Helgeson Art: Sketchmix

Here are more sketchbook sketches.

Quotes

"Don't get stuck trying to make the perfect piece. You'll just get all bunched up and make a stiff piece, or even worse, never make anything at all. Your going to make a whole bunch of bad drawings before you make a good one, so you might as well get the bad ones out of the way." - Jason Deamer
"It's never easy. It shouldn't be easy. If it's coming easy then you're going down a path you've been down before. You’re resorting to design solutions that you've used or you've seen used before." -Jason Deamer (on the subject of character design)
"Even in those of my works in which action is least emphasized, I have always sought to put some suggestion of gesture: I have very rarely represented complete repose. I have always tried to render inner feelings through the mobility of the muscles... without life art does not exist." -A. Rodin
"These works have a single purpose: the representation of emotion." - A. Rodin
"Does your drawing have weight, depth and balance?"
"...anatomy is not the answer - acting is." - Walt Stanchfield
"If you do what you´ve always done, you´ll get what you´ve always gotten."
"The ability to draw any character, from any viewpoint, in any kind of attitude, and in motion, all of this instantly readable by a general audience."
"...draw the idea behind the pose and not attempt to copy the model, line by line." - Walt Stanchfield
"Verbalizing a pose or a gesture mentally before starting to draw will help to disengage any obstacles that might stand in the way of drawing the idea clearly." -Walt Stanchfield
"If we settle for mediocrity then mediocrity will find a welcome haven in our own work." - Walt Stanchfield
"Think first, then draw."
"Whether you are drawing from a model or from the imagination (as in animation), you should always be aware that you are not drawing bones, muscles, and cloth, or a model sheet drawing - you are drawing an action." - Walt Stanchfield
"Remember, a drawing that does not tell a story can never be good, and one that does tell a story can never be wholly bad." -Walt Stanchfield
"What, How, Where, When, Why? "
"When I am walking I am walking; when I am eating I am eating." -Zen saying
"In other words, in most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three." -Walt Disney
"... see it in the mind, and feel it in the body before trying to draw it on the paper." - Walt Stanchfield
"Drawing gestures is like using body language - it requires the context of an entire situation (story) to be thoroughly meaningful." - Walt Stanchfield
"An interest in the subject; something you want to say definetly about the subject; this is the first condition of a drawing."
"A drawing or a scene is not final when a material representation has been made; it is final when a sensitive depiction of an emotion has been made." - Walt Stanchfield
"Draw verbs, not nouns." - Walt Stanchfield
"You won't catch any fish acting like an anatomychart." - Walt Stanchfield

fredagen den 15:e juli 2011

Sketchmix

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