#exercise 1

[just-fic-already]

Exercise 1

Pick one of these spooky story starters and see what happens. Write for 15 minutes.

The fog dropped like a stage curtain and a chill ran up his spine...

Fear throbbed in her temples, but she pulled back the door anyway...

The pumpkin killer had chosen his next target and the face carved into his Jack O’Lantern was distinctly familiar...

Crooked fingers tapped the table and the croaky voice hissed, “you are a treat...” 

[queesser]

Experiment 3: Drawn element in animation

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Experiment 2: Playing with the looping of the frames

[queesser]

Experiment 1:I feel like practicing with making a bunch of these since there is so much opportunity to create different things with this medium.

All the gifs have all the same parameters: 6 frames (the fourth one has 10), .01 second delay (no delay on few frames goes way too fast), and no major edits. Just practicing taking layers from videos at this point and seeing just how many frames you can delete without losing some type of fluid motion.

[keevebub]

Exercise 1.1, Draw a car, various time limits

- Use a reference

- 2 minute car was partially a tracing (I love her)

- flattens at a minute

- fall in love immediately

Exercise 1.2, 25 characters

- all took a second or two longer than I wanted

- recognized my own stereotype based in racism riiiight here.

- is it misogyny if I didn't have space for high class head? she looks like secretary for the mayor in the Powerpuff girls actually.

Exercise 1.3, 100 free association for 5 seconds

- LOVE the absolute joke of zen. I think if we work hard we can make even the instructions a haiku. completely under estimated the stress of this. fun

- Tried really hard not to draw the same thing twice. I was unhappy with a hot air balloon so I drew a balloon with ribbon right next to it. Or my association is just a mirror

- Went through after and tried to label it. Which was its own fun.

- Lynda Barry has this bit about it being okay to draw cigarettes. I don't even smoke cigarettes, but they really came through.

4 cups, 4 cigarettes

a shiv, a far away town

3 cannot recall

Homework 1: Doodle a page.

- I'm just not going to do that babe

[goddessdetimes]

Imagine yourself in 3 different places and PROJECT from your temple...

[ungroomedcat]

Learning how to draw.

Exercise 1 - feet

Im going to try to post all my exercises here for my record keeping.

This exercise is to practice "seeing". Focusing on the subject, drawing blindly, 'look, hold, draw'.

Already see an improvement!

For reference, image I drew before beginning to study:

[gcampbell3]

Exercise 1

For this exercise, I created four five-second animations based on different verbs. 

My first was based on the verb Assemble, though it was originally going to be build. I animated three triangles coming together to form a pyramid. The design itself was inspired by the Triforce from The Legend of Zelda, with three triangles coming together to build a new shape.

My second was based on the verb Stretch. I wanted to show a small blob, almost like clay, being pulled and stretched in different directions. I used scale and rotation settings to accomplish this, especially with how the blob stretches out of frame at some points. 

For the third animation, I used the verb Spin. I wanted to show an object spinning in place, but I didn’t want to use another circle like in Stretch. So I combined a pentagon and a circle to build the base of a windmill, and gave the shapes black strokes to create an outline. I then combined two rectangles together to build the blades. From there, I rotated the blades 45 degrees roughly every 10-12 frames to get a smooth spin.

For my final animation, I used the verb Climb. I was inspired by the wall-climbing scenes in the 1960’s Batman, so I drew several black rectangles with white strokes to create a building. I then drew a black star with a white stroke and used the Rotation/Scale properties to animate its motion.