The Sea Is Calling…

Here’s a painting of the beast. Based on buffalo horns, lion nose and mane, bear body, boar tusk, and my eyes…

Some advice for aspiring animators from Rebecca Sugar:

1. Don’t shy away from finding inspiration for characters in yourself and the people you love.

“If there’s a character that you like in something else, they probably remind of you someone you know or yourself. So if you can zero in on that and then use that to make your own original character that has those qualities, but maybe even more specific to you, then do that.”

2. You can find inspiration through the things you enjoy, especially when you’re facing a creative block.

“I love to just put on music and draw, when I get stuck, sometimes I’ll do that. I like looking at art that’s not the medium of cartoons, and kind of absorbing that, and making cartoons while thinking of that.”

3. Even though it’s not the most exciting work, learn fundamentals and traditional drawing skills.

This is excellent advice Rebecca’s received from comic artists like Eric Larson, Mike Mignola, and Eric Powell.

4. And most importantly: Make. More. Stuff.

“And the ones that are working, you’ll quickly start to see like, This is what I want to do. You might not even know until you just do a lot of things, and then it will just come into focus.”

Eh, that's so complicated. Why not just call her Pink, or Orange Sapphire

She’s a Padparadscha Sapphire.

🌳 Here’s a sneak peek of my first upcoming webcomic 🌳 I’ve finished Part 1, but I’m still working on the rest so I might be posting it longer than expected. I want to make sure that I finish the next page before I post the preceding one.

Made a “Horseshoe Crab(Limulidae)-Manta Ray-Crocodile” hybrid-looking creature for my personal story. I’m still thinking for a cool name: Croclimanta, Manlidile, Muli Mantadile, Croclida Ray, Mantamulidile, and possibly more name choices.

I personally chose the Crocodile to add some monstrosity, Manta Ray for its cool wing-like feature when swimming, and Horseshoe Crab for its strong armor and its amazing immunity system. Now that sounds indestructible!

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Era 1 vs Era 2

they just don’t make them like they used to..

Layout Background Exercise

For Gobelins’ entering contest, one of the request is background skills, and the ability, with a pen, to visualize yourself in a 3D space.

So I gaved myself an exercice than can be similar to what you can have during the contest, and which are the steps I’m going through :

Here is a background concept done by Armand Serrano, for the movie Lilo and Stitch.

Let’s put the following consign : try to draw the “against field” of this place (it mean, as in cinema, shooting in the opposite direction to another shot)

For this, we must be aware to : - Place our virtual camera correctly - respect perspective rules -placing correctly our objects in the space (what does make the “link” between the two shots) - Keep a cool composition -respect the design -use our imagination to field the empty space

So, let’s do this !

1. Making a Map and a good thumbnail

-It’s a good exercise to try put everything in a map, including the camera (CAM1) and visualize what we know and what we have to imagine ; not very easy, but it’s making win a lot of time for after !

- Then I just had to place the other camera (CAM2) on the other side, and begin to think about what would be in the room on the other side.

- When I did the map, I was working in the same time with a thumbnail of my scene (note : thumbnail is a very small drawing. Good to remember : small drawings for big ideas ! ) ; like this I could think about having a cool composition and match with the background in the same time. That’s why (as you might see) I decided to tilt a bit my CAM2, because I felt it more interesting for the composition.

2. Ruff drawing

- So here begin the interesting part :) it’s importent to begin by placing the horizon line, the vanishing points (in this case, two) and a perspective grid, all of this being sure it’s mathching with your thumbnail.

-Then, I built every objects, being sure it’s on the perspective, and puting all my ideas.

note : I was always thinking : this is a place where people are living, we have to FEEL It. It’s passing by using the props and the randomness of their position to suggest this idea.

3. Line Up

- On this part I was always trying to be careful about keeping the style of the artist, about props design, and the way of working the line.

4. (Bonus) Shadows

- Personnaly, I wanted to try making she shadows on a traditionnal way, as they where doing before at Disney. For this I first scanned my drawing (to have a backup in case), then I used carbon powder, I was putting stronger at some places, using an eraser to have my lights, and my pencil to go into the detail in the lighting.

-It’s important, when doing lighting, to know where the light come from, and what you want to show. Contrast is the master word ; with the light and shadow, you can choose to show more one thing than an other (for example, I chosen to show less the left part, and put on the light the right part)

My drawing could be better, about the choice of props and the angle, but I hope this tutorial helped you to see better the process to draw an “against field” from an existing layout, hope you enjoyed :)

Be free to comment, cheers !

Remember when the Amethysts opened the door to help calm down the Zoomans? I think she's talking about the Amethysts, not Rose.

okay this is probably my dumbest theory yet, but hear me out:

what if Mystery Girl was healed by a Rose Quartz (maybe even ours) at the Zoo a long time ago and somehow made it to Earth, where she comfortably lives out her immortal life as a drifter