Let me inspire you with some images from the greats.
Absolutely magnificent drawing! Bold, but that expression is SO SUBTLE. But oh so very readable! The misalignment of the eyelids along with the unfocused gaze.... That skewed mouth.... The lean of the body. The silhouette is readable, too, and the graphic shapes that the body cuts while maintaining believability. Truly masterful draftsmanship!
Speaking of masterful draftsmanship....
Entirely different feel, right?
Enormously courageous yet explorative strokes of a brush here. Note how he feels out the form of the horse. The exaggerations, the depictions of movement, the manipulation of the form while keeping the unmistakable proportions of the animal! Look how those back legs peter to nothing - and yet, what weight it has! I could rant about this all day. You don't have to be one to one realistic to be an accomplished artist. On the contrary, the drawing out of the dormant or underpinning nature of a figure or object - the exaggeration - can make your pictures seem REALER than real. Yes! Realer than real life!
For the same reason that pure rotoscoping will lead to floatey animation, yet rotoscoping with exaggerated weight, up and down, squash and stretch, seem convincing and realistic, distilling the essence of your subject is the purest form of drawing that I believe you can do.
Lastly, here are some Animation tips from Patrick Giusiano:
Animation Tips
- India
Absolutely magnificent drawing! Bold, but that expression is SO SUBTLE. But oh so very readable! The misalignment of the eyelids along with the unfocused gaze.... That skewed mouth.... The lean of the body. The silhouette is readable, too, and the graphic shapes that the body cuts while maintaining believability. Truly masterful draftsmanship!
Speaking of masterful draftsmanship....
Entirely different feel, right?
Enormously courageous yet explorative strokes of a brush here. Note how he feels out the form of the horse. The exaggerations, the depictions of movement, the manipulation of the form while keeping the unmistakable proportions of the animal! Look how those back legs peter to nothing - and yet, what weight it has! I could rant about this all day. You don't have to be one to one realistic to be an accomplished artist. On the contrary, the drawing out of the dormant or underpinning nature of a figure or object - the exaggeration - can make your pictures seem REALER than real. Yes! Realer than real life!
For the same reason that pure rotoscoping will lead to floatey animation, yet rotoscoping with exaggerated weight, up and down, squash and stretch, seem convincing and realistic, distilling the essence of your subject is the purest form of drawing that I believe you can do.
Lastly, here are some Animation tips from Patrick Giusiano:
Animation Tips
- India
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