- Spacedad
Three things to pay attention to when doing the homework: -Use ground/skyplanes to indicate the angle of the camera/area around the character. -Use the 'rule of thirds' composition rule to for your panels. -Use the contrasting action principle of '+' and '-' to create your actions and reactions.
Also consider using post-it-notes to create your studies. Or drawing post it note size like:
Homework
(1) - 1 to 3 pages of 'action and reaction' panels. Can be any ideas you have, events you observe in real life, or based on things you see in film or tv etc. For a page, should generally be about 4 small panels per row. Can also make one or two pages where you draw 2-4 panels blowing up the smaller ones you drew to redraw/develop the idea more like a storyboard.
(2) - 1 to 3 pages of CINEMATIC STUDIES. These should be larger in panels, usually around 2-3 panels per row. You can also blow up a panel to about half a page size to do more elaborate study. Please favor using live action films, but you can also use an animated film or two as well. Try to keep the panels simple and clear to understand what is going on, but you can use these also to exercise a little bit of simplified figure/head drawing too. Pay attention to perspective and composition. You can also choose (optionally) to blow up a panel or two and fully shade it with lighting and/or color it.
(3) - 1 to 3 pages of a story idea you want to turn into a storyboard. Should be short and concise. Can use an existing idea you have. This should be a 'working document' you have to refer back to that you can put any kind of notes on, synopsises of stories or characters, or other things. This part is for you to exercise thinking of an idea in your head and writing it down before you start drawing. The idea being that characters and story should be pictured in your head before you commit to drawing so you are not blindly searching for ideas of what to draw and why as your starting point. (A story synopsis could even be just a single paragraph.)
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