This unit has started something I seem to have little control over.
I am VERY inspired and seem “narrative” as a whole is somewhat of a creative muse to me, giving an much needed outlet to the way I want to express myself.
Conker falling
I created a mini story board, first is the basic of the conker falling to the ground.
Later I added what could have happened before and after.
* Kids knocking conkers out of the tree
* Conker falling
*child picking up conker.
The cocker were inspired by sketches I did during exercise 4:1 Description and Depiction, I went back to the same place and sketched cockers on the tree and more pictures from the ground.
I also took a shell with a cocker still inside home to slowly break out and explore (like above) – I illustrated each step.
From this I was able to create a mini animation of the conker falling
I wanted to push a little more with the idea of a character morphing
The swan into a girl/angel.
The grass into a defined shape of a peacock.
I was able to visualized these with the help of story boards.
I took the swan into a princess to work on as animation/gif as it suited the story board I did for “swan lake”.
This was a little “messy” in areas, the lines being the part that was a little wrong in places.
This is experience and practice that I need.
Below is something I actually started after Part 3, but was working animation of lawman as my tutor asked “how would Lawman walk?” and this is my answer.
There is still so much and need and want to learn, I have to remind myself to take it steady as I want to build core foundations in my skillsets and this isn’t something I can rush. It is something I can learn well by repeating a lot of the steps in all the exercises to date over a period of time as I work though this course, I can apply these step to my future exercises.
I could also try different ways to animate, create a flip book and work my way though The animator survival kit book” by completing each part as my own animation.
I also have started a couple of classed “Art of Aaron Blaise” to help me build my skillset in this area, hopefully all this will start me to have a clear narrative voice as an illustrator.
Emclemmie OCA Sketchbooks 