more drawer-ings

While swamped at work with six big shows (I was quite proud of myself for providing a design solution to a setup for one coming out next year...it's always interesting to provide design solutions for ideas/concepts they are looking to shoot and doing tests for..for B@ttlesh!p, they wanted a solution for Be!ker's vehicle design which was neat), managed to get in some drawing yesterday evening. It was a lot of fun, as always, although I think I'm allergic to some kind of food ingredient (not sure what but unfortunately it's in some amazing vegan thai dish :(). These are 5 to 20 minute thingamajiggies. My friend and I may be going to the H0llyw00d Bowl on a morning to listen to some Verd! rehearsals and sketch. That should be fun and if I get any good drawings out of it I'll DEF post! :) I've been reading !nk Sp0ts which I highly recommend. It's about story and is mainly geared for screenwriters or writers in general but the guy has been story consultant to major studios known for iconic, great storytelling. I can totally see why. He is the real deal and makes a lot of sense. Even Glen Ke@ne praises the guy (he's done 'a few doodles', right? Hahah). I just finished a paragraph where he talks about how in F!nding Nem0 the artists learned to scuba dive so they could understand what the environment of Nem0 could have been like, but when he was having his students write about woods, no one wanted to go to the real thing; they thought googling it and looking it up on the internet was enough. Not so at all...I remember stepping onto the Western set last weekend and seeing the dust rise and the horses galloping through and there was NOTHING like that experience to begin to understand what it must be like to be in a Western or have been in that time. It was electric and my friend and I literally looked at each other and said "OMG this is SO cool!!". It's so immersive. Similarly, nothing compares (at least to me) to seeing a nude figure and the curves, the weight, the lines of the body, movement, gesture, personality of the model. Plus, it's just so fun! Anyways....