Pages from our first Photoshop lesson. We ran out of time so I filled the thumbnails I left blank afterwards and reworked some of them. To me, one minute was sometimes not quite enough to get an idea down. I figured that, if we had to treat this project as a real preproduction development, I might as well take a little bit more time to put thought into each thumbnail.
Very exciting, dynamic thumbs, Julien; the 'one minute per drawing' is an exercise around disinhibiting the imagination, and prevents students 'drawing cities' in some mechanistic, generic, emulative way. The idea of returning to a thumbnails produced quickly - and working it up into something more representative is absolutely the expectation in terms of taking everything forward. In life-drawing classes, you'll be doing loads of 'speed' exercises for exactly the same reason - it's about capturing information and encouraging expressiveness :)
ReplyDeleteOh right, I understand. It's just that, looking back on them, I didn't feel like taking any of these rushed, half-completed paintings forward into development. But it's undeniably true that it may avoid us to fall back into a mechanistic way of drawing a subject. I guess in the process of reworking and reworking them again you do get more ideas to improve the initial thumbnails. I definitely see the intention behind this technique now. Thank you for clearing up the timetables issue by the way!
DeleteYay, Pushing Daisies! Really cool influence choice :^D
ReplyDeleteThere's a great sense of atmosphere in that first set of thumbnails. 26, 27, 29 and 30 in the second set are really strong, too!
It's cool how when you look at a whole set of them it really starts to capture how the city would look. A lot is communicated! GOOD JOB
Hehehe you can't go wrong with a little bit of Pushing Daisies. I love their references to film noir :')
DeleteYeah I think these are probably the ones that hold the most potential. Woah that's very nice to read, thank you so much!
Some really great stuff here Julien. Good job on pushing things forward. I especially like some of the ideas on the Armilla page. As Phil has said, the one minute exercises serve a purpose to disinhibit students. It is still early days, so jumping into advanced thumbnails isn't necessarily helpful for a lot of people and often just leaves students drawing the same, generic skyline again and again. We'll be doing more conventional exercises in the next few weeks, but already, the abstract, quick exercises are providing some great, off beat outcomes. Keep them coming, things are looking very promising :)
ReplyDeleteGot it :) Thank you!
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