Under Construction -- New Website on the Horizon

Hello and welcome to Kim's Korner! It has been quite a while since anyone has checked in here, but in case you happen to be a vistor of the blog -- this post is to let you know that new things are in store for 2019! Blogger served me well during my time in college, but since graduation, it seems that all of us and our websites/blogs have gone in a different direction. More viral directions, if you will. 

That all being said, the characters and I are working on, updating and fine tuing a new website that features a new blog for big kids of all ages. While we're under construction, please feel free to take a peak and follow the progress at:

https://kimjewing.wixsite.com/portfolio

This is only the beginning, there are more stories to come for 2019!

Happy Belated New Year

Learning to Draw Other Characters

Towards the end of my school career, I found myself learning to draw characters that have already been well established in the animation feature film and television world. Learning to draw what seemed like the most simplistic characters, and finding that they weren't so simple. Practicing expressions from old characters, ones with facial hair and ones that were supposed to be really young. It was always a new challenge every week, but now, when I go to design my own characters, I think of the notes I took while learning to draw someone else's. 

Studying Fabric

I have always been told by most of my teachers that I tend to make my drawings too stylized. I always just figured it's because I like to turn everything into a cartoon, but as time went on, I learned that it was because I really just didn't fully understand how to draw and shade fabric to make it look realistic. One assignment was to draw fabric from a photograph, which shows challenging because you can't walk around it. You can't look at the light and see how it is really hitting the model and the fabric. But, practice never hurt anybody!

Animal Bone Studies

(Below: Bone Study of a Horse) 

(Below: Bone Study of a Lion)

The Sneetches

Dr. Seuss has always been a childhood favorite of mine. For my Production for Animation class, not only did I get to dive behind the scenes and see what it really takes to build and produce an animated feature film. We were then given the task of taking the Dr. Seuss story of 'The Sneetches' to cast, and film, and then release. We had the the option to draw for the project, but it wasn't obligatory since it was a production assignment. 

The story is about 'The Sneetches'. They live on an island and there are only two kinds of Sneetches, the ones with stars on their bellies, and then the ones who don't have stars on their bellies. When they meet the sly swindler, Mr. McBean, it becomes a battle of them trying to be like one another, until finally- they realize that they are all awesome just the way they are. I'm hoping to have some time off of my busy work schedule to come back and turn these into digital drawings, but for now..