I have two medium-large dogs; one is part husky, part border collie, the other is part husky, part Lab. They need to run every morning so they don't rip apart my couch because it smells a little like something that may or may not have dropped on the couch last week. They need to run before my husband goes to work so we both wake up every morning at 5 a.m. This is just one of a plethora of reasons I do not appreciate night classes.
Speaking of which I have an integrated art class on Tuesday evenings. We have just started digital painting. We are loosely following the technique Drew Struzan used to great so many classic movie posters. Struzan seems to have an almost supernatural aptitude for capturing both the essence and atmosphere of a movie in one seemingly inactive image. He has the uncanny ability to be able to capture likenesses with grace and simplicity. I think I have always been drawn to his work because he uses faces so prominently in his posters. Struzan manages to portray celebrities in an idealized but still human form, not fully of this realm but not entirely from divine inspiration, either.
Struzan’s creative process is laid out well in the YouTube videos of the creation of the Hellboy poster. To create his finished work projects, Struzan starts his piece by sketching out drawings on gessoed illustration board, then tints the preliminary sketch with airbrushed acrylic paint, and then finishes up with pencil crayons and more airbrush. Struzan’s signature pencil and airbrush style are, in my opinion, wonderfully real. It has an impeccable combination of loose art and tight detail.
For the upcoming digital painting assignment, we are to gather inspiration, put four thumbnails together, digitally 'ink' in a line art version of our thumbnails, do a flat colouring the background, flat colour the figure, add a shading layer, add a darker shadow, and so on. Eventually, we will complete all four frames of our storyboard using the Drew Struzan colouring process.
First, you start with thumbnails.....
Speaking of which I have an integrated art class on Tuesday evenings. We have just started digital painting. We are loosely following the technique Drew Struzan used to great so many classic movie posters. Struzan seems to have an almost supernatural aptitude for capturing both the essence and atmosphere of a movie in one seemingly inactive image. He has the uncanny ability to be able to capture likenesses with grace and simplicity. I think I have always been drawn to his work because he uses faces so prominently in his posters. Struzan manages to portray celebrities in an idealized but still human form, not fully of this realm but not entirely from divine inspiration, either.
Struzan’s creative process is laid out well in the YouTube videos of the creation of the Hellboy poster. To create his finished work projects, Struzan starts his piece by sketching out drawings on gessoed illustration board, then tints the preliminary sketch with airbrushed acrylic paint, and then finishes up with pencil crayons and more airbrush. Struzan’s signature pencil and airbrush style are, in my opinion, wonderfully real. It has an impeccable combination of loose art and tight detail.
For the upcoming digital painting assignment, we are to gather inspiration, put four thumbnails together, digitally 'ink' in a line art version of our thumbnails, do a flat colouring the background, flat colour the figure, add a shading layer, add a darker shadow, and so on. Eventually, we will complete all four frames of our storyboard using the Drew Struzan colouring process.
First, you start with thumbnails.....
then you do your pencil comp......
to be continues.....
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