For the Birds

[pasithea]

Still studying the Preston Blair book. About an hour every day at lunch (provided weather is nice and I'm not working through) I've been following this formula of a half-hour of copy work and a half-hour of self-generated images based on what I've been copying. I think It is going alright, at least I'm getting really fast drawing characters. I'm down to about 2 minutes per pose, roughed out, and forms insanely fast. Of course, I'm also studying birds right now. Of all the creatures I've worked on so far, birds are by far and away the easiest. This is good because my next short is about a cat and a bird. :)

I'm still trying to develop a good character design for the bird though. I have a great design for the cat and a pretty good idea of what the sets look like and the cat's owner but I'm having difficulty making the bird match up stylistically. I guess I'll just keep at it.

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[paka.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you can find some of Glenn Vilppu's books, he has some ideas about roughing birds and animals - more illustrative than Blair but maybe you'd be able to use it.