Construction

Uff! I am glad that Mandy reminded me how important construction is in animation, else I probably would become an illustrator rather than an animator ;o





Thanks to everyone whom I questioned on msn :D
especially, ye.., Mandy!

Observe, observe, observe.

"Be like a sponge—suck up everything you can lay your eyes on. Look for the unusual, the common, characters, situations, compositions, attitudes study shapes, features,
personalities, activities, details, etc." - Walt Stanchfield

The first pages of my new "spongebook":

Drawing - A synonym for mental modelling?

Something that really helps me when drawing is trying to have these certain senses...
A sense for the gesture, feeling the action/rhythm and a sense for the shapes, feeling the surface.

Drawing should be fun!

I've lately been inspired by many good draftsmen who all told me the more or less same:
Draw anything you see every day!

I've really been too much into thinking about techniques and I've pushed myself too forceful
instead of being loose and regarding drawing as a process that is fun.
After having this insight I decided to reduce my steps to 2 or maybe 3:
1. drawing the gesture/defining the rough shape (I call it spacing)
2. understanding of the three-dimensionality
(3. rendering)

No sooner said than done:

Old one

This drawing is quite old, but I like this one pretty much and I currently do not have any cool stuff...
so, there it is:

Vilppu

These are my best sketches for Vilppu's "Spherical Forms"-exercise: