The Attempt on Joss Whedon's Fan Mail pt.2

While I am waiting for an opportunity to download adobe After Effects, I have been working on the image I plan on sending to Joss Whedon. So as usual I did some sketches to practice Joss Whedon's face, and try a new idea for the composition.

     Since this is to JOSS WHEDON, and he is a director that uses storyboard artists (I hope),  I decided to work on my compositions more and did thumbnails.

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       I like the one on the top left the best.  Bottom right is to intense, and this is still just a fun idea to give to somebody.  The bottom right defeats the whole purpose because you cannot even see if it is Joss Whedon, which is the whole point.  Of course form there I went to the tight rough.  

        When blowing this up to 11X17 size I realized something.

I had used the wrong format for the tight rough.  The tight rough template I used was for a side project that is suppose to be 8.5 x 11 size.  The solution to this is quite simple though.  I just trim both the working image and the final image when I send them to him.  Hopefully this will be one that gets sent a lot quicker, since it doesn't involve international shipping charges.

The I Don't Have Time For This Pr Bono Project pt.4

       The final images where very quick and not exactly pretty.

        However they are still readable which is the biggest point when storyboarding.  While working on the final boards I remembered how awesome drawing storyboards digitally can be.

      These two boards are the same perspective, shot etc.  The only thing that changes is that the car moves forward a little and that the head turns.  If I was doing this traditionally, I would either have to light board, redraw form scratch, or a number of time consuming options.  Here is what I did instead.

             I copied the under drawing from the first board.

Pasted it down for the other board.

Drew over the under drawing

And did the final drawing over it.

        Honestly, if I could have digital drawings babies, I would.  Do this traditionally and you would understand how much better this is.  Especially on a time limit like mine.   This wasn't the only time I did something like this during the project, and it can definitely become a beautiful magical time saver. 

I really love digital drawing.

             

The Overly Problematic Networking Attempt pt. 3

Alright, the next thing that I did was I blew up my thumbnails for blue lines and played with them a little in Photoshop, so that they looked like so.

I manipulated this a little in Photoshop so that the movement of the body worked better for the composition.

I kept this one as is because I felt that it worked.

I then took the second image and went to work on turning it into a final penciled image. Here is the tight rough, finalized. 

I then blue lined it and and made a final penciled image at full size on 11 x 17 Bristol.

At this point Gangam style really started to take off and I wanted to get it finished before the joke became old. So looking at how long this was taking me, it had been at a week since I started, I decided to just print to copies of this and send them instead of two separate images.  

Next up Inking, and the frustrations begin.