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About Me Member One who left DA and came back! *cough*17/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 9 Months
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Artwork and Life Drawing

Mon Oct 19, 2009, 6:55 PM
  • Mood: Daily Needs
  • Listening to: Rush
  • Reading: Wikipedia
  • Watching: Saturday Night Live
  • Playing: American Mcgee's Alice
  • Eating: Crap in a package
  • Drinking: Crap in a can
So, It has been a while, and I have been reading in my studies (regarding 2d animation) that disney feature animation and other high-end animation studios don't care if you can draw cartoons. In fact, they really want animators to have experience in life-drawing!

OMG, so what does this mean for me?

I HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW PEOPLE (Including nude studies) NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Drawing people is something I absolutely LOATHE doing! I can't draw people too well, and this is honestly a big suprise! Why is it that disney wants animators that have life-drawing experience? Apparently, the claim is this: According to Richard Williams (The directing animator for 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit';), Dont Bluth (Directing Animator for The Secret Of NIMH, And American Tale, The Land Before Time0, and various disney animators, life-drawing skills is extremely important for an animator to have. They claim that animators that don't know how to draw people are as useless as 5 year old crayon scribblers. I believe that it is for this particular reason: If you can draw people well, you can draw cartoons well. I can understand that. Not only that, but a lot of disney animations feature people anyway.

So, I guess this begins my long journey on the road to life-drawing. I hope I can perfect life-drawing within a few months. I have been doing it for about a month now, and I can draw people with correct proportions pretty decently now. I just need more time to perfect my ability. Hopefully, this means that I can release artwork with people in the future. I think that will be pretty cool.

Anyway folks, I hope you enjoy your school, because I am. East hollywood highs chool rocks, and I am getting plenty of time to do what I want/need to do for my future: Art.

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Orem Utah
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: Small
  • Print preference: Why do they even ask this question?
  • Interests: Drawing, flash, animation, games, stuff like that
  • Favourite movie: Touching the Void
  • Favourite band or musician: Underoath, Metallica
  • Favourite genre of music: Screamo, Hardcore, yea. . .
  • Favourite artist: Louis Wain
  • Favourite poet or writer: I'll get back on this one
  • Favourite photographer: I'll get back on this one as well
  • Favourite style of art: Cartoon, cats, animals, yea
  • Operating System: Mac OSX 10.5, Windows XP home/pro
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod nano
  • Shell of choice: Seashells i guess. . .
  • Wallpaper of choice: Anything that looks cool
  • Skin of choice: Why do they even ask this question?
  • Favourite game: Bioshock
  • Favourite gaming platform: Windows
  • Favourite cartoon character: Banjo the Woodpile Cat
  • Personal Quote: "BAMF"
  • Tools of the Trade: Flash, FCP, iMovie, Photoshop, and good ole' pencil over paper

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:iconuchihaguy:
Thanks for the :+devwatch:
I'm pretty excited to see more animations (I guess those would be placed on youtube... oh well, I'm still prepared for those too!:D)
:iconaquariuswolf:
Thanks for the fav!
:iconclawflawxx:
Thanks for the fave. XD

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:iconreaiblood:
hey its me RealBlood. SadDays you got Fine Art works!! everyone here says Thank for Fav but they dont look at the Art Works!! i think there Amazing and i pretty sure you worked hard on that!!! keep that and i'm sure you'll get Great sucsess!!!!! Nice works!! i love Grand Thef Awesome IV and the Gigglypuff killer!!1 you rock!!! WhooooooHooo
:iconsaddays:
lol, I didnt do those works of art XP.
I did the ones above it XD.

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:iconpeggymintun:
Hello. Thanks for faving.

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:iconredshane:
Thanks for the fav :)

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Your username is so ~emo~, James :)

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:iconthe-forger:
thanks for faving! :blowkiss:

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I just want to say. . .

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. . . But you are too!!!"
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Thanks for the watch!

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