Visual/Process Diaries: The Dos And Don'ts

Visual/Process Diaries: The Dos and Don'ts

The Studioblr Collective | April 9th, 2016 

Written and Designed by Gennalie (@genspen)

Disclaimer: Please remember to follow the guidelines that your institution has given you!

What are Visual Diaries?

Visual Diaries (also known as process diaries, sketchbooks, process books, visual journals) are important forms of documentation in any type of creative field. They’re important for you, as a student to look back into your ideas, and to your tutor/mentor as they’ll be able to see how you got to your end work. Diaries are important too because they help give identity to you- and often will raise up marks in your studio for coherently following the studio’s course outline and teachings.

Essentially, your visual diary should be composed of the following things:

Evidence of exploration and experimentation.

Your research, primary and secondary and how they are important to your project.

Evidence of your thinking process.

Evidence that you have critically analysed the project or subject at hand.

(opt.) Your studio work, such as notes on set readings, some visual diagrams of concepts, etc.

Keep reading

A glorious fuck-ton of perspective angle references (per request).

[From various sources.]

drawin ur fav character

feeling self conscious abt only ever drawing ur fav character

Reminders to myself (and any other artsy people who follow me i guess)

-You don’t get better at drawing by avoiding drawing until you are better at drawing.

- You don’t have to make a new masterpiece every day it’s okay if all you drew is a doodle of a bug. You are now +1 bug doodle better at doodling bugs. 

- Also it’s okay if the thing you drew didn’t turn out very good. Everything you draw makes you one step closer to being able to draw good. You are still +1 step better at drawing whatever you drew no take backsies.

- You are the only person who knows if your art didn’t turn out as good as you wanted it to. You are the only person who can see the things in your art that weren’t what you imagined in your head. No one else will know unless you tell them.

- Comparing yourself to other artists just isn’t fair. You get to see all of your art, the best stuff and the worst stuff. You usually only get to see the best stuff other artists make. You don’t get to see that half drawn badly propotioned face they drew at 2 am and immediately scrapped. So don’t compare your badly drawn 2 am face to their best work.

- Just keep making art. The only way you can really fail is if you give up. 

Just a few thoughts on eyes that might help when designing or animating. Though as the adage goes ,there are no rules , just tools ! (at Walt Disney TV Animation)

Someone asked me how to do action poses. This is my technique for it.

General direction will help you not lose track of your pose later on. Also, it is important to start with the basic. It’s like building from the bottom all the way to the top.