Burmese Harp

I watched a movie last night called Burmese Harp it was a beautiful sad movie about the end of world war two old from Japanese soldiers perspective.  I did a few quick sketches this morning before we send it back to netflix.

Film Studies with Variations

Environments and the Wacom

Here is my first assignment it took me forever . My hand started to cramp also. It still works. I think I am too old to learn to draw on the computer. But here I did it. Some of it looks good some of it not so good.

I learned a few things about photoshop - the skew tool, when you hold the shift key you can make a straight line. It was so hard!!!!

Film Studies - Cleopatra

These are film studies for Ed Li's class. He wanted us to concentrate on structure.

Film Studies - Lawrence of Arabia

More Film Studies

Here are some more film studies from Lawrence of Arabia and In The Footsteps of Alexander. I'm a little blue today. I don't feel like I'm getting better.

More Lawrence of Arabia

I am continuing to study the compositions in Lawrence of Arabia with my 3 markers. I woke up at 4am this morning and did some. I'm hoping to eventually use this in my graphic novel.

Film Studies - Lawrence of Arabia

Here are some films studies from Lawrence of Arabia. I created a new template for the ratio 2.2: 1.

The Story of the Weeping Camel

I haven't been too productive this week but I did some film studies

Film Studies/Reverse Storyboarding.

Film Studies are a way to learn film composition by freezing frames on movies and drawing very simply the composition of the shot. I learned about this in Will Weston's drawing and composition class the fall of 2008 at the Animation Union. He started us with black sharpie/tombo/marker and then eventually let us use 2 grays and a white out pen/white pencil/gel pen. I like the technique. He suggested that I do film studies from all the movies that relate to my graphic novel (Hymn of the Pearl) and then use the shots as inspiration when I draw out the panels. I thought it was a good idea but I got away from it with everything else I've been doing but now I'm back trying it again. I'm going to use it as an exercise in the Pre-Production Class I'm team teaching at LMU.



Film Studies of Siddhartha (1972). I chose to do this because the Hymn of the Pearl is sort of a Siddhartha type story.

The Horseman (1972). Chose to do this one because part of the Hymn of the Pearl takes place in Afghanistan.

Ben Hur. Decided it to do it because it's a masterpiece and also a period drame like Hymn of the Pearl. Part of the Hymn of the Pearl takes place in Israel.