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Today 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: ( He Loves It When He's Nasty )
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: ( He Loves It When He's Nasty )
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.
