Colour Studies

So it turns out that colour is harder than just picking a few swatches that you like and sticking them on a page, ain't that a bitch. So here are 3 of my studies from the content of the pantry before we eat it ... ... ... as opposed to after.

 

Pastel chalk, which is an annoying yet colourful medium. You should've seen my hands afterwards, it was like a rainbow shat on them.

Lots of stuff

So I've recently been told off by a friend of mine, that I do life drawing with, after I showed her a load of my work and she exclaimed that it should all be on my blog, so I promised I'd stick it up. On a slightly different note I'd highly recommend checking out her blog she has a wonderful fresh style that's a real pleasure to look at http://animatedthinking.blogspot.com.au/.

So here's some of my work thus far on my animation

 

So above we have Backgrounds, Colour scripts a few tapestries. I should explain that this isn't all my work, there are more backgrounds for example but I'd rather not display them, they leave much to be desired but I this there's only so much going back and fixing things I can't do before I find myself just wasting time, it's a learning curve, I'll do better next time. I am enjoying myself though, very stressful at times but there are those brief moments of real pleasure that come with doing what you want and just creating.

I have now done 37 backgrounds and have maybe 12 to go, It's defiantly been a test in discipline and an overall attitude to working creatively. I think after this I may even tackle writing again, which is something I gave up on in the pass due to a mixture of judging my lack of skill very harshly, frequently feeling embarrassed by my own work and a inability to work though a lack of inspiration which is perhaps one of the most valuable skills I've gained in doing this short.

In my next post I'll either put up some life drawing or some of my storyboard work that I did about 4 months ago. I may even show you my colour studies, colour has proved to be a challenge that I'm still struggling with and wrestling a lot throughout this animation so I'll share with you both the advice I got from one of my teachers and some of my pastel art of fruit and veg.