Tangled Thumbnails, Studying Camera Shots and Angles

1. Established Shot

I was so darn excited going into this assignment, until I paused & started drawing the first thumbnail.  Let's all agree on one point: Tangled has tremendously beautiful art and I was ready to butcher it all up with my rendition.  Since everything was so high quality and there were so many values used (I had w1,w3,w5,w7,w9,black, white = 7 values) so I seriously had to dumb/thumb down the image (no pun intended :p).  

For established shot, I chose the scene where they introduce Rapunzel's tower.  At first I rendered the tower with a bunch of values but it did not pop out at all so I filled it in with black.   

2. Extreme Close Up/Close Up

So I think there was only one Extreme Close Up shot in Tangled and it was of Rapunzel's eyes after she realized she was the princess.  Unfortunately, I found the shot after I drew this close up one.  Oh well, this angle is so much more dramatic than the one of Rapunzel's eyes.   

3. Over the Shoulder (turned into Two Shot, don't worry, I have another over the shoulder thumbnail)

Okay, I butchered the perspective here.  This shot wasn't really a clear over the shoulder to begin with though but I was dying to do something related to the lantern scene.  Unfortunately, I ran into a bind because I couldn't decide what values to use.  If I used black for the sky then I would only be able to draw the lanterns with my white gel pen or my prisma color and that wasn't going to look right.  Gosh, I am dying to draw the lantern scene digitally!!  Anyway, I was focused on the lanterns so much that I messed up on the shot.     

4. Dutch Tilt

This shot wasn't easy to find in the movie, however it had to be the easiest one to draw because of the low details.  This was during the flood after Maximus kicked that log down.  

5. High Angle

Baby Rapunzel is a cutie.  High Angles are typically used to show submission and there's a scene where High Angle/Low Angles are used really well but I had already drawn these.  I guess the hardest about this angle is that I had to erased what I knew beforehand.  

6. Low Angle

This is the shot following the previous one.  Something's funky about the rendering on the wall I think.  It was fun rendering the Queen.  

7. Medium Close Up

That black thing is a part of the boat.  I might have shrunk Rapunzel a bit because in this shot, the subject takes more of the frame.  This was when I realized I really enjoy rendering characters xD.  Maybe I just miss Character Design.  

8. Wide Shot

Oh gosh, this one wasn't the best.  Something looks wrong with the perspective.  I think the rug is really off.  

9. Over the Shoulder (extra because I butchered the other one)

There's a lack of OTS shots in Tangled because during conversations two shot is used a lot.  When Eugene and Rapunzel talk, they don't really look eye to eye because they are shy haha.  Anyway, here I ran into the same problem I did with the lantern scene.  The background is made up of dark values in the actually shot.  However, if I added the black background I feel like both characters would just blend into the background o_o.  

Okay, I just can't wait to do these digitally so I can lay down my colors with confidence, especially the black! xD 

I really liked this week's assignment!

Concept Thumbnails

1. Sci Fi, Spaceship, Space

I think I need to fill in the background a lot more.  They look plain and when you squirt, there's not enough values, especially not enough black that pops out.

2. Western, Horse, Saloon

Drawing a horse in a saloon takes a lot of creativity.  Obviously, creativity did not stop by this weekend while I was doing these thumbnails.  Again, I don't think I have enough black that pops out.  There's also not enough objects in the background.  

3. Fantasy, Fairy, Forest

Maybe I liked the rules for these thumbnails more but I felt less clueless drawing these.  Of course, they're still not all that great but I was more confident about laying down the black ink.  I also thought about the rule of thirds more here.  

I'm not too proud of these.  I struggled with them a lot.  Oh well, it's better to make mistakes now than later.  I'm still learning!  I think the knowledge from this week's lessons (about camera angles) may have been helped a bit.  

10 Two-Point Perspective Objects

This exercise was pretty fun.  The last time I purposely used horizon lines and vanishing points was probably back in freshmen year of high school!  This made me realize how badly I've been drawing perspective views.  I'll have to start practicing without the lines and points though.  This also helped me with reviewing box rendering as well.

Class Exercise - Week 1

Haha this was really, really fun!  During first week we did some timed exercises.  Michaelangelo's David in 5 seconds was hilarious.  I probably should have focused more on the key features of the sculpture though - like his hair.  Still, I thought this was the funnest class exercise I've ever had!

Random Objects - Week 1

40 Rendered objects.  This was fun and relaxing especially since I've been extremely ill lately.  It was difficult to think of objects to draw so I took a walk out to the park that week.  It was refreshing and I was happy to be doodling by hand again.  I've been doing some digital work last semester and during the summer so I neglected my sketch book a bit.     

I'm still not sure how to render glass.  I know glass has reflections.  I guess I'll look into it one of these days.