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jeffwamester — Compositional Constiutional
Published: 2012-08-19 23:27:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 12875; Favourites: 330; Downloads: 303
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Recently, I have had the feeling that the more character design I do, the more other skills need intentional work to continue to get better ... So I decided to do small black, white and gray thumbnailed compositions... I am doing 8-20 a day as my warm-ups. I have almost 300 now, this is just a few but I hope to have many thousands more... if y'all wanna see more lemme know ;DRelated content
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I know this is old, but this is a really great idea. I've been feeling like all I know how to do is draw characters floating in nothingness lately (and not even doing that all that well)...this is a great subject of study.
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This has been featured in my journal [link] ! Its such a great way to get ideas out onto the page and to get the creativity flowing. I have started doing this and it really helps. Thanks
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These arre awesome studies. You should definitely post every single one you do, even if it gets in the thousands. Its exciting and inspirational.
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These are very insightful. Of course I'd like to see more!
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I'm inspired by your need to flex your artistic muscles to maintain the diversity of your skills!
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defo wana see more!!!!!! also some tips about composition would be brilliant!!!
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Yes, I'd like to see more! These are awesome.
One thing.
I'm noticing most of these have a composition that slashes diagonal from the upper left to the lower right. Is there a reason for this or was it unconscious?
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Unconscious mostly... I think it probably comes from the western reading direction, left to right. Good spot though, I need to be cognoscente of those kinds of things...
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I thought that might be it... That kind of composition can be very effective of course but yeah. Thought I'd point it out.
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Nice work. Great idea. And yes, I'd like to see more.
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Did you make a template for these or do you hand draw the frames? And yes, I am greatly interested in seeing more of this kinda stuff.
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I made up a photoshop template and printed a bunch out...
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r u using anything as "reference"? ive been doing the same thing, but to a movie called The Big Combo, its free on youtube...just wondering, bc urs look far more fun to draw than mine...movie is so boring
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No reference, but I plan on integrating that into the learning process. Gonna experiment and see what works best...
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This really looks great! Awesome simplicity, more of it
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MOAR! Also any kind of explanation of the process, concepts, methods, etc. would be very helpful and inspirational.
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Such a neat idea for an exercise.Could you please upload more?I would love to see them!~
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Great exercise! Great for both animation and comic composition (the framing will be horizontal for animation, of course). You have an expansive mental library. I tried something similar to this 3-value system sketch and by the 5th thumbnail my comps grew dry. Thanks for sharing this, I am excited to revisit the exercise!
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Absolutely! These are great, and teach much. What are your tools?
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Pencil, paper ( from a template ), pen, marker and copic gray marker...
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Woooow...nice snapshots...but why you chose these degrees of colors?!..
Are they use for especial something?!
Cool artwork...XD
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Sort of... at this point it seems like good composition is a three tone composition. Two should should dominate ( Positive and negative shapes ) and the third, a middle tone, compliment the other two...
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Ahaaaa....now understood
Forgive my poor knowledge
Thank you for the info.
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This is the sort of thing I really ought to do more of. I love things like this. I need to get more adventurous and bold in my composition.
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Those look fantastic! That's also a really cool idea to keep up with.
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Nice comps, definitely want to see more. I agree that the more you focus on a thing the more you de-connect from others, and you need to adress them if you want to have a balanced skillset.
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