Drawing For Illustration: Nigel Style aka Clutch Falco

Nigel Style was a guest speaker in tonight’s class.

Nigel is from Canada and is an amazing artist. Our teacher, Juliann brought him to share about the use of lines in his comic strip “Bill The Violent Manatee & Me.” He produces it on his own and new strips are released ever Wednesday.

As his day job, he is an Animator for a software company.

Disclaimer: Not Safe For Utah

Videos:
Vimeo

Photoshop: Displace FIlter & Displacement Maps

This Photoshop filter makes it possible to apply the content of one image in such a way that it appears to follow the 3-dimensional contours of the image to which it has been applied.
This filter can found at: Filter > Distort > Displace

Drawing For Illustration: Line Excercises

Contour Drawing

Continuous Contour

Blind Contour

Lost & Found Edges

Links & Examples:
Laura Ljungvist – FollowTheLine.com

Photoshop: “Believe It Or Not”

Drawing For Illustration: Crime Dramas & Detective Novels

Project 2
Assignment: Create a High Contrast Illustration Of A Weapon
Wikipedia: Crime Fiction

Objectives:

• Learn to create thumbnails and roughs

• Transfer sketch to final paper



• Use a range of values of white on black paper to model the form

PhotoShop: Believe It Or Not

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!

• Television: (1982-1986) (2000-2003)
• Film: (2010)
• twitter.com/ripleyworld
• Official Website
• Wikipedia
• YouTube
• Vacation 2004

UPDATE: Math!!!

At this point, I really haven’t brought up my Math class in the blog. At this point, it has been very basic and I feel good about it.

So far we have covered:

Additionally, here are some interesting items, facts etc…

• Sieve Of Eratosthenes

Drawing For Illustration: “Value… Contrast…”

Value:
Wikipedia

Grisalle
Wikipedia

Contrast:
Wikipedia

Chiaroscuro
Wikipedia

Tragdor