Impact on you, but mainly on a subconscious level. The quality of the pavement or the type of cars on the street theĮxpressions of the faces of the people around you the texture of theīricks on the buildings you pass. Notice the cracks in the sidewalk or the weeds growing in those cracks Street, the sidewalk, the other people, and the buildings. When you are walking down the street, you see the Notice every detail in the world around us. There is a very simple reason for this no-one could possibly When people go through their lives every day, they do not see. The biggest problem is the lack of seeing. The biggest problem that artists must overcome is not one of But some of the exercises which are helping me may also be of help to you. I am not by any stretch of the imagination (I'm sure I've said this before!) a professional or master artist. Remember, though - you can always draw people on the street, on the bus - they won't know or care. Best of all, take a life drawing class, where you have professional models and art teachers too. How will you learn to draw people if you don't draw people? If you can't afford a model, either ask a friend, or try to find a substitute like a good statue.

And a BIG imagination.Īfter the second exercise, a live model becomes an amazing asset. ONE lock on your door to keep annoying siblings out.

MANY soft pencils (H-3B will do fine, but most people prefer to start with 2B's). I don't care if you want to work at Pixar or Warner Brothers for any animation or animation-related job, you must still learn how to draw. And guess what advice those low-tech, pencil animators gave out was. You see, within a few days, after looking around on the Internet, I discovered that the first piece of advice that computer animators gave out was learn how to animate with a pencil. I am fairly good on the computer I assumed that I would just need a few programs, some tutorial books and I could start making episodes 7, 8 and 9 of Star Wars.

I started with Jurassic Park (the first one) I was dazzled by the computer animation which looked so real! I decided that I would learn as much about computer animation as possible. When I started my own studies in animation several years ago, I did not start with Disney or Warner Brothers.

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