Module 2: Complete, Drawing Outside of Class

  Complete

This is a Creative Journal Assignment

Introduction and Rationale

In the next section of the text, the idea of iconic characters is introduced. 

These are small drawings of people (only an inch or so in size); these little icons can be used repeatedly over time. Especially for an animator, the development of characters as icons is an important shorthand, in designing scenes, developing thumbnails, and exploring story-telling ideas.

Instructions 

1. First, fill a couple of pages in your Creative Journal with tiny iconic characters (like the examples in the textbook, on pages 28 - 30).
2. Then, complete Exercise 7: two drawings combining one or more of your characters with forms from your noodles and doodles.

The examples in Inventing Iconic Characters are all full figures, but your shorthand should also include iconic heads. These too, can be very simple.

Below are some examples.

 

Or, a little more complex, like this example, found on page 26 of the text.

 

 

Examples from the text:

 

Here is an example from a page in one of the instructors' sketchbooks:

 

Remember: Your Sketchbook assignment is Exercise 7, in the drawing textbook, on constructing combinations of human icons and doodles. 

Hopefully, these images will come together quickly - you should fill a page or two in your sketchbook with these little drawings.

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