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tealinToday I went for Dim Sum. In the restaurant, they were playing a DVD of what looked like a show from Las Vegas China, which had a Chinese Jimmy Durante singing 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' with only the title line in English.
It was odd.
Yesterday, for the first time, I fulfilled one of the goals I had set to do every day of my unemployment, which was to draw from the screen. (I've been putting it off because my portfolio has a deadline and I can do this after that.) I picked Ratigan because he is very unlike any character I would ever draw myself, and also I am in a Holmesy mood thanks to BBC7 and felt like watching Great Mouse Detective again. In the course of drawing him, I realized some blindingly obvious things:
1. Ratigan is a really really great design.
2. Glen Keane has done some serious life drawing. I was drawing a flat image of an oddly-proportioned rat off a screen but it still felt like life drawing.
3. I don't do nearly enough of this.*
That's the really important part of this entry; if you want to see the drawings, they are here:
Later in the day, I got a fortune cookie which told me 'Wednesday is the day to make your move.' This seemed strangely specific for a fortune cookie. I'm sure Ubiquitouspitt will have one interpretation and Disneyboy will have a completely different one, and others may have a few more besides. As for me, I shall attempt the triple-gyratory mega stunt flip from the top of the library. Or maybe not.
Hunchback came out on video ten years ago today. [Dies a little inside]
*... especially considering I learned most of what I know about design by learning to draw Disney characters for a comic strip I did back in Grade 9, before the age of DVDs and easily accessible reference.
It was odd.
Yesterday, for the first time, I fulfilled one of the goals I had set to do every day of my unemployment, which was to draw from the screen. (I've been putting it off because my portfolio has a deadline and I can do this after that.) I picked Ratigan because he is very unlike any character I would ever draw myself, and also I am in a Holmesy mood thanks to BBC7 and felt like watching Great Mouse Detective again. In the course of drawing him, I realized some blindingly obvious things:
1. Ratigan is a really really great design.
2. Glen Keane has done some serious life drawing. I was drawing a flat image of an oddly-proportioned rat off a screen but it still felt like life drawing.
3. I don't do nearly enough of this.*
That's the really important part of this entry; if you want to see the drawings, they are here:
Later in the day, I got a fortune cookie which told me 'Wednesday is the day to make your move.' This seemed strangely specific for a fortune cookie. I'm sure Ubiquitouspitt will have one interpretation and Disneyboy will have a completely different one, and others may have a few more besides. As for me, I shall attempt the triple-gyratory mega stunt flip from the top of the library. Or maybe not.
Hunchback came out on video ten years ago today. [Dies a little inside]
*... especially considering I learned most of what I know about design by learning to draw Disney characters for a comic strip I did back in Grade 9, before the age of DVDs and easily accessible reference.
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Date: 2007-03-06 02:24 am (UTC)See I had this idea for a kid's book about super-intelligent mice from another planet, and I wanted to use my mice as references to draw a few of these alien mice, but they wouldn't stay in one position long enough for me to draw them.
Even when they were asleep, I'd look down at the paper to draw a line, and when I'd look back up they'd be in a completely different position. I finally just gave up.