Life Drawing & The Human Form:
Joanna Quinn
Joanna Quinn says lots of helpful things in this video that i will use and take on board for the future. One of the things she says is that when she is drawing her characters, she looks at herself for the positions. She uses herself as her own model for life drawing as it lets her achieve different perspectives and angles. This has been used as a method since the beginning of animation, as artists used to have mirrors, like Joanna Quinn has, so that they can look at facial features, expressions and movements.
Another thing she said was that when doing hand drawn animation, dont take your time when doing establishing sketches, just draw the flow and motion. This is so that if it goes wrong, you can just rub them out or throw it away and not have wasted much time. This means she really understands the human form as she can sketch the characters so easily in strange position and they still look realistic.
Sometimes when you draw motion, it doesn't look exaggerated enough so you need to over exaggerate it, as Joanna Quinn states, if you draw it over exaggerated, it will still look normal as it would follow how your character carries themselves, it just makes it look more interesting for the viewers to see. Here is an animation she created showing her aesthetic and how her characters tend to look and move within the animation.
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