syredronning

(since today's K/S is secret)

( one nude guy in chalks and a little drawing of very young Shatner )

So I was shopping at my favorite art equipment supplier, and bought some copic pens.( Read More about it )

Edit: We got our new fridge! *squeeeee*

Between buying the movie tickets and the start of the movie, we had time to go shopping in our nearby favorite center...and I bought a little Wacom Graphite 4 Din A6 tablet.

Playing around with it now, but it's quite a challenge at the moment. Cooperation with Gimp seems to be possible, but the pen diameter setting doesn't quite work...hmm? *starts googling for troubleshooting*

Edit: It works, but only when starting with a special option that deactivates pressure sensitivity. Now it feels like the pen drawings of last weekend :) Not bad, not bad...*plays around*

(Sigh, still a bit shocked about Pon Farr Press going out of publishing.)

EDIT: "After 1/1/06, the zines will be available from Eye Scry Designs (please note the hyphens in the URL): http://stores.ebay.com/Eye-Scry-Designs-Boutique" *happy***

But actually I wanted to write about happier things - the wonderful animation book!!! It's even better than I thought at first glance. It has it all: drawing technique, movement angles, camera angles, animation techniques...it's so great! I'm not sure when it really hit me that I want to make an animation - at least ONE in my life, as a personal "proof of concept" - but it was somehow during vidding when I consciously looked at the single pictures constituting a movie for the first time. Timing, key frames, FX effects, transition effects - all the things you can also use in animation.

And since there is Trek the Animated Series, I wouldn't even have to make it all up but could use their characters for a first shot. Animation would be lots of work nevertheless, because 12 drawings (says book) give 24 frames = ONE SECOND. Multiply with 60 to get a minute. Woah. But I really, really want to do it :)

Lately in the train when I didn't have much paper, I drew funny little characters - Kirk, Spock and McCoy in tin can style with minimalistic character design *G* one stray lock of hair, pointed ears and eyebrows...McCoy is the hardest to get. Maybe I'll stick with the cans for a while, but what I originally wanted to do was of course a little K/Mc movie on R level. Hey, I am predictable :)

I think the great thing about animation is that you get to write the story, draw the story board, set up the camera movements and special effects like any movie director and in the end have the movie that YOU WANT, totally independent of original source material. I still hope that the game "The Movies" will allow one to make digital trek movies in the future, but animation has a fascination of its own and, again, you're independent of any outside material.

The only limiting factor is one's own abilities and ok....mine are still low level all around. But I guess that after drawing hundreds of animations, I should really be able to draw, sigh ;)

Instead of trying to rush any TNG drawings this week, I relaxed and did completely other drawings. But first of all, something to grin about:



This is the head of Shatner's Alexander in an attempt of June 2(?). Yeah, this guy. The non-resemblance is uncanny :P

( More about my current drawing experiments with bushes (including scans) and some thoughts (all about me me me, to quote blackchaps :) )

Life is great.

After trying to redo this damn Spock face for about five times, I give up. So please take this drawing as it is...



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