Me No Speak May 17, 2008
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I came across this on Cool Hunting and immediately wanted the Japanese version. It’s nothing new to correlate images with foreign language learning, but the way it is presented in the Me No Speak Language Companion is really nice. They are simple, little books with great images that present the knowledge in an easy to comprehend way. I think I’ll be picking up a Japanese one soon.
Half Hour Sketch Project: week 2 May 17, 2008
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So I attempted to do my half hour of sketching last week on a notebook while my friend turned GTA4 on for the first time. Needless to say I was pretty distracted, and that shows in my sketch. I was also refrencing images online through my iPhone, so it was a challenge all around to get some quality sketching in. That said, I still wanted to post what I did. I was looking at Samurai Jack, a creation of the brilliant Genndy Tartakovsky, because I really like his style and have been trying to recreate it for a while now. I don’t think what I did this time around is anything near my best work, but I was still hoping to get some feedback. What do you guys think?
(sorry it isn’t horizontal, I don’t have Photoshop and Preview won’t save it the way I want it to…)
Half-hour Sketch Project: week 1 May 7, 2008
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I am going to use this blog for is to get some feedback on various projects I am working on. One of which will be the half-hour sketch project. Each week I will spend at least a half-hour with a sketchbook and put what I come up with online. Please feel free to leave some feedback, I am hoping that someone is willing to give me some tips that will help me hone in on what my style is. I love drawing and art but have never given it the proper attention to help cultivate it personally, this gives me a set time to do it every week.
As something to look forward to, I will be illustrating a children’s story that the author and I hope to publish in the future. There is a potential that the progress of the story’s development will be documented here on Wide Angle Lenz, and that the book will be available via a downloadable PDF.
For my first half-hour sketch session I went back to some of the basics I learned in my Architecture Drawing 1001 class. Below are contour drawings I did referencing the Pixar Animations book To Infinity and Beyond! (which is an awesome coffee table book, if you’re looking). After the contours I wanted to see how much of Buzz Lightyear I could sketch in the remaining 15 minutes. Please feel free to leave some feedback. Thanks everyone!
(My scanner couldn’t handle the size of my sketch pad, so I had to get images of my work via my iPhone)
Here are the contour drawings:
Alien
Mike
Dory
Buzz
Fifteen-minute sketch of Buzz
