Drawings for January 17, 2005
Today’s topic is the Iron Giant, a Brad Bird film and probably one of my all-time favorite animated movies. First off is a bust shot of the Iron Giant. I’m still not on my own, having had a sketch as reference:
Next is a profile shot found in the movie. You can see a hint of the next image here. This is one of the reasons why I only draw on one side of a page in my sketch book. I didn’t want to enhance the image too much to remove the ghost, though. I feel you lose some of the texture and novice features of my illustrations.
Finally, the Iron Giant facing forward:
This final image is a little lopsided. I wonder how much care I should take to correcting this kind of thing. Should I use a french curve to make things look perfect?
In high school, I had a lot of drafting experience. If I wanted to make the drawing very technical I could do it. I’m not sure if I want to dig up those brain cells right now. I feel like I have to much more to learn about drawing freehand before I begin to delve into combining freehand drawing anc technical drawing.
I think I’ll concentrate on cartoon drawing for the rest of the month. I’m thinking in February I’ll attack comic-book style superheroes (another passion when I was younger). In March, my initial thought is to try my hand in drawing robots and synthetic shapes. We’ll see how the plan goes…