doing life drawing.

Oh, it's all about style these days! I am studying up a storm of the style I want to achieve with my film....as well we are focusing on a style for our life drawing portfolio.

Now, I thought MAYbe I would attempt [ATTEMPT!] to marry the style of my life drawing portfolio with my film style so I would kill 2 birds with one stone. Hmm. I don't like killing birds. So I'd get more stuff done in less time, how's that??

But, anyway, that didn't work. The style for my film is more simplified than I like to do for life drawing. So I looked to Peter deSeve for his masterful inspiration on my life drawings!

Prashant Miranda

Prashant Miranda [see his blog here!] came to Sheridan this week and spoke at two of our lectures, and I found him to not only be genuinely a pleasure to listen to, but completely inspiring! His journals are absolutely amazing and gave me a new resolution to how I approach sketching/journaling. Here's a quick sketch I did of him today whilst he spoke.

What a great time for him to come to speak - when we are just beginning these films of ours and everything seems to be such a mish-mash....just a reminder to get back to basics and WHY we wanted to create art in the first place.

Thanks Prashant!

4th year film inspiraaaaatooooo

It's funny, I have decided on my film concept and I have been working on ironing out some character motivations, etc...........which has all summer been quite a struggle for moi. Well, if I am being honest, coming up with a solid story idea for this year has been a struggle since first day of 1st year!

So then last night I came upon this postcard Tams gave me earlier in the summer. I have seen this image before, and have loved loved LOVED it each time. It always makes me stop and stare.

I put it on my wall last night, cause it is exactly the right inspirato for my film.

Stay tuned for details.

Back to drawring life....year 4!

OH golly, talk about jumping back into the deep end! First week of school, and already we have to present our story concept, homework for 2 electives and 3 hours of intense life drawing.

Hmm, perhaps I thought it was intense because I never picked up a piece of conte the entire summer. Or MAYbe I thought it was intense 'cause I was still in summer mode...

Who knows. Regardless, I thought I was gonna completely bomb and draw pure stick figures. Couple that with the pressure of handing something in at the end of class - well, I wasn't exactly looking forward to the results. But I tried to just, phew, let go, just see what happens.

Here's the highlights....not TOO bad for first week back! These are all 1 minute or 5 minute gestures. Ed was wearing a hippie costume - if ya couldn't tell from the fro wig!

Wowza, 4th year. Insane in the membrane.










Part of our sketchbook assignment this week: a page of realistic drawings from life. Fortunately I spent the weekend at Pipe Creek Farm, a beautiful B&B in Western NY, and they had many animals to draw! Although I have to say....it was reeeeeeaaaallllllly hard to draw realisticallllly. MUCH more fun to stylize!

Ox on YouTube

I know I have been SO lax in the posting as of the last few weeks, but it has been NUTSO with finishing at FP, visiting the Peg for a couple weeks, driving back to Oakville, moving AND starting 4th year this week.....PHEW!!

I am beginning work on my film and am getting super pumped, stay tuned for concept jazz to begin to pop up. In the meantime, here is our 3rd year film, The Celestial Ox, now posted on YouTube. Yay!



It is also on Teletoon's site, since we made it as a finalist for the scholarship - yay x 2!

http://www.teletoon.com/scholarship

Onward and upward!

UPDATE: "The Celestial Ox" won Teletoon Viewer's Choice award at the Ottawa Intl Animation Fest! Go team!