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June 26th, 2008 |
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Another cartoon. This time it's a frog. |
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June 27th, 2008 |
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| it's a little faded, try inking your images to mark where the scanner should scan, anything within the lines should be scanned. |
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August 14th, 2008 |
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| Haha, I really don't like inking sketches. I don't know why but when I ink them they feel more complete. :P |
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June 28th, 2008 |
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Cute! I love the expression. Kind of nervous and embarassed. So much so that they were distracted from their meal that's floating around.
As I've said before, emotion is the number one goal of drawing for animation. I believe emotion plays a much bigger role in anything besides just animation. It's super important in general if you want people to respond to what you're creating. Books, any art including things like advertisements, toys, games, anything! You put something cute like this on it, and it'll be that much more appealing to anyone who walks by.
You do some interesting things with lost edges in your drawings. Where the lines don't connect, but our mind fills in the gap anyway because it looks like they would. It keeps things really simple and prevents the picture from being visually cluttered or confusing. But you do manage to keep in enough lines that we know exactly what's going on. That's a really nice tool.
The only thing that bothers me about this is that it borders on creepy. Why? Because the frog's head is shaped more like a human head than a frog's head. Always use reference images when you're able. The real thing if possible.
I don't think I have any handy, but I've seen some pictures before that are basically animals, like a fox or a lion, with the face of a human. It looks REALLY creepy and really wrong. And I think that's why the frog looks scary to me. It reads as a person under a curse that turned them into a frog for me. If that's your intention, great! You communicated a difficult concept with a little picture! If that wasn't your intention, file those two away: Human heads on animals is creepy, but can also convey a history of being human in the past.
Anyway, I love your stuff. I may say it's scary or creepy, but that's just a minor emotion. The cute comes through stronger, especially on this one. If you don't want the creepy, work on squeezing it out, but there's nothing wrong with it if you like it. |
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August 14th, 2008 |
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I love playing with emotions of creatures or people that I draw. It's fun and gives them character. To me, it's a given that their personality should show through in the drawing.
I don't know when I started playing around with lost edges but I like that it helps simplify a drawing.
Haha, I didn't really think about the fact it's head was too human shaped. Actually I thought it helped the frog look so cute! (As well as giving it more emotion) It was meant to be cartoony and I thought the shape of the head helped. But I'll have to try making it look more frogish next time. :p |
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