Tutorial Tuesday
When creating characters try to work out the overall shape first. Explore different shapes and don’t be afraid to differ from the norm or what you are used to seeing. Have fun and doodle. Let’s get started with sketching some shapes.
Sketch out some basic shape ideas.
Add character details to the shapes.
Clean-up the sketch and you are left with a fun character.
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Friday Fun
Today will be a little different from the usual Friday Fun but we are still going to have some fun. We are going to replicate an animation background painting from a Chuck Jones cartoon. I love cartoons from this era, they had such fun backgrounds and the music was great. Just not the same with today’s cartoons. Before we get started let’s take a quick look at Chuck Jones.
Chuck Jones:
An American animator, director, cartoon artist, screenwriter, and producer. His career spanning over 60 years, Jones made more than 300 animated films, winning three Oscars as director and in 1996 an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.
Supplies:
acrylic paint (phthalo blue, purple, orange, lemon yellow, black, and white)
canvas or heavy duty painting paper
brushes
Ok let’s get started. Get your supplies ready and let’s go…
Start with painting the back ground first. Using phthalo blue, purple and a little white paint the entire canvas and let it dry.
Add stars and moon. Flick the white paint to simulate stars in the sky. Paint the moon with white and lemon yellow and let dry.
Draw the houses and T.V. antennas and then paint them black. Let this dry and then paint white for the windows. (we do this so color will be bright and show up when we are painting over another color)
Finish the the windows with orange and yellow. There you go you now have your own animation background painting.
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Thrifty Thursday
It’s Thursday and we are being thrifty but not cheap. Color pencils are one of the art supplies where you still need to watch out for quality, cheaper is not always better. Not to worry I am not going to suggest go out and buy the most expensive., there is a happy medium. First let’s go over what makes a quality colored pencil and the types of colored pencils.
Quality in colored Pencils:
Rich in color/pigmentation - bright, clean colors
Highly lightfast - does not fade easily
Easily layered - can color over other colors t build layers
Limited Breakage - does not break easily
Types of Colored Pencils:
Colored pencils come in a variety of grades. Student grade are usually cheap don’t have as much pigment or are highly lightfast. Artist grade cost a little more and have more pigment and blend a little better. Professional grade are the most expensive with rich colors and great lightfastness.
You can get color pencils that are wax based and oil based. These will behave differently and it’s a good idea to try out several different brands and types of colored pencils before investing in a set.
My suggestion for price, quality and variety of colors is the Prismacolor Premier color pencils. They are a really good pencil for beginners and some professionals prefer them as well.
It really comes down to personal taste so buy a few individual pencils from different brands to find one you prefer. You can always mix the brands.
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Tutorial Tuesday
Let’s get started with some basics for values.
Value: how light or dark something is.
Value Is used in drawing and painting to depict light and shadow. These values define form giving the illusion of depth and space.
Value has the ability to define: Mood, atmosphere, composition, and the believability of the image. If your values are inaccurate your drawing or painting falls apart. If you have correct values in your drawing/painting you can use any color you want and it will look correct.
It’s a good idea to practice a value scale, white to black scale with each step filled with grey getting darker the closer to black the square is.
Try it out: make a row of 1 inch squares, 5 to 10 squares long, keep the first square white and the last square black. Each square should be darker grey as they get closer to the black square. Try to keep a consistent change in value between each square.
Another practice is to create another value scale but this time smooth transitions from light to dark.
Try it out: make another value scale next to your previous value scale and start with the dark side and work you way back to white.
After you done a these scales try a small drawing using value only. As you are drawing have the values scales you have completed next to you so you can refer to them as you draw.
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Friday Fun
Yay it’s Friday and we have another fun project for today. This week our inspiration is from Pointillism.
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Pointillism: was the application of paint in carefully placed dots of pure, unmixed color. (Points of pure color) These dots would be blended by the viewer’s eye to create a striking image. Pointillism was a radical painting technique explored by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in Paris in the mid-1880s.
Let’s jump in and have some fun.
Supplies:
pencil & eraser
small canvas or canvas paper
cheap acrylic paints & paint brushes
Colors can be anything you want.
Draw out your pet portrait, if you don’t have a pet you can use free domain references found on the internet. Have fun with it, don’t worry about the little details you wont see them in the final painting. Remember we are being inspired by Georges Seurat.
Start with the background. Don’t complete it just get a good amount of the background covered with color. I like to pick the main color for an area to start with.
Start working on the pet area when a good amount of coverage is on the background. Working the whole painting at the same time so you can see how the colors look together. This time I started with the light areas so I could map them out and keep them light.
Add middle value colors in pet area. Again I am picking the main color to start filling in the area of the pet.
Go bold with your colors, this will really start to bring your painting to life.
Add the darks to complete your painting.
Congratulations you have completed a Seurat pointillism inspired painting.
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Tutorial Tuesday
When sketching out your idea always try to keep perspective in mind so your elements line up or are placed in the sketch properly. This helps to keep realistic positioning and makes the sketch more believable even if you are cartooning. If you are having trouble seeing the perspective as you draw go ahead and add some grid lines to help you see. You can always remove them later for the final drawing.
Friday Fun
Yes it’s Friday and we have another fun project for you to try at home. We are going to make cardboard roll monsters. Remember we are not looking for perfection but creativity so let’s have some fun.
Supplies:
cardboard rolls (can be empty paper towel rolls cut in half or empty bathroom tissue rolls)
extra piece of cardboard (to cut out arms and horns)
acrylic paint (any cheap paint will do)
paint brushes
Paint the cardboard rolls any color that you like for your monsters body. You may need to paint more than one coat of paint, let it dry in between coats.
Draw and paint the extra parts like arms or horns. It can be anything you want to add to your monster. Make sure they are fully dry before you cut them out and glue them on the body of your monster.
Paint on the face, make it any kind of face you want. You can have one eye or add as many as you want. Make sure each part dries before you paint the next to keep the paint from smudging.
Congratulations on your little monsters.
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Tutorial Tuesday
Shape Basics: Primitive & Primary Shapes
Get to know basic primitive shapes that you can use to build up a drawing. Primitive shapes are a great tool for breaking down complex forms into simplified shapes. It is much easier to visualize the simple shapes and arrange your ideas. Practice drawing shapes from all angles and perspective, squash and stretch them so when it comes time to draw you are already familiar with the shapes.
Start with circles and squares. Squash and stretch them into different sizes and shapes. Play around and have fun with it.
Combine the circles and squares to create more shapes. Don’t be afraid to try different combinations and fill a page of shapes.
Put the shapes together and draw something. Simple shapes can create fun images and you can combine the shapes to get more complex drawings.
Go ahead and try this, have fun and doodle. Let’s see what you can come up with.
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