Notes and observations
Notes from podcasts and Bobby Chiu interviews on YouTube
When creating art:
-Where would this art be hung?
-Whats going to make it appealing?
-Sketching things quick, how do you want to detail them?
-What kind of brush marks do I want to use to represent the things that I'm painting?
I've just finished my degree in animation and visual effects, and now I feel as I've got the time to do online courses, how much there is to learn and how available incredible teachers are to learn from! There are so many areas that overlap, anatomy, composition, perspective, colour, light, solid drawing, visual development, creative ideas, exploring style, that it can feel overwhelming, but I'm gonna get through it bit by bit and become a better artist each step!
We went into lockdown during my final year and we were told to create a negotiated brief, because many of us could not continue with the team-based films remotely. For part of mine I chose to re-do some backgrounds from a first year project with improved perspective, and it took a good while for me to get my head around, but with the help of 'The perspective drawing handbook' I figured out some of the trickier elements. My main focus was to work out the perspective correctly, and it felt like a great step I'd made, but now looking at them I think, crikey, the lighting is bad, and what is this saying? Why that angle? etc. But this is learning baby! and you have to just bite it off bit by bit! I learnt a lot doing that, but is it a great piece all-round- no, but its certainly a step in the right direction!
Above: The backgrounds I improved
The questions Bobby brought up about appeal and where would things be hung are brilliant things to ask yourself. What I'm working on at the moment is making a stronger environment/prop/visual development portfolio. So I wouldn't expect to hang that kind of work as prints, but I do like to do illustrations too, and I will remind my self of those at the time! But thinking about how I'd like to detail something and what kind of brush marks do I want to use to represent the things I'm painting, are great considerations. I can see people upload work on twitter or instagram often and I think I should too, but I need to take the time and consider all these elements, not rush through to the finish line for the sake of social media. My focus should be my growth as an artist and creating work I'm proud of, or I've learnt from, each one a stepping stone! I can get a bit mixed up with brushes, which ones shall I use for what, and how many to use in one painting, so I think I'll just slow down and do some experiments, and watch some workflow videos from professionals to pick up some tips. I think using this blog to document the work I do, will help me see them as projects, not just the finished article shared on social media, and this will give me a place to actively reflect on what I've learnt and where I need to investigate further. We wrote reflective journals on my art foundation course, and I found it valuable, more ideas and learning came out of the reflection.
Another great takeaway from one of Bobbys chats was I learnt how to have a pop up window in the workspace showing your art work from a distance/smaller. Window>Navigator. Very useful, great take-away!
On 'Finding a fulfilling career with Genevieve Godbout' she mentioned that she would sketch out the idea digitally then print it very very low opacity on paper and use her chalk pastel/crayons over it, which is something I wouldn't have thought of! What a great idea!
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