Cat Banjo

Afros

Live Drawing (Rhea)

Human face and perspective

relationship between text and image

Marta Altés’s approach is different. The textual and visual contradiction of her book is based on the difference of a human’s and a dog’s conception of desirable and undesirable behaviour of a dog. While the dog assumes his family appreciates his frequent help with variety of tasks and mistakes the family´s order to stop misbehaving for his name (No), the reader sees images of the same situations from a human point of view, seeing how the dog is being naughty while his family is trying to stop him by shouting ‘no’ at him. Her presentation of these two different points of view to the reader is very entertaining, especially for those who have their own dog at home. I believe that she also based her story on her own dog.

https://hanahladikova.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/relationship-between-text-and-image/ 

As you can see Marla Frazee‘s illustrations use humour to contradict the text which in the end adds a very special feeling to the book as a whole and make it rather enjoyable. She challenges the reader’s conception of the written truths by visual inversions. For example, when James [the boy in blue shorts] comes to visit Eamon’s family, the text implies that he comes with just a couple of his belongings, while the image clearly shows an abundance of boxes and bags bursting with James’s stuff. Later, the text indicates the boys decision to stay home, while the illustration shows them running away so fast they each lost one of their shoes and little clouds of dust formed behind them.

Afro Hair style lady by sansu

Question to Chankyo : favorite games , movies, and books

Hi Chankyo,
I didn't understand your favorite games in our last chat session. Could you share little here?
Please share your favorite books, films and music,  too. 
Any reference images or  links would be great. Thank you!

Benefiting from critique

Benefiting from critique

1. I am learning. It is okay for me to make mistakes.
2. I am learning. I want to know how to fix my mistakes.
3. I am learning, and I am grateful when someone takes the time to try and teach me.
4. When someone has helped me identify a problem it is within my grasp to fix, I will practice that change until it is a part of my artistic repertoire.

Feeling good? Deep breaths! Here we go. It’s time for you to seek out critique. Try to find people who are further along in their practice than you are (IE, more skilled, at least in some aspect of art) and willing to offer you some critique and show them your most recent work.
Consider carefully and honestly what they have to say. You might not agree with all of the critique you receive, and that’s okay. But if a common theme emerges, wherein multiple people are telling you that you have a specific problem, make it your priority to practice fixes to that issue in your next sessions.
Even if you disagree with the critique that you have received, if someone took the time to try and help you, always thank them.

Be sincere here! Someone shared their hard-won knowledge with you in an attempt to help you advance. That’s a true gift.
Critique can only help you if you approach it from the standpoint of genuinely wanting to learn and improve, and then take action on it. But if you are able to do that, and do it frequently, you suddenly have the benefit of not just your own experience but the experiences of all the artists around you, too. You will get personalized advice, tailored only to you and your artwork, about how to take the next step in improvement. You will be pushed outside of your artistic comfort zones and given the tools to make yourself the master of these new areas.

http://artists.pixelovely.com/benefiting-from-critique/ 

Giving a good critique

What makes critique useful

As we discussed last week, useful critique is:

1. specific
2. constructive
3. positive

Let’s examine each of these in greater depth.



Specific
Saying “I love it!” or “I hate it!” doesn’t give an artist much to go on. Find specific areas of the images that demonstrate either good or bad artistic habits that they have, and point those out.
Even if you have a specific problem in mind, simply saying “You don’t use a wide range of values” may not mean anything to the artist you’re speaking to. Perhaps the reason that they don’t use a wide range of values is that they have not yet encountered this concept in their studies. Instead, try saying something like, “It looks like the light source in this image is coming from the right, but your pencil values are the same on the left and right side of the face.” There! Now you have identified a specific problem, and a specific example of where it appears so the student can orient themselves to what you mean.

Constructive
Once you’ve identified a specific issue, you’re going to want to offer some specific advice about how to go about fixing the problem. Sometimes, the issue will be too big to cover in just one response. In that case, offer a starting point.
It might be specific to the image, “Try adding highlights to the right side, and deep shadows to the left side of the face.”
Or it might be about a general skill, “During your next practice session, set up a desk lamp and point it directly at some objects, and really spend some time observing and drawing highlights and shadows. This will help you get a feel for how light interacts with objects, and help build your confidence to use the darkest values that your pencil can produce.”

Positive
When I say that critique is positive, I don’t mean that it is all praise. Sometimes it includes praise, as it can be helpful for an artist to know what they are doing right or where they are showing improvement, so they can keep doing what works. But a critique that contains no praise at all can still be positive — it just needs to assume that the artist is capable of learning and improving and be given with the intention of helping, rather than attacking the person behind the art.
The overarching theme that runs through all of these requirements is respect. No matter how green the artist you are critiquing is, no matter how many mistakes, they are doing a ballsy thing by putting their work out there, and taking a major step toward improvement. Give that the respect it deserves and make a genuine attempt to help.

http://artists.pixelovely.com/giving-good-critique/

 

Daily Drawing (08/17/2016)

Daily Drawing
08/17/2016

Daily Drawing (08/16/2016)

Daily Drawing
08/16/2016

Life Drawing (08/15/2016)

Life Drawing
08/15/2016
Mom

Life Drawing (08/06/2016)

Life Drawing
08/06/2016

Daily Drawing (08/13/2016)

Daily Drawing

08/13/2016

Inspiration| sketchbooks of children's book illustrator and writer Renata Liwska

A Quiet Look - How to become a children's book illustrator in one (not so easy) step from mike kerr on Vimeo.
Rhea and Chankyo, Do you want to be  good at drawing? Here is a secret way to be a good illustrator.

 look at the sketchbooks of children's book illustrator and writer Renata Liwska. Illustrator of the New York Times Bestsellers The Quiet Book and The Loud Book, The Christmas Quiet Book, Red Wagon, and Little Panda.

 Actually Renata Liwska's sketch book is not a good example for you guys yet. I want you to make more mistakes and bad drawings. Her sketch books are too perfect for beginners.

Simple Life drawing example

Please try like this example when you do life drawing.
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Pay attention to people's proportion, line of action first, where their body weights are.

Once you establish your basics --head , chest ,arms and legs. They are a group of spheres and cylinders

Then look at their body types. Thin? Over weight? Old? Young?
Then look at their features. Races? Hair styles, Face details., Clothes.


Have fun!

To Chakyo & Rhea

Chankyo,
Have you thought about the story that you will be working on? Could you share breiefly here?
Once you decide the story, You will be working on designing character and storyboarding and etc.
Thank you!

Rhea,
Did you get a chance to do daily drawing and writing? If not, it's ok.  I know you were busy.
It doesn't need to be perfect. It could be just a word and line of circle. Please take a look at Chankyo's drawing and could you comment your thoughts on his work? And may be try to draw and write   Yours this week? Thank you so much.


Great work everyone!
Please stay tuned for next assignments. ;)

Please keep draw life drawings and daily doodles with writing. Love, sansu

Life Drawings 8/12/16 - 8/14/16

Life Drawings
8/12/16 - 8/14/16

Rhea Sketch 8-14-16

I got bored while doing math😅... haha. But the good thing is I feel like my human poses look a lot more natural than before. I think studying from live reference does help a lot.