A little sketch from earlier today-
Miss Cookie baking cookies (Early 1960’s)
Pencil & paper | Additional Miss Cookie
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Hi! And omigosh! Thank you so very much! :D
This was a quick color piece I did before going to sleep tonight. I’ve been trying to color more loosely and it’s been a lot of fun! This is a piece of Gravity Falls Fanart with a nod to that old saying when pigs fly. Maybe Mabel is having a dream. Maybe it’s Waddles dreaming.
Gravity Falls is pretty much my favorite cartoon, and I love absolutely everything about it. It’s hard to describe— it has a magic about it.
Mabel and Waddles hold a special place in my heart <3 It seems with them, most anything can happen :D
Fanart of Gravity Falls; Photoshop and Tablet
Here is a sketch I did for the winner of a raffle. This is Shades O’Reilly, a Pine Marten Detective :)
Pencil, Paper & Prismacolor Markers
Shades O’Reilly © Birone
A lot of people have found my answers to questions related to StoryBoarding helpful so I’m going to make this answer re-bloggable as well in case you find it helpful too :)
Hi there!
When I started building my storyboard portfolio, I was very fortunate to be able to learn a lot from my best friend Kyle, who is a super amazing storyboard artist! His teachings helped me take the bare bones basics of storyboarding I’d learned in school and start to produce some boards. I was trying to tackle too much at once, and he recommended I focus on a small part of a script to get started. I used some frame templates and started making boards off a couple of pages from a short script I’d written. I learned a lot from him through critique and revisions. So many revisions :D
I also started learning from the lessons of the amazing Sherm Cohen. Sherm’s got an amazing amount of knowledge and experience in storyboarding! He’s extremely friendly and one of the nicest folks I’ve ever had the good fortune of meeting. He has created a series of lessons to teach about storyboarding, and his lessons are very clear and very understandable even to beginners. When I was learning from his DVDs, the information stuck and it really drove the techniques of boarding, home. His site has all sorts of info about his lesson DVDs, tutorials for things like Line Of Action, galleries of different kinds of storyboards for you to look at, and he even has postings for job and internship openings! You can follow him on his webpage StoryboardSecrets as well as on Facebook, Twitter, and DeviantArt.
Here’s a super cool tips:
-My pal had me find a script for a movie and board that! I went with a few pages from the first draft of Back to the Future, and storyboarded it like it were a cartoon :D
It was a ton of fun because the pages I picked from the first draft are so very different from the movie we know, and I had a blast boarding it!
-Don’t forget to focus. This is a huge help if you’re just starting out. Two pages of script for me turned into fourteen pages of boards. Don’t let a lot of script overwhelm or intimidate you when you start out.
-Feedback and critiques are your bestest friends :D
-There are a LOAD of storyboard templates you can use for free online! AnimationMeat has some of my favorites!
-Don’t fall in love with a joke or drawing. If it just ain’t working out and making the boards strong, dump it and try something else.
-You can do boards traditionally or digitally.
-Wide Post-It Notes are your friend. You can draw boards on em, stick em to a board, rearrange them, and then either redraw panels based on them, or scan them, clip em up and put em into the template.
-You’re gonna be drawing a LOT. Have ample supplies!
-Check out boards for TV and film animation. You can learn a lot by looking at boards, and use them to better recognize things that work well when boarding (Line of Action, Silhouette, staging, so on and so forth.)
-I found it helpful to take a break every so often and walk around. I would focus so intently on the boards and I found I felt a lot better and worked a lot better when I gave myself a chance to step away, drink some water, and shake my hand out so it wouldn’t get ground into the paper
-Have a digital copy to send to job postings. You can make a PDF of the pages and send that out, or have something nice and tidy to take to a printer if need be.
I hope this has been helpful! Feel free to ask if you need more info!
This question was originally answered here.
Another question about Storyboarding (Storyboarding Tips) that I answered on my blog can be found here.
Helpful posts & such: So I guess my last post about Storyboarding was pretty useful for everyone! I’m glad you enjoyed it! It’s cool to wake up and see something like 100 new notes on it. It feels pretty rad to be able to help so many people!
Every once in a while, I get asks that involve questions about things like that.
I will try to answer every question as best as I can and if I don’t have a lot of info about something, I will do my best to point you in the right direction for info about that subject.
I guess there’s no reblog button for answers to questions and since everyone found the Storyboarding post super helpful, I can also try to make answers concerning information and resources re-bloggable so you can reblog them to your own blog for future reference.
Would you all like me to make things like that re-bloggable in the future?
Here’s another quick sketch from today :D
It’s a goofy Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls
Sketch; pencil & paper.
A quick little sketch from earlier today :)
Pencil & paper.
Today’s warm up sketch; Mister Biscuit
I was kicking around ideas for a possible love interest for the Miss Cookie character from December :)
Quick sketch; Pencil and paper
Hi! I get a lot of inspiration from everything I see around me. My best friend Kyle taught me to draw, and he inspires me the most! His work ethic is crazy amazing, and he’s always striving to come up with new things, and make awesome stories and characters! He works his butt off and I can’t help but be inspired by him and his work! My other friends both in life and online also inspire me a lot too! Seeing everyone work so hard to make such cool stuff is extremely inspiring to me!
I’m also glued to the internet and I learn a lot and get a lot of inspiration from that too! So many people post their tips, tutorials, and techniques for others to learn, and that’s been so important. If I see something cool, I will sometimes try it and if it works out or not, I’ve still learned something new. I love different styles and being able to work in different styles is a part of my job, so it’s also a lot of fun to try different things :D
Tumblr is pretty rad for feeding you inspiration too— when I browse around my dashboard, I see so much awesome and inspiring work!
As for motivation, I was a little slow when I started out drawing. The ways to draw that were taught to me didn’t click well. That became very frustrating and it made it harder to draw and I was less motivated. When I met my friend online, he taught me how to sketch and draw, and once that clicked and made sense, I reminded myself to draw more and more. No matter what I drew, the more I drew— the better I could get, and knowing that kept me going.
I also wanted to make my mum and grandparents proud and that was a big part of it :D
Also, learning new things is a big motivation! You never stop learning and it’s fun to learn. Since technology is always changing, there’s all sorts of new stuff to learn from that too! Sometimes we can hit a little plateau in motivation but there are so many forms of it, it feels like it’s bound to kick in again.
I’ve also found sometimes going to the shop and trying a new pencil or pen, or a new type of sketchbook is enough to kick me into gear again too. I love getting new paper!
And thank you so very much! I’m glad you like my work :D I love your work as well and I hope you both keep it up too! It’s awesome to see all the cool characters you draw!
Here’s the other little marker sketch I did as a birthday gift :D
You can see the other drawing here: The Great Catsby
Pencil & Prismacolor Markers
Here’s a bunny I sketched in one of the Easter cards I mailed out last month.
Pencil on paper
I’m going to make this answer re-bloggable in case you find it helpful :)
Hi! If you’re looking to get into storyboarding, I totally recommend taking a look at Sherm Cohen’s page. Sherm is a pro, and so amazingly talented. He has a knack for teaching, and he posts a lot of useful info and tips and such all over the place. Job postings too! You can find his main blog at: storyboardsecrets.com/blog/
If memory serves, he also started a storyboarding group on DeviantArt where he posts helpful info and such. Sherm also put out a DVD lesson set and I highly recommend it :)
As for advice:
- Be prepared to draw. A LOT. Have plenty of pencils, pens and paper handy.
- Post-It-Notes are your friends. You can block out boards or correct them as you go with Post-Its, and then redo panels as needed. This helps you see the flow.
- You can board digitally to keep yourself organized, and either scan in your drawings, or draw right in Photoshop/whatever software you use to draw on your computer.
- Liquid Paper/White Out/White Paint can be helpful when making small edits.
- Don’t get too attached to panels/jokes/actions. You’re going to be throwing a lot aside for the sake of editing to get the best possible boards you can for what you’re boarding. If something doesn’t work out, get rid of it.
- Learn from what you see and from those around you. There are a lot of boards or portions of boards posted online. Boards come in all styles and levels of completion. Sometimes something simple is perfect, and other times a more finished look is needed. As you block out and plan things, you can work to build up your boards. I suggest using the post-its to rough out your boards and get a feel for them. Saves you a lot of time in drawing if things change early on (which they will). Take a look at boards posted online and in books.
- Check out AnimationMeat.com for some great blank templates for different types of boards.
Also, I answered a similar question about Storyboarding (building a portfolio) HERE and I hope you find this helpful! Feel free to ask me another question if you’re looking for info about something I didn’t mention here :D
I hope this helps you :)
Hi! If you’re looking to get into storyboarding, I totally recommend taking a look at Sherm Cohen’s page. Sherm is a pro, and so amazingly talented. He has a knack for teaching, and he posts a lot of useful info and tips and such all over the place. Job postings too! You can find his main blog at: storyboardsecrets.com/blog/
If memory serves, he also started a storyboarding group on DeviantArt where he posts helpful info and such. Sherm also put out a DVD lesson set and I highly recommend it :)
As for advice:
Also, I answered a similar question about Storyboarding (building a portfolio) HERE and I hope you find this helpful! Feel free to ask me another question if you’re looking for info about something I didn’t mention here :D
I hope this helps you :)
(The re-bloggable version of this answer can be found here).
