Antique shop - finished version

It is the last day before Christmas break and I decided that my antique shop is finished.



20 Lines a day

Last week we also got the assignment to draw an A5 drawing using not more or less that 20 lines. This is an exercise that had to be done in 15 minutes every day of the week and our teacher Matt Madden has done it himself for a year.

  

99 Ways to tell a Story

"99 Ways to tell a story: Exercises in style" is the title of a book written by the American cartoonist Matt Madden who was our teacher this week. He gave us five assignments (each per day) that were all based on his book. We practiced some difference ways to tell the same story. Matt gave us a very simple script, which we had to use for our template comic of 1 page. In the script there is a character in a classroom sitting drawing. Another character enters the classroom and the first character gives his drawing to the second character and says: "She's all yours". 

    

My template comic: 

We all got a genre, which we had to base our next page on. My genre was: samurai. Here the things we had to focus on was characters, costumes, props, types of stories, visual style/atmosphere and historical precedent.

We had to change the perspective or point of view. I drew the classroom seen from a closet.

The newt assignment was to pick an artist, cartoonist or illustrator we wanted to copy and then draw our template in that style. I chose the Norwegian cartoonist Jason, and used the characters from his comic "Vent Lidt".

  

The last assignment was really fun to do. Here we got 3-5 obstructions from a classmate - A class mate made a list with some rules we had to follow while creating the comic. This type of assignment was inspired by a Danish documentary we watched in class. The documentary is about the Danish film director Lars Von Trier who gives Jørgen Leth obstructions while creating a new version of the film "The Perfect Human". 

In this assignment my obstructions were: 

Only digital 

Silhuet (black/white) 

No frameboarders 

Only three panels/tears 

Adventure/magic genre (witches, trolls etc.)

Perspective week

This week we had another drawing class with Lawrence Marvit. 

The focus was on perspective, construction and rendering.

 The first assignment was to design a Atlantis weapon. Mine is a shell-gun which has poison sea urchins. Incredibly fierce.    

We continued the Atlantis-style with the second assignment, which was to draw an Atlantis environment in perspective. Drawing in perspective is something I have tried to avoid more or less my whole life and this week it went clear to me that I am not the only one who have had that feeling. It has nothing to do with perspective is boring - it has (as Lawrence so nicely expressed it) something to do with our fucked up little brains. 

Anyhow - I had some issues with horizon lines and vanishing points and stuff like that. I have to work on that while I say to myself: "Perspective is NOT math". (Something that was discussed this week as well). 

The next thing was a two day-project where we should draw an A4 Antique shop or a science fiction laboratory in perspective. Not very surprising I chose the antique shop. First we should draw it only in lines. It is the first time I have been drawing an interior. In perspective. In Photoshop. So yes.. even though I am not 100 % happy with my results this week was a big thing for me.

  

 

I have always wondered how people manage to create paintings digitally but now I am way much closer to know how it works. Because I tried it myself. Thursday we started rendering our interior pictures, which is a long, slow, but fun and exciting process. I am far from done with my picture but I will work on it. This week I also got introduced to a new expression, which shortly means that I need more time to finish the picture. But the fact is that I am "bitch-slow". This was a fun week.