ASSIGNMENT 1: Making & Remaking the Circle
Intro to Animation : A Hands-on Workshop
Taught by Ken Kimura
email: ken_kimura at lsrhs dot net,
telephone: (978)443-9961 XT2221
For hand drawn animation, it's important that you learn some basics of drawing. In this lesson we will focus on drawing the most basic shape: the circle. Rather than drawing outlines of things, you need to be able to recognize and draw the structure, form and volume of things. When drawing the circle, try to see it as a three dimensional sphere. For this assignment you will fill a number of pages of paper with sketches. Sketch freely, experiment, explore, be creative. - Thanks to Shea Justice for the foundation of this lesson. |
What to Draw
- USE A PENCIL. Begin by sketching a circle about the size of a ping pong ball. Loosen your hand and wrist. Move your pencil in a circular motion going over your lines 4-6 times.
- Give it a definite size and shape.
Repeat this at least six times.
- Shade the side of the circle to give it tone and volume.
- What would make it look 3D?
- Pretend the circle has been broken open.
- Draw what is revealed inside.
- Is it solid, hollow?
- Sketch the circle as if it had been stretched or pulled out.
- Start on a new sheet of paper. Think about the path a bouncing ball would take, and draw this path as a line.
- In at least eight steps, sketch what the circle would look like if it were bouncing along the path that you made.
- Would the form change shape? How? EXAGERATE this.
- Does it change speed?
- Is its shape different depending on the speed?
- Question: How do you draw the circle in various shapes so that it still has the same volume?
- Sketch eyeballs on the bouncing circle. Maybe even an entire face. Show the expression on the circle as it is being bounced and contorted.
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- Sketch eyeballs on the bouncing circle. Maybe even an entire face. Show the expression on the circle as it is being bounced and contorted.
- Now let's draw larger circles, about the size of a cue ball. Draw at least 10 circle sketches of faces being stretched, squashed, sneezing, blowing, etc.
- How do you show movement?
- On a new sheet of paper, draw the circle with a face looking directly at the viewer. Draw the circle again 3 more times, each time drawing the face turned slightly, until the last drawing shows the circle in profile (side view)
- Keep sketching, practicing, exploring, etc. At the end of class, staple your pages together and write your full name on the top page and hand them in.
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Edited 2-1-08 |
