Red Riding Hood 2, Action, first try...

Just a try to get more dynamics into the shots... It definitly show me how much I still have to learn concerning rendering, dynamic pose, character design and animal anatomy. Each time you try to make something different it means: a lot of effort to learn what you never drew. I wish I had the Kevin Chen classes at C.D.A. who seems to cover a lot of dynamic poses and character design. Kevin is a great artist and very sympathic to. If you can; take his classes !
Apenas uma tentativa de obter mais dinâmica no shots ... Isso definitivamente me mostre o quanto ainda tenho para aprender sobre o rendering, pose dinâmica, design de personagens e anatomia animal. Cada vez que você tentar fazer algo diferente significa: um grande esforço para aprender o que você nunca desenho. Eu gostaria de ter assistido as aulas do Kevin Chen em C.D.A. que parece cobrir um monte sobre poses e design de personagens. Kevin é um grande artista e muito simpática alem disso. Se você puder, toma suas aulas!

Red Riding Hood

Still experimenting ideation...and from nowhere appeared Red Riding Hood !

KAME CRUISER - v001

After hours of studying Scott Robertson s book and going into perspective deeply, here is the result. I did the perspective drawing 3 times as I wasn t happy with the final design. Doing Design during the perspective construction wasn t my cup of thee. I m to spontaneous. So I started to change the production process: I started with marker loosely to establish the final design and angle of view, then constructed the persp. After that line drawing was a pleasure. The fastest was to paint it digitaly because all the structure was established. The only photobased object are the wheel that I paint over.
"Kame" means Turtle in English so this cruiser is a peaceful expedition like car. I ve done this to get more into strong structure bases drawing and get the possibility to transmit to any 3d modeler the volumes. I wont hide that I prefer drawing women then vehicle but who hired for drawing women ? ;-)

Moon Spirit

O encontro com o espirito da Lua !

Mechs - Vehicule research

No post from any finished work but I m on it, since one week. I m studying persp and trying to get some vehicule design ideas transform into production design, ready to be modeled....! Main motivator are artist like Scott Robertson and John John J. Park. They are versatile and clear in visualizing their ideas ! Big challenge...

Little thumb ! Le Petit Poucet - O pequenho Polegar

Some more landscape research from Little Thumb. Need to refine the robot separately.

Quicky for Env class

Little thumb ! Le Petit Poucet - O pequenho Polegar

Aqui mia versao do Pequeno Polegar de Charles Perrault. Mudei ums capitulos para a historia não ficar tao previsível. O Concept foi ate aprovado de James Paick ! Que honor !

Here the firsts concept from the Little Thumb, the first version written by the Charles Perrault (le petit poucet). Design and comp approved by James Paick ! What an honor !

Petits concepts pour le Petit Poucet, revisite biensur

"the pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward

Figure drawing - Gallery girls

Los Angeles estabelecimento da Gnomon.: sessao de modelo vivo. Comenco as 22.00 horas e acabou as 1.00 da manha...com DJ, 5 modelos e 40 participante mais o menos. E super relaxante e a temática das meninas era STEAMPUNK. Gallery Girls e um grupo de modelo anti-convencional dirigido por Jennifer Fabos Patton. Aqui a modelo Jennifer e Layna Salazar (Tinha também a taryn e mynxii white). Para as pose nem sei quanto qu era ...talzez uns 15 min).

w07 - fredpalacio WIP character Design

Tonight was claying around to get better structure. I really need to think more in term of planes..
This is a character Design development for David Colman: the Master Mentor !
We basicaly rethink a novel and get some big surprise during the process. Everybody can work digital or traditional, it doesn t matter. Most of time you should do live drawing to became aware of form and expression. Tell you more soon... But its definitly a great class and a good teacher full of energy !

Blade Runner - Prequel

I m looking for some genius script ideas for a Blade Runner Prequel. I will do some Vis-dev that I ll post in the blog and I m looking for inspiring lines...!
"The question is, 'What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to have humanity?"

Replicant Roy Batty: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain. Time to die"

Fred Palacio - env WIP

Work in progress environment Design class.

Iain Mc Caig - The Art Of Storytelling - A arte de contar historias

What a refreshing 40 min interview I came accross ! Iain Mc Caig a concept designer share his thinking process and experiences.
Segue a entrevista de 40 minutos de Ian McCaig um concept designer. Nessa entrevista ele divide processo de pensamento, experiencia, novas tecnologia, etc...

About Flipping images and ideas..."you dumped most of what you see, what you paid attention to is what is different" that because you have to quickly evaluate the information, will it treat you or can you use it at your advantage.

About Ego: "A film by a lot of people" VS "A film by Blank Blank Blank"
About Directors ego (some of them): "The driver isn t the better job than beeing the engine...their job is to pick and choose, and they decide witch way the car is going, but without the car they couldn t get there..."
Sobro diretores (alguns deles): "Ser o motorista não e o melhor que ser o motor...o trabalho dele e de pegar e escolher, eles decide aonde o carro vai, ma sem o carro eles não chegaria la.."

"Its all about serving the story"
"E tudo para servir a estoria (a narrativa)"

"Art suports life, not the other way arround."
"A Arte suporte a vida, não o contrario"

"The books are only there if you live them, they are not there if you remember them."
"Os livros sao so aqui para viver eles, nao para ser lembrado"

Speaking about Marketing guy, driven by high investment return
- Investor: " This unpredictable thing called story, we don t need that anymore, all we need to do is making you feel things(...) that s enought. (...)
- Iain: "What a shame"
Traditional vs digital technology: "The new technology it the traditional technology of the future".. about digital caracteristic: "you don t have to commit, (...) you can change your mind forever (...), but still have to print it"

Sobre transicao de traditional ao digital: "A nova technologia e a technologia traditional do futuro", sobre as carecteristica da media digital:"vc nao preciso se apegar, e possivel mudar a idea o tempo todo, ma ainda preciso imprimir "

C.D.A. week 05 - Environment Sketching

Some homework in progress in environment sketching classes...

worldtour

For you guys who are looking for the fotos here they are. Actually I didn t change the link but just the blog !

http://www.lapetiteruche.com/

1000 of images and 100 of articles of the one year travel. Adventure going from visiting real mines playing with devils and dynamite, beeing an improvised model, going allmost arrested in Japan, no more money in Chile, crazy train in India...surfing in Indonesia and walking on volcano so on, almost crash landing...!

Joao Ruas at Thinkspace

A friend of mine and great illustrator Joao Ruas is doing an exhibition at thinkspace gallery starting saturday ! Check it out !
Thinkspace Art Gallery 6009 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232

C.D.A. Animal Anatomy - Page Museum

Anatomia de animais:
Mais um report sobre as aulas na C.D.A. para esses tres meses de crash courses !
A aula de hoje era no Page Museu de Los Angeles. Jonathan Kuo's objetivo era de comencar a desenhar com referenca real. A primeira coisa: simplificar todas formas que vc ve com as formas mais básicas (cylindro, box, sphere etc...). O exercício e simple, assimilar a estrutura dos animais a partir da observação. Se uma duvida existe sobre o funcionamento o a forma do skeletto e so se aproximar para enxergar o sujeito real, duvidas que artiste que trabalha a partir de foto nao consegue tirar. Em seguinte e desenvolver um pensamento simple com as formas mais complexe, e como um Shortcut visual para assimilar uma coisa.
E finalmente e um processo repetitivo de acquisicao de conhecimento o que facilita na criacao de personagem o criatura em pre-producao na hora do desenho.
Bom e isso para hoje, desculpa se o portugues nao esta perfeito ! Happy Halloween !
Abs a vcs !

Sketching - 001

Quick sketch during lunch, trying to be more expressive...(yes yes I said "trying" !)

LAAFA - Nathan Fowkes

I started a classes with Nathan Fowkes, a living Master ! His classes are exceptional ! As an (ex)-autodidact I really appreciate having classes, you learn fast and the main difference: you get critique from others. Normally I critic myself to progress but you don t get always at the point.

So back to Nathan's classes: the way to construct the face is totally disturbing but is the foundation of solid drawing knowledge. It is all about understanding the relationship of all elements that keep the facial tissues together and stopping just looking at the surface. Its about keeping the foundation of the structure as clear as you can and think in planes. Each step is the condition "sine qua non" to the next one.

Line needs to be clear, so stop doodle-ling approximately ( I know almost everybody do that). Put a line, don t put the ones you are searching for, choose the right one and fix it on the paper. Its like a Disney story, looking for a charming princess, choose one and it has to be the right one, seek for the particularity and uniqueness. :-)
So lots of good artist work is the consequence of good artistic decision. Question about what value range will you paint, how will you choose to paint the subject (light and shadow organization, soft vs light round vs square, and and and...). Adding to that the observation skills and understanding of form. For example why is a shadow sharp or soft. So many things that most of demos shows but don t explain.
Finally there is the famous 3 rules....practice, practice and practice !
A good thing at Nathan classes: he wont allow you not to do homework, so pressure is high but that is exactly why you should take the class, trying to improve is not the point...just improve. Even with 7 classes a week and lot of homework I m here sitting and putting the charcoal pigments on the paper.

Something remarkable looking him drawing is to see how comited he is to his drawing. Organizing, squinting, corecting and most interesting putting just few strokes on the paper but just the rights ones, like a chess player will put his pieces before the final sentence. What I will do in 50 strokes he probably will choose just 5 of them and that s the magic. And when the structure and value are placed the magic suddenly appears. Behind all the technical aspect that we are looking for, the master has just do what distinguish his drawing from all the others. The spectator is manipulated by the picture...the eyes can t stop looking at something he can not catch...The focal point, the sharpness of the edge are leading our eyes to one point and the other. Subtle variation are not happy accident but decision taken to drive us where the artist wanted. A simple portrait. Echec et mat.

Still so much to learn. Even knowing what to do, nothing is done ! It wont be easy. I struggle a with Charcoal, but its a relief suffering if you compare to the menu of 3D autodesk s maya ! (hehehe)
I hope to see some progress on this blog...if not shut it down !

By the way, just to be more humble check Nathan's blog he is also a master of Color (workshop coming soon).