Andrea's Chill Art Blog
I made this blog to document the making of a short film I had titled Pickled. But the film took too long to complete and has evolved so much over the years. At this point I'm going to make posts about my artistic journey and the eventual version of my personal project formerly known as Pickled. ;)
September 7, 2023
Come with me to the Ghibli Museum!
August 21, 2023
Carmy from The Bear drawing - SAG-AFTRA / Writers Guild on strike
August 18, 2023
2001: A Space Odyssey film study Part 2
I wondered why I was having such a hard time drawing compositions correctly into the thumbnails in my last film study page of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I realised that I was using the wrong aspect ratio! I've fixed up my thumbnails here to match the film.
That is a good lesson to use the right aspect when studying a film. Without the correct ratio, you can't properly place object and compositions. I did thumbnails until the jaguar finishes off a hominid. I like those tapirs.August 16, 2023
First Film Study!
This is my first time doing a thumbnail film study! It's only page one. My next mission is to DRAW FASTER and get two of these done in the same amount of time it took me to do this one.
Big thank you to Travis Marks for his Film Studies for Storyboard Artists Guide. I found it while searching for some tips on starting a film study. I emailed Travis who is super nice. He asks that you make a donation to Inner-City Arts and then send him the receipt. He'll then share with you the guide. What a cool way to raise money for a cause you support and share knowledge with other artists.
I found an article titled The 100 Best Movies of All Time (and while that's subjective) they're all great and I decided to just start studying from the top of the list. So here we have my first page of studies from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
July 8, 2018
Take a Deep Breath...
June 12, 2018
The Happiest Day of Her Life?
I decided a long time ago that I wasn't going to all out fully hand animate every shot in my short because let's face it, that will take me the rest of my life to finish by myself. So I'm using Harmony rigs for a few shots and some shots will have minor amounts of animation. The big juicy acting and storytelling shots will be fully hand animated for sure, but this one is done with a rig. It was actually a lot of fun to animate something fast and simple for a change. However the mouth, which is the focus of the shot, is hand animated. So this is a small taste of what Pickled will be like.
April 9, 2018
March 25, 2018
Progress on Poster Painting
March 18, 2018
Adding Colour
I will probably go with a "cartoony" sort of shading, or at least something that isn't too fancy.
March 12, 2018
Film Poster Work in Progress
Here are some of my rough concepts for the Pickled poster:
My first colour concept test. |
This second version is more simple shapes. I really love boiling down an image to it's essence. |
My first attempt at painting this poster. I'm going to repaint it however as I feel the drawing needs some work and the painting really needs some work. |
This is the first little scribble I did to get my idea on paper. |
September 17, 2017
Scene 10 - Progress Update
Come with me to the Ghibli Museum!
I made a video for my youtube channel about my visit to the Ghibli Museum this past March.
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Admittedly, now that I've been using Toonboom to build a few rigs and animate some characters, I realise that the information I'm ab...
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Most of my backgrounds are now roughed out and I've just decided on the colours for the kitchen! Weeee! Check out my colour choices: Wha...