Intensity

  One thing I've been trying to do lately is  get back into rough animation after years of doing very tight, very detailed feature -animation style clean up drawings .  I'm trying to loosen up and think : "expression"  ,  "movement" ,  "inner forces"  , etc.  and not get so wrapped up in doing a pretty drawing, with a slick clean up line, even apart from animation tests, in my character designs and misc. sketches.  (there's always time to clean it up pretty later on).  Let me tell you:  it's hard breaking those habits that one acquires as a clean up artist .   The little self-censor comes on in my head and says:  "not good enough" , "not tied-down enough" ,  "not original enough" ,  but then I remember why I started this thing :  to post my silly little doodles just for the fun of it . No pressure to perform,  no pressure to do a "perfect" drawing .   So, anyway, this one captured some of the intensity of expression that I was going for.  I sort of liked how it turned out (even though I noodled the color washes too much)    Hope you do , too , if you're reading this blog.

Comments

[Hans]

Hey David,

Looks great! Love the energetic rough lines and you definitely got some good expression going on too. I know exactly what you mean by having a hard time loosening up on your drawings. I've struggled with that for a long time. Always wanna just clean up this one little line here.....and this one........and this one too, untill you got a very nice and clean line, but in the same time killed the energy in your drawing.

Take care and have a great day,

Hans

[Ben Reynolds]

WOW!! your work is AMAZING..such awesome design and beautiful fluidity to the drawings...I will visit often now..very inspiring!!

[nick Sung]

Hi Dave--
Yeah, it's tough, trying to convey an honest emotion in all of its intensity; keep fighting the good fight! Nice drawing and great post--thanks for your kind comment!

[James Elston]

Hey Dave,
nice blog you got here.

hope you're doing well!
j.

[j]

Well, you're doing a great job. Your stuff is solid, expressive and appealing.
Good work.
j

[Tom Bancroft]

Nice Job Dave! I love your little characters! You do great on the expressions too! This one and the dog a couple blogs back are really great! I just put my book in the mail for you, tell me when you get it! Loves!

[Andrei]

You have Great blog!!!!:O)

[sam fleming]

dave,

wonderful work on the ruff stuff. i love it. i hope to see something animated from you in this 'intensity' style. there's alot of character in those lines.

[David Nethery]

Sam,

When I get some spare time I'm going to start finishing up some animation tests and posting them (at work we're in crunch time until we hit our deadline around the end of July) .

Andrei,

Thank you very much for your kind comment. Your have a great blog , too. I love the work you've done on the Prince Vladimir animated feature (posted on the Russian Insider blog and on your own blog) , and your personal work. I'm very interested to see the Prince Vladimir film when it is released in the United States (when?) .

Everyone else , (Tom, Jimbo, Nick, Ben, Hans) your encouraging comments are much appreciated . I enjoy looking at your guy's stuff , too. I'm loving this animation blogger network. Sorry I haven't replied on here until now. Like I said to Sam, I've been in a crunch time at work , so I haven't been checking in here very much lately.

[Andrei]

No idea Dave.I know they definitely want.I don't know when.:o(

[Kent Culotta]

Hey Dave!
Wow, I really like your blog. Your drawings are wonderful, and your post are very interesting. I'm so glad you found my blog. I was just wondering where you were these days!

You have great taste in music too! ;0)

Kent

[David N]

Kent !

I'm glad you saw my comment on your blog . I was hoping you'd make it over this way .